Rather Still Has Faith in Fake Memos (Rather Saves Job; fall gals take rap)

Re; Rather's faith in his memos: verily, he is of little faith, for faith used to move mountains, and now his is barely powerful enough to create bogus memos...

Rather can do nothing other than what he is doing on adivice of his attorney. Otherwise he is admitting to felonious lawlessness and opening himself and CBS and Robin up to civil actions for various torts. So his ethics remain vacuuous. He is trying to save his own skin and that of his daughter.

."Rather informed the panel that he still believes the content of the documents is true because 'the facts are right on the money,' and that no one had provided persuasive evidence that the documents were not authentic," the panel's 224-page report said.

LOL. You just have to laugh, otherwise you'd want to beat your head against the wall trying to fathom how absolutely ridiculous this statement is and how someone could say it.

A "What's the frequency Kenneth" bump.

5.56mm

Thanks for the ping. How many of us didn't see this coming? Let's have a show of hand(no plural). These media elites are untouchable. They let their underlings take the fall and continue on with their propaganda, maybe in a different role but still determined to brainwash.

I don't get it, but didn't Rather say he was retiring in March?

I couldn't have said it better!

He is 'the face'. That is all.

Dan who? Sorry the name just doesn't ring a bell.

Dan is a MSM ~~Insurgent~~ Terrorist and hides behind women just like his buddies in Iraq!

Thanks, JH2. Here's an editorial by Pat Buchanan on the subject.

Jim
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The Criminal Conspiracy to Sink Bush
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted Jan 14, 2005

At CBS, they still don't get it.

The same holds true for the investigators of Dan Rather's "60 Minutes" report, which charged that George W. Bush, while in the Texas Air National Guard, used political pull to escape punishment for his insolent insubordination to a superior officer.

For this story, at root, is about far more than just the blunders, deceptions, and stonewalling of Rather, Mary Mapes, and CBS.

The real story is who was behind this criminal conspiracy to bring down a president of the United States, using fake and forged U.S. government documents, which is a felony. And who knew of the plot?

In this conspiracy, CBS and Rather were complicit. They fenced the counterfeit documents -- innocently, they say. Yet, their behavior is more like that of guilty accomplices than beguiled victims.

The unanswered questions are these: Who created the fake documents? Was it Bill Burkett alone? Who placed Col. Killian's signature onto the counterfeits? How many people knew this hit on President Bush was going down? Did the DNC or Kerry campaign know, in advance, CBS was going to dump on Bush?

Why haven't CBS or ex-Attorney General Richard Thornburgh called in the U.S. attorney's office and turned over all evidence they have of this felony, designed to assassinate the character of the president and timed to effect his defeat in the election of 2004?

By now, everyone involved in this criminal conspiracy, actively or innocently, should have been taken before a federal grand jury.

There are other unexplained matters.

Where is the outrage of Rather, whose reputation has been ruined and career destroyed by the criminals who cooked up the fakes? Last September, Rather said that if the memos turned out to be fake, he would love to break that story. Why hasn't he? Why hasn't CBS turned the dogs loose on those who did this to it?

The second failure of the investigation is in how it dealt with the motivation of Mapes and Rather in rushing to air their "scoop," and in their fanatic defense of the story when it was apparent to almost everyone they had been had.

Asked if there was any truth to the notion he may have been politically biased, Rather stonewalled: "Absolutely unequivocally untrue!" Mapes, the producer, known to be a hard-core liberal, also denied any political bias. Well, as the Duke of Wellington said, "If you believe that, madam, you will believe anything."

What other than a vendetta explains a five-year obsession by both Rather and Mapes with a story, the only result of which could be to injure President Bush? What else explains the Alamo defense of the Killian memos, when all America knew they were bogus? What else explains Rather's insistence to this day the documents may be valid? What else explains CBS' refusal to hand over the Bush-haters who did this? What else explains why Rather would denounce those who questioned the memos as political "partisans," while laughably describing as an "unimpeachable" source the certifiable Bush-hating eccentric who gave CBS the memos?

"Myopic zeal" explains it, says the Thornburgh report. But what was behind this myopic zeal? Was it a noble desire to bring the truth to the people on a vital issue, or blind ambition to bring down a Republican president and make Rather, Mapes and CBS the Woodward, Bernstein and Washington Post of 2004?

Even with the Killian memos excluded, the Rather-Mapes piece had all the fairness of an attack ad by Moveon.org.

Finally, what motive, other than an animus against Bush, explains why, to this day, CBS -- which must now know it was used as the patsy in a criminal conspiracy to destroy the president -- has not issued an apology to George W. Bush along these lines:

"We now believe the Killian memos, which were behind our story that President Bush was an insubordinate officer, are fakes. As we have no other hard evidence that George W. Bush either was insubordinate or used political pull to avoid being punished for insubordination, we retract the charge, we retract the story, we apologize to our viewers, and, especially, we apologize to President Bush."

But because Rather simply cannot concede what is true, that he abhors the Right and cannot abide Bush, CBS has had to invoke the Ted Baxter Defense on his behalf: Poor Dan stumbled because he was exhausted by his labors at the GOP convention and covering a hurricane.

The first step in the cure of alcoholism is a frank admission you are an alcoholic. The first antidote to preventing a bias from getting you into the kind of trouble CBS and Rather are in is to recognize such a bias exists.

CBS and Rather, however, remain in denial, and they will continue to step into it, again and again, until they look hard into a mirror.
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Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of The Death of the West, The Great Betrayal, and A Republic, Not an Empire.

Copyright © 2005 HUMAN EVENTS. All Rights Reserved.
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The org chart doesn't always say who holds real power and influence in an organization.

Rather survives, and those immediately above him and below him get the axe.

That shows who really has power at CBS News.

I don't know if its "power" or just the difficulty of quickly replacing CBS's main face to the world. In many ways, Rather stands for the CBS News brand. Of course, if Moonves had any sense, he'd fire the lot of them and announce that he's starting over from scratch. He could hardly do worse in the ratings than they now are, so he might as well take a hint from Fox.

Good one!

You nailed it.