Comments on: Howell Raines resigned. So should Dan Rather!

By: owp

owp — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:37:27 +0000

And when will Duuuuuhbya resign for *willfully* using fraudulent documentation to justify his war?

By: Barbara Skolaut

Barbara Skolaut — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:17:19 +0000

Even with a correction, can you imagine ever trusting a word out of Rather’s mouth again? Can you imagine respecting CBS, “Sixty Minutes”?

No. But then, I haven’t trusted Rather, or respected 60 Minutes, since the 1970’s.

By: Beldar

Beldar — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:20:02 +0000

Rather is standing pat, but in the meantime, the CBS website has been "stealth rewriting" the whole story since the wee small hours of the morning. All at the original URL and without leaving any footprints, their story title has gone from its original "New Scrutiny of Bush's Service" to read, "Bush Guard Memos Questioned." The article's lede was changed to one referencing the questions over the documents' provenance; and several new paragraphs were inserted to reference critical witnesses, including a quote, by name and with credentials, of an "independent expert" who says the documents are forgeries. Later in the morning, the defiant statements were then introduced into the middle of the piece about the same time Rather was giving his CNN interview. More details (sorry for link-whoring, Roger, but I figure it's better than cutting and pasting) here.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:07:47 +0000

penwil:

Yeah I know. They don’t seem to realzie that even if it is true people don’t really give a damn and if it isn’t people want to know where this crap came from decades after the fact.

Maybe those same Dems would like to talk about Christmas in Cambodia. But I don’t remember Bush saying anything was seared in his memory in Alabama. I don’t think I ever heard him mention the Guard at all.

By: vegetius

vegetius — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:20:02 +0000

Thanks thibaud, I’m ROFLMAO

What’s the font, Kenneth?

By: thibaud

thibaud — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:46:59 +0000

What’s the font, Kenneth?

By: Kevin P

Kevin P — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:42:46 +0000

Roger:

Dan Rather of CBS News is reporting that their crack news team has discovered documents that show the origin of the HIV virus. After checking the docs with their trained experts the documents show that the disease started with Karl Rove. We report, you decide.

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:35:37 +0000

Here's a nice example of IBM Selectic and Executive vs MS Word TNR. Which I think settles that once and for all.

By: Rick Ballard

Rick Ballard — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:23:55 +0000

Penwil,

This weeks script was a collaborative effort. The MSM continues to attempt to play its part, just take a look at the AP reports, the NYT editorial page, the tentative remarks concerning the authenticity of the documents on ABC and NBC as well as in the WaPo stories. The story was written up weeks ago in order to draw attention from the 911 anniversary tomorrow. We’re all supposed to be thinking about non-events of 30 years ago rather than about the event that initiated the WoT.

Rather just happens to be the most useful idiot of the moment. Some may call it perfect casting but I really believe that Brokaw or Jennings could play the part as well as Rather did. After all, they do so every evening.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:09:49 +0000

Why would a letter from “the personal files of” an individual look like a third generation copy? Specifically an _old_ third generation copy.

How many times did he Fax this memo back and forth to himself?