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Dan Rather interview re-ignites controversy
News Observer ^
Posted on 11/07/2006 5:14:54 PM PST by jern
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather told a Raleigh radio interviewer Tuesday that he stands by the discredited "60 Minutes Wednesday" report that President Bush received preferential treatment when he joined the Texas Air National Guard and failed to meet requirements while enlisted.
In a testy interview on WPTF-AM, Rather also vouched for the authenticity of documents used in the report, which bloggers and the national media challenged immediately after the story aired in September 2004.
"I believe them to be real," Rather told interviewer Donna Martinez. "I wouldn't have put them on the air if I hadn't." Later in the interview he said: "To this day, nobody has ever proven that the documents were not what they purported to be."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: no; nocontroversy; nuttydanisajoke
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:14:54 PM PST
by
jern
To: jern
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:15:28 PM PST
by
nikos1121
(Thank you again Jimmy Carter.)
To: jern
"To this day, nobody has ever proven that the documents were not what they purported to be." Oh BS Danny Red. That's why you are no longer with CBS I suppose.
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:16:11 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be)
To: jern
Oh, so he gets to present his own beliefs as news and it is up to everyone else to prove him wrong? That's the arrogance of the MSM speaking.
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:16:50 PM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
Comment #5 Removed by Moderator
To: jern
Der Modern Day Goebbels(Rather) Rants!!!!:-(
Ditto with Yawns!!!!
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:17:27 PM PST
by
Defender2
(Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
To: jern
No fool like an old fool. Come to think of it, Mark Cuban, the rich over-aged brat who hired this loser, is an even bigger fool.
To: jern
Why is this a surprise? After all,OJ is still scouring the golf courses of America looking for the Columbian drug lords.
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:17:42 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
To: jern
Hey Dan Rather,.....Mister Big Shot reporter.....where's that interview with Lucy Ramirez?
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:17:54 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic is that the Free Clinic knows how to stop a leak.)
To: Jeff Head
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:17:57 PM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather?)
To: jern
Yeah, whatever. That guy is going to go to his deathbed believing those documents were real. Poor fool.
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:18:01 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(If you want a more conservative America, the solution is never going to be electing more Democrats.)
To: jern
That's when the interview got tense. "Well, obviously, you have a political agenda this morning," Rather said.
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:18:40 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: Ouderkirk
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:18:50 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be)
To: jern
Rather is not only as irrelevant as a rusting '51 Ford on the side of U.S. 90 in East Texas, like that dead Ford, he too, has a 'flathead'.
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:19:00 PM PST
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: jern
Ahh, 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... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers.
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:20:00 PM PST
by
Question Liberal Authority
(If Not For George W Bush, Saddam Hussein Would Be In Charge Of Iraq Today AND He Would Have NUKES.)
To: jern
"To this day, nobody has ever proven that the documents were not what they purported to be." I wonder what Mr. Rather would accept as proof.
To: Buckhead
Kenneth off-frequency again.
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:20:42 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: Defender2
In other news; today pot smoking draft dodging candidate for President, Bill Clinton was accused of rape by four women.
Did Dan Rather report that a week before the election?
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:20:50 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The voting machines aren't broken. The Dems operating the voting machines are broken.)
To: mkjessup
Rather is also like a '56 Chevy in Havana-run down and still limping along but at least he has COURAGE-
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posted on
11/07/2006 5:21:25 PM PST
by
unkus
To: Logophile
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