Posted on 03/05/2005 2:37:42 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Thanks to Bernard Goldberg for helping to make Dan's exit a reality. It took a lot of courage to pen that first WSJ op-ed.
Rather's big break covering the JFK assassination was a result of his--to put it mildly--"tendentious and unprincipled" reporting. Posted here.
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
And why did`nt they have time to get a story attacking the President authenticated?
After the successful Republican convention,the dead dem convention and Kerry squirming from the scrutiny of the Swift Boat Vets they saw President Bush opening a 15-20 point lead.They felt they had to take their shot.
Not that much of a risk to them as a whole.If they did nothing or it did`nt work the result would be the same,President Bush wins.If it did work they would be have the man they wanted as President plus reclaim some of the power that had ebbed since the days of Watergate.
What hubris! If he weren't so dumb, he'd realize that he's probably next: John Roberts was up to his eyeballs in the bogus guard story & its coverup, imperiously brushing off all criticisms & arrogantly defending their "unimpeachable sources" as beyond reproach.He was on the front lines insisting that CBS was accountable to no one, least of all the lowly public. There is no question that he shares Rather's cavalierly irresponsible attitude towards factual accuracy, journalistic integrity and professional ethics and as long as Roberts (Rather Lite) remains at CBS, they'll never be able to repair their image. Clearly, Dan Rather isn't the only one who still doesn't "get it" at Black Rock.
What really pisses me off is the fact that these pretenders of "news" reporting agencies, and their talking heads, have been spewing lies for as long as I have been alive.
They have been vomiting anti-American propaganda, disguised as news, since before Senator Joseph McCarthy's struggles with Communist influence from Hollywood.
Truth to be known, had we, the United States of America, finished WWII, and taken out the USSR, these enemies of America, here at home, would have been eliminated, to a point.
McCarthy, Patton, Washington and Jefferson, while patriots all, were imperfect men.
It, however takes men to keep a country.
Now the internet has come under scrutiny by the inept Congress. Instant knowledge at the common man's fingertips is scaring the Hell out of these charlatans.
It isn't only Mubarak, or Assad who are worried about President Bush and the march towards freedom.
The scumbags who write for liberal toilet papers like the Sun will NEVER get it as long as they insist that the failed attempt by Dan Rather and CBS to smear a sitting President and fix a Presidential election using forged military documents was merely a "flawed story".
Walter Cronkite gave birth to Rather and his ilk.
And now he can't stand to watch his own handiwork.
He still won't admit it was a forgery.
Rather is just the tip of the Slimeberg at cBS.. nBS.. aBS.. and pBS...
Dear Dan,
kiss my butt and call it a love story
I read Bias a couple years ago. Excellent book.
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