Comments on: Will the Mainstream Media Soon Be Devouring Its Own?

By: Godzilla

Godzilla — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:19:26 +0000

testing, disregard A link

By: Knucklehead

Knucklehead — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:23:27 +0000

Are these anchors really that petty? One interview doesn’t go their way and off they go on a 25 year vendetta? Geeze Louise!

By: jerry

jerry — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:07:07 +0000

knuclehead:

In 1988 Dan Rather interviewed Bush 41 and attempted to drive the interview in an unflattering direction. Bush stomped him. I suspect this is payback for that interview.

By: Knucklehead

Knucklehead — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:07:03 +0000

Dan Rather seems, when it comes to his particular strain of BDS, to have long since crossed over from rabid partisanship to some sort of vendetta against the Bush family. Does anyone have any idea what the source of his anti-Bush vendetta might be?

There are some Imus listeners here. I was one for many years but it somehow faded away for me. In addition to Rather’s odd “Courage” sign-off line, I seem to recall that he used “Tamp ‘em up solid” for a while. IIRC Imus used to give him no end of grief over that. Seems like a very odd man.

By: Tom O'Bedlam

Tom O'Bedlam — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:33:26 +0000

Hodges didn’t provide the documents. For CBS a “source” means “someone we call up to ask if this sounds like the sort of thing the person might say.” This is also CBS’s notion of “authentication.”

Here’s what WaPo says:

A senior CBS official, who asked not to be named because CBS managers did not want to go beyond their official statement, named one of the network’s sources as retired Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, the immediate superior of the documents’ alleged author, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. He said a CBS reporter read the documents to Hodges over the phone and Hodges replied that “these are the things that Killian had expressed to me at the time.”

By: Percy Dovetonsils

Percy Dovetonsils — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:29:19 +0000

I’m flabbergasted that this is getting MSM coverage. Delighted, but flabbergasted – and tickled to have been wrong in my earlier predictions. How decadently sweet is the rich, creamy taste of schaudenfreude.

As noted earlier, this is an example of how hard it is for a conspiracy to work. Market competitiveness is indeed a force for good.

And earlier “Ralph” complained how we were defining fellow Americans as “bad guys”. Sorry, bucko, but I consider the MSM’s “balanced” approach to the war on Islamic fundamentalism to be reprehensible. Sometimes you do have to root for the home team (that’s us, you know, the U.S.), even if the home team includes Christians, NASCAR fans, SUV drivers, overweight people who wear polyester and love malls, and the rest of us flyover-country yahoos oh, so disdained by the bobos.

By: Knucklehead

Knucklehead — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:03:23 +0000

This is probably long since played out, but I communicated with a buddy who has many years service and is an officer in the ANG.

Memos for Record for the purpose of “CYA” are perfectly common. He has never heard of anyone using “CYA” as the SUBJECT of such a memo, however, and suggests that using that particular acronym as the SUBJECT of a memo for record would indicate, ummm…, potential intellectualy flaws on the part of the memo writer.

By: John Lynch

John Lynch — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:43:41 +0000

kellymo, Terrye I think this may have been the documentary on POWs and Kerry that you were looking for last night Terrye. This is not the same one showing at the Toronto Film Festival.

By: Rosettiski

Rosettiski — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:27:54 +0000

Can anybody remember NBC’s Dateline episode (1987, I think), where those media elites strapped dynamite to some GM trucks to “prove they were unsafe and prone to exploding” when involved in certain accidents? Maybe Dan “Dateline” Rather can now go the way of those discredited morons who thought (still think?) the end justifies the means….

By: marcjohnson

marcjohnson — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:22:38 +0000

Could it be that there is another Bush memo?