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 ...
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!
In between muttering "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
>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."
That cartoon is brilliant!!! Where can I get it?
"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.
Fortunately for us, the left's anxiousness to destroy President Bush is destroying them.
I am not unhappy with this development. :)
This is all garbage.......the whole ANG thing is fabricated nonsense.
My computer won't run Windows '73.
***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!
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.
***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.
”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.
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.
has Dan ever adaquately, himself, ever explained 'his service' in the USMC?
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
"...HEY DAN! LET IT GO! IT AIN'T REAL! ACCEPT IT AND MOVE ON!...
Me thinks that MoveOn(.org) is part of the problem.
; ) I kinda wanted to hear it from Dan....
Dan Rather is a rabid demagog, with no redeaming virtures.
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