Posted on 01/22/2017 3:42:02 PM PST by Kaslin
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather is teaching an online course in journalism called “finding the truth in the news” at UDemy. Now, he’s taken to Facebook to say that the media, the American people, and the political class has to call out President Trump on his lies. No, this isn’t the Onion.
“These are not normal times. These are extraordinary times. And extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures,” wrote Rather. “What can we do? We can all step up and say simply and without equivocation. "A lie, is a lie, is a lie!" And if someone won't say it, those of us who know that there is such a thing as the truth must do whatever is in our power to diminish the liar's malignant reach into our society,” he added.
Yeah, this is coming from a man who embroiled CBS in scandal for using unverified memos that offered an unflattering picture of President George W. Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard in 2004. Experts concluded that the memos were not authentic. And Rather soon was shown the door. So, while it’s obvious that we should call out the president, whoever that may be, for spreading falsehoods—it’s a bit absurd to take orders from Rather, a disseminator of fake news, on this subject.
And just think. Now that Obama's out of office, we can post that without being called rayciss.
Dan Rather: “I was making fake news before it was cool.”
This is the new talking point. Remember how inappropriate it was to ever say the liar Obama was lying?
Dan Rather is a journalist. He worked for CBS. I used to watch him. He’s on AXS TV (if you have cable). He can do what he wants, but Trump still won. There is nothing that can be done.
“When Dan Rather Lies, We need to cut his tongue out.”
And nail it to his forehead..........Thought it needed a little something more
Aw, shaddup you mange-covered old dog. Where were you when your hero, Odungo, lied continuously? I wouldn’t have believed that piece of dung if he asked me to pass the salt. And I wouldn’t have believed YOU either, you piece of Dummocrap kissing scum.
He taught Baghdad Bob all that he knows.
That’s rich.
What, Lyin’ Dan hasn’t lain down and died yet? He is still working to destroy the United States?
This is a disgrace.
“nobody who does objective fact is going to track you down and hang you.”
Well, now, that’s just a depressing thing to say.
Let’s open up the Rather file all the way back to his lying while he was a CBS reporter in Viet Nam.
Hey Dan, what’s the frequency? Total POS!
>>“finding the truth in the news”
How does Mr. Fake but Accurate explain the discrepancy between the Fake News meme of the mall being distributed by his fellow “journalists” - and this digital interactive capture of the inauguration at the time Trump was on the podium?
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/01/politics/trump-inauguration-gigapixel/
Courage, Dan (/s)
I know the exact moment the Mainstream Media found the balls to criticize the POTUS.
It January 20, 2017 at precisely 12:00 Noon plus one second.
Hey Kenneth,
Never pick a fight with people who post pixels by the gigabyte.
We have history on you, Dan! We KNOW you lie!
First we have to determine if Rather is lying about Trump lying. Seems like a lot of work. Better to not listen to Rather to begin with.
Dan Rather is the last person I can think of to be defining a serial liar warning.
These MSM clowns are certifiably insane.
A peculiar new form of cognitive dissonance
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