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Memogate: Why Did Dan Rather Do It?
Intellectual Conservative ^ | 2 October 2004 | Nicholas Stix

Posted on 10/02/2004 1:33:51 PM PDT by mrustow

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1 posted on 10/02/2004 1:33:52 PM PDT by mrustow
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I'd Rather not be Rather ping!


2 posted on 10/02/2004 1:36:11 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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Incoming!


3 posted on 10/02/2004 1:37:02 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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Heads up!


4 posted on 10/02/2004 1:37:49 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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It's obvious the media is going all out to destroy Bush. They will lie and slander and don't care if they get caught, as in this memo forgery-which they knew many people they contacted said they were fake and Killian's family said they were fake, but they went ahead anyway. There is calculation through most of the media-CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, the major liberal papers, entertainment to deliberately attack Republicans. We've got a propaganda war going on with these people stopping at nothing. I am of the belief war needs to be declared on these organizations. They need to be rightly labelled Demonrat whores. They need to be confronted, sued for libel.


5 posted on 10/02/2004 1:38:27 PM PDT by bushfamfan
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Media fraud zing!


6 posted on 10/02/2004 1:38:45 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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It's obvious the media is going all out to destroy Bush. And they wonder why their influence is waining. They will be real toast after 02NOV.
7 posted on 10/02/2004 1:42:18 PM PDT by ProudVet77 (Vietnam Veterans Reconciliation Day - 02NOV2004.)
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Rather has become nothing more than a pathetic old man, desperately trying to relive better times with one last "great story". How sad...
8 posted on 10/02/2004 1:42:33 PM PDT by snopercod ("I'm so proud to be a part of this great mass deception" --Frank Zappa)
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It's obvious the media is going all out to destroy Bush. They will lie and slander and don't care if they get caught, as in this memo forgery-which they knew many people they contacted said they were fake and Killian's family said they were fake, but they went ahead anyway. There is calculation through most of the media-CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, the major liberal papers, entertainment to deliberately attack Republicans. We've got a propaganda war going on with these people stopping at nothing. I am of the belief war needs to be declared on these organizations. They need to be rightly labelled Demonrat whores. They need to be confronted, sued for libel.

Due to the Supreme Court's "Sullivan" decision in 1965 (yr?), it is almost impossible for a public figure to sue the media, based on what they have been doing to the President. The burden of proof is too high. (You'd probably require witnesses to testify that there had been meetings at which editors told staffers that they were going to get Bush, even though they knew they were lying about him.) With that said, however, the President can and must use the bully pulpit of the Presidency as Ronald Reagan did. If Bush loses the election, it be because he failed to do that.

9 posted on 10/02/2004 1:44:29 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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Rather has become nothing more than a pathetic old man, desperately trying to relive better times with one last "great story". How sad...

It is sad, tragic even.

10 posted on 10/02/2004 1:45:51 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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11 posted on 10/02/2004 1:46:54 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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Heads up!


12 posted on 10/02/2004 1:47:57 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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"Memogate: Why Did Dan Rather Do It?"

After all my research for a full 8 seconds I came up with:

To persuade people to vote for Kerry!
13 posted on 10/02/2004 1:51:09 PM PDT by lyingisbetter ("Let's wait Kerry" or Let's go Bush")
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Tragic, true, but a confirmation that there is justice in the cosmos.

My wish is that Rather retires in Cuba to live out his days reflection and penance. A tarpaper shack should await all socialists like him...

14 posted on 10/02/2004 2:00:13 PM PDT by snopercod ("I'm so proud to be a part of this great mass deception" --Frank Zappa)
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"Memogate: Why Did Dan Rather Do It?"

After all my research for a full 8 seconds I came up with:

To persuade people to vote for Kerry!

LOL!

15 posted on 10/02/2004 2:08:10 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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Tragic, true, but a confirmation that there is justice in the cosmos.

My wish is that Rather retires in Cuba to live out his days reflection and penance. A tarpaper shack should await all socialists like him...

Unfortunaterly, in the real world, rich socialists like Rather seek to force the rest of us to live in shacks, while they have datschas (sp?).

16 posted on 10/02/2004 2:09:55 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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Starting with Edward R. Murrow, continuing through Walter Cronkike and then Dan Rather, the Tifnany network had always succeeded in destroying their political enemies.

Murrow defended Alger Hiss the communist spy, and got his accuser Joe McCarthy destroyed.

Walter Cronkite with his able assistant Dan Rather destroyed Richard Nixon..

It was assumed that Daniel Rather would defeat George W. Bush.

Rather has to face something this time that he and his predecessors never faced.. internet sites like FR, Talk Radio and the FNC.

Rather tried fighting todays war with yesterdays weapons. He destroyed himself with his own weapon. they had never been caught.

17 posted on 10/02/2004 2:13:55 PM PDT by Common Tator
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.....Memogate: Why Did Dan Rather Do It?.......

Because he feels duty bound to do everything with his power as an oncamera personality to defeat George W Bush.

There is no substitute for victory. All measures legal and illegal, ethical and un ethical must be taken to win.

In 2000 he waited till too late and his boy algore lost.


18 posted on 10/02/2004 2:17:25 PM PDT by bert (Peace is only halftime !)
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Now, it seems pretty obvious why he did it, doesn't it?


19 posted on 10/02/2004 2:20:52 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Memogate: Why Did Dan Rather Do It?

Because he could.

20 posted on 10/02/2004 2:26:32 PM PDT by GoLightly (If it doesn't kill ya, it makes ya stronger.)
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