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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: P.O.E.
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.
I agree with you.
Mental illness is being used as a pejorative in this headline and, imo, unfairly.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:29:00 AM PDT
by
justshe
(I guess if all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.)
To: Vinomori
>>>Rather says unimpeachable
Dan it rather stupid. And this Burkett character is quoted as saying only two Democrats live in his county, and he's both of them...laughing academy material for sure.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:31:53 AM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(At CBS - "We don't just report news - we make it - up.")
To: MindBender26
Well then, that explains perfectly why Dan Rather has complete confidence in his source.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:42:34 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
To: MindBender26
What's The Typeface, Kenneth?What's the Font, Dan?
To: MindBender26
the producer Mapes had 5 years into making this story
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:47:44 AM PDT
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: MindBender26
I'm not clear here. Who's insane, Burkett, Rather, or Mapes or all three? They all tell insane stories. If a sane person listens to an insane person, he knows the nut is a nut. If a supposedly sane person QUOTES the nutcake being nutty, is that a sane act? No, it's just as nutty as the nutcake. Rather and Mapes flunk this test. They are obviously psychotic too.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:55:43 AM PDT
by
T'wit
(Genuine, personally autographed photographs of Genghis Khan for sale. Contact D. Rather at CBS News.)
To: MrConfettiMan
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:55:57 AM PDT
by
Spunky
("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
To: MindBender26
I watch this guy on some show for about 5 minutes, he is on a mission. Some might even call it a "crusade", after all his father is a preacher.
To: MindBender26
Uh, if Burkett admits that he's "certifiably mentally ill", shouldn't someone be checking to see if he owns any guns? Especially considering his overt hatred for the POTUS and the Bush family. Hello Secret Service.. anyone home?
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:20:52 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. -- Gen G. Patton Jr)
To: MindBender26
Dan Rather's Main "Memogate" Source Admits He Has Been Certified As Mentally Ill and Hospitalized!D'OH!
Of course, you can pretty much say that about your average drooling knuckle-dragging DU denizen...
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:23:21 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(I don't do diplomacy either)
To: MindBender26
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:25:46 AM PDT
by
Matchett-PI
(All DemocRATS are either religious relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
To: P.O.E.
Many other reasons to doubt this whole affair, but this would cast aspersions on millions of people who suffer from such ailments. I feel exactly the same way about the insanity defense in criminal cases, but I am in the tiny minority... Reality fails to trump PC in this case, presumably.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:27:38 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(I don't do diplomacy either)
To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Bush said he would never take the word of a madman.
Saddam, Osama, Kerry
And Rather prefers to take the word of a madman.
Saddam, Osama, Kim-Jung-Il, Castro, Burkett, Barnes, Kerry, Dean, Kucinich, and who was that GA Congresswoman that said Pres Bush knew about 9/11.
To Rather the truth and reality doesn't matter.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:29:24 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: T'wit
I'm not clear here. Who's insane, Burkett, Rather, or Mapes or all three?All three works for me.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:30:55 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Vinomori
Worth mentioning again and again...
"Rather says [Memogate source] was 'unimpeachable'"
To: MindBender26
DAN RATHER: BUT HE CAN BE TRUSTED AND OVER 250 SWIFT BOAT VETS CAN'T!! YOUR BIAS IS NOW OBVIOUS EVEN TO THE STUPID WHO STILL INSISTED YOU WERENT
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:35:07 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
To: MindBender26
Before finally winning medical benefits in July 1998, he said, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized for depression So, for the past 6 years this nutbag has been on the dole, after a career of professional victimhood.
Fraud in one thing, fraud in many things.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:41:23 AM PDT
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
To: sitetest
For depression, hospitalization often follows significant suicidal ideation and/or a suicide attempt.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:53:42 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
To: SandRat
To: Pharmboy; MindBender26
Dear Pharmboy,
"For depression, hospitalization often follows significant suicidal ideation and/or a suicide attempt."
I realize that, but I didn't see any reference to an involuntary committal, here, or to suicide attempts. It's speculation that Mr. Burkett's committal was involuntary. It may have been, but we ought to refrain from drawing conclusions as if it were an established fact, because it isn't.
I've known more than one person who committed themselves to mental hospitals when they knew that psychologically, things were too much for them.
That doesn't mean that they'd met the threshhold for "significantly mentally ill," as MindBender26 put it, or for being a danger to themselves or others.
sitetest
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posted on
09/18/2004 9:03:43 AM PDT
by
sitetest
(Spitball Kerry for Collaborator-in-Chief!)
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