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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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KEYWORDS: billburkett; cbsnews; forgery; killian; napalminthemorning; nutz; rather; source; unimpeachablesource
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This is an exerpt of an article about Burkett back when he was complaining about the "Bush records in the trash can," a story that has since been totally debunked.
In order to have been hospitalized, Burkett must have been certified by physicians as fitting into two categories:
1. Significantly mentallly ill and 2. A danger to himself or others.
A person is not hospitalized for mental illness unless they meet BOTH criteria.
This article was first published in the NY Times on Feb 12, 2004.
Rather's researchers had more than 7 months to check on their story source. They knew or should have known that had been certified as both severely mentally ill and a danger to himself or others.
.... and they still went with the story....
(sorry, link is pay only)
To: MindBender26
Sounds like the dam in about to break. bttt
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posted on
09/18/2004 6:41:54 AM PDT
by
truthkeeper
(Yeah, I have a 1998 signup date. So?)
To: MindBender26
Rather says unimpeachable
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posted on
09/18/2004 6:42:01 AM PDT
by
Vinomori
To: MindBender26
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posted on
09/18/2004 6:44:03 AM PDT
by
MrConfettiMan
(I hate the word blog. The MSM is not MS.)
To: MindBender26
Gee, what a comparison in characters!!
Bush said he would never take the word of a madman.
And Rather prefers to take the word of a madman.
To him experts don't matter.
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posted on
09/18/2004 6:44:32 AM PDT
by
CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
(3 Purple Hearts? No blood? No Way!!)
To: MindBender26
Dam Blather is the one who is mentally ill and should be hospitalized.
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posted on
09/18/2004 6:45:53 AM PDT
by
Piquaboy
To: truthkeeper
What's The Typeface, Kenneth?
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posted on
09/18/2004 6:46:15 AM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Kill all Islamic terrorists now. Then they cannot kill our sons and daughters tomorrow)
To: Vinomori
Maybe Rather meant that his source was "unimpeachable" because if you tried to impeach his credibility, he may hurt you.
To: MindBender26
"Dan Rather is a Liar"
Oliver North repeated this many times on Sean Hannity, I have been looking for the transcript, I was driving and didn't get everything but in Rathers Biography he claims to have been a Marine, Dan Rather quit in Basic Training after 44 days, he was NEVER a Marine, he was only a Recruit AKA "Worm".
If any Freeper finds this transcript it is a good one, I think it was Thursdays (16th) show about half way in.
TT
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posted on
09/18/2004 6:51:42 AM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(I made my Fortune selling Sugar Coated Cat Turds on a Stick at the DNC Convention)
To: MindBender26
Dan Rather's Main "Memogate" Source Admits He Has Been Certified As Mentally Ill Doesn't that qualify him for a job at CBS News?
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posted on
09/18/2004 6:52:09 AM PDT
by
B Knotts
("John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.")
To: MindBender26
Rather and team always knew that all their sources were weak, either hacks, incompetant or both.
They trotted out Barnes, a certified liar, who they knew was on the Kerry payroll, but said essentially, don't worry about this man's credentials because we have documentation, now proven false.
(Barnes had previously testified under oath that he had not helped Bush get in the Guard)
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posted on
09/18/2004 6:54:01 AM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: MrConfettiMan
Proving once again, pictures are worth a thousand words.
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posted on
09/18/2004 6:55:55 AM PDT
by
Casloy
To: MindBender26
"Dan Rather's Main "Memogate" Source Admits He Has Been Certified As Mentally Ill and Hospitalized!" Bill Clinton?
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:00:50 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(The left hates the Constitution. Islamic Fascism hates America. Natural allies.)
To: MindBender26
IMO .. Burkett was just the fall guy
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:09:06 AM PDT
by
Mo1
(Why is the MSM calling the Vietnam Vets and POW's a suspected group??)
To: Vinomori
May he meant that his source was unimpeachable, in the sense that the guy he got the memos from directly was not a federal official constitutionally subject to impeachment. Yet.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:12:45 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Islam: Men defend most violently, not what they know to be true, but what they fear may be false.)
To: MindBender26
The National Enquirer has higher standards than CBS.
My stepdaughter is a Hollywood semi-celebrity.
A negative story was being written about her that was prompted by a person that was once close to her who called the Enquirer. The person wanted to get back at her for imagined insults and wanted the payment.
The reporter called ALL family members, checked out our responses and when he was informed that the person was once in a mental hospital and was still on Prozac, the story was dropped.
Too bad CBS couldn't adhere to the same standards as a "scandal sheet"!
To: MindBender26
Personally, I think this is unfair. People do recover from illnesses.
Many other reasons to doubt this whole affair, but this would cast aspersions on millions of people who suffer from such ailments.
Don't forget all the recent flap about Prozac aggravating such conditions - might have been some bad meds.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:18:40 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
To: MindBender26
Burkett has not been named as the source except in a "whispering" campaign,
and not even that by Dan Rather. He may be the fall guy.
Not exactly an "unimpeachable" source.
To: MindBender26
Dear MindBender26,
A person cannot be hospitalized against his own will if he doesn't meet the two criteria you mention.
But a person can check himself into a mental hospital of his own accord.
I didn't see that the committal you mention was involuntary. If I missed it, I apologize - I'm still only on my second cup of coffee. But if it was voluntary, then it is possible that he wasn't sufficiently disturbed to be categorized as "mentally ill," or a danger to himself or others.
sitetest
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:21:44 AM PDT
by
sitetest
(Spitball Kerry for Collaborator-in-Chief!)
To: MindBender26
"What's The Typeface, Kenneth?" Great line---is it yours, or "borrowed"???
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