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RacerJim -> RE: Rush Limbaugh and Dan Rather partners in crime (10/25/2009 9:02:59 AM)
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ORIGINAL: rulemylife
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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales
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As much as I hate to say it, I don't think that Limbaugh deserves the same treatment Rather received. Dan Rather was a newsman, a journalist. It was his responsibility to present news that was accurate. Limbaugh is an entertainer who has never been held to any standards of truth, fairness of reason. If he were not allowed to lie outrageously, make comments as vile as allowed by the FCC and present his own twisted view of things, he would not be on the radio in the first place.
As sad as it was to see a fine journalistic career end in disgrace, it was the only answer to what he had been a part of. The only answer to Rush is to, as most intelligent people do, shake your head at his nonsense and go on with more important things.
Myself, I look at it the opposite.
Rather had a long, distinguished career and was well-respected. One mistake, and my understanding is he believed the sources had been checked by others in the organization, does not overshadow the jounalistic integrity he displayed for years.
As far as Rush being an entertainer, you and I both know he is not viewed that way by the majority of his supporters.
Myself, I have the opposite opinion of Dan Rather.
Dan Rather had a long, successful career and was a well-known liberal who would do/say whatever to get his "five minutes of fame".
“I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.”
-- Dan Rather on The O'Reilly Factor, May 15, 2001 Dan Rather's first mistake occured 21 years ago when he successfully perpetrated an outright fraud about the Vietnam War on the American people. On June 2, 1988, CBS aired an hour-long special entitled CBS Reports: The Wall Within, which CBS trumpeted as the "rebirth of the TV documentary." It purported to tell the true story of the Vietnam Was through the eyes of six men who fought there, as told to Dan Rather. And what terrible stories they had to tell. The The Wall Within was hailed by critics who — like the Washington Post's Tom Shales — gushed that the documentary was "extraordinarily powerful." There was just one problem: Almost none of it was true. The truth was uncovered by B.G. Burkett, a Vietnam veteran and author of Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History (with Glenna Whitley). Simply by filing FOIA requests for each of those men's military records, which CBS and/or Rather could and should have done before airing that report, Burkett discovered that only one of the vets had actually served in combat and even at that wasn't anywhere near the event he described witnessing.
Dan Rather attempted to sway the 2004 election towards Kerry by "taking down" Bush Jr at any cost simply to get back at Bush Sr for having put Rather in his place during an interview when he (Bush Sr) was POTUS. It is my understanding that at least a week BEFORE Rather attacked Bush's military record on 60 Minutes at least two independent forensic document examiners hired by CBS warned CBS that the documents most likely were forgeries. Adios and good ridance.
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