Posted on 09/08/2024 5:18:03 AM PDT by T Ruth
An important anniversary [is today]. This anniversary carries implications for how we receive news, how political campaigns are conducted, and the credibility of almost everything we see or hear from the media.
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. ...
The result was a victory for the truth and a blow to the establishment media. CBS was proven to have lied to influence a presidential election. ...
Why is a 2004 scandal at CBS still relevant [twenty] years later? Even without Dan Rather, the network has not truly changed. The other networks are just as bad – if not worse. 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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(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
TankerKC three hours earlier than the Buckhead post.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210516/posts?page=107#107
Even more scandalous than Rathergate was the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020, involving a successful collaboration by the media, the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, Facebook, Twitter, and Biden campaign officials. This would make a great movie, but Hollywood will never produce it.
Yes.
I remember that day. I was watching Free Republic, and witnessed several magnificent Freepers debunk Dan Rather/60 Minutes in real time. It was a BEAUTIFUL thing to behold!!
And Bush is supporting Harris in 2024.
And Bush is supporting Harris in 2024
Supporting? How?
I used to have a Word document that I overlaid on the fake one. It was practically a perfect match.
This is the money quote: “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.”
Almost everything we see, hear or read is “Fake” - the accuracy moniker is highly questionable. It was then, it certainly is now.
This is an amazing account of the horrid events of that day. https://youtu.be/oJnoFA0u2Eg?si=NZXTn1WS9j2yf22Z
Just recalling rather as a lying liar who lied ought to suffice.
I was still lurking, but read many of the threads about it and joined the following month.
Breaking news?
Wow...
Me too!
(“I was here!”)
“Buckhead!”
And TankerKC, or is it KCTanker?
I joined FR that week in 2004. I knew this was the place for me. :)
20 Years later! OMG!
That looks like it but I didn’t gif it. Thanks.
One can scroll down this list to September 2004 for some FR articles about Rathergate...
https://freerepublic.com/tag/danblather/index
I remember that one. Secret email list only certain people were on to coordinate talking points. I’m almost positive a new one exists today. It isn’t a coincidence so many MSM outlets all print/report the same talking points.
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