Posted on 09/24/2004 9:48:38 AM PDT by crushelits
The CBS News assault on Vice President George Bush led by Dan Rather and aired on the CBS Evening News on January 25 was planned, scripted and rehearsed like a secret military operation. CBS worked on it for over a month according to Rather himself. We don't know if it had a code name, but "Bush whacker" would be fitting, since the purpose of the operation was clearly to deliver a damaging blow to the Bush campaign for the Republican presidential nomination "as close to the actual Iowa) caucus date as possible," to quote from a letter CBS News sent to Bush requesting the interview. CBS employed deception to lure Bush into a trap, surprise to knock him off balance and what The Washington Post in an editorial described as "the journalistic equivalent of a spray of machine-gun fire" to soften up the target. That referred to the six-minute taped report that was aired just before Rather began his live interview of Bush. The report was designed to demonstrate that the vice president was not being truthful and candid in his replies to questions about his involvement in the Iran arms affair.
In introducing this report, Rather said CBS News had spent more than a month preparing it. That meant that they were already well along when on January 5, Richard M. Cohen, senior politics producer for CBS News, sent Bush a letter saying, "Part of our early coverage of the 1988 presidential election has been a series of candidate profiles.... We purposely saved your profile for last, so it could be aired in January, as close to the actual (Iowa) caucus date as possible. Dan Rather is very interested in your profile and has decided to do it him- self.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
I'm pretty sure that "aim.org" does NOT require excerpting. Please don't excerpt unless necessary.
Thank you.
Excellent find.
See the kind of garbage that happens when you don't have an Internet?;)
Without reading the article, I will take an opposite position. They should keep him on so I have an alternative to Comedy Central.
Uh, he's the "Vice President"???
This is from '88.
Never mind....
That's the whole point.
If the source is one we want to support, we should excerpt so that the original site gets the traffic, shouldn't we?
According to FR, please excerpt aim.org.
My mistake. Aim.org is on the list.
They need to fire Heyward for waiting this long to fire Rather.
No. Unnecessary excerpting is annoying and can often lure Freepers into not-so-secure sites. If we want to go to a site, it should be OUR choice, not yours.
This is a dangerous development for democracy....
...Rather is acting as if he were the head of a fourth branch of government. He is not content with merely his multi-million dollar salary. He wants to exercise power as well, the power to determine what our government's policies will be and even who will be our next president....
16 years later and nothing has really changed over there at CBS. In fact all three of the Networks have been engaged in manipulation of the news for quite some time. The Internet sure is cool.
To save CBSNews....I'd just as soon they keep him. Let him, as the captain, go down with the ship.
Actually - this old article reveals the pattern to the CBS bias. It just gives firther reason that Rather should be canned.
Unfortunately, even if he were fired, CBS would just replace him with another leftist.
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