Posted on 10/11/2004 8:31:37 AM PDT by lward99
Alan Skorski is a hero, cant wait to read his Franken book...This is too good to be true.
Monday, Oct. 11, 2004 9:57 a.m. EDT Dan Rather: CBS's Michael Moore
Could it be that "CBS Evening News" anchorman Dan Rather has lower journalistic standards than even Michael Moore, whose conspiracy film "Fahrenheit 9/11" may be a model piece of political propaganda, but doesn't come close to qualifying as "journalism"?
Last week the web site Ratherbiased.com quote Moore saying he rejected the same forged military records Rather used in his disastrous Sept. 8 broadcast to trash President Bush.
"Back when I was making Fahrenheit, I was offered the same documents that were given to CBS but I didn't use them because we couldn't verify them," Moore said following a speech at the University of Central Arkansas. The radical filmmaker said he also rejected other scoops that sounded "too good to be true," like the story from a woman who claimed she had dinner with Bush and the family of Osama bin Laden.
According to Alan Skorski, a former congressional candidate who's writing a book about Al Franken, Rather and Moore have something in common - a London-based reporter named Greg Palast.
In fact, Palast has claimed credit for reports broken by both Moore and Rather over the years.
In a recent screed he titled, "The Lynching of Dan Rather," Palast wrote, "Dan is in hot water for a report my own investigative team put in Britain's Guardian papers and on BBC TV years ago" - referring to the story that Bush got favorable treatment in the National Guard.
On the eve of the 2000 election, Palast interviewed Bill Burkett, the former National Guard officer who would later pass bogus Guard records to Rather's news team. Burkett talked about Bush's records being scrubbed, but at the time had no documents to back the claim up.
The expatriate journalist says he's also been feeding movie-maker Moore info on Bush for years. This past May Palast wrote:
"In fact, our joke in the London newsroom is that if we can't get our story on to American airwaves, we can just slip it to the fat guy in the chicken suit. Moore could sneak it past the censors as 'entertainment.'"
Palast says Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is a direct rip-off of his material, claiming in the same report:
"I know, because, with my investigative team at BBC television and The Guardian of Britain, I wrote and filmed the original reports on which Moore's new documentary are based."
Could it be that Rather and Moore actually share the same sources? Not exactly. At least Moore deserves credit for not getting conned by Bill Burkett's phony documents.
Maybe when Rather retires, CBS should replace him with the more discerning "fat guy in the chicken suit."
There should a giant red flag that goes up when MOORE rejects somethings. Seriously.
WHERE ARE THE FEC AND CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON THE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES FROM KERRY AND THE DNC?
Bigger than Watergate HAH! This is another Sandy Burglar activity. Message to the pubbies in power: Get a spine and a clue.
Verify them? Did he say "verify them"?
Since when did Moore limit himself to the truth. He did not verify 80% of the stuff in his film because THEY ARE LIES!!!!
Yes but who offered the memo to Moore..anyone ever ask? No.
I think another lie by Moore.
still doesn't give any legitimacy to MM document of lies
I believe it was posted here on FR that Mary Mapes was also one of the sources for some of MMoore's trash.
I Don't know where to begin to tell you on how much i DISLIKE these two LIBERALS!
Fat guy in a chicken suit. Love it. The day of divine derision has finally arrived. Now what do we call Rather?
Greg Palast spends all of his time writing lies about GW and pushing the Gay Agenda.
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Greg%20Palast%20Gay
Why are the filmed rantings and delusions of the bird brained Michael Moo-re, still referred to as a documentry? That is as demeaning to genuine documentrys as is equating John Kerry and his Punklettes Hearts, to Recipients of the Genuine earned with blood, Purple Hearts.
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http://www.fahrenhype911.com
Old blathering guy in a buzzard suit?
Uh... [thinking] ...something about biting the heads off of chickens? Rather's getting close to being ready for the county fair freak cage. I stopped watching him years ago (during the "courage" phase) not so much because of his bias, but because he was creeping me out!
I would bet my life savings that this is a lie. Moore is a serial liar who would never reject anything--no matter how flimsy or patently impeachable--to drive his agenda. This is self-serving bullsh*t to make Moore seem to be more responsible than he is.
That said, Dick Thornburgh will probably demand Moore disclose who proferred these documents. Moore knows he can stonewall this to "protect his sources" because the CBS whitewash investigation lacks subpoena power. This will give him even more publicity, which he craves.
I have read somewhere that I BELIEVE it was AP and the Washington Post ALSO had copies of the documents and they QUESTIONED their validity.
lets not forget Dan raTHer was seen in a Hot Springs restaurant with Bill Clinton just days before his Labor Day surgery...
And that's just about the time RaTHer got his memos.
I second that plug! I watched it last night. I wish *everyone* in the country could see this documentary.
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