Media Outrage?

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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

I've always respected Dan Rather and will continue to do so.


If Rush had said what Dan said, it would have a distinct connotation-- based solely on the Rush's past episodes of oral diarrhea. A connotation that would simply be insulting.

Rush, like many others, have earned their reputations, within the last 20 years.



Unfortunately, because of the reputation that FOXNEWS has, if Dan Rather had made that statement on FOXNEWS, it may be a little more difficult to be just give him the benefit of doubt.

However, like most well-known Americans, Dan Rather's past precedes him. The same is true for news outlets and, in many circumstances, their commentators.

Sure, Dan Rather's past does precede him... but I think you're looking at him with rose colored glasses and from a very partisan angle.

Dan Rather was fired from his position as anchor of the CBS Evening News because of journalistic fraud. He perpetuated the myth of the "Fake But 'Real' Memos" that were fabricated by a Democrat activist and demanded that they be accepted as 'real' even long after they were proven to be fakes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian...ts_controversy

The uber-liberal Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs blog was the one who posted irrefutable proof that the memos were fake. Rather's lawsuit against CBS was unceremoniously tossed out by the courts for being as bogus as the "Fake But Accurate" memos. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12282982...suit-Dismissal

Rather was then relegated to the dungeons of television news.

Rather has a long history of making racist and anti-American comments: "They got the Buckwheats..." was his description of the media's coverage of the Chandra Levy case.

In 1988 he featured 6 Vietnam vets who described their "atrocities" in Vietnam - a later investigation showed that all 6 former service members and Dan Rather himself had all lied about their experiences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor

The phrase "Rather Biased" was coined by a Washington Post and New York Times columnist to describe the legion of "reports" filed by Rather that show his poor sense of objectivity. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Jan13.html

Rather's rather bizarre account of his alleged "mugging" in New York was the basis for the R.E.M. song "Kenneth What Was the Frequency?"

Even while serving as CBS's lead news anchor Dan Rather also participated in partisan fund raising activities and actively campaigned for Democrat candidates. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...34557-2001Apr3

One of his most famous "newscasts" was actually his non-appearance after he walked off the set in a temper tantrum and caused CBS to to broadcast a blank screen for six minutes until the producers recovered. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/13/ny...pagewanted=all

Dan Rather is perhaps the prime example of what has been wrong with "mainstream journalism" for the past 40 years. His generation's infatuation with the Democrat Party and Keynesian economics is wholly responsible for the demise of American manufacturing, the $12 trillion (and counting) debt, the bankrupt Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid mess and the continued institutionalized racism that the Democrat Party uses for it's voting scams.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010...umbling-acorn/

http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story...storyid=163905

http://www.rottenacorn.com/

http://michellemalkin.com/category/acorn-watch/