[Cosmo]

I posted to another thread that I think Rather is being blackmailed to keep up the charade, lest his complicity in this whoe sham is revealed. His nuts are in a vice in my estimation.

[Paleo Conservative]

[ForGod'sSake]

Wow! Podhoretz does homework. Stirring the pot here boss ;^)

FGS

[Jenya]

[ultima ratio]

This is John Podhoretz' finest essay--well-researched, irrefutable, full of fire. Magnificent piece of work.

[nathanbedford]

This is a seminal article despositive of the conservative view of liberal media bias and it is destined to become a classic.

[AWestCoaster]

[gpapa]

[Mo1]

It stands even today as a monument in the history of American broadcasting, an award-winning subject of veneration in journalism schools--despite the fact that the producer lied to sources when he assembled the documentary and used some astoundingly dishonest editing to change the meaning of statements by two Pentagon officials caught on film by CBS (one of whom later sued the network to little effect).

Oh my ... I don't know about this ... but yet .. I'm not surprised

[restornu]

It is like a piece of yarn that is starting to unravel many of us suspected something was not kosher for years.

When callers would call talk shows or pundits spoke they were careful about not allowing this thought to escape listeners lips!

Many have been so traumatized by anti-ducks labels, now we learn the truth that there was UnAmerican Activities (UA)!

Those who were promoting UA thought it was their right to be able to do so, while at the same time trying to over throw this Great Nation. They coerced many to believed UA's had a right to maintain their livelihood as they continued to commit treason!

People like Rather and Co were called moles, in the early years 40, 50 etc were pockets of UA cells which like germs infiltrated and under mind our pillars and halls of culture!

America I knew it changed during the Assassination of JFK and the under minding of the Vietnam battle, we were not allowed to call it a war for it was not declared a war!

Over night hippie sprang up all across the nation like a choreograph it seem every major city had a seedy place where Tie dye clothes, bears, & weed etc.

This was the beginning of the break down in the way this nation dressed. In the work place, going out, church etc we used to dress accordingly but that all changed throw protest and the standards of life changed to slovenly attire being acceptable.

I am sure it was the work of UA cells who would unite the undiscerning to do their bidding, as UA's strolled around in business cloths and the American citizen was none the wiser!

JFK was killed because he brought the interest rates down to 3% our money was backed by gold, he was concern about our agriculture, he also wanted to bring the troops home.

Now as those who lived through it, can look back, as the yarn continued to unravels how this nation was being duped by UA perception!

[Nita Nupress]

Excellent article. Thanks.

[Jaysun]

That's a fairly long article, but well worth it. He identifies the beginning and the end of the liberal propaganda machine.

[RKV]

This is a must read.

[litany_of_lies]

Somewhere in heaven, my father is smiling. Until he died 5 years ago, he said exactly what Podhoretz said in this article.

Vindication is sweet, Dad. These two paragraphs were written for you and millions of other who knew the truth:

That's why, even though the precipitating event was a genuine outrage--CBS News's breathless use of forged documents accusing George W. Bush of disobeying a direct order from his National Guard superior in an all-too-obvious effort to sway the opinions of voters only 48 days before the 2004 election--the outrage has been accompanied by a spirit of giddiness and exhilaration almost from the moment the onslaught began.

This is a moment that's been a very long time coming. For four decades now, conservatives have been convinced, with supreme justification, that the institutional, ideological, and cultural biases of the mainstream media represented a danger to the causes in which they believe and the ideas they hold dear. What has happened over the past weeks isn't the beginning of a transformation. It's the culmination of a 40-year-long indictment that has, at long last, led to a slam-dunk conviction.

For 40 years (I'd say 60), CBS has thought itself untouchable. They're not untouchable any more, which is nice, but they also need to be held accountable, not just for RatherGate, but for decades of unconscionable manipulation of the news.

[COUNTrecount]

Fabulous article.

[meema]

This is one of the best {and historical} articles on this subject I have ever read!
Everyone, please don't miss it!
I read it yesterday at NRO, and happy to see it posted on at least 2 of my favorite sites. {Sorry, I have never taken the time to learn how to post articles...my shame}.

[cyncooper]

THE AGNEW SPEECH gave profound voice to the growing sense among non-liberals in the United States that their concerns, their interests, and their views were either not reflected or were under direct attack by the media. The ways in which the media misreported and misrepresented news events and political shifts became a subject of consuming interest in neoconservative and conservative intellectual and journalistic precincts, from Commentary and the pre-Clinton American Spectator to National Review and Human Events.

Indeed. Watching "news" organizations craft lies and boldly present them as "facts" is endlessly fascinating, appalling, breathtaking, infuriating and frustrating.

Thank God for the internet and talk radio. The voices that despise Fox (for pete's sake!) and talk radio despise debate, differing opinions, and in the end, they despise truth.

[Magnolia]

MUST read BUMP...

[Bob]

I was really surprised that there wasn't a mention of CBS'd slanderous story "The Wall Within" in 1988.

[The Real Deal]

Dan Rather's eternal return ends here with the collapse of his reputation and the collapse of the 20th-century American news industry in which he was one of the last grand potentates. And it is a bleak end, unless he can console himself with the thought that he didn't fail to live up to the standards of his predecessors. He followed perfectly in their footsteps.

This is the last paragraph. I highly recomend everyone read this article. Good bye SeeBS, you to Blather, and the rest of the MSM.