Rathergate Scandal Worse Than Previously Known

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 1/12/05 | Accuracy In Media

[MeekOneGOP]

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From the article:

AIM Editor Cliff Kincaid explained the significance of the panel's revelation: "Mapes, who was very close to Rather and enjoyed his confidence, had the evidence exonerating Bush of this malicious charge. The report shows that there were multiple credible sources to prove that Bush did not try to avoid Vietnam by going into the National Guard and that he was in fact willing to go to Vietnam as a pilot. However, CBS News deliberately kept this information from its viewers and conveyed an opposite impression because Rather, Mapes & Company were trying to depict Bush as a coward who, as Commander-in-Chief, was sending American soldiers to their deaths in Iraq."

The report reveals that Rather assured CBS News President Andrew Heyward that he, Rather, had not "been involved in this much checking on a story since Watergate," and that it was "very big." The report says that Rather assured Heyward that the story was "thoroughly vetted" or documented and verified.

Kincaid explained, "Rather saw this as a Watergate-style story that could damage the Bush campaign and sink the President's chances for re-election, as Americans were fighting and dying in Iraq. He seemed to be making a virtual guarantee that the story would be a smoking gun that would usher John Kerry into the White House. Instead, the story backfired, implicating Rather and his associates in a sleazy political operation, with links to the Kerry campaign, that was intended to mislead and misinform the American people as they prepared to vote on issues of war and peace. Even Al Jazeera couldn't have concocted a more sinister and dishonest attack on the President of the United States."

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[TheSpottedOwl]

OK. SO much for CBS news. Now please tell me this, since this is an obvious case of SLANDER who is being charged? Dan Rather? CBS? Whom?

You're right. It is slander! I didn't think of that aspect.

[NCC-1701]

Chomp, chomp, chomp. That is the sound of the "fine folks" at cBS eating their own. The sad thing is, the ones really responsible for this fraud won't be made to pay any price what so ever. I only hope that Mapes and the other two women fire will turn this into a sexual discrimination thing and they go after Dan Blather and anyone else thay feel they need to. Hopefully, this will lead to the end of cBS as a "news" network.

[Happy2BMe]

CBS INTENTIONALLY WITHELD G.W. BUSH'S GOOD MILITARY SERVICE RECORD

The report reveals on page 130 that Mapes, one of those fired because of the scandal, had documented information in her possession before the controversial September 8 broadcast that George W. Bush, while in the Texas Air National Guard, "did volunteer for service in Vietnam but was turned down in favor of more experienced pilots."

This information is critical because Dan Rather, in the broadcast, insinuated that Bush was among the "many well-connected young men [who tried to] pull strings and avoid service in Vietnam."

[SkyPilot]

I want to know why CBS is not trying to find out where the forged documents came from to begin with!!!

Amen. I would bet you a Diet Coke that if we had access to the DNC hard drives, we would find campaign ads in the Windows Media and Real Player programs they were planning to run.

They would have shown John Kerry "reporting for duty" while GW Bush "failed to report for duty." They had them all set and ready to run weeks before CBS aired this story. There is no other explanation for Kerry's ridiculous and comic "salute" (he actually looks like he is hunting for Indians in his backyard) stunt.

[MeekOneGOP]

[PISANO]

George Bush...."While in the Texas Air National Guard, "did volunteer for service in Vietnam but was turned down in favor of more experienced pilots."

I have known about this for years. Isn't it CURIOUS that it has never been reported [as far as I know] by any MSM outlet or reporter.

Just this ONE sentence makes all other negative ramblings about his service in the ANG so much crap.

[Tempest]

George W. Bush, while in the Texas Air National Guard, "did volunteer for service in Vietnam but was turned down in favor of more experienced pilots." This information is critical because Dan Rather, in the broadcast, insinuated that Bush was among the "many well-connected young men [who tried to] pull strings and avoid service in Vietnam."

Of course there was no political motivation on the part of the CBS crew..... I mean it's sooooo obvious...

[Tempest]

True, true, the MSM are anxious to sweep this embarrassing situation under the rug.

I guess to them sometimes the public "doesn't have the right to know"....

[Richard Kimball]

Smoking gun.

[jayef]

Ghey!

[jayef]

Credibility? How about their culpability in a CRIME? Calling Mr. Gonzales . . . Mr. Alberto Gonzales to the courtesy phone in the lobby. If I was the President, I'd have Justice so far up CBS's arse on this that they would NEVER forget it.

[jayef]

Exactly . . . sorry, didn't read your post before I made mine. Like you, I believe a CRIME has been committed.

[Texas Songwriter]

If a civil proceedure is provoked, then subpoena power, disclosure, depositions, written interrogatories. If the crowd at CBS are sued, then they will all get their own lawyers, and each of their personal interest are different, and you divide and conquer. Get them pointing the finger at each other and the truth may be disclosed. Short of that, I don't think the heat has been turned up enough. If criminal justice would impannel a grand jury, then we would find out who the turd in the punch bowl is. I pray it would be so.

[Texas Songwriter]

He needs to do hard time. He tried to overthrow a duely elected government.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

That was the planned message.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

What's with his stance in this pic? hanoi john looks like Little Boy Lollipop.

[ken21]

make no mistake about it, this is the democrat party.

i wrote moonves the day this story broke before the election, demanding that rather resign.

[carl in alaska]

MSM political bias bump.

[Condor51]

***Don't forget, Burkett claims he was provided the documents by someone else.***>

That's correct. So even he would be 'off the hook' unless it could be proved he was lying and made them himself (fat chance of that)

(I was going to add that but was in a rush to post so I could get some work done.)