Posted on 10/07/2007 10:27:39 PM PDT by kcvl
NEW HOWARD KURTZ BOOK STIRS CONTROVERSY... DEVELOPING...
WHITE HOUSE FROZE OUT COURIC FOR FIVE YEARS...
PRESIDENT MISTAKENLY SHARED CLASSIFIED INFO WITH NEWS ANCHORS...
DAN RATHER VOWED TO LEAK BUSH GUARD DOCS TO NEW YORK TIMES -- IF CBS SPIKED...
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
Isn’t that precisely what he did anyway?
America trusted Cronkite b/c he looked like Captain Kangaroo, who they trusted their kids with.
“We thought Roger Mudd would succeed Cronkite and were disappointed.”
Yes, and I think Roger Mudd would have brought more honesty to CBS news! But then, who knows.
Ha! What a dope. Real presidents like Clinton share classified info deliberately.
Yes...and a real President, like Clinton, managed to make money off of the Chinese when he "shared" classified info!
No, he's the neighbor I feel uncomfortable talking to.
No, it was because people believed his great-grandfather treated John Wilkes Booth's ankle.
Rather vowed to leak to the NYT?
Is this because the National Enquirer and the Weekly World News found the documents to be fakes and the sources unreliable?
Only the NYT publishes fake stories.
” America trusted Cronkite b/c he looked like Captain Kangaroo, who they trusted their kids with.”
Thanks for this description. I always thought the looked like somebody. You nailed it...........
rather had to go to the NYT, the Weekly World News did not find it credible.
Rather did a number of drugs “in the name of journalistic research”. He claims that he got things like heroin for his research from the Houston police department.
If I recall, the AP ran with the same story the same week and did just as much denial of any controvesy but it has been forgotten as Rather has been vocal about “fake but accurate”.
“Little yellow bellied coward.”
- The only thing we have to thank Rather for happened in 1995 when he asked for, and got, Connie Chung’s scalp over her attempt to supplant him as the anchor on the Oklahoma City bombing story. Before then, it looked like the sneaky little rat was in line to take over the evening news and after that she never worked long anywhere else.
IMHO, Dan Rather is a “has been” that never was!
I always felt like he was the neighbor who'd rather be getting online looking up pics of guys in women's clothing.
LOL!
He sure be creepy!
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