Rather's Lawyer: 'Nobody's Proved the Documents Were Forgeries'

lgf ^ | Sep 20, 2007 | lgf

[george76]

It’s absolutely amazing, but Dan Rather and his lawyers are actually planning to argue in their lawsuit against CBS that the phony memos are genuine.

I’m going to say this again just to go on the record: the CBS “Killian” memos are frauds. It has been proven beyond all doubt. It is simply impossible that these documents were created on any machine available in the 1970s.

And for Dan Rather to continue insisting they are genuine shows either:

1) a disconnection from reality that borders on the psychotic, or

2) a blatant liar willing to go down in flames rather than admit the truth.

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

[mnehring]

On a related note, let’s see who old Ben Barnes is giving his money to this year.

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search_hp.asp?txtName=barnes%2C+ben&NumOfThou=0&txt2008=Y&submit=Go%21

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
BEN BARNES GROUP/LOBBYIST
1/31/2007
$25,000
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78703
ENTRECORP/PROPRIETOR
5/23/2007
$12,500
Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
SELF-EMPLOYED/CONSULTANT
5/17/2007
$5,000
Searchlight Leadership Fund

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
SELF-EMPLOYED/CONSULTANT
2/2/2007
$2,500
Cmte for a Democratic Majority

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78703
SELF
3/30/2007
$2,500
Democratic Party of Texas

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78703
SELF
5/30/2007
$2,500
Democratic Party of Texas

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78703
THE BEN BARNES GROUP/EXECUTIVE
3/28/2007
$2,300
Biden, Joseph R Jr

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
BEN BARNES GROUP/OWNER
3/22/2007
$2,300
Clinton, Hillary

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
ENTRECORP/CEO
3/5/2007
$2,300
Harkin, Tom

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
ENTRECORP/CEO
3/5/2007
$2,300
Harkin, Tom

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
ENTRECORP/OWNER
3/21/2007
$2,300
Levin, Carl

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
ENTRECORP/OWNER
3/28/2007
$2,300
Landrieu, Mary L

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
ENTRECORP/OWNER
3/31/2007
$2,300
Lautenberg, Frank R

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
THE BEN BARNES GROUP/OWNER
3/26/2007
$2,300
Richardson, Bill

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
ENTRECORP/EXECUTIVE
3/15/2007
$2,300
Durbin, Dick

BARNES, BEN MR
AUSTIN,TX 78701
BEN BARNES GROUP/FOUNDER
3/31/2007
$2,300
Dodd, Christopher J

BARNES, BEN MR
AUSTIN,TX 78701
BEN BARNES GROUP/FOUNDER
3/31/2007
$2,300
Dodd, Christopher J

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
ENTRECORP/OWNER
6/19/2007
$2,000
Pelosi, Nancy

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
BEN BARNES GROUP/PRESIDENT
6/15/2007
$2,000
Baucus, Max

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78701
ENTRECORP/OWNER
3/6/2007
$2,000
Pryor, Mark

BARNES, BEN
AUSTIN,TX 78703
ENTRECORP/PRINCIPAL
6/19/2007
$2,000
Reed, Jack

BARNES, BEN MR
AUSTIN,TX 78701
BEN BARNES GROUP/OWNER
5/30/2007
$1,500
Hoyer, Steny H

[Lee'sGhost]

Back when this was a big deal somebody did a really neat automated moving and comparison of the text of the letter demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that the text was written by Word. It was far more involved than the simple overlay already posted. If you saw it you would remember it.

If anyone has that link please let me know.

[DuncanWaring]

...one cycle through the fax machine would have been sufficient and completely bullet proof against foresnic investigation.

I thought that the memos were faxed from a Kinko's in Burkett's hometown.

[Billthedrill]

Yeh - I remember this speech. The Amazing Criswell gave it at the closing of the epochal Plan 9 From Outer Space:

“My friend…you have seen this incident, based on sworn testimony. Can you prove that it didn’t happen? Perhaps, on your way home, someone will pass you in the dark, and you will never know it. For they will be from outer space."

Hah. Can you prove those memos weren't sent back in time by green-skinned hussies from Planet Zoob? I thought not!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting and pinging IncPen's great work re CBS and Blather. I was looking for it in my files.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting and pinging IncPen's great work re CBS and Blather. I was looking for it in my files.

[Grampa Dave]

Blather had better be very careful with this.

A lawsuit like this might be the eye opener into how the MSM including ABCNNBCBS has been lying to Americans and the rest of the world since Viet Nam.

The last thing today's rats want is a wide open look at how they lied about Nam, cost us a Victory and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands after our troops left.

Kerry, Kennedy and other peace rats including the Clintoons would be exposed as liars and tools of the KGB in their anti Nam War activity.

Besides abortion, higher taxes, the anti militaryism of the left makes up the third leg of the shaky stool, they stand on.

They will not allow Blather or anyone to expose their vile acts of treason during and after Nam.

[ArmstedFragg]

He’s got his bases covered. Searchlight Leadership Fund is Harry’s little money pit.

[gridlock]

This is a chance for a court to find that these documents are forgeries. This should shut up the “reality-based” idiots on the Left who insist that this has never been proven to their satisfaction.

Note that I say “should”. There is a die-hard moonbat faction, no doubt, who will claim that any court finding to that effect is the result of some grand conspiracy involving the judge, the defendents, and any expert witnesses who may be involved.

[COBOL2Java]

1) a disconnection from reality that borders on the psychotic...

Isn't that the textbook definition of a liberal?

[ArmstedFragg]

nobody’s proved the documents were forgeries

Well I'll be darned, it's NOT just a river in Egypt.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks george!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899589/posts?page=21#21

[Cementjungle]

-if he was senile I could pity him - he is just a liar and a liberal - he gets no sympathy from me

Maybe he's a senile, lying liberal.

[woofie]

Legally if those documents are on real paper and have real ink on em that will make em “real”...unless of course they are fake ....

[Rb ver. 2.0]

"Spock, you screwed up that time warp. I can't tell if it's 1995 or 2004. There's nothing but O.J. Simpson and Dan Rather in the news"

[LibLieSlayer]

CBS attorneys will hit rather so hard that mark cuban’s teeth will fall out!!!

LLS

[geezerwheezer]

Bernard Kalb (former CBS news man & current professor @ Harvard) says it isn’t about the money. Kalb is a real dumba$$ if he thinks that, and it is easy to see why this idiot is teaching at Harvard and not doing the news anymore. (He wasn’t any good when he did the news either.)

[OCCASparky]

Dear Dan Rather,

Define "chutzpah".

[Stark_GOP]

“I believe that Dan Rather is a bed-wetter,...”

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Until Dan Rather can prove that the statement is false, I will also believe it to be true.
Just using Bedpan Dan’s logic.