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Dan Rather stands by his story
Salon.COM ^ | 9/27/07 | Sidney Blumenthal

Posted on 09/27/2007 2:48:20 PM PDT by Phsstpok

His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.

By Sidney Blumenthal

Dan Rather's complaint against CBS and Viacom, its parent company, filed in New York state court on Sept. 19 and seeking $70 million in damages for his wrongful dismissal as "CBS Evening News" anchor, has aroused hoots of derision from a host of commentators. They've said that the former anchor is "sad," "pathetic," "a loser," on an "ego" trip and engaged in a mad gesture "no sane person" would do, and that "no one in his right mind would keep insisting that those phony documents are real and that the Bush National Guard story is true."

Once the court accepts his suit, however, launching the adjudication of legal issues such as breach of fiduciary duty and tortious interference with contract, it will set in motion an inexorable mechanism that will grind out answers to other questions as well. Then Rather's suit will become an extraordinary commission of inquiry into a major news organization's intimidation, complicity and corruption under the Bush administration. No congressional committee would be able to penetrate into the sanctum of any news organization to divulge its inner workings. But intent on vindicating his reputation, capable of financing an expensive legal challenge, and armed with the power of subpoena, Rather will charge his attorneys to interrogate news executives and perhaps administration officials under oath on a secret and sordid chapter of the Bush presidency.

 

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: courage; fakebutaccurate; lunatic; memogate; rathergate; seebsnews; sidblumenthal
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Hat tip to LGF, who has a piece on this as well, highlighting this particular bit of Grassy Knoll's lunacy:

Blumenthal: 'Almost Certainly' Karl Rove Was Behind Rathergate

Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 2:14:59 pm PDT

1 posted on 09/27/2007 2:48:27 PM PDT by Phsstpok
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To: Phsstpok

He’s in the bunker with the Russians knocking at the door.


2 posted on 09/27/2007 2:49:49 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Phsstpok
“By Sidney Blumenthal”.I needn’t read any further...I know this is just another steaming pile of excrement.
3 posted on 09/27/2007 2:50:43 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
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To: Phsstpok

Sidney Blumenthal? I don’t believe a single word that lying scumbag writes, including “the” and “and”?


4 posted on 09/27/2007 2:51:33 PM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: Phsstpok

Again! HE stands by it again and makes news? This time it is real. I promise.....


5 posted on 09/27/2007 2:52:13 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)
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To: Phsstpok

Dan Rather’s right, I’ve never heard of the “Abu Ghraib abuses”./s


6 posted on 09/27/2007 2:53:14 PM PDT by art_rocks
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To: Phsstpok

Tin foil hat moron.


7 posted on 09/27/2007 2:53:23 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: Buckhead
Ping 

Did you know that, according to Sydney Blumenthal in his latest Slate rant, you are a Rove operative?

Here's what LGF highlighted out of this piece:

Within minutes of the conclusion of the broadcast, conservative bloggers launched a counterattack. The chief of these critics was a Republican Party activist in Georgia. Almost certainly, these bloggers, who had been part of meetings or conference calls organized by Karl Rove's political operation, coordinated their actions with Rove's office.


8 posted on 09/27/2007 2:53:29 PM PDT by Phsstpok (When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
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To: Phsstpok

Maybe Rather can enlist Bernard Goldberg as a character witness.


9 posted on 09/27/2007 2:54:09 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Phsstpok

“Rather’s suit will become an extraordinary commission of inquiry into a major news organization’s intimidation, complicity and corruption under the Bush administration.”

Yep. I’m sure that there are scores of liberals at CBS who will be glad to testify that Bush was behind all this. Afterall, Bush is behind everything, isn’t he?


10 posted on 09/27/2007 2:54:15 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Rather will charge his attorneys to interrogate news executives and perhaps administration officials under oath on a secret and sordid chapter of the Bush presidency.

No bias there. At least this is objective and fair reporting about bias in the media.

11 posted on 09/27/2007 2:54:49 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)
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To: Phsstpok; calcowgirl; AuntB; Calpernia; ElkGroveDan; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER
"has aroused hoots of derision from a host of commentators."

Oh goody! Let me join right in!!! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!

12 posted on 09/27/2007 2:54:54 PM PDT by SierraWasp (WOW!!! We've Move(d)On.org from Hillery's Testicular Lock Box, to Hillery's Chinese Hsu Box!!!)
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To: Phsstpok
dan rather is a liar
13 posted on 09/27/2007 2:54:55 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: Phsstpok

Sorry the excrement smell is intolerable. bye.


14 posted on 09/27/2007 2:55:36 PM PDT by Ancient Drive
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To: Phsstpok
a secret and sordid chapter of the Bush presidency. CBS and Rather

Good Grief!

15 posted on 09/27/2007 2:55:41 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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To: Phsstpok

"That's my s-s-story and I'm s-s-s-sticking to it!"


16 posted on 09/27/2007 2:56:05 PM PDT by TommyDale (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: art_rocks
Notice how the MSM refused to cover the trials of those bozos at Abu Ghraib?

Because they knew the public would hear the opposite of what they “reported”.

17 posted on 09/27/2007 2:57:06 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: Phsstpok
BWahahahahahahhaah!

*gasp*

...ahahahahahahahahhaahahahahah

*gasp*

...ahahahahahahahahahah...

What an egotistical, pathological liar.

18 posted on 09/27/2007 2:57:30 PM PDT by TChris (Governments don't RAISE money; they TAKE it.)
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To: Phsstpok

The Dan Rather lawsuit is nothing more than a shakedown. Rather is threatening to reveal skeleton’s in CBS’ closet in order to get CBS management to cave and settle out of court with a fat payoff.

Blumenthal’s piece reads like a threatening screed written by Rather himself [hmmmmmm].

Whatever.

Odds are, Rather is striking some nerves with the threats of being able to dig deep with legal authority [Mapes is making the same assertions].

So CBS will indeed cave [cuz they probably have quite a few skeletons that Rather is intimately aware of] and Dan Rather will be championed by the left as having been right about the phony documents and heralded as a hero sacrificed on the alter of corporate|Republican dirty tricks.

We’ll be hearing something along those lines for the next twenty years.

And the beat goes on...


19 posted on 09/27/2007 2:58:06 PM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: Phsstpok
They've said that the former anchor is "sad," "pathetic," "a loser," on an "ego" trip and engaged in a mad gesture "no sane person" would do.

Mental illness is a terrible thing.

20 posted on 09/27/2007 2:59:15 PM PDT by vox humana
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