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Dan Rather's Main "Memogate" Source Admits He Has Been Certified As Mentally Ill and Hospitalized!
NY Times and others
| 12 Feb 04
Posted on 09/18/2004 6:38:54 AM PDT by MindBender26
Exerpt: NYT article on Bill Burkett;
"In it, (a letter) Mr. Burkett complained of "severe retaliation" from General James for what he said was reporting "illegal acts" within the National Guard. He also complained about the government's failure to pay for his medical care after suffering from a tropical disease after a military assignment to Panama in 1997. Before finally winning medical benefits in July 1998, he said, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized for depression."
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billburkett; cbsnews; forgery; killian; napalminthemorning; nutz; rather; source; unimpeachablesource
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To: MindBender26
Dan Rather's Main "Memogate" Source Admits He Has Been Certified As Mentally Ill and Hospitalized!
Ummm, that would be most DemoRats. The illness is called liberalism.
To: MindBender26
102
posted on
09/18/2004 5:59:49 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: MindBender26; MamaDearest; Labyrinthos; drymans wife; nwctwx; Quix; DAVEY CROCKETT; ...
LOLLOL because Rather has been had in a BIG way and it is a sweet payback!!!
103
posted on
09/18/2004 6:57:43 PM PDT
by
JustPiper
(The Feds should memorialize Ritz Katz not investigate her!)
To: MindBender26
Mapes and Burkett may be the fallpeeples, but my gut hunch is that it's Rather's daughter who's the point person and cohourt for her father.
I think the daughter is the reason that ole Dan is frantically trying to orchestrate a cover-up with the ferocity of a lioness defending her cubs.
Leni
To: jamaly
Kinda explains his disdain for the Military, doesn't it?
105
posted on
09/18/2004 7:18:01 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(I made my Fortune selling Sugar Coated Cat Turds on a Stick at the DNC Convention)
To: JustPiper
Rather and Betsy West, Sr. VP Primetime CBS News traveled to Texas Saturday to meet with Burkett per the NY Times Sunday edition.
To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Hello,
Just as I thought, this is truly a medical condition:
RATHERITIS.....
Glad to be here, MOgirl
107
posted on
09/18/2004 7:22:28 PM PDT
by
MOgirl
(In memory of Walton Wayne Callahan, I love you forever.)
To: MindBender26
Not necessarily.
I've seen plenty who met the seriously mentally ill without being a danger to themselves or others hospitalized at their own request.
108
posted on
09/18/2004 7:23:44 PM PDT
by
Quix
(CONTACT CHURCHES UR AREA 2 HAVE SOLID PLAN 4 BUSSES VANS 2 GET CONSRV VOTERS 2 POLLS ELECTION DAY!)
To: Piquaboy
He's so philosophically ill
Marx must have given him a lobotomy immediately after brainwashing the rest of his skull's contents.
.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:25:23 PM PDT
by
Quix
(CONTACT CHURCHES UR AREA 2 HAVE SOLID PLAN 4 BUSSES VANS 2 GET CONSRV VOTERS 2 POLLS ELECTION DAY!)
To: MindBender26
Well, if the guy was suffering from a serious mental disorder (could happen to anyone, after all) and even got hospitalized for it - has he been cured by now? After all, he's no longer in a hospital. Presumably he's deemed sane enough to have a driver's license, and to be held responsible for his doings.
110
posted on
09/18/2004 7:43:41 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: MindBender26
Rush made a statement a week ago Friday - he said that the DNC received the documents, gave them to the Kerry campaign, who in turn gave them to Mapes - and ultimately to Dan Rather.
My theory is - Burkett dictated the "memos" to someone at the Travis County DNC (where Robin - Rather's daughter is affiliated) - the "memos" were then given to McAwful - who gave them to Kerry - who released them to CBS through Mapes - who is a producer in Dallas.
It's my understanding Mapes has been working on trying to make this a story for 4-5 years. Evidently, somebody knew this information and decided to make hay out of it. Like Goldberg said, Dan wanted it to be true so it was easy to fool him. But .. once he knew they were frauds .. he covered it up.
This will cost CBS their remaining credibility.
111
posted on
09/18/2004 8:28:00 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(Sen.Miller said, "Bush is a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel")
To: Quix
>I've seen plenty who met the seriously mentally ill without being a danger to themselves or others hospitalized at their own request.
Sorry, but for them to be admitted to a HOSPITAL, as this gent was, and in his previous lawsuit, he alleged permanent psyc damage, he would have to pass a three prong test.
He is mentally unsound. (There must be serious affect of the thought process or psychosis)
He is a danger to himself or others (If not a danger to self or others, pt is treated as an outpatient.)
His condition is such that he will not improve without hospitalization (no spontaneous remission, no raving drunk who will be OK when sober)
If the admitting physician, the doctor who signs the admitting orders, does not see all three, there can be no admission.
The mentally ill person you mentioned may not have confided a self or outwardly directed agression-danger, but the admitting physician must have seen it, or made a judgment that was there.
There can be no admission without it. It's that simple
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:45:12 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Kill all Islamic terrorists now. Then they cannot kill our sons and daughters tomorrow)
To: MindBender26
"1. Significantly mentallly ill and 2. A danger to himself or others."Actually, that sounds like an excellent description of the mental condition of most of the lunatic libs in America.
113
posted on
09/18/2004 10:34:26 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(When will the ABCNNBC BS lunatic libs stop lying to Americans? Answer: NEVER!)
To: devolve; Smartass; MeekOneGOP; Happy2BMe; Grampa Dave; Travis McGee; onyx; potlatch; ntnychik; ...
114
posted on
09/18/2004 10:41:54 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: PhilDragoo
Outstanding! The collage of culprits is priceless! I'd make forgery plural though, and maybe stick a memo snippet behind the word forgery, by his hand.
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posted on
09/18/2004 10:45:38 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: PhilDragoo
Wait, I see why "forgery" singular: to go with "it" in the next line, like the "it" of 87 billion.
116
posted on
09/18/2004 10:46:59 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: PhilDragoo
117
posted on
09/18/2004 10:48:01 PM PDT
by
devolve
( -- JOHN"V"KINKOS scams POW wives! - http://pro.lookingat.us/POW.html --)
To: PhilDragoo
Or maybe replace the blue field behind the heads with a memo close-up? It needs a memo, I think.
118
posted on
09/18/2004 10:48:21 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: devolve; Travis McGee
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posted on
09/18/2004 10:50:15 PM PDT
by
devolve
( -- JOHN"V"KINKOS scams POW wives! - http://pro.lookingat.us/POW.html --)
To: MindBender26
Great...dandy Dan'/s main source is a certified nutter and Bush hater. With such a source,how could Dan and cBS go wrong? LOL
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