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« More on Agendas: Bloggers Had Them, Rather & Mapes Didn't | Main | Black Rock Margaritaville »
January 10, 2005

Rather Lied; MSM Credibility Died

Wizbang finds some tough statements in the report, including the finding that Rather issued a "false statement" regarding the "authentication" of the documents and "inaccurate press statements" about the "unimpeachable" Bill Burkett.

Wizbang calls this a "conscious decision to lie." I'd like to be all "responsible" and challenge him on this, but I'm afraid someone is going to have to first put forth an alternate theory which does not entail deliberate dishonesty.

Rather knew Burkett was far from "unimpeachable." He knew the documents had not been "authenticated."

Why did Rather and CBS claim otherwise?

Lefties-- we need your input. Please submit an innocent explanation for these blatantly-false statements.

Update-- Shocker! Reuters Gets It Wrong: Reuters says that Rather "retracted" the story and apologized for it. Michelle Malkin's scratching her head about how she could have missed that.


posted by Ace at 06:28 PM
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That second link goes to Malkin's trackback list.

Posted by: the UNPOPULIST on January 10, 2005 07:03 PM

It's easy to see how you might have missed it. He apologized in German, French, and Swedish. Rather never considered that americans might not know any of those languages, since he himself is fluent in over 73 forms of human communication, including East Timorese Sign Language for the Deaf.

Posted by: Bolderdish on January 10, 2005 08:17 PM

My dog said he apologized, but it was in a frequency too high for humans to process.

Interestingly, my dog also said it wasn't the first time Dan used that particular frequency...

And yes, my dog's name DOES begin with a "K", why do you ask?

Posted by: Dogstar on January 10, 2005 08:32 PM

Dear Fellow Bloggers,

Here's a comment I've posted in several versions at sites on this topic. We need your help on a much larger story that the MSM is ignoring. Sorry if this drifts off this thread but it is directly related to the MSM failure to objectively report the news of the day:

Do these folks actually get paid for all this smoozing and distorting the facts? Don't they realize the important significance of the Blogos here to independently fact check what in the past has been the MSM'S sole perogative as to what the news is?

Mapes and Rather were "outed" for running a story that was an attack piece on President Bush (doesn't mater who you were rooting). They wanted to believe this so badly, they ignored all the red flags along the way. This is what makes con games so successful. The marks want to believe and lose their common sense. The only thing is that they got caught with their hands "red handed" in cookie jar and exposed their true motives.

[...]

The important lesson is the emergence of a new medium of human thought that has the power to transcend political boundaries and filtering of editoral and congolomerate boardrooms. This medium is almost free and does not have to pander for readers and audiences by senstationalizing the news which inherently causes it to be out of proportion and perspective.

[...]

Now here's my challenge to the Blogos. Here's a much bigger story that needs to be reported to the American people and let them decide what the is the truth and/or fiction.

The MSM is sitting on this story and not reporting it because they are too scared to put their foot in the water. Go figure you'd think they would be all over this like flies on poop!

THERE IS DIRECT FORENSIC EVIDENCE THAT AN ADDITIVE IN THE DOD's ANTHRAX VACCINE IS THE CAUSUL AGENT FOR GULF WAR SYNDROME.

FURTHER THE DOD'S LIL SHOPPE OF HORRORS, ALONG WITH THE NIH, AND THE PHARMA INDUSTRY ARE RUNNING EXPERIMENTAL CLINICAL TRIALS ON OUR BRAVE MEN IN WOMEN IN UNIFORM WITHTOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE.

In my book this is nothing more than premeditated murder. Oh well what do I know?

OK bloggers go and prove me wrong. This could affect everyone of us in that the vaccines we depend upon to protect against real pathogens like "smallpox" will be compromise

[...]

Comment at Roger Simon's site

Posted by: on January 10, 2005 09:03 PM

Don't be fooled into thinking that's Roger Simon posting that.

God I hate spammers.

Posted by: fat kid on January 10, 2005 09:28 PM

Death to spammers!

Ace, ban those yahoo's IP, will ya?

That being said....

It's a shame they canned Senior Vice President Betsy West. She was kinda cute, in a moonbat sort of way.

At least in this picture, anyway.

Posted by: Xoxotl on January 10, 2005 09:56 PM

Here's where this should go next... . Dan should be fired, yes... but the next step is to start asking questions about the Fortunate Son campaign.. when was it conceived, shot, who was involved?

It came out the next #@$ing day! The Kerry campaign event the day after the report was touting the theme. There are more questions to this whole issue...

AND THANK GOD BURKETT (OR WHOEVER) WAS DUMB ENOUGH TO NOT USE A REAL TYPEWRITER!!! IMAGINE WHERE WE'D BE NOW!!!

Posted by: Stwendeler on January 10, 2005 10:49 PM

i know x-mas is over but has anybody heard this before?
http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/starwars-xmas/

man that c3p0 has a set of pipes on him....hes the only important one on that stage!

Posted by: atomic on January 10, 2005 11:05 PM

It's just so obvious CBS is staffed by pernicious, lying fucks, top to bottom. The whole thing reminds me what Vince Gallo once said...

Interviewer: So what should we talk about?

Gallo: What should we talk about? I don’t know, I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I’m talking to a journalist. I feel the pain coming already. The brutal pain, when one day I should read your edit of whatever I say, because no matter what I say, no matter how I say it, no matter it’s tone, it’s frequency range, it’s decibel level or the way in which I put the words together, no matter my intentions and no matter the truth, what I’ll read one day will be a chastised, manipulated abortion of your misunderstandings, your manipulations, your agenda and your amateur use of the English language.

Posted by: Jus sayin... on January 11, 2005 01:28 AM

I'm not a lefty, but the alternate explanation for Rather is that instead of a liar, he's a buffoonish talking head who has been at the anchor desk at least 15 years too long.

The story the report tells is that Mapes promised everyone that the documents were authenticated and the source was rock solid. Presumably, if Rather was with it enough to ask "who authenticated the documents and who is the source?" he would have known his on-air statements were false.

I love Reagan as much as anyone, but I think the appropriate name for this defense is "the Reagan defense," after its most successful use.

Posted by: J Mann on January 11, 2005 09:24 AM

"I'm not a lefty..."
"I love Reagan as much as anyone..."

I never thought these stories were real until it happened to me...

Uh, Doc, I have....a friend who needs to ask a medical question but it too shy to ask for himself...

The check is in the mail, etc.

Darn, I hate me a 'seminar caller.'

Posted by: lauraw on January 11, 2005 09:46 AM

Sorry. I could be completely wrong. That thought went through my head when I hit 'send.'

Posted by: lauraw on January 11, 2005 09:48 AM
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