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1 posted on 01/29/2005 3:40:17 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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Rather is a good reason that the troops call reporters " roaches".


2 posted on 01/29/2005 3:49:55 PM PST by Ramonan (Honor does not go out of style.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Based on this almost-honest report from Dan Rather, I'd say j\keep him as an embed. One of two things will happen.

His reporting will become honest. Or he will get blown away. Either way, the American press drastically improves.

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3 posted on 01/29/2005 3:50:29 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.)
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I didn't know they had Kinkos in Baghdad........


4 posted on 01/29/2005 3:50:57 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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"Are we going to miss our guys that we lost? You are damned right, because when we are old and gray, sitting down in the soldier's, sailor's home, those guys are still going to be young. We are going to have gray hair, and we are going to think about them, just the way they were, and we are going to miss them."

The heart and soul of soldiering.

5 posted on 01/29/2005 3:52:46 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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But Johnson doesn’t think that story is getting out. Neither does Sgt. Lewis. "I am tired of hearing the crap," says Lewis. "The whole, well, 'We are barely hanging on, we're losing, the insurgency is growing.' All that. We are doing fine. It's just a small, a small amount of people out there causing the problems. I mean, it is a small number, and we’re killing them."

This paragraph will be edited out in the next update to make way for a paragraph with news of the next sniper/mortar attack on US troops.

/sarcasm

6 posted on 01/29/2005 3:54:40 PM PST by CedarDave (Democrats don't speak -- they rant!)
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I flipped on the alphabets, all the news was negative about the election, they threw in a few positives interviews and comments here and there but for the most part you feel like even if the Iraqi people win, they lose. I'm back to FOX now.


7 posted on 01/29/2005 3:55:39 PM PST by John Lenin (Do I go MAC,,,,, nah Linux , you can have your turtle)
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Pretty sad that a single Dan Rather report has almost as much positive news about Iraq as a week's worth of Fox News Channel coverage.

Yeah, FNC as a whole is great and helps to add balance, but in covering Iraq they are almost as bad as all the other Dem propaganda outlets, er, media channels. At least 90% negative on FNC, just like the rest of them. Totally inexcusable.

8 posted on 01/29/2005 3:55:52 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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NEVER FORGET



DAN RATHER & WALTER CRONKITE also misreported our Fight for Freedom during the Vietnam War. And so it was lost.


And yet...


Liberal Los Angeles Times Media "Critic" DAVID SHAW is still telling us that:


RATHER's work 'Shoddy, Slipshod' not LIBERAL..?

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts


NEVER FORGET

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12 posted on 01/29/2005 3:59:53 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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(Dan Rather's) Report From Triangle Of Death:


13 posted on 01/29/2005 4:00:23 PM PST by jaz.357 (The more you bet, The less you win, When you loose.)
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Blather is a talented guy. I bet if he tried really hard he could write non-fiction.....


14 posted on 01/29/2005 4:02:23 PM PST by rockrr (Revote or Revolt! It's up to you Washington!)
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"When one of these Marines comes up to you and says, 'I am glad to be here. I am a Marine to the core. But tell me, is it worth it?' What do you tell them," asks Rather.

So, did this actually happen, or is Mister Rather, uh...well, forging an interview?

It's a tad ironic that Rather is with the Marines. Years ago, if memory serves, he washed out of Marine basic. Might this not be an explanation of his hatred of the U.S. Military?

17 posted on 01/29/2005 4:17:10 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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dan rather can kiss my ass!


18 posted on 01/29/2005 4:26:38 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve to keep us free)
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Dan laying on the gloom and doom. Nobody's watching. Pull the plug.


21 posted on 01/29/2005 4:58:45 PM PST by hershey
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Not bad until rather just had to throw in a little negativism right at the last with his, "What do you tell the troops when they ask why we're here?" He's trying to redeem himself, but he's still a punk at heart.


23 posted on 01/29/2005 6:12:33 PM PST by ozzymandus
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