Dan Rather's Main "Memogate" Source Admits He Has Been Certified As Mentally Ill and Hospitalized!

NY Times and others | 12 Feb 04

[justshe]

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.

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I agree with you.

Mental illness is being used as a pejorative in this headline and, imo, unfairly.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>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.

[OldFriend]

Well then, that explains perfectly why Dan Rather has complete confidence in his source.

[Lurking in Kansas]

What's The Typeface, Kenneth?

What's the Font, Dan?

[sure_fine]

the producer Mapes had 5 years into making this story

[T'wit]

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.

[Spunky]

ROTFLOL!

[Just mythoughts]

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.

[Condor51]

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?

[Publius6961]

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...

[Matchett-PI]

Bump!

[Publius6961]

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.

[SandRat]

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 Ra^ther the truth and reality doesn't matter.

[SandRat]

I'm not clear here. Who's insane, Burkett, Rather, or Mapes or all three?

All three works for me.

[F16Fighter]

Worth mentioning again and again...

"Rather says [Memogate source] was 'unimpeachable'"

[Mr. K]

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

[eno_]

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.

[Pharmboy]

For depression, hospitalization often follows significant suicidal ideation and/or a suicide attempt.

[txrangerette]

Cynthia McKinney

[sitetest]

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.


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