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Tanya
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 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:51 pm Post subject: Dan Rather’s Attack on President Bush’s Military |
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"Dan Rather’s Attack on President Bush’s Military Service Rested on Left-Wing Media’s Contrived Myths"
By Col. John H. Wambough, Jr. USAF (Ret.)
John Wambough is a retired Air Force colonel with 28 years of service."
"Response to "Dan Rather: A Reporter Remembers" aired 8 p.m. EST on March 9, 2005
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This has it all! 
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_7132.shtml |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| That was a great story!! |
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Rdtf
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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srmorton
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Great article, but a more than a little scary. Those members of the
electorate that don't seek out alternative sources for their news believe
this malarky. Had it not been for the fraud described in the article and
the voter fraud conducted by the Dems, President Bush would have won
the election by a landslide with well over 300 electoral votes.
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DLI78
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All that said, right about now Dan Rather must feel as nervous as an armadillo on a hot Texas highway at rush hour as his forced retirement arrives. And that's part of our world tonight. See ya, Dan.
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oasis
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AMOS
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject: Courage? |
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| Courage? Couldn't hack Marine boot camp, and he comes up with the word "courage"? I'm impressed. |
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Rdtf
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| oasis wrote: | Hello,
Dan Rather signs off with ‘Courage’
| Quote: | | He flashed a steadfast defiance in reminding viewers of the phrase “courage.” He was mocked by some for using the word to end his broadcasts for a week in September 1986 before giving up on the idea. |
It takes a lot of "Courage" to lie right? |
I went to a party last night - a 'Bye Bye Rather' get together. About 50 of us watched his last broadcast and jeered and sneered the whole time. Then, when he ended it with 'courage' we all shook our heads and immediately read between the lines. His secret code word to the liberal left to stand up for whatever they believe, regardless of the consequences, including having the courage to lie about a sitting President. Why not? The worst thing that can happen is you lose your job. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:38 am Post subject: |
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All you guys are just jeolous, danny boy punched out on my b-day, and I like to think I showed him the (one-way) door! 
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Tom Poole
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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Now Dan-the-Marine has a legacy: "I never let a fact stop a story nor a man block my glory." He'll be remembered for lying about many things but chiefly: about being a Marine, that he "broke" the Kennedy assassination story, about the frame order on the Zapruder film, about General Westmoreland, about PTSD, and his final coup, the TANG forgeries!
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I B Squidly
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The Sowell Man celebrates Rather's exit with oblique reference to the Swiftys.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050311.shtml
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Good riddance to Rather
Thomas Sowell (archive)
March 11, 2005 | printer friendly version Print | email to a friend Send
Ordinarily, the retirement of a TV newsman would be something to be more or less passed over in silence by friend and foe alike. But the retirement of Dan Rather as anchorman of CBS news has caused so much spin in the media that some of this spin may become "well-known facts" by sheer repetition unless challenged by real facts.
One popular spin is that it is a shame that a long and distinguished career should be judged by one unfortunate error like the forged documents that Rather relied on to question President Bush's National Guard service.
Those who believe this might dig into the records of the CBS News broadcast of March 27, 1991, when Dan Rather said: "A startling number of American children are in danger of starving" because "one out of eight American children is going hungry tonight."
This was a crock -- but it was a fashionable crock on the left at that time and Dan Rather not only echoed but amplified a ridiculous "study" done by leftist activists. He probably didn't set out to tell a lie then any more than he did when he relied on forged documents to try to "get" President Bush on the eve of last year's election.
Neither were either of these or other cases simply a matter of a zealous reporter trying hard to get a story. It was bias -- and bias has long been the besetting sin of the mainstream media. That is why Dan Rather's scandal is bigger than Dan Rather and will justifiably continue to taint much of the media after his recent retirement as CBS anchorman.
If it was just a matter of Dan Rather's zeal for a story letting him get carried away -- another popular spin -- then why was this zeal for digging into what George W. Bush did or didn't do three decades earlier in the Texas National Guard not matched by an equal zeal to dig into John Kerry's military record?
After all, Kerry himself made his military record the centerpiece of his election campaign. We weren't supposed to question his two decades of undermining the military and intelligence services because he was a war hero.
With more than a hundred men who served with Kerry in Vietnam challenging his version of what he did there, why no zeal to dig into that story?
With the honorable discharge on Kerry's own web site dated during the Carter administration, years after his service ended, why no zeal to find out if this was one of the less than honorable discharges retroactively raised to the status of "honorable" under Jimmy Carter's amnesty programs? Wouldn't that be quite a story?
Zeal is not bias and bias is not zeal, regardless of what spin is being put out in the media about Dan Rather.
At one time, when the big three broadcast networks had a virtual monopoly, their spin became "facts" for all practical purposes. The way Dan Rather and CBS News tried to stonewall and brazen out the forged document scandal suggests that they didn't realize the extent to which their monopoly was gone.
With talk radio, Fox News, and the Internet reaching tens of millions of people, no longer could a TV anchorman say "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite used to say, and have that be taken as the last word.
What is perhaps most revealing about Dan Rather is that his defenders are mostly outside of CBS News, and such CBS News heavyweights as Mike Wallace and Walter Cronkite have recently spoken disparagingly of him in public. Mike Wallace referred to Rather's "contrived" performances.
"Contrived" is a polite word for phony.
Although Rather is through as anchorman, what he represents is not through, and that is what makes it important to be clear about what he was and what he did, regardless of the spin of those seeking to make excuses for him. We the public need to recognize what is and is not a fact and the media need to recognize the bias and arrogance in Rather's work -- and in their own.
One hopeful sign of changes in recent times is that even liberal media outlets have begun to see a need to have a few token moderate or conservative voices. It's not much but it's a move in the right direction. So is the departure of Dan Rather.
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Dan's original claim to fame was covering Hurricane Carla. Carla was unique in that its track followed up the Mississippi with flooding as far north as Minnesota. I remember it well...boating to the neighbors, pumping out the basement. I don't remember any service provided by a Houston reporter. Then again the self-importance of parasitic talking heads has always mystified me. |
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