Rather Sues CBS For 70 Million: Network Made Me "A Scapegoat"..."To Pacify The White House"

"Mission Accomplished"

I now fade back into obscurity (at my undisclosed located).

I quickly tire of the bleat of the sheep. -
"Prove he's a deserter, with FACTS!" - facts that would only be available IF bush would release his service record, which he hasn't done, and we all know why.

Faked uranium documents from Niger used to get us into a war - O.K.

Possibly faked documents used to criticise the president - Horror!


The president is a deserter - yawn.

Rather didn't "vet" his story properly - Horror!

I wish I were religious, so that I could say "God help us", and mean it.

And the country circles the bowl (like NASCAR).

CBS & Dan Rather were either too lazy, to stupid or too paritisan to vett the story properly. (I beleive the latter). Therefore are no longer (if ever) a credible news source.
Whine on Danny boy ....

nosuchperson posted an excellent link to the IBM archive. Consulting p. 1 of that archive, IBM stays it developed proportional spacing and the so called Executive typewriter in the 1940's. Also claims that proportionally spaced type is easier to read.

I'm not sure of that, but I am sure that letters with serifs are easier to read, the eye can distinguish characters more easily.

My bet is the Col Blimp or whoever it was who was covering for Bush did have and IBM Executive typewriter. Higher ups in organizations tended to have them & use them as status symbols.

Secretaries who had to use them tended to type relatively slowly so as to avoid typos which were very difficult to correct.

Fake but accurate.

He should sue the SOBs. He was Roved. You know - the bit where he is given a document which is shown to be a forgery but contains the truth. A document prepared by unknown Rove agents. The media does exactly as Rove predicts by ignoring the truth of the statements in the document and focusing instead on the document itself as being a forgery. The statements in the document Rather used were absolutely true. Bush was AWOL. But the media lapdogs ignored that and went after Rather in order to pander to the White House. Well I say I hope Rather collects ever dime he is asking for.

SUBPOENA BUSH'S UNEDITED, UNEXPURGATED, UNDOCTORED MILITARY SERVICE RECORD. CBS should hae done this when the matter came to the fore. That they shitcanned rather before looking into the matter thoroughly reeks of interference by a 3rd party (bushco perhaps) I'm not saying Dan Rather might not have a liberal bias, but even that looks tame compared to an entire network built on spewing GOP dogma. ( fox news)

A very enlightening thread... all the wingnut trollies obsessed, to the point of flop-sweat, with that single controversial document, the money angle -- the usual array of talking points -- furiously nibbling around the edges of the issue like frantic rodents, bleating "libruls" the whole way...

But not one -- not a SINGLE fucking one -- has posted so much as a shred of documentation REFUTING the underlying truth of the original Rather report.

... which helps to explain why, as the criminal Iraq debacle falls like a house of cards, this dwindling crust of morons continues to cheer the occupation in tight formation, their soiled matching leotards torn from the effort of jumping up and down and waving their stubby little arms.

The rest of us know that, as in most of his vapid history, Junior got through this one like he had an EZ-Pass riveted to his ass.

Can't wait for the discovery phase... all those irrefutable facts out there, clamoring to be lined up and displayed in evidence, well beyond the reach of Georgie's spinmeisters and a lazy, stenographic press -- at long last.

GO DAN!!!!!! those backboneless cbs execs. and editors did not stand by you and the story was basically true , less we forget that bush did get into unit that he was not qualified to be in. Rather will win and I hope he gets double what he asked.

As an Imus fan, I am enjoying this thoroughly. I want CBS to fail. The story behind this is payback to Moonves by Rather. Karma's a bitch and all Moonves' skeletens are going to come out in court..if this ever sees a court room. Moonves dumped Dan to bring in Couric which was really smart. He fired Don Imus and basically ruined CBS Radio. Moonves has a massive ego and it's time to deflate it.

There never was a "Liberal Media". Reporting facts does not, in spite of what the White House says, make you a "Liberal"

The MSM is dead, they just haven't held the funeral yet.

Reports are just NOW coming out, done BY the MSM that they were, indeed biased in their reporting in 2000 and 2004, repeating the repub lies, and never questioning the repubs on anything.

This occurred, in part, because these men could see the "Murdochization" of the news media, and knew that to maintain their careers, they must needs ditch the "Liberal" tag, even if it meant ignoring the truth in favor of 10 second "sound bytes" that the repubs were better at producing, since no thought or depth was required for same.

Also, in part, it occurred because news divisions were turned from "loss leaders" meant to be a public service, into "for profit" shows, subject to the same ratings pressures as Seinfeld or South Park. Thus we see 24-hour coverage of OJ (again), instead of in-depth reporting on the real news.

The "substance" of the Rather report was NEVER questioned. They "threw the baby out with the bathwater", in another attempt to avoid being labeled "Liberal".

Well, congratulations MSM, you got, and kept elected a deserter as commander-in-chief, and we, indeed "got the government we deserved".

My hope is more will get thier news from various sources, including the internet, and stop relying on ONE source for thier information. But of course, that requires time and effort, and we can't expect citizens to do thier duty and stay informed, form thier OWN opinions, and vote intelligently, can we?

(Posting from an undisclosed location, yet still have MY service records)

....go get 'em, Dan!....the bastards...in fact, up your asking price to $75 million, one million dollars for each year you have been alive.....



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Should prove interesting if case goes to court.

Will someone give that lying Dan jew Rather some money to shut him up.

Everybody knows the jew media lies.

From Dan Rather to Puff-Piece Katie Couric will give you some idea of how dumb the CBS-Clown-Execs are. Rather is, and has been, one of the best and smartest MSM journalist/anchors this nation has ever had, and he was manuevered out of his position by the Bush-lickers who now dominate Corporate TV. Good for Dan! I wish him every success and I hope CBS has to pay through their piggy little noses--and pay, and pay, and PAY!

So his gig in HDNet News isn't going so well, so now he want money