Posted on 10/05/2020 6:54:53 PM PDT by T Ruth
An important anniversary passed this month and predictably received no attention. ***
On September 8, 2004, CBS’s “60 Minutes” used forged government documents as the basis for a story that attacked the military record of then-President George W. Bush. It was bad enough that CBS used forged government documents, but what made it worse was that CBS aired this story during the presidential election and timed the airing to coincide with the rollout of Democrat John Kerry’s “favorite son” campaign theme. CBS thus provided the “news” upon which the Democrat candidate based his attack ads. The CBS story was quickly disproven and eventually forced CBS into personnel changes and investigations. Dan Rather was forced into retirement a few months later. But CBS did not give up before a lengthy battle in which bloggers demonstrated that the font and other features in the forged documents did not exist in 1972 (the date placed on the forgeries).
The battle over the truth became a story in itself. The truth about the font spread like wildfire through the blogosphere and the internet, quickly picking up steam. CBS, Rather and the left clung to their story as long as they could. They even invented the “fake but accurate” standard to defend the forged documents. CBS and its surrogates belittled the bloggers but ended up making them famous. Conservative bloggers would embrace the “pajamas” epithet thrown at them during the battle – some of whom still use it today. ***
Why is a 2004 scandal at CBS still relevant 16 years later? Even without Dan Rather, the network has not truly changed. *** Rathergate serves as one example of what the establishment media do. They lie. They lie regularly, and they lie during election years to help elect Democrats.
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I tweet "Nested glyphs" to Blather on his birthday every year.
Rather has no shame, no remorse. Says it all.
Its WORSE than that. CBS called the Kerry campaign and got their go ahead to run this fake news story.
I love the meme of the Microsoft paperclip asking: “I see you are trying to forge a document. Need help?”
This surely crippled Biden's chances with voters in AUSTRALIA, where CBS aired the story.
Airing it in America, where it might make a difference?
Not so much.
SeeBS is up to its usual US election tampering...
That’s because he was telling the truth! Who cares if the evidence was made up. Hollywood even made a movie to vindicate him. /sarcasm
As in it was debunked here before the program ended!
His last post was 10-16-2015.
Let us remember FReeper Buckhead’s involvement in this tragedy. I looked on his FR homepage and he hasn’t posted in 5 years. Too bad :(
I propose a toast to Howlin, Tanker KC and Buckhead.
”(he is still trying to repair his reputation).”
I’d say that he is running out of time.
Believe it started after Rather said the forged Bush guard letter from the mysterious Lucy Ramerez was "fake but accurate".
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-09-29-0409290132-story.html
Just as important is to remember that Dan Rather remains a partisan POS.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3629068/posts?page=73#73
FR was where the debunking happened. I remember it well and was on the thread as it unfolded. Freepers at their finest, for sure!
Mary Mapes was the Strzok/Page of her time. 100% biased against Bush, but she was the “victim”.
The thing that shined the light of truth to me was when someone said, "The documents are on the wrong size of paper." and I remembered that during that time the military (and almost every other organization) used typing paper, which is smaller than copier paper.
What was amazing was how hard the legacy media fought to keep the fraud going.
“FR played an important role in Rathergate.”
If, by “important”, you mean “ total”, you’re right. It was Buckhead, I think.
I remember that day so well.
“That’s because he was telling the truth! Who cares if the evidence was made up. Hollywood even made a movie to vindicate him. /sarcasm”
Isn’t it half-past time for another Rosenberg/Hollywood Blacklist/McCarthy movie? They do them every few years. The Covid must have played havoc with the schedule.
Is he still alive? Maybe he was suicided.
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