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Dan Rather: "Trump's Russia Scandal Could Be Bigger Than Watergate"
ZeroHedge ^ | February 15, 2017

Posted on 02/15/2017 3:00:17 PM PST by Zakeet

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather slammed the Trump administration on Tuesday evening for its association with former national security adviser Mike Flynn, claiming "this Russia scandal" might end up being as "big as Watergate."

As Rather wrote in a Facebook post ...

Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now. It was the closest we came to a debilitating Constitutional crisis, until maybe now. On a 10 scale of armageddon for our form of government, I would put Watergate at a 9. This Russia scandal is currently somewhere around a 5 or 6, in my opinion, but it is cascading in intensity seemingly by the hour. And we may look back and see, in the end, that it is at least as big as Watergate. It may become the measure by which all future scandals are judged. It has all the necessary ingredients, and that is chilling.

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As a reminder, Rather, who conservatives have long accused of having a liberal bias, retired in 2005 from the anchor's chair after his flawed stories on George W. Bush's Air National Guard service record.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; bias; dacomrade; danrather; fakenews; first100days; rather; ratherbias; russia; russianstooges; russiasucks; scandal; trump45; trumprussia; watergate
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To: Rebelbase
I believe I am seeing an epidemic of Alzheimer's with the likes of waters,rather,pelosi,Cummings,schmuck Schumer,et al losing the cognitive ability. They just sound bat$hit crazy.
61 posted on 02/15/2017 3:25:02 PM PST by samantha (keep up the fight..)
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To: Zakeet

Rather’s whistling past the graveyard, I’m quite sure there’s an interesting story involving him and Russian controllers back in the Cold War era, just as there has been for practically every prominent MSM reporter since Edwin R. Murrow. It’ll make RatherGate look like tiddlywinks.


62 posted on 02/15/2017 3:26:39 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Zakeet

What a dork.


63 posted on 02/15/2017 3:26:54 PM PST by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: HARRY TUTTLE

I agree. But “only the good die young.” This old SOB is going to live to be 150.


64 posted on 02/15/2017 3:26:57 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: fhayek

Yes, you’re right.

He was one of their own. They couldn’t be frank about what he had done.

He slinked off and now thinks he gets to play the part of a respected elder news person, full of wisdom and honor.

NOPE!


65 posted on 02/15/2017 3:26:58 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: Zakeet

And Rather could have been an honest journalist too!


66 posted on 02/15/2017 3:29:14 PM PST by Randy Larsen (Trump IS MY president and I'm damn proud of him!)
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To: gaijin

ROTFL! “General Armyman” I like that.


67 posted on 02/15/2017 3:29:40 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Zakeet

Stopped reading at “Dan Rather.”


68 posted on 02/15/2017 3:32:23 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Zakeet
What Russia scandal?

These people are acting as if he made some secret deal with Iran.

As an American I no longer harbor any animus for Russia. Their citizens come and go freely, and we can visit there freely. I don't see them exporting revolutions or terrorism. They only appear to be interested in international stability which sorta coincides with my own preference. And we have a common enemy.

ML/NJ

69 posted on 02/15/2017 3:34:32 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: Zakeet

Dan Rather.

Dan...Rather.

Dan.

Rather.

Huh.


70 posted on 02/15/2017 3:35:13 PM PST by _longranger81 (In a Yadda-Yadda Da-Vita, Baby)
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To: Zakeet

Blithering idiot Gunga Dan still hasn’t called Ohio for Bush.

He’s still look’n for more DUmmy votes in Cuyahoga county.


71 posted on 02/15/2017 3:43:56 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Paladin2

To think that a piddly superscript did him is ... delicious!


72 posted on 02/15/2017 3:46:09 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds." A. Einstein)
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To: Zakeet

FBI reviewed Flynn’s calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit WaPo 1/27/17


73 posted on 02/15/2017 3:47:35 PM PST by griswold3
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To: Zakeet
I think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it
But I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of, well time slips away
And leaves you with nothing mister but
Boring stories of glory days

Glory days well they'll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days

74 posted on 02/15/2017 3:51:36 PM PST by x
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To: Zakeet

Is that fossil still stealing our oxygen?


75 posted on 02/15/2017 3:52:47 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: DoughtyOne

I CAN NOt BELIEVE THIS $HIT is happening. Brett Baier just did a report showing the picture of Richard Nixon, giving the infamous Nixon peace signs as he leaves the WH and boards Marine One for the last time. Then did a couple of photos of the interior of the helicopter..........Just what current day relevance is this?


76 posted on 02/15/2017 3:55:48 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Zakeet

And I’ve the documentation to prove it - just minutes ago they were tossed over the door to my office.


77 posted on 02/15/2017 3:57:51 PM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: Toespi

I saw they were at the Nixon library and CHANGED THE CHANNEL!!! What do they think WE ARE STUPID that we don’t know the inference here!!!


78 posted on 02/15/2017 3:57:53 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Zakeet

Danny is probably busy creating documents as proof of his allegations.

{Ringgggggg}

“Mary Mapes! Hey, how’s it going? Mary, what font would look good to replicate FBI documents? Yeah, I got another brilliant idea. Do you remember what that Kinko’s fax number is?”


79 posted on 02/15/2017 3:59:39 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Toespi

I agree. It’s full on propaganda.

It’s all out war on our duly elected government.


80 posted on 02/15/2017 3:59:51 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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