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Dan Rather, Who Tried to Rig Presidential Election With Time-Traveling Typewriter, Says It’s a “A Dark Day In The Halls Of CBS News”
FrontPage Magazine ^ | Oct 11 2025 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 10/10/2025 6:40:11 PM PDT by texas booster

Everything you need to know about Dan Rather can be found in this animation of the ‘Killian Memo’, purportedly from the Vietnam War, compared with a Microsoft Word document, that ended his career.

Dan Rather reverted to playing George Clooney’s idea of a fictional crusading liberal journalist and eventually the media, which by then had fewer standards than a zombie in a funeral parlor, embraced him as the prototype of a serious journalist, by which they meant, speaking out against Republicans.

Now Dan’s not so happy about the CBS sale/merger and Bari Weiss taking on an editorial role at CBS News.

Rather claimed that it “is a dark day in the halls of CBS News, where the portraits of television news pioneers once hung — Cronkite, Murrow, Sevareid, Collingwood. They were journalists who made television a trusted source of information. Whom and what are we to believe today?”

Definitely not Dan Rather. The Killian Memo was a decisive blow to the credibility of the network newscast.

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: courage; danielgreenfield; danrather; fakebutaccurate; forgeddocuments; greenfield; sultanknish; whatsthefrequency

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Rather, who has a clear political agenda, claims that CBS News will be run by “someone with a clear political agenda.” He also complained that Bari Weiss is “not a reporter”.

Bari Weiss had a Substack which just sold for $150 million. Dan Rather has a Substack that no one cares about.

1 posted on 10/10/2025 6:40:11 PM PDT by texas booster
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To: 100American; 21twelve; 2nd amendment mama; A Conservative Thinker; Absolutely Nobama; ...
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

"Whom and what are we to believe today?” Not Dan Rather.

Posted about our favorite reporter, who never saw a leftist lie that he did not parrot.

Ping out to the Daniel Greenfield Ping! list.

As always, please FReepmail me if you want on or off the esteemed Daniel Greenfield ping list.

Daniel Greenfield's website: The Sultan Knish blog

2 posted on 10/10/2025 6:41:39 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

It isn’t darker to expose that “news” organization to sunlight . . .


3 posted on 10/10/2025 6:47:17 PM PDT by MCSETots
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To: texas booster

“The documents are authentic.” - Dan Rather


4 posted on 10/10/2025 6:50:01 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: texas booster

“And now the latest in Republican Special Prosecutor Ken Starr’s investigation into the President’s personal life.” - Dan Rather


5 posted on 10/10/2025 6:51:11 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: texas booster

Where’s your “Courage,” Dan?


6 posted on 10/10/2025 6:52:52 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: texas booster; IncPen
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Hat tip to IncPen

7 posted on 10/10/2025 6:53:12 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Free Republic’s greatest moment.


8 posted on 10/10/2025 6:53:22 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: Republican Wildcat
From Dan Rather:



9 posted on 10/10/2025 6:55:50 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: texas booster
"Kenneth, what is the frequency?"

10 posted on 10/10/2025 7:00:44 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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From Dan Rather:

Thanks for that. Love the Microsoft Word, Times New Roman font from 1973.

11 posted on 10/10/2025 7:04:01 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: texas booster

CBS News died with the last of the “Murrow Boys.”


12 posted on 10/10/2025 7:21:57 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: texas booster
It was Free Republic's "buckhead" who first provided proof Rather's memo was fake. Buckhead's observation was called to Rush Limbaugh's attention and the whole scandal erupted, eventually leading to Rather's ouster.

Buckhead last posted here on FR on 10-16-2015. He's been gone for almost exactly 10 years.
13 posted on 10/10/2025 7:23:03 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: texas booster

Bari Weiss looks to calm nerves at CBS News as chatter swirls around Gayle King, Norah O’Donnell — and possible layoffs

https://nypost.com/2025/10/10/media/bari-weiss-looks-to-calm-nerves-at-cbs-news-as-chatter-swirls-around-gayle-king-norah-odonnell-and-layoffs/


14 posted on 10/10/2025 7:23:47 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: decal

Yes, Freeper Buckhead debunked the fraudulent documents in minutes.


15 posted on 10/10/2025 7:31:32 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Dan in Wichita
Freeper Buckhead's original Post 47 from 2004:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts

Note that the original thread is retrievable with a Keyword Search for buckheadpost47

16 posted on 10/10/2025 7:36:10 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Republican Wildcat

Fake but accurate.


17 posted on 10/10/2025 7:36:44 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: texas booster

Rather claimed that it “is a dark day in the halls of CBS News”, and, “if a frog had side-pockets, he’d carry a handgun there, it’s like a tornado went through a trailer park, yeah boy. Staffers are acting like people driving home from the beach with a sunburn and too-tight spandex swimsuits.”
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Dan’s as crazy as a bed bug, you know?


18 posted on 10/10/2025 7:50:18 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: texas booster

He’s in the museum of news now with Sam and she who must not be named.


19 posted on 10/10/2025 7:50:33 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: texas booster

Re “… Rather, who has a clear political agenda, claims that CBS News will be run by “someone with a clear political agenda.”

Typical retard liberal tactic… blame others for he actually does.

He deserves to be trashed.


20 posted on 10/10/2025 7:51:10 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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