Posted on 09/08/2021 7:10:28 AM PDT by T Ruth
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. With persistence, they established that CBS was wrong. The documents were forgeries, and CBS personnel committed misconduct in airing the story. Investigations and lawsuits and an independent panel followed.
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*** 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. (bolding added)
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(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Freepers played an important role in this story.
Thanks.
My best Dan Rather imitation.
LOL
Hail, Buckhead!
And thus was born the phrase, “fake but accurate”
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“I am posting this again on the 17th anniversary of CBS’s fraudulent “60 Minutes” broadcast. Freepers played an important role in this story.”
Wow, didn’t know that. For me, even though I knew that the news was biased and especially biased by omission. For example, how many here know what protest had the largest number of arrests since the anti-war protests of the Vietnam era and still to date (and no, nothing recent)? Hint, it was spiked, which is why no one here knows...but feel free to guess.
But when CBS didn’t immediately APOLOGIZE to Bush for running the fake story, it was clear that they now considered themselves to be ‘players’ and all remaining pretense of objectivity was gone. And its only gotten worse...now to the point that half of the country doesn’t believe a damn thing they say...and shouldn’t.
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Hail, Buckhead! We will never forget you!
He was a POS journalist during Vietnam. Same as Cronkite.
I thought they did some Netflix special and tried to say that Dan Rather and the democrats had the story right all along.
Joseph Stalin and Joesph Goebbels would be proud of Dan Rather.
Was that the one they called “fake but accurate”?
OK, scrolled to post #6; answered.
And that piece of sh*t Rather still clings to it to this day.
When asked about it recently, he said “We got to the truth, but we paid a high price”
No, kennth, you didn’t get to the truth it was 100% fake and you knew it,... the price you paid was getting fired for it because you deserved it.
The only person who managed to expose the fake news media was Trump. He “got” this article better than anyone.
I remember watching it happen in real time on a paid computer in the lobby of the San Diego King's Inn. I had to keep dropping in quarters like a pay phone.
BINGO! Something else I remember about ol' Dan occurred during the Republican 'red wave' congressional election in 1994. Late in the evening, when it was obvious the D@mocrats were having their hats handed to them, a rather tired Dan Rather stated on national tv (quoting from memory), "I can't believe we're losing!"
But according to Danny Boy (AKA "Kenneth" ;^), the media is NOT biased, and Dan's 'Job #1' was "speaking truth to power". SeeBS should have offered free barf bags to anyone who watched the guy...
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