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Dan Rather Laments That Americans Think the Media ‘Make Up Stories’
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Posted on 11/07/2017 3:10:47 PM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Buckhead’s revelations in that post may have also very well prevented 2 Supreme Court justices from being appointed by John Kerry (not to mention all of the judges on the lower courts). Granted, Roberts has been far from perfect, but can you imagine how much worse it would have been with Kerry appointees instead for both him *and* Alito with all of the rulings the Court has made since 2005 and the impact that would have had?

They would have gotten away with throwing an election from a completely false news story.


81 posted on 11/07/2017 5:32:06 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Regulator

He still maintains to the present day the story was accurate - that he just had to be pay the price for taking on President Bush as an incumbent president:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMFbKMKtgHw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4LV7Da-_Dg

He amazingly even says in one of those videos “everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” The CBS investigation even revealed they knew the documents were fake but went ahead with the story anyway. http://www.weeklystandard.com/rather-shameful/article/1039561 - that is a multipage article detailing how it all went down.


82 posted on 11/07/2017 5:51:22 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: GregoTX

“Says the man that got fired for reporting a fake news story.”

It was fake, but accuate, though.

Perhaps he doesn’t remember.
Perhaps he doesn’t think we remember.


83 posted on 11/07/2017 6:30:33 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Sub-Driver

ROTFLMAO


84 posted on 11/07/2017 6:33:14 PM PST by morphing libertarian (A proud member of the Ruthie Bader Afternoon Nap Club)
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To: SaveFerris
I've got one word for Mr. Rather.

buckhead

85 posted on 11/07/2017 6:56:58 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I always think he & Lamar Alexander have been dead forever.....always surprises me that they are still alive.


86 posted on 11/07/2017 7:00:43 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: TigersEye

I remember one cartoon from back in those days. Had to do with Buckhead in a clever way. How he exposed CBS and Dan Rather.


87 posted on 11/07/2017 7:01:21 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
Live Thread from the night we busted Rather

First question of authenticity came just 19 minutes after the broadcast started.

88 posted on 11/07/2017 7:09:50 PM PST by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Sub-Driver

He IS a crazy old bastard aint he?


89 posted on 11/07/2017 7:12:48 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The purveyor of making up stuff that gave us the term, “Fake but True” can’t figure out why we would think that.....priceless!


90 posted on 11/08/2017 2:37:34 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: colorado tanker

That was some night! Kudos for ever to Freepers beginning with Buckhead who destroyed Rather in one night.


91 posted on 11/08/2017 4:19:50 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Yes! That started the avalanche. It was a great night


92 posted on 11/08/2017 4:22:24 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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