Posted on 09/15/2004 1:13:53 PM PDT by Eva
"This is huge. Read the whole thing."
I don't see why Jim Geraghty at NRO thinks this is so huge.
Dan Rather is embracing his psychosis. Big deal. Did anyone seriously doubt he would?
Sorry. Brain freeze. Just got in from work and started typing.
~Marxist~!
When I first read it, I though it said proportional not reportorial. It would have been the first bit of truth out of CBS in a long time....
I saw democrats on TV today saying what happened 30 years ago is NOT on the minds of the voters! So cram it Rather!
Mr. Rather said that it would require an exceptional amount of knowledge to craft a forgery—and not just the typographical kind. "You’d have to have an in-depth knowledge of Air Force manuals from 1971," he said. "You’d have to have Bush’s service record, you’d have to have the Air Force regulations from 1971, you’d have to know nearly all of the people involved directly at that time, including the squadron commander, who was Bush’s immediate superior, and his attitude at the time—you’d have to know all those things and weave all those things in."Guess what, Dan? That's exactly the kind of thing your source didn't get right. None of it.
Gee, sounds like Rather knows precisely what's needed to perpetrate a forgery....
You don't understand, they don't care if the documents are forged, they believe the story, so the documents must be real. It's the kind of circular logic that we have come to expect from the left.
Anyway their tenacious stance on the story is too important to their planned October surprise to let the story drop. Dan Rather thinks that he is going to be the saviour of the Democrat party and go out in a blaze of glory.
"It took a long time for us to create a reportorial relationship with him in which he trusted us, and at the same time we were checking him out to see if he was a trustworthy person."
Doesn't appear that Dan's "long time" was long enough!
Using this definition, Dan Blather is an honest man.
< /sarcasm>
Have you seen this nonsense from the same paper?
http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage3.asp
Somebody may want to post it as a separate story. Basically, the author's premise is it's suspicious how we figured out the docs were a forgery from seeing them on the TV screen. He doesn't even acknowledge that cbsnews.com had them on their website! He also finds it suspicious that Buckhead sounded intelligent.
Anybody else think Dan Rather and Mary Mapes have really been working on this story for FIVE YEARS, and lo and behold, they just happen to finish it EXACTLY the same week that Terry McAuliffe and friends are launching their 287th attack on President Bush's Guard service???? That they have spent five years coaxing this "source" --- jeez, it sounds like some wild beast that they spent five years taming like Jane Gooddall --- and only NOW have gotten this "source" to "trust" them enough to hand over the documents -- which, of course, were not even necessary because they story is true, right?
How stupid does Rather think we are??? Or, more accurately, does he have any idea how stupid HE appears making statements like this? And why speak to some obscure New York website and not his pals on West 43d Street?
Sssshhhh... Don't say that out loud until AFTER the story comes out!
What nonsense. The White House and the RNC aren't the ones who first questioned the documents!
"It’s never been fully, completely denied by the Bush-Cheney campaign or even the White House that he was suspended for meeting the standards of the Air Force or that he didn’t show up for a physical," he said. "The longer we go without a denial of such things—this story is true."
Oh, so we can just make up charges, no matter how ridiculous, and a public figure has to answer them, even though there has never been a shred of evidence offered to substantiate them? Okay, I'll play that game...
Mr. Rather, are you using LSD and heroin in order to write your news pieces?
Sen. Kerry, are you still collaborating with America's enemies? Are you still abandoning wives in the throes of suicidal depression? Are you still taking part in conspiracies to assassinate United States senators?
Ooops, I'm sorry, I based my questions on events that actually happened. I guess I broke the rules of the game!
So, by Mr. Rather's standards a person or group can make any accusation or inference they want, and if the accused doesn't get down in the mud and wrestle with them it is de facto proof of the truth of the charge? By that standard I suppose I could say that Dan'l has had numerous sexual liasons with sheep, and if he doesn't answer this charge then it MUST be true. Dear Dan, you can't come out with spurious accusations, hold up falsified documents as evidence, then expect anyone to take you seriously. It doesn't work that way in the adult world.
That was why, he said, half of the experts agreed and the other half didn’t. That supposed stalemate left nothing but the truth at the center of the documents.What stalemate is this, Dan? No expert who is an expert is vouching for those documents. In fact, all the experts are saying they're fake.
Then you have Killian's secretary admitting she never typed them, that they must be fake, that no machine existed in her office to create such things. Hello?
LOL! I think Saddam Hussain pulled the Jedi mindtrick on 'ol Dan when he interviewed him.
Does Dan Rather live in the same universe I live in? The burden of proof is on the White House? I think CBS is now the Weekly Sun of TV news....
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