Posted on 09/22/2004 4:14:27 PM PDT by perfect stranger
I believe we now have conclusive proof that:
(1) Dan Rather is not an honest newsman who was simply duped by extremely clever forgeries; and
(2) We could have won the Vietnam War.
A basic canon of journalism is not to place all your faith in a lunatic stuck on something that happened years ago who hates the target of your story and has been babbling nonsense about him for years. And that's true even if you yourself are a lunatic stuck on something that happened years ago (an on-air paddling from Bush 41) who hates the target of your own story and has been babbling nonsense about him for years, Dan.
CBS' sole source authenticating the forged National Guard documents is Bill Burkett, who's about as sane as Margot Kidder was when they dragged her filthy, toothless butt out of somebody's shrubs a few years back. Burkett has compared Bush to Hitler and Napoleon, and rambles on about Bush's "demonic personality shortcomings." (This would put Burkett on roughly the same page as Al Gore.)
According to USA Today, an interview with Burkett ended when he "suffered a violent seizure and collapsed in his chair" – an exit strategy Dan Rather has been eyeing hungrily all week, I'm sure. Burkett admits to having nervous breakdowns and having been hospitalized for depression.
At a minimum, the viewing public should have been informed that CBS' sole "unimpeachable" source of the forged anti-Bush records was textbook crank Bill Burkett in order to evaluate the information. ("Oh no, not that guy again!") The public would know to use the same skeptical eye it uses to watch the "CBS Evening News With Dan Rather" itself.
Whoever forged these documents should not only be criminally prosecuted, but should also have his driver's license taken away for the stupidity of using Microsoft Word to forge 1971 documents.
And yet this was the evidence CBS relied on to accuse a sitting president of a court martial-level offense 50 days before a presidential election.
As of Sept. 20, Dan Rather says he still believes the documents are genuine and says he wants to be the one to break the story if the documents are fake. (Dan might want to attend to that story after his exclusive report on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.) Rather is also eagerly awaiting some other documents Burkett says he has that prove Bush is a brainwashed North Korean spy.
By now, the only possibilities are: (1) Dan Rather knew he was foisting forgeries on the nation to try to change a presidential election or (2) "Kenneth" inflicted some real brain damage when he hit Rather in the head back in 1986.
Liberals keep telling us to "move on" from the CBS scandal – which means we're really onto something. They act surprised and insist this incident was a freak occurrence – an unfortunate mistake in the twilight of a great newsman's career.
To the contrary, such an outrageous fraud was inevitable given the mendacity and outright partisanship of the press.
Burkett didn't come to CBS; CBS found Burkett. Rather's producer, Mary Mapes, called Joe Lockhart at the Kerry campaign and told him he needed to talk to Burkett. Lockhart himself is the apotheosis of the media-DNC complex, moving in and out of Democratic campaigns and jobs with the mainstream media, including at ABC, NBC and CNN.
CBS was attempting to manipulate a presidential election in wartime. What if CBS had used better forgeries? What if – like Bush's 30-year-old DUI charge – the media had waited 72 hours before the election to air this character assassination?
There is one reason CBS couldn't wait until just before the election to put these forgeries on the air: It would be too late. Kerry was crashing and burning – because of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. (Funny that the Swift Boat veterans haven't been able to get on Kerry PR agency CBS News.)
Despite a total blackout on the Swift Boat Veterans in the mainstream media, the Swifties had driven Kerry's poll numbers into the dirt long before the Republican National Convention – proving once again that it's almost impossible for liberals to brainwash people who can read.
Even the New York Times had to stop ignoring the No. 1 book on its own best-seller list, "Unfit for Command," in order to run front-page articles attacking the Swift Boat Veterans.
The "Today" show has given Kitty Kelley a chair next to Katie Couric until Election Day. (It's now Day Seven of Kelley's refusal to produce records concerning charges that she is in the final stages of syphilitic dementia.) At least they're more likely to get the truth in Kitty Kelley's book than in Doug Brinkley's "Tour of Duty." But Katie hasn't had time to interview the Swift Boat veterans.
CBS showcased laughable forgeries obtained from a man literally foaming at the mouth in order to accuse the president of malfeasance. But CBS would never put a single one of the 264 Vietnam veterans on the air to say what they knew about Kerry.
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth show the role of the individual in history. It wasn't Republican strategists who finished Kerry off two months before the election; it was the American people. The Swift Boat veterans came along and kicked Kerry in the shins and no matter how much heat they took, they were brave and wouldn't give up. The veterans who served with Kerry told the truth and the American people listened (as soon as they managed to locate a copy of "Unfit for Command" hidden on one of the back shelves at their local bookstores).
CBS was forced to run a fake story so early in the campaign that it was exposed as a fraud – only because of the Swift Boat vets. These brave men, many of them decorated war heroes, have now not only won the election for Bush, they have ended Dan Rather's career.
It's often said that we never lost a battle in Vietnam, but that the war was lost at home by a seditious media demoralizing the American people. Ironically, the leader of that effort was Rather's predecessor at CBS News, Walter Cronkite, president of the Ho Chi Minh Admiration Society.
It was Cronkite who went on air and lied about the Tet offensive, claiming it was a defeat for the Americans. He told the American people the war was over and we had lost. Ronald Reagan said CBS News officials should have been tried for treason for those broadcasts.
CBS has already lost one war for America. The Swift Boat Vets weren't going to let CBS lose another one.
I think the point she made is brilliant. It is possible that CBS would like to have run their scam just a few days before the election. The Swift Boat Veterans created so much fire and smoke against Poodle boy that the CBS skunks were forced out into the open and they had to act prematurely to try to help him - and it cost them dearly! And in a masterstroke of truly genuine stupidity that defies explanation, they coordinated their attack with Demotrash politicians. Repudiate Rather, Repudiate the Rats.
Yikes, that sounds vaguely like Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb in "Silence of the Lambs" (it was on cable a coupla nights ago).
"And now it will place the lotion on it's skin..." eeeww!
I waiting for an on-air game of Russian Roulette with a fully loaded magazine. That's what these anti-American traitors really deserve. I'm sick of my country being trashed by these people.
I disagree on one point. I don't think CBS went with the story early because the Swift Boat Veterans were killing Kerry's numbers. They were hurting him, sure, but the numbers really started to go into the tank after Rathergate.
My theory is that the DNC, the Kerry campaign, and the MSM had a careful plan to crank up a major campaign against Bush right after Labor Day, and build it up for two months.
They had all summer to plan it.
The forged documents were just the first step in a carefully orchestrated series of propaganda attacks. But when the first step went off the rails, that made it impossible for them to carry through with it. They did try to follow it up for a couple of days, but with the forgery charge growing all the time it just never got off the ground. The DNC is STILL trying to go with it, but hardly anyone is listening to them.
TIC TIC TIC TIC TICK....
Ann is definately a club, one of those spiked clubs, morningstars I think you call them. ;-)
Now that the Swifties have resumed the attack, may the tailspin continue. I heard CarVile say tonight that the Kerry camp should ignore the latest Swiftie ads. Worked the first time :-}
LOL - Just ignore them. They'll go away. (Images of a dinosaur in a tar pit in my mind)
Oh, Boo-Hoo. The truth hurts.
There was never any doubt that we could have won the Vietnam War, but we didn't have someone with George Bush's character and determination in office during those years.
Put a little black mustache on that guy and you have the grandson of Adolph Hitler.
Or a flail of ages. But a morning star works too.
Oh, just damn whoopee!
This probably p*ssed off the Swifties, and decided to make the political season more exciting.
I wonder if the fraudulent Ms. Mapes also coordinated that CBS attack? To keep the swifties under the radar?
Would this have prompted them to get the information in book form?
Worth repeating....
Have you noticed THE TRUTH never has to be amended? The libber attacks on GW change daily, even the ones on the same subject because they have to amend it slightly when the facts don't match the accusations. The brave SwiftVets haven't changed their initial positions one iota . . . in the face of some of the most vicious media attacks I've ever seen.
But they've refused to be spit on in silence this time. They're mad as hell and they're not taking it anymore.
Yes, these vets won the Vietnam War, we the public let them down . . . but they're still walking tall and fearlessly fighting the battles against all our enemies -- both domestic and foreign.
In a world of frauds, Ann is Ann. I think having the intellectual honesty to be yourself is a more noble trait than worrying about expanding your market share.
If attempting to subvert a presidential election using fraud is not a felony, it should be.
I've tended to forget this about the avuncular Mr. Cronkite, although the charge sounds familiar, like something I'd heard before. I guess it's not something CBS brags about directly. Anyway, I'm going to really try not to forget anymore. Old Walter still opens his yap from retirement sometimes, weighing in as the senior stateman character. Wouldn't do at all to forget who it is talking.
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