Posted on 10/01/2015 8:22:53 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The classic definition of chutzpah the guy who murders his parents and then begs for mercy because hes an orphan gets a rewrite with Truth, a movie insisting forged documents are real.
Robert Redford, making no effort to look or sound like Dan Rather, plays the CBS newsman ruined after he presented obviously forged documents about George W. Bushs Texas Air National Guard service.
It was September 2004, two months before Bush was to be re-elected in a race against John Kerry, and Rather producer Mary Mapes is desperate for a scoop.
Researchers sent out to find information damaging to Bush contact everyone in the chain of command during Bushs National Guard days. (In one unintentionally revealing moment, co-written and directed by The Amazing Spider-Man's James Vanderbilt, Mapes is shown watching a Swift Boat Veteran TV commercial, showing a complete lack of interest in their stories.)
Mapes found squirrely retired National Guard colonel Bill Burkett, who gave her photocopied memos purportedly showing Bush had been AWOL, and whose font and spacing perfectly matched default settings on a 21st-century Microsoft Word program.
Two of CBSs own document experts raised doubts about them. Bush hater Burkett agreed to hand over the documents on condition that Mapes put him in touch with the John Kerry campaign, which he wanted to assist. Mapes and Rather ran with the story anyway, defending it for days.
Truth is based on Mapes memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power. Mapes, who hasnt worked in TV news since the scandal, and Rather insist to this day they were right, and Rather even sued CBS for breach of contract. The lawsuit was laughed out of court in much the same way that Truth will be laughed out of theaters.
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I’d rather have you produce genuine documents showing Dan Rather and Mary Mapes being repeatedly arrested for indecent and unnatural contact with farm animals.
I guess certain members of the FR will not be in the movie. History ignored.
This movie will define history for the dozens of people who buy tickets to go see it.
Of course, after no one sees it in theaters it will then play on HBO for months.
Liberals love their lies - and their liars...
Leni
That is indeed unfortunate. Most of the good ones are long gone, probably for various reasons, but this site is just a mere shadow of its former self.
OTOH, we now have lots of Apple spam posts most every day..........
Dan Blather can take this and %^XZ(-0-w0w6rokl
but I’m feeling kindly today.
PAJAMAHUDEEN!!!!!
Inspired by your example,
I am setting up my sleeping bag on the sidewalk outside my local theater.
Don’t forget your popcorn and oversized soda!!!
Sounds like Hillary every time she opens her pie-hole.
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