Courage.
Since when does a leftist liberal media outlet like CBS want to appease a republican whitehouse. They think we are so stoopid!
What Rather wants and could possibly get is a settlement (sealed) with CBS that would:
A. Keep CBS from having to go through a rehash of how bad their “journalism” was and is.
B. Give Rather plausible deniability... it wasn’t my fault... I was just a scapegoat, etc...
and C. Leave it hanging open as a possiblity that the story really was true and just covered up by the “right wing conspiracy.”
jw
I think Jonah Goldbergs column sums it up best.
Pass the popcorn....
...bring the popcorn.
Dan Rather is living in some bizarro parallel universe!
“Dan Rather . . . is fighting for “the red, beating heart of our democracy,” journalism”
He further stated:
“Back home they’d say I’ve been whippin’ snakes, that I’ve been busier than a one-armed man in a marathon daisy-chain.
Just look at my eyes. I never really focus on anything, beady like a diamond-back rattler. And my facial expression: as poker-faced as the poker-face of a poker player.
Yes, I’ll fight the fight, I’ll fight all right. Until I get the right frequency, I’ll fight all night.
Like that time—way back in the piney woods, back when Caesar was a pup, in the hill country, my old tick-hound `Bullet’ was howlin’ like a tornado siren and, and . . . “
and then Mr. Rather was given some Thorazine.
I hope CBS counter sues Dan for beach of contract (there HAD to be a NDA in his network contract, or CBS is even more stupid than I think), fraud (representing to his superiors the documents were genuine long past the time any reasonable person could see they were not), journalistic malpractice (not vetting the story) and slander (blaming CBS for leving him high and dry to please the White House). I wonder if Danny Boy has thought about what a FOOL he is going to look like when a court proceeding reveals his Machiavellian attempt to stage a coup based on documents he knew, or should have known, were forgeries. I think Mr. Rather is receiving very short-sighted legal counsel - hope the lawyer had the sense to take this on an hourly basis with a huge up-front retainer.
Maybe Dan should be fighting for our Republic instead. I’m not sure he knows that we aren’t a democracy.
Even if the forged documents are taken out of the equation, the broadcast story was pure BS. The other half of the story relied on Dan’s interview with Ben Barnes, former Texas House Speaker, who said he got W in the Guard.
The only problem was that he was contradicting his own sworn testimony given previously in court. The fact that Ben was then a major fundraiser for Kerry didn’t seem to bother Dan, or the fact that Ben’s own kids said he was lying.
Ping.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus