Oh yes indeed. By Freeper 'Buckhead'.
Way to go Buck!
As I recall, it was a FReeper who proved the document was generated by a modern word processor.
Not only did they fabricate the lie to help Kerry, they coordinated with the Kerry Campaign to time the release with Kerry’s new ad.
This is no different than the FBI saying nothing about the Hunter Biden laptop and giving the media cover by insinuating that it was “Russian disinformation”.
I remember reading the now famous post here and thinking it had the Ring Of Truth to it. We already knew they were lying long before that.
We also shouldn’t ever forget Mary Mapes, the producer who willingly helped Rather concoct their ‘story.’
Only goes to show that the truth of my Tagline goes back a long way.
Bttt.
5.56mm
I recall reading in an issue of National Review (back when I subscribed, lol) an article that discussed Rathergate and a person in Texas who worked a great deal on exposing this scandal. He was a US Army officer who first became aware of media bias and the Vietnam war when back in about 1975, a local news media outlet reported how a Vietnam veteran allegedly committed an armed robbery.
When he further investigated the story, he discovered the perpetrator took Army basic training about two or three years earlier and that was basically it for his days in the military and certainly did not see any action in Southeast Asia. This officer had the local media outlet issue a correction and he continued to track and expose and neutralize such media lies about the Vietnam war from then on and the Rather story was the crowning achievement on his part.
We can say it out loud, the legacy media is nothing more than Leftist activists, been this way for decades.
The asshat never recanted and infact, doubled down on it.
Thanks to the creation and growth of the internet, the news media is being exposed and caught in their lies literally on a daily basis, and within hours, minutes after their lying broadcasts.
Imagine, if Rather and CBS had tried pulling this stunt only about ten or less years earlier, they would have completely gotten away with it. God only knows what lies and how often they got away with years before Rathergate.
“DO YOU HAVE... ANY.... PEOPLE.... PAID BY THE CIA... IN THE BROADCAST MEDIA”
“That is something that I think we will have to talk about in executive session.”
I remember that.. that blog little green footballs broke the story..
Rathergate was an expose’, yet many Americans remain in denial, continuing to watch the networks, even non-Tucker Fox, social media or otherwise.
Pathetic, but a convenient litmus test:
One can glean from mere casual conversation those who are truly stupid and irreconcilably infected.
“60 Minutes” used forged government documents
Obama winks
The famous Post 47 from 9/8/2004:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts?page=47#47
It wasn't just that Dan Rather committed fraud, it's also that it was such an obvious fraud and CBS was too incompetent to do a better job at it. Dan Rather is too stupid to recognize it as a fraud.
While it is good to remember those events, only we who lived through it know how perfidious the media in general and CBS in particular were. Remember that Robert Redford made a movie about these events. The movie was a totally dishonest portrayal that totally white-washed the media’s part.
The problem is that our children will only have the movie to rely on to explain the history involved. Kids don’t read history books; they watch media.
They’re even more crooked today
Every evening broadcast is a commercial for Libtardism
Every point of view is Libtard
It’s a complete waste of time
I tuned into FR, and watched Buckhead take down Dan Rather and the Democrats in real time.
Memories . . .