Why it's important to remember Rathergate
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American Thinker ^
| October 5, 2020 | David Lanza
An important anniversary [is today]. This
anniversary carries implications for how we receive news, how political campaigns are conducted, and the credibility of almost everything we see or hear from the media.On September 8, 2004, CBS’s “60 Minutes” used forged government documents as the basis for a story that attacked the military record of then-President George W. Bush. It was bad enough that CBS used forged government documents, but what made it worse was that CBS aired this story during the presidential election and timed the airing to coincide with the rollout of Democrat John Kerry’s “favorite son” campaign theme....
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Why it's important to remember Rathergate
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American Thinker ^
| October 5, 2020 | David Lanza
On September 8, 2004, CBS’s “60 Minutes” used forged government documents as the basis for a story that attacked the military record of then-President George W. Bush. It was bad enough that CBS used forged government documents, but what made it worse was that CBS aired this story during the presidential election
and timed the airing to coincide with the rollout of Democrat John Kerry’s “favorite son” campaign theme. CBS thus provided the “news” upon which the Democrat candidate based his attack ads. The CBS story was quickly disproven and eventually forced CBS into personnel changes and investigations. Dan Rather...
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Why it's important to remember Rathergate
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The American Thinker ^
| October 5, 2020 | David Lanza
An important anniversary passed this month and predictably received no attention. *** On September 8, 2004, CBS’s “60 Minutes” used forged government documents as the basis for a story that attacked the military record of then-President George W. Bush. It was bad enough that CBS used forged government documents, but what made
it worse was that CBS aired this story during the presidential election and timed the airing to coincide with the rollout of Democrat John Kerry’s “favorite son” campaign theme. CBS thus provided the “news” upon which the Democrat candidate based his attack ads. The CBS story was quickly...
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FAKE NEWS: TWO CASE STUDIES, History of Rathergate
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Powerline ^
| 10.21.18 | Scott Johnson
I was asked by our local chapter of the Cardozo Society — an affinity group of Jewish lawyers of which I am a member — to speak over lunch as a counterpart to ABA Foundation Fellow and historian Victoria Saker Woeste on the subject of fake news at the society’s October 8
continuing legal education program. Ms. Woeste was the featured speaker. Her theme was that the term “fake news” is anti-Semitic in origin and that President Trump’s use of it, knowingly or not, is wrongful. Her talk expanded on her Washington Post column (accessible via Outline here) making this...
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Rush gave credit to Freeper for busting Rathergate
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Vanity
Did anyone just hear Rush give credit to Free Republic? First he named the Freeper Buckhead then second time he said Burkehead. Pretty cool.
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Rush gives credit! [Rathergate FR]
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Rush Limbaugh Show ^
| October 15, 2015 | Self
I'm sure I wasn't the only one, but I asked Rush to give Freeper Buckhead credit and he just did! (Called
him Burkhead! Oh well!)
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Truth Isn't True-Selling a big lie [rathergate]
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Frontpagemagazine ^
| October 14, 2015 | Bruce Bawer
Truth Isn't True Selling a big lie. October
14, 2015 Bruce Bawer 6 ï‚š6ï‚™2ï§5 The movie Truth isn't yet officially out, but it's been the subject of enough early reviews to establish that it strongly communicates one great and important truth: that if you want to sell a Big Lie that's been definitely and very publicly exposed as a lie, just wait a decade or so and then make an all-star Hollywood movie presenting that lie as the unvarnished truth. Promote the hell out of it. Then sit back and watch history get rewritten in the mind of a whole...
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Interview With The Man Who Exposed Rathergate [Buckhead]
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soundcloud ^
| 10-12-15 | Michael Graham
Interview with Harry MacDougald the Atlanta lawyer who's initial questioning of the validity of the Killian documents exposed the flaw CBS report about George W. Bush's National Guard Service.
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Hollywood Rewrites History of Rathergate
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Rush Limbaugh.com ^
| October 12, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh
RUSH: This movie with Mary Mapes about Dan Rather and this National Guard business. You
have Robert Redford as Rather. You have Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes. This is what the left always does. Dan Rather and Mapes totally fake the story. They totally made up and forged documents, and they were caught red-handed. And what did they do? At the time, the other two leading anchors, ABC and NBC were Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw, and they put together an awards banquet for Dan Rather. This was in weeks of all this happening, because they realized that what was...
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From Rathergate to Rolling Stone: Fake But Accurate
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Front Page Magazine ^
| April 8, 2015 | Daniel Greenfield
A decade after Dan Rather’s career ended over an attempt to pass off forged documents about President Bush’s military service, Robert Redford is working on a movie about the case. The
movie is based on CBS producer Mary Mapes’ book “Truth”, which denies the truth that the documents were not written on a 70s typewriter, but in Microsoft Word.
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Rathergate - It wasn't Buckhead! (vanity)
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The Five ^
| oldbill
Excerpt in video of "Rolling Stone backtracks on UVA rape story"
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Is it possible that FR forgot the 10 year anniversary of Rathergate?
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Freerepublic ^
| 9/10/14 | Self
9/8/2004, just over 10 years ago, FR hit the big time by knocking down Dan Rather. Have we forgotten?
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