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Exactly. He's just another Progressive liar, and a shill for the Democrats. Remember the false story about Bush, an his Guard service. CBS at its finest.
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Dan Rather said yesterday that he will end his nearly 24-year reign as CBS News anchor early next year, setting the terms of his departure instead of waiting for an investigative report on his rushed and admittedly flawed story on President Bush's National Guard service.
Exactly. He's just another Progressive liar, and a shill for the Democrats. Remember the false story about Bush, an his Guard service. CBS at its finest.
The independent panel's report says that Rather's statement to viewers that experts had vouched for the documents was "inaccurate." Two of the four experts hired by CBS later said in interviews they had raised objections before the broadcast. In other words, CBS was compounding the broadcast of an untrustworthy story with an untrue defense.
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Mary Mapes comes out worst. Specifically, the report says Mapes got documents from a questionable source, retired Army National Guard Lt. Col. Bill Burkett. She failed to check carefully where he had gotten the documents, making only cursory efforts to track that down.
The night before the broadcast, associate producer Yvonne Miller told the inquiry board, "everything but the ceiling tiles" was falling down on Mapes.
But Mapes, and CBS, plowed ahead. Two of the document examiners hired to review the documents were sharply questioning their authenticity. The report says Mapes brushed aside their concerns. And she deflected the questions of the executives overseeing the show, who were ostensibly her superiors.
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One of the most damning things against CBS News — and the logic to which even Heyward and Rather belatedly yielded, after nearly two weeks — is that the National Guard report relied on documents that the network could not completely vouch for. Instead, their one analyst said critics could not prove they were faked.
That's a standard that no credible journalist would swallow. No reputable network would put a report on the air based on documents if its source had said, "I don't know whether these puppies are real, but no one's proved they aren't."
Mr Dan Rather took with thoughts right out of my head and and worded it so eloquently. I'm at a loss for words and not a word Smith, he is. He really cuts to the heart of the matter. Well said.
Mr Dan Rather took with thoughts right out of my head and and worded it so eloquently. I'm at a loss for words and not a word Smith, he is. He really cuts to the heart of the matter. Well said.
I agree. I always liked Dan Rather, was disappointed about his controversy but he is still a stand up guy and respected journalist. I remember him getting roughed up at the Republican Convention while reporting on the floor under Walter Cronkite.
His show The Big Interview is great, easy, fun entertainment letting the people explain themselves without the pressure.
"he is still a stand up guy and respected journalist"
Mr Dan Rather took with thoughts right out of my head and and worded it so eloquently. I'm at a loss for words and not a word Smith, he is. He really cuts to the heart of the matter. Well said.
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