Rule #1-Don’t use fake documents as a source for news.
...and given enough time, I believe Dan can come up with a docuemt to prove it. It won’t be real, but it will prove what he says is true. /s
“Don’t fact check me, bro.” -Dan Rather
(Courage)
I put this on another post today:
Dan Rather is mentioned several times in B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley’s “STOLEN VALOR—How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of its Heroes and History.” Rather helped shape the popular image of the Vietnam veteran as psychotic misfit. He did a “documentary” in 1987, “The Wall Within,” which was later factually discredited. I don’t doubt that Michael Moore as a youth was inspired by 60 Minutes, which has always been 10 percent news and 90 percent entertainment.
Anyway, I quote verbatim from page 107 of Stolen Valor:
“Rather certainly has experience with the military. During the Korean War, when men could be drafted out of college, Dan Irvin Rather joined the Army Reserves while attending Sam Houston University in Huntsville, Texas, thus avoiding the possibility of being drafted. On graduating in 1954, well after the Korean War was over and the killing had ended, Rather quit the reserves and enlisted in the Marine Corps. (This is the same national broadcaster, who night after night during the 1988 presidential campaign, hammered Republican vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle for avoiding Vietnam by joining the National Guard.) Although the press often refers to Rather as an ‘ex-Marine,’ he did not finish Marine recruit training. He joined the Marines on January 22, 1954, but was discharged less than four months later, on May 11, for being medically unfit. (As a boy, Rather had suffered from rheumatic fever.)”
There has never been anything wrong with serving in the reserves—an essential part of the military and the oldest. What has been dishonorable is the way Rather, the news media and later, John Kerry, denigrated reserve service for political effect. By doing this during the 2004 election they insulted thousands of reservists who were serving in Iraq.
Kerry got a six-month early discharge from the Navy. When you add up Kerry’s active duty time and compare it to Bush’s active duty time—OCS, flight training, summer activation—Kerry didn’t do much more time than Bush.
Whacko. Bring popcorn.
Pretty sums up his entire, worthless career ...
Courage ..
As bizarre as the lawsuit is, CBS will settle big-time for (my guess) $20 million.
Why?
The last thing on earth the democrat party and CBS wants is for the discovery process of this litigation to open up to the light of day how CBS creates the news. All just around the time of the 2008 presidential election. $20 million is a bargain to shut Rather up.
Whole ball of wax.
Delusional!
Mark
Dan Rather had been sitting in the “ejection seat” for years with his left-wing bias. Maybe once he gets over his bitterness he and Larry King can market a line of “designer suspenders” or perhaps “bobble head liberals.” The Great Oz Has Spoken.
Bad Buckhead Bad! :)
Of course, this does say a lot about the bent of Rather and of CBS which kept him on premises way beyond his sell-by date. Rather sees "truth" as being "right wing." That's a back-handed acknowledgment that the "left wing" is based on dishonesty.
Congressman Billybob
Dan is simply bat Sh*t nuts!!!! Fake but fake still won’t cut it you blathering idiot.
As Samantha Sang says in the song “cry me a river” Dan.
I wonder if Dan Rather plans to ask Bernie Goldberg how it feels to get screwed by CBS.
Seriously, this is an asinine act on the part of Dan Rather. Dan Rather does not need the money. CBS will never admit wrongdoing, even if they did something wrong. They have attorneys and public relations departments to make themselves look blameless. The best he could hope for is a settlement and an agreement to keep silent on the issue, something CBS was doing, anyway.
That’s assuming that CBS decides to settle. They may not want to settle. They may prefer to drag Dan Rather through the mud for a while. They employed him for over forty years. I’m sure they know a few things about Dan Rather that would make him look worse. They could well make him look stupid for a while, then offer a settlement as if to say, “Had enough yet?” That might make Mark Cuban reconsider Dan Rather’s continued employment.
The possibility of countersuit is unlikely, but then again, CBS News’ reputation in in the toilet and it will take years to resurrect it. It’s easy to blame the whole thing on Dan Rather. Bernie Goldberg’s book, Bias, blamed much of the left wing bias at CBS directly on Dan Rather. Published accounts of malfeasance go a long way with juries.
Dan Rather’s contract no doubt had some flowery prose about due diligence and highest ethics of journalism in it. It’s easy to argue that he violated such terms, and his actions damaged the reputation of CBS News. Although we at Free Republic have noted the bias at CBS for years, the National Guard memos made the bias undeniable to the whole nation. CBS News is still reeling.
And if Dan Rather thinks he will somehow invoke feelings of loyalty at CBS News, or maybe intimidation, he should remember that when he got them in trouble, they threw him under the bus.
Get the popcorn. We’re going to need a lot of it.
Dan, you’d have been much better off if you had just retired quietly. As long as this lawsuit continues, people will be reminded every day what a loon you really are.