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Good riddance to Rather (Thomas Sowell)
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| March 11, 2005
| Thomas Sowell
Posted on 03/11/2005 3:29:14 AM PST by The Great Yazoo
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Rather damning, I'd say.
To: The Great Yazoo
Professor Sowell nails it as usual. I love this guy...
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:36:00 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God")
To: The Great Yazoo
I forgot about that children starving bs. Sowell is right and presents a powerful argument. People tend to confuse bias and zeal. Others also defend Rather's actions by saying there is no liberal bias but a cultural one - same schools, same neighborhoods, same parties, same jobs, etc. But if the cultural is liberal than the bias becomes liberal also. Guys like Rather and Brokaw seem proud to come from ordinary roots but looking close you see the first chance they get, they run away from their roots. We all have our Dan Rather stories and anyone who checks closely can see he should have been fired long, long ago.
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:38:43 AM PST
by
7thson
(I think it takes a big dog to weigh a hundred pounds!)
To: The Great Yazoo
What about Dans TV special where he interviewed "real live nam vets" that claimed they saw our boys skinning people alive, raping, killin babies etc. It later turned out that none of those interviewed were ever in Nam. What a great propagandist of anti-Americanism!!!
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:42:50 AM PST
by
Luigi Vasellini
("Its for my brother he's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner" My favorite Roger Clinton quote.)
To: The Great Yazoo
Damning, indeed. And I take special note of this portion:
If it was just a matter of Dan Rather's zeal for a story letting him get carried away -- another popular spin -- then why was this zeal for digging into what George W. Bush did or didn't do three decades earlier in the Texas National Guard not matched by an equal zeal to dig into John Kerry's military record?
It was gutless of Dan Rather and umpteen other journalists of his so-called stature to blatantly stonewall this. John Kerry spent just over 4 months and got 3 Purple Hearts. One of which was by Kerry's own admission accidentally self-inflicted. Another one only required a bandaide.
Truly, when I listened to Dan Rather's parting words, exhorting victims of all kinds of tragedies to have 'courage', well, I could only think of what a gutless, biased wonder he was as a journalist. Hence, my portrayal:
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:42:53 AM PST
by
IPWGOP
(I'm Linda Eddy, and I approved this message... 'tooning the truth!)
To: The Great Yazoo
"This was a crock --(one out of 8 kids going hungry) but it was a fashionable crock on the left at that time and Dan Rather not only echoed but amplified a ridiculous "study" done by leftist activists. He probably didn't set out to tell a lie then any more than he did when he relied on forged documents to try to "get" President Bush on the eve of last year's election."Here is where Mr. Sowell and I are at odds.
Of course Rather set out to tell a lie. This was a premeditated attempt to get the president.
Just as premeditated as was the non investigation into Kerry's honorable discharge, issued many years after his service ended, by Carter.
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:43:55 AM PST
by
G.Mason
("I have never killed a man but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure" - Clarence Darrow)
To: 7thson
On the basis of ratings alone. Cronkite was comfortably number one in 99 out of the top 100 markets in an industry that had no challengers. Rather squandered that inheritance. From a market perspective alone, his performance has been rather poor.
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:45:07 AM PST
by
The Great Yazoo
(The husbands of the talkative have a great reward hereafter.)
To: Pharmboy
Dr. Sowell is one of the brightest, most articulate conservative writers on the planet, and totally un-recognized by the left.
To: IPWGOP
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:46:12 AM PST
by
G.Mason
("I have never killed a man but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure" - Clarence Darrow)
To: Hardastarboard
He's the left's worst nightmare: a self-made, conservative African American man speaking the truth, who's smarter than they are.
I've read two of his books, and his clarity of thought and reasoned argument are phenomenal.
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:48:33 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God")
To: The Great Yazoo
One popular spin is that it is a shame that a long and distinguished career should be judged by one unfortunate error....Every time I hear this "long and distinguished career" nonsense, it makes me want to scream. The only correct part of the statement is that his career was long, way too long. There is nothing distinguished about perpetrating the kinds of lies he did. The TANG documents were not an "unfortunate error." They were a deliberate attempt to take down a president by proving that the man sending our military to war was insubordinate and shirked his duty. Thank God for Howlin, Buckhead, Tanker KC and all those who picked up the ball and ran with it. And thank God for Jim Robinson and FR.
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:51:46 AM PST
by
Bahbah
To: The Great Yazoo
CBS and Rather conspired to commit a crime against this nation by using phoney "documents" to throw the election. Throw it to a commie front group at that.
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:52:09 AM PST
by
Waco
To: Pharmboy
THOMAS SOWELL
Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. As with many others in his neighborhood, he left home early and did not finish high school. The next few years were difficult ones, but eventually he joined the Marine Corps and became a photographer in the Korean War. After leaving the service, Sowell entered Harvard University, worked a part-time job as a photographer and studied the science that would become his passion and profession: economics.
After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University (1958), he went on to receive his master's in economics from Columbia University (1959) and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago (1968).
In the early '60s, Sowell held jobs as an economist with the Department of Labor and AT&T. But his real interest was in teaching and scholarship. In 1965, at Cornell University, he began the first of many professorships. His other teaching assignments include Rutgers University, Amherst University, Brandeis University and the University of California at Los Angeles, where he taught in the early '70s and also from 1984 to 1989.
Sowell has published a large volume of writing. His dozen books, as well as numerous articles and essays, cover a wide range of topics, from classic economic theory to judicial activism, from civil rights to choosing the right college. Moreover, much of his writing is considered ground-breaking -- work that will outlive the great majority of scholarship done today.
Though Sowell had been a regular contributor to newspapers in the late '70s and early '80s, he did not begin his career as a newspaper columnist until 1984. George F. Will's writing, says Sowell, proved to him that someone could say something of substance in so short a space (750 words). And besides, writing for the general public enables him to address the heart of issues without the smoke and mirrors that so often accompany academic writing.
In 1990, he won the prestigious Francis Boyer Award, presented by The American Enterprise Institute.
Currently Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute in Stanford, Calif.
And, I would add, one of the most straightforward writers and clear thinks of our age.
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:54:37 AM PST
by
The Great Yazoo
(The husbands of the talkative have a great reward hereafter.)
To: The Great Yazoo
When is Kerry going to sign and release his form 180?? He said he would on Tim Russert's show but hasn't done so yet.
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:58:54 AM PST
by
chainsaw
(Hillary Clinton-June 2004 - "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
To: The Great Yazoo
He probably didn't set out to tell a lie then any more than he did when he relied on forged documents to try to "get" President Bush on the eve of last year's election.
"I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things."
Dan Rather, May 15, 2001
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posted on
03/11/2005 3:59:29 AM PST
by
Zacs Mom
(Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
To: IPWGOP
I like to compare Rather's words to Red Skelton's when signing off a program.
"Courage" - "May God Bless"
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posted on
03/11/2005 4:03:02 AM PST
by
chainsaw
(Hillary Clinton-June 2004 - "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
To: G.Mason
I did not read Sowell's statement as a defense of Rather. I saw it as saying this with your eyes rolling up, sort of sarcastic in nature.
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posted on
03/11/2005 4:03:29 AM PST
by
7thson
(I think it takes a big dog to weigh a hundred pounds!)
To: Onyxx
Dr. Sowell bump
Don't you just love him!
To: The Great Yazoo
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posted on
03/11/2005 4:06:16 AM PST
by
7thson
(I think it takes a big dog to weigh a hundred pounds!)
To: The Great Yazoo
Thank you for the nice bio on Sowell. I have long admired his writing, and now, I know him better.
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posted on
03/11/2005 4:10:05 AM PST
by
good1
(Hurry to meet death, lest another comes and takes your place.)
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