Posted on 03/04/2005 7:47:11 AM PST by Valin
LETTERMAN: ...Now, the credibility, the v[e]racity of documents do comes into question and then what happens?
RATHER: Well, a panel was appointed by CBS News to...
LETTERMAN: An independent panel?
RATHER: An independent panel.
LETTERMAN: Is this a big thing for a network news organization to have endured?
RATHER: I think the answer to that is yes, yes. Richard Thornburgh, former attorney general who was in the Nixon administration, says the bushes are good friends of his, both president one and two [B]ush. He headed the panel. They took the better part of four months, spent several million dollars, some people say as much as $5 million, and came out with a report which I've read, thought about, absorbed it, take it seriously and move on and carry it with me in my work. Among the things, they concluded a lot of things, many of them not compl[i]mentary about my work. They concluded that whatever happened and whatever you thought about it, it was not motivated by political bias and they said that, although they had four months and millions of dollars, they could not demonstrate the documents were not authentic, that they were forgeries. They said they couldn't make that conclusion. They also encouraged CBS News to rededicate itself to aggressive investigative reporting when warranted and not let this discourage them from doing so. That's a summary, a short summary. This panel report is big enough, you know, if you want to read it, it's I don't know, big enough to make a door stop.
LETTERMAN: I need a door stop.
(Laughter) so let me go back to two points. They said, one, it was not motivated by political bias?
RATHER: That's right.
LETTERMAN: So CBS News and yourself and others cleared of that, and that seemed to be a great point of criticism, did it not, that there was political bias here, that...
RATHER: People had their own political motivations and agendas, and some people who didn't have that, who were asking the question. That's one reason the panel was appointed. That was one of their conclusions.
LETTERMAN: That charge has been erased by the fact-finding committee?
[RATHER]: That was their conclusion.
LETTERMAN: Did not exist. That evaporated. Secondly, they could not prove the documents were false. They could not prove they were true and accurate, but they also could not prove they were false
RATHER: That's correct.
LETTERMAN: That's a push right there.
RATHER: Some people would not regard it, but you've summarized it correctly. They had a lot of other findings. Those were among the findings.
Somewhere, Richard Nixon is laughing his butt off.
when I say something which is untrue, it doesn't mean I'm telling a lie. It's a...creative altenative to the truth, NOT A LIE!
that's my story and I'm stickin with it.
Nobody died when Clinton lied :o)
This man will never get it. He should be committed with the idiot who beat him up screaming Kenneth's frequency.
Now stop being so judgemental!
See reply 22
All that time and money and they couldn't verify that Times New Roman wasn't available on the typewriters in use in the TANG in 1973? What exactly do these people spend these millions on?
oh.... uh... uh... he could have gone out and found a professional varia-typewriter to type the memos on. My butt. And even though that professional layout typewriter may have had Times, I'm pretty sure Times New Roman hadn't been designed yet.
Dan, you can't progress through the recovery process until you get past the denial phase. Let's work on that, shall we?
That's it? Really? Already, huh?
Sweet.
It didn't bring him down, though.
It failed like all of the other little schemes they've attempted have over the past few years.
Do the words "no controlling legal authority" come to mind?
I agree. I used to be a regular viewer of Letterman... he sucks up to everyone also employed by CBS and every liberal guest (especially Hillary). Hmmm... speaking of CBS... come to think of it, I don't think he ever had Bernie Goldberg on as one of his guests...
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.
Or that no one cares... it is so sad watching these libbers being so let down and disappointed in their declining years that the Nation is rejecting them and what they stood for like a bad cold. Such a sweet sadness... a sweet, sweet sadness. A sad joy. A... schaden-freude. ;)
Yes, sir! We will dance in the streets.
Denial can be fun. Heck, Bill Clinton and his cohorts have been doing it for a decade-plus. Ole Dan is just following along, too.
In a few years, ole Dan's memoirs will be published and they will make him out the hero.
There is a resthome waiting for Letterman too. What a toady. Whats the frequency Dave?
I wonder if Blather would have the same attitude if the "misleading" documents and "errors" were about him?
Hey, look at what nice Freeper just sent me:
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2004/11/24/415562.html
We've gone international!!!
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