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Dan (Rather) Wants Second Go At Bush! (Still Insists Memogate Story Is True!)
New Yoork Post ^ | Don Kaplan

Posted on 09/28/2005 5:59:23 AM PDT by MindBender26

September 28, 2005 -- DAN Rather wants to reopen the investigation into President Bush and the National Guard story that resulted in the Memogate scandal and led to his early departure from the anchor desk. But his bosses at CBS have forbidden him to go back at it, he said.

"CBS News doesn't want me to do that story," Rather said. "They wouldn't let me do that story,"

Rather continues to insist that the story was correct and suggested in the interview that he and the network may have been set up by some outsider.

"There are some strange, and to me, still mysterious things," he said. "Certainly unexplained things that happened about how it got attacked and why, even before the program was over," Rather said.

The report, delivered by Rather last September, was discredited two weeks later after drawing fire, first from politically conservative Web logs and later from mainstream media.

"I believed in the story," Rather said. "The facts of the story were correct.

"One supporting pillar of the story, albeit an important one, one supporting pillar was brought into question," he said. "To this day, no one has proven whether it was what it purported to be or not."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: MindBender26
"To this day, no one has proven whether it was what it purported to be or not."

To me this sounds like he thinks Pres. Bush is guilty until proven innocent. He's making the accusation. It's his job to prove it!

101 posted on 09/28/2005 9:26:47 AM PDT by Anti-MSM (Conservatives wish 9/11 never happened. Liberals pretend it didn't!)
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To: kjam22

In between muttering "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"


102 posted on 09/28/2005 9:31:53 AM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

>They were all disloyal. I tried to run the ship properly by the book, but they fought me at every turn. If the crew wanted to walk around with their shirttails hanging out, that's all right, let them! Take the towline - defective equipment, no more, no less. But they encouraged the crew to go around, scoffing at me and spreading wild rumors about steaming in circles and then 'Old Yellowstain.' I was to blame for Lieutenant Maryk's incompetence and poor seamanship. Lieutenant Maryk was the perfect officer, but not Captain Queeg. Ah, but the strawberries! That's, that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with, with geometric logic, that, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist. And I would have produced that key if they hadn't pulled the Caine out of action. I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer. (He pauses - looks at all the questioning faces that stare back at him, and realizes that he has been ranting and raving.) Naturally, I can only cover these things from memory...

Oh, so true. A friend who anchors for another network, described Rather, in early anchor troubles, Tom Bentag days as "Crazy, nutty as a fruitcake."


103 posted on 09/28/2005 9:34:20 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: demkicker

That cartoon is brilliant!!! Where can I get it?


104 posted on 09/28/2005 9:36:55 AM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
>It's gotta drive him insane. After such a long career, having THIS as his legacy. I love it. He's an idiot.

Actually, Dan's career has been full of this sort of thing, albeit on a smaller scale in most cases.

He got the chair, not because he was the best, or even stable, but he looked good, had greats suits and a good haircut, and Kenny Liebner as an agent.
105 posted on 09/28/2005 9:38:07 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: MindBender26

"Actually, Dan's career has been full of this sort of thing, albeit on a smaller scale in most cases."

He's been doing it forever. Back in the Marcos days the MSM made up anti-Marcos riots that never happened.


106 posted on 09/28/2005 9:44:17 AM PDT by dsc
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To: MindBender26; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Mo1; Howlin; Miss Marple; GretchenM; kayak; kitkat; ...
You know, if Dan would shut up about this, SOME people might forget what a dufus left winger he is.

Fortunately for us, the left's anxiousness to destroy President Bush is destroying them.

I am not unhappy with this development. :)

107 posted on 09/28/2005 10:26:03 AM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: Anti-MSM
President Bush is guilty even after he is proven innocent......which he has been.

This is all garbage.......the whole ANG thing is fabricated nonsense.

108 posted on 09/28/2005 10:29:13 AM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: MindBender26

My computer won't run Windows '73.


109 posted on 09/28/2005 10:30:38 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: kjam22

***This guy is going to spend the last years of his life in some home muttering.... "it was true, it was true, it was true......"***

LOL!


110 posted on 09/28/2005 11:12:07 AM PDT by kitkat ("We're not going to let anybody frighten us from our great love of freedom." GWB, 7/22/05))
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To: MindBender26

Captain Queeg speaks.

Someone recently quoted a passage of Moby Dick either here or on some other conservative forum, and it perfectly encapsulates the profile of the modern Democrat and their attitude toward Bush in particular.

Bush, in a nutshell, is the very embodiement of their hatred, and they are convinced that his destruction would be a self-realization.


111 posted on 09/28/2005 11:17:16 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: theDentist

***I just read a post explaaining it. Seems that if you are not a registered user, or not logged in, the times are displayed in Pacific Time. Buckhead's post was at about 11:59 Eastern time, but to those not logged it, it would appear at 8:59 Pacific Time. Mapes & Co looked at the time, but ignore time zone.***

Are you saying that if I were not a registered user on FR, I would see the time as Pacific Time? I didn't know that.


112 posted on 09/28/2005 11:18:26 AM PDT by kitkat ("We're not going to let anybody frighten us from our great love of freedom." GWB, 7/22/05))
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Rather Odd Wisdom:

”I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.”

”I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly. “

”I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now, respectfully, when you start talking about a liberal agenda and all the, quote, 'liberal bias' in the media, I quite frankly, and I say this respectfully but candidly to you, I don't know what you're talking about.”

”I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.”

“What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.”

”I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas. “

Dan Rather

"Dan's a girl...Dan has the enthusiasm of a girl. There's a girl's soul lurking in him." --CBS News campaign producer Susan Zirinsky in the March 23, 1996 TV Guide.

113 posted on 09/28/2005 11:55:53 AM PDT by Range Rover (Kerry is STILL a Fraud)
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To: kitkat

Just tried it, kit. Log off, then go into FR and have a look at the forum. All the articles are Pcific time, as were the rather brilliant comments of them.


114 posted on 09/28/2005 1:04:14 PM PDT by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: MindBender26
Put this guy in a strait jacket and rubber room, right next to Inspector Clouseau's old boss.

"The facts are true!" ya! and Pro Wrestling is on the level!

BTW, Dan where did those documents come from anyway?
115 posted on 09/28/2005 1:09:32 PM PDT by jackieaxe (English speaking, law abiding, taxpaying citizen)
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To: evolved_rage

has Dan ever adaquately, himself, ever explained 'his service' in the USMC?


116 posted on 09/28/2005 1:18:21 PM PDT by freema (Ready to Rock AND Roll)
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To: freema
Expert: Dan Rather Exaggerates Military Record

Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2002

One of the nation’s top military researchers is angry that CBS News anchorman Dan Rather continues to exaggerate and make misleading statements about his military record.

The researcher, B.G. Burkett, says that Rather’s inaccaurate statements about his military service can be found in the new hit book "Bias,” written by veteran CBS reporter Bernard Goldberg.

Burkett, co-author of the book "Stolen Valor,” a history of the media’s portrayal of the Vietnam conflict, says he’s tired of Rather’s double-talk and hypocrisy.

Case in point are Rather’s claims in "Bias.” Goldberg's book details a confrontation he had with Rather over the anchorman's compulsive liberal bias.

Goldberg recounts that when he told the network star in 1996 of his upcoming Wall Street Journal op-ed piece citing a specific CBS News report as an example of left-wing bias, Rather replied he was "getting viscerally angry about this.” "Angry I was expecting,” Goldberg tell his readers. "What came next, I wasn’t.

"Rather’s voice started quivering, and he told me how in his young days, he had signed up with the Marines – not once, but twice!”

This is not the first time Rather has hid behind the flag and his own military service claims to deflect criticism of his reporting, Burkett said. Burkett added that Rather is greatly exaggerating his record. First, Burkett says, Rather "misspoke” when he claimed he signed up for the Marines twice. He didn’t.

And Burkett is flabbergasted that Rather continues to proudly describe himself as a "Marine.”

"What he did, he signed up for the military twice, not the Marines,” Burkett said after thoroughly reviewing Rather’s military records.

But Burkett notes that Rather "never got through Marine recruit training because he couldn’t do the physical activity.”

More at : http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/1/15/205545.shtml

117 posted on 09/28/2005 1:51:31 PM PDT by Range Rover (Kerry is STILL a Fraud...Rather is the Court Jester)
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To: Virginia Queen

"...HEY DAN! LET IT GO! IT AIN'T REAL! ACCEPT IT AND MOVE ON!...

Me thinks that MoveOn(.org) is part of the problem.


118 posted on 09/28/2005 1:56:19 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
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To: Range Rover

; ) I kinda wanted to hear it from Dan....


119 posted on 09/28/2005 2:02:44 PM PDT by freema (Ready to Rock AND Roll)
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To: MindBender26

Dan Rather is a rabid demagog, with no redeaming virtures.


120 posted on 09/28/2005 2:30:48 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Show me a liberal and I'll show you a head and a heart, designed for nothing but cracking walnuts.)
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