Memos Faxed From a Kinko's

[cegerer]

The fake Guard memos were faxed to CBS from a friggin' Kinko's in Texas ......

[dd74]

Originally posted by cegerer
The fake Guard memos were faxed to CBS from a friggin' Kinko's in Texas ......

Seriously? Where's the proof? Oh, man...

[cegerer]

Pick up a copy of the Washington Post in the morning. This is becoming almost comical.

[bell]

so then one person CAN make a difference

[island911]

Originally posted by cegerer
Pick up a copy of the Washington Post in the morning. This is becoming almost comical.

Oh it *is* comical, for sure.
I was able to catch Ra^ther last night evening "news". Ra^ther touched on this memo story, where he included something like:
Laura Bush says 'they probably are forgeries and I think that's terrible, really.' BUT, she has offered no evidence to support her claim.

What a JOKER. . . diss'n the firstlady . . like she has an obligation to present "evidence to support her thought" . . while Danny-courage-Ra^ther touts his hit-piece "memos" as "news" beyond reproach. --nice.

[fintstone]

The Boston Globe printed a retraction of their Sat, Page 1 story claiming the memos had been autherticated. Of course the retraction was in the middle of the paper in fine print.

[fintstone]

Rather is now saying that the memos may be forgeries, but that doesn't really matter...since they were, in his opinion, accurate. What did we expect after Rather's loving interview of Saddam just before the bombs started to fall in the gulf war...We already knew which side he was on.

[fintstone]

The death cry of snob journalism
Michelle Malkin
September 15, 2004

Dan Rather, Professional Journalist, and CBS News, Professional News Network, want us to keep believing that they are the ordained purveyors of truth. They are the mature and responsible mavens of media ethics. They are the information gatekeepers with unparalleled judgment, dedicated to the high principles of The Craft of Journalism, unwavering in their crusade for the public interest.

As the saying goes in the blogosphere: Bwah-hah-hah.

With a click of the mouse and easy-to-use Web log software, Internet-savvy citizens across America and around the world are relentlessly unmasking the frauds of snob journalism as never before. The wall between the self-anointed press protectorate and the unwashed masses has crumbled.

Rather and The Suits face crushing evidence that CBS relied on bogus military documents in a recent "60 Minutes II" hit piece challenging President Bush's National Guard service. Questions about the documents' authenticity were first raised last week on the indispensible conservative Internet forum, FreeRepublic.com, then amplified and supplemented by the intrepid independent bloggers of Powerline, Little Green Footballs, INDC Journal and Allahpundit.

Rather and his geriatric empire are combating these powerfully persuasive blogs with anemic smears and sneers. And they are losing so very, very badly that they can't keep on top of their own spin.

Rather recklessly suggests that the bloggers who broke the story are disciplined "partisan political operatives," presumably affiliated with the Bush campaign and/or Republican National Convention. Former CBS news executive Jonathan Klein, on the other hand, suggests that the bloggers are loose cannons and amateur yahoos. The blogger, Klein told Fox News, is a "guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing" without acceptable journalistic credentials or a genuine commitment to "checks and balances."

It's no surprise, of course, that the conspiratorial, central-planning mindset of the mainstream media kingpins conjures up a top-down plot where there is none and where none could ever be orchestrated even if the Bush White House wanted one. Bloggers take orders from no one. But with that irresistible platter of publishing freedom comes a tall glass of responsibility. For serious blogging pundits and news-gatherers and discussion board operators, cyber-cred is everything. Mainstream media anthropologists often attach the adjective "free-wheeling" to the blogger culture -- ignoring the flip side of the brutally quick-fixing and 24/7 fact-checking nature of the medium.

What is amazing is that Rather would shamelessly traffic in such paranoid nonsense against conservative-leaning bloggers, without a shred of substantiation, in the middle of his own disastrous journalistic hurricane -- and on the heels of CNN's recent disclosure that two of its most prominent talk show co-hosts, Paul Begala and James Carville, have been hired as official consultants to the Kerry presidential campaign but will remain in their current positions at the network.

About these proven Democratic "partisan political operatives," Rather has made no comment on CBS.

As for Klein, his pajama put-down will go down in media history as the death cry of snob journalism.

With amusement, I have watched my colleagues in the Old Media fight every democratizing and choice-enhancing trend during the dozen years I've spent in the information business. They scoffed at Rush Limbaugh as a flash in the pan (and have searched in vain for a commercially viable liberal counterpart for the last 15 years). They sneered at The Drudge Report (then bookmarked his site for hourly reading). They sniped at Fox News (then ripped off every one of Roger Ailes' innovations). They laughed at Regnery Publishing (then snatched up its editors and formed New York knock-offs). They mocked the insurgent New York Post (as their own circulation figures and ad sales tanked). And now, in final desperation, they trash the blogging revolution as an irresponsible pajama party for unprofessional hobbyists (even as they launch their own corporate-scrubbed versions to exhibit their "edginess").

Faced with an unstoppable onslaught of competitive traffic, Dan Rather and the great pretenders in Trusted Journalism have only one choice for survival: Yield.

[island911]

so in other words:

[cegerer]

Is Dan Rather living in some sort of time-zone that is several days behind the rest of the world? Looks like he's going to try to captialize on his own F-up by breaking his own story!!!!!!!!!!

From an interview last night: "If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story," Rather said in an interview last night. "Any time I'm wrong, I want to be right out front and say, 'Folks, this is what went wrong and how it went wrong.' "

Ahhh, Dan, let me whisper this politely in your ear, "You're the ONLY person on the planet who doesn't already know you were wrong, what went wrong and how it went wrong!".

[island911]

Originally posted by cegerer
.. .From an interview last night: "If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story," Rather said in an interview last night. "Any time I'm wrong, I want to be right out front and say, 'Folks, this is what went wrong and how it went wrong.' "
. ..

LOL . . .that is rich! thanks Curt.

Danny must think that all communications are controlled by SeeBS.

I hear that he may be replaced.


. . .replaced by someone with a bit more "control" over his message .. .

[emcon5]

Found this on another forum, Bloom County from ~1984.



Everything old is new again.

Tom

[Overpaid Slacker]

Tom -
I agree. I'd love for a "Sixty Minutes-esque" expose show to hound Dan Rather like he and his collaborators have hounded so many others, and then broadcast their indignation and stonewalling.

JP

[dd74]

Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
Tom -
I agree. I'd love for a "Sixty Minutes-esque" expose show to hound Dan Rather like he and his collaborators have hounded so many others, and then broadcast their indignation and stonewalling.

JP

Where's Michael Moore when you need him, right?

[RickM]

I'd love to see Barbara Wawa grill him.

[mikester]

Originally posted by emcon5
Found this on another forum, Bloom County from ~1984.



Everything old is new again.

Tom

I wish I could curse in this forum because that's f'ing fantastic.

[cegerer]

Dan Rather needs to go. At least he and DNCBS used to hide their liberal biased. Now they flaunt it.

Rather: “a thick partisan fogging machine seeks to cloud the core truth of our story by raising questions about the messenger, methods and techniques.”

"Partisan fogging machine"????? "Cloud the core truth"?????? Dannyboy's been spraying partisan fog over the American public for 20 years. It's evolved to a point now where he truly sees nothing wrong with manufacturing evidence to support his network's pre-conceived conclusions.

[dd74]

CBS is supposedly talking about an early exit for Rather and 60 Minutes producer Hewitt.

[speeder]

Originally posted by island911
LOL . . .that is rich! thanks Curt.

Danny must think that all communications are controlled by SeeBS.

I hear that he may be replaced.


. . .replaced by someone with a bit more "control" over his message .. .

You need to post a warning when you revive Bob, I almost coughed up a lung there.

Rather went down the happy trail a long time ago, I don't know exactly what happened, (head injury?), he used to be a good reporter but that was a loooong time ago.

And P.S.: HTF did you get the "th" to do that in his name?? My Doctor is going to want a word w/ you after he fixes my sphinkter from laughing too hard.

[smoak]

Dan Rather wanting the "break" the story on the forged memos is kinda like the arsonist calling 911 after the fire department has arrived on the scene. What a complete jack@!#.