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.
I agree....See BS is all about the blather of Rather....
The old hand in cookie job..gets 'em every time...
and President Bush is still our fearsome leader...
Hey Dan...go join Krankrite and get lost...Jake
I agree with you, but I continue to watch him. He takes some good jabs at libs from time to time as well, and well, he's just Dave. Since his live-in gave birth to his son, he has mellowed considerably. I think I even see tiny signs of him not leaning quite so far to the left lately. Besides, he's (usually) just plain funny!
"Secondly, they could not prove the documents were false"
I check who the guests are on Letterman, Leno and Conan and only watch if I'm interested.
Blather told the truth about his sorry *ss motivation.... inadvertently!
Rather last night looked like Nixon without the pan makeup.
.......... more than five years?
I watched the interview and I think Letterman was very "warm" on Dan...but basically gave him several slaps upside the head. For common sense...Letterman is at the head of the class, and knows that Dan is an absolute fool, but a high-up in the CBS food-chain. He gave him his moment of glory...and that was it. We won't see Dan on Letterman again...and I doubt that Dan gets invited out to do any shows in the future. The guy is a pure fool.
Blatherman and Loserman?
How? Blather was one of the first reporters to feed the lie to the American public from Dallas about JFK's killing. That's how. Gee, look how long 'Single Bullet Arlen Sphinter' has lasted.
That's perhaps because his daughter, Robin in Texas, and Burkett are still working on some others.
;-)
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2004/11/24/415562.html---
and Dan still looks like he's in need of a FLEET enema in that international report.
LOL!
.....But the authenticity of the statement and photo could not be verified, and Liam Cusack, of the toy manufacturer Dragon Models USA, Inc., said the image of the soldier portrayed in the photo bore a striking resemblance to the African-American version of its "Cody" military action figure. "It is our doll ... to me it definitely looks like it is," Cusack said. "Everything the guy is wearing is exactly what comes with our figure."
LOL!
Letterman acted as a whore. You're right.
Captain Dan - you all broke the law, at least morally, and you all lied.
Just go away - we can only watch a train wreck for so long.
Prosecuting this guy would be mean, hes dumb a post..
how would history have been different if CBS had chosen Roger Mudd rather than Rather to succeed Cronkite?
Here at cBS would have been an excellent place to start.. only thing, fire the sissys at the FCC... What do they use 300 million as a budget FOR anyways.? In three years they eat up a billion dollars, for WHAT.? What do they do that requires a budget that large.?. They seem to be useless.. Odds are that most all FCC employees are democrats.. or RINOs.. same thing.. .
ROFL!! Cool!!
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