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Rather climbing down from the pinnacle
Houston Chronicle ^ | March 6, 2005 | MIKE MCDANIEL

Posted on 03/06/2005 8:27:35 AM PST by Dog Gone

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To: Dog Gone

May he be given a "ROTTEN ROPE"!


41 posted on 03/06/2005 9:15:04 AM PST by winker
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To: Dog Gone
Rather says. "One, this panel found that whatever mistakes were made, they were not born out of political bias. And 2, after spending four months and $5 million trying to establish that the memos were 'forgeries,' as so many have called them, the panel was unable to do that.

Gosh, you mean that a CBS panel was unable to find out something that would disgrace them?

Imagine that.

Sounds like Dan is sticking by the memos after all.

42 posted on 03/06/2005 9:16:44 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: Dog Gone

He grew up in the Heights? I wonder if he knew Elmer, "Mom I killed him", Wayne Henley.


43 posted on 03/06/2005 9:18:35 AM PST by hobson
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To: anniegetyourgun

ah yes! more on the mating habits of swine.


44 posted on 03/06/2005 9:18:35 AM PST by Samizdat
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To: Dog Gone
Dan Rather, gracious and in good spirits, .....

ie. highly medicated.

So9

45 posted on 03/06/2005 9:19:43 AM PST by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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To: Dog Gone; All
Sorry, Dan, Sorry, SeeBS, WE WHO DO OUR HOMEWORK can tell even the "story" the phony documents are supposed to be about is phony 
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Find an overview of the FACTS about GWB's Texas Air National Guard Service at http://www.hillnews.com/york/090904.aspx

A summary of the salient points are at  http://boortz.com/nuze/200409/09152004.html#guard

STAUDT FINALLY SURFACES: DUBYA DID NOT GET SPECIAL TREATMENT AND "SUGAR COATING" WAS NEVER REQUESTED BY ANYBODY.  See http://snipurl.com/c1iu  and   http://snipurl.com/9bny

Ed Morrisey, the guy who swore W into the TANG weighs in here:  http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/173996   (the paper's front page is at  http://www.thedailytimes.com/  )

Find this:  "The Air Force, in their ultimate wisdom, assembled a group of 102's [F-102 pilots] and took them to Southeast Asia. Bush volunteered to go.  But he needed to have 500 [flight] hours, but he only had just over 300 hours so he wasn't eligible to go,” Morrisey recalls. ... Despite that, Lieutenant Bush stayed busy. ... "He flew in active air defense missions, training missions.    Day, night, regardless of inclement weather," Morrisey says. ... Colonel Morrisey assured us that to the best of his knowledge Lieutenant Bush was treated like any other officer in the Texas Air National Guard. ... Morrisey says he considers himself to be more of a Libertarian than Republican or Democrat.  Nonetheless, Morrisey says he is voting for George Bush come election day. -- in BOTH printable version AND video clip at   http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2346701

See what Dubya's Wing Men (NOT boaters or yachtsmen, now, but FELLOW FIGHTER PILOTS) had to say (they were not in the SAME supersonic fighter plane with him, but they DID SERVE WITH HIM AND FLEW ALONGSIDE HIM) here: http://snipurl.com/6qkp

A Commentary by Col. John H. Wambough, Jr. USAF (Ret.) is at:  http://jb-williams.com/guest-kerry.htm

Major General Hodges says GWB didn't get preferential treatment, didn't need any, and besides, he's mad at CBS for misleading him here:  http://snipurl.com/a3y2

4 Eyewitnesses who saw GWB serving in Alabama are quoted and sourced HERE: http://snipurl.com/a3y3

See Exactly WHERE George W. Bush's TANG service fits in The REALLY Big Picture here:  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3919

And don't forget, IT WAS GWB who signed the Standard Form 180 asking that ALL his military records be released and JFK who DID NOT.  Physical exams were irrelevant to someone like GWB who'd already taken physicals and flown for 3 years and no more flying was required (on top of that, the F-102 had started to be phased out anyway); they were never considered worth writing him up for except in the FAKE memos, the source of which SeeBS refuses to identify. 

"In Texas in the late sixties and early seventies, it was so Democratic that no Republican had enough pull to have a parking ticket fixed [let alone get someone into the National Guard]." -- Robert, Lubbock, TX -- email to Fox NewsWatch, 9-18-04

Besides, Daddy Bush (GHWB) was only a junior Republican U.S. Congressman at the time and had absolutely NO influence in the LBJ/Barnes-dominated state government in Austin.   THE reason they took W was because the Texas Air National Guard didn't have enough applicants to be pilots at the time, while almost all the other services did.

Bush served HONORABLY, with multiple links HERE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1230803/posts

"The [Texas Air National Guard] records released Tuesday also include orders for an August 1971 training mission in Canada, where Bush impressed his commanders. An evaluation written nine months later said Bush's 'skills as an interceptor pilot enabled him to complete all his ADC (Air Defense Command) intercept missions during the Canadian deployment with ease'." -- The Wichita Eagle, 10-5-04

Kerry's questions are answered here:  http://snipurl.com/a71g

This whole SeeBS fiasco was based on such an irrelevant non-story from the git-go that one can only presume there was a complete breakdown, or even lack, of standards and possibly, even malice aforethought, especially if you review the timeline of the SeeBS fiasco here:
http://snipurl.com/a3y6

Golly, it would have been nice to say, well, they both were irresponsible kids who got away with really, really bad stuff, but hell, it's all water over the dam, etc.  EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT IT TURNS OUT IF W GOT INTO ANY MISCHIEF, IT HAD NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH WHAT THEY'VE TRIED TO FRAME HIM FOR.  The NYTimes' and Flim Flam Dan Rather's claims that yes, the memos are fake, but what they say is true -- amounts to saying it's OK to fabricate and plant evidence if you think -- or at least hope --  someone's guilty.

"This is the same media that spent months investigating George W. Bush's military record and, even after key allegations were revealed to be based on forgeries, continued publicizing rumors and innuendoes. They didn't stop even after the President signed Form 180, opening all his military records to the public." -- Dr. Thomas Sowell, here: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4142
 

As far as the documents go, their fraudulence is PROVEN here: http://snipurl.com/c1k0
See what a REAL Texas Air National Guard document from the '70s looks like HERE: http://www.geocities.com/bush_not_awol/document40.html

The latest attempt to prove the phony memos are "real" (this time by Utah Professor David Hailey), is shown to be yet ANOTHER fraud here:  http://wizbangblog.com/archives/003851.php

The Texas forgery code provides that publication of two or more fake government documents is a felony.  Follow the updates on CBS's tampering with the evidence in this crime HERE:  http://snipurl.com/9eqw   Further, there may have been a criminal conspiracy to use forged documents in an attempt to influence a Presidential election, a federal crime.

-- all from  http://freedomkeys.com/w-tangfacts.htm

find an easier-to-copy-and-email version of this page HERE.


46 posted on 03/06/2005 9:26:02 AM PST by FreeKeys (Obviously, SeeBS thinks it's OK to plant "evidence" if you think, or at least hope, someone's guilty)
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To: Dog Gone
[ "Memogate," as the resulting crisis has been coined, has plagued CBS News ever since, a lightning rod for the conservatives who say the media exudes a liberal bias. ]

No... Memogate.. was yet another democrat folly...
from the war-room in their war against America...
But that one died a slow death in a republican Rino hell...

Dan Rathers folly was an alleged memo not an actual one..
The cBS folks just made it up... They just thunk it up for propaganda value..
not counting the actual Sedition and seditious value in a Presidential election cycle.
Its kind of like the King county(WA.) stealing of the Governorship that DID work.
Repubicans don't seem to care who wins, its the game that counts to them..

Except for a bunch of irate bloggers this sedition of Rathers would not be even noticed.. One wonders what other mischief the democrats have been up to low the last say, 50 YEARS.... The mind boggles.. The democrats KNOW republicans will not fight BACK... WHich, no doubt, just encourages them more..

47 posted on 03/06/2005 9:26:19 AM PST by hosepipe (This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
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48 posted on 03/06/2005 9:29:17 AM PST by FreeKeys (Obviously, SeeBS thinks it's OK to plant "evidence" if you think, or at least hope, someone's guilty)
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To: Dog Gone

"Listen, I've made every mistake in the book at least twice," Rather says, I work too hard, care too much, speak truth to power too much. But the one thing I can't figure out is why nobody tunes in to watch me anymore.


49 posted on 03/06/2005 9:30:10 AM PST by DManA
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To: Dog Gone
after spending four months and $5 million trying to establish that the memos were 'forgeries,' as so many have called them, the panel was unable to do that.<<<<

Speaks volumes about the "panel"...it was established the memos were typed with a computer that didn't exist at the time...How much more proof does one need?????????...GEEZ!
50 posted on 03/06/2005 9:31:22 AM PST by M-cubed
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To: Dog Gone
LET'S ALL SING A NICE GOODBYE SONG
51 posted on 03/06/2005 10:06:10 AM PST by doug from upland (Ray Charles --- a great musician and safer driver than Ted Kennedy)
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To: Lazamataz
Perhaps Gunga Dan should consult a good statistician and ask him the following question: "What are the odds of someone typing a letter on a manual typewriter to use all the same defaults as Word Perfect does today." Word Perfect was written long after the purported document.

Just think, the number of words per line, the superscripting, the spacing, the center justification, the margins left right top and bottom, the spelling (aint spell check great), add to that using a military form style that was not used until some years after the purported document.

The freepers proved the document as fake for free. CBS could have used our services for a much smaller sum than 5 million dollars. I think Jim Rob would have done if for only a million. :)

If Dan Rather truly thinks these documents have not been proved as fakes, he is delusional and certifiable. Otherwise he is just a plain damned liar. I do not think he is delusional.
52 posted on 03/06/2005 12:15:29 PM PST by cpdiii (Oil Field Trash, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, (OIL FIELD TRASH was fun))
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