Comments on: Dan Rather May Call Bush 41 and 43 to Testify in CBS Suit http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/ News and Opinion on Politics and Media Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:50:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Only Politics by Anna » Dan Rather May Call Bush 41 and 43 to Testify in CBS Suit http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-407519 Only Politics by Anna » Dan Rather May Call Bush 41 and 43 to Testify in CBS Suit Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:23:28 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/#comment-407519 [...] read more | digg story [...] [...] read more | digg story [...]

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]]> By: nikolai http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-393347 nikolai Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:23:08 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/#comment-393347 So what? They will just refuse. That and/or Rather will quietly drop the lawsuit. END OF STORY. So what? They will just refuse. That and/or Rather will quietly drop the lawsuit. END OF STORY.

]]> By: Tom Swirly http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-393004 Tom Swirly Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:11:59 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/#comment-393004 The question is whether the story itself is true -- whether Bush evaded his military service. Truth is the ultimate defense. The question is whether the story itself is true — whether Bush evaded his military service. Truth is the ultimate defense.

]]> By: Fred Flintstoned http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-392990 Fred Flintstoned Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:25:27 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/#comment-392990 Classic Repug tactic: Scream about the fonts so loudly that people will forget about the real story, Bush's desertion. Same thing with General "Betray Us." Good to see Dan going to the mats on this one. The world needs to know what it already knows. Classic Repug tactic: Scream about the fonts so loudly that people will forget about the real story, Bush’s desertion. Same thing with General “Betray Us.”

Good to see Dan going to the mats on this one. The world needs to know what it already knows.

]]> By: Tom Buckner http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-392983 Tom Buckner Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:09:40 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/#comment-392983 Memo to Wingnut Some Guy: 1. If the docs were forged, they were accurate forgeries. THe man who generated the originals had died, but his secretary, still living at the time of the news story, said they looked just like the originals. The right-wing smear campaign was designed to make everyone forget WHAT the documents said: that G.W. Bush was well on his way to a Dishonorable Discharge. 2. While the provenance of the docs was in doubt, the 'proof' that they were forged was BULLCRAP. All the righties ever saw was the same dodgy copies on the internet that I saw. The computer font Times New Roman was SUPPOSED to look like the popular typewriter font, so we needn't be surprised at any resemblance. Also, the IBM typwriters did have superscript. 3. So where did these docs come from? It appears the originals were destroyed illegally by Bush friends in Texas circa 2000; however, copies would have been sent up the chain of command, and it is these that reappeared. Alternatively, some think Rove planted the docs. 4. Unfortunately, there is more willful obfuscation that hard evidence in this matter. One thing we do know: Bush had more motive to lie than Rather ever would. Here are some things we DO know: Dubya could never have got into the 'Champagne Unit' ahead of hundreds of more deserving applicants unless Daddy pulled strings. Dubya defied direct orders to get a flight physical which would have revealed illicit drugs. Dubya never showed up for about the last 18 months of his enlistment. Cash offers to prove he had shown up have gone uncollected. He is a DESERTER. Memo to Wingnut Some Guy:

1. If the docs were forged, they were accurate forgeries. THe man who generated the originals had died, but his secretary, still living at the time of the news story, said they looked just like the originals. The right-wing smear campaign was designed to make everyone forget WHAT the documents said: that G.W. Bush was well on his way to a Dishonorable Discharge.

2. While the provenance of the docs was in doubt, the ‘proof’ that they were forged was BULLCRAP. All the righties ever saw was the same dodgy copies on the internet that I saw. The computer font Times New Roman was SUPPOSED to look like the popular typewriter font, so we needn’t be surprised at any resemblance. Also, the IBM typwriters did have superscript.

3. So where did these docs come from? It appears the originals were destroyed illegally by Bush friends in Texas circa 2000; however, copies would have been sent up the chain of command, and it is these that reappeared. Alternatively, some think Rove planted the docs.

4. Unfortunately, there is more willful obfuscation that hard evidence in this matter. One thing we do know: Bush had more motive to lie than Rather ever would. Here are some things we DO know:
Dubya could never have got into the ‘Champagne Unit’ ahead of hundreds of more deserving applicants unless Daddy pulled strings. Dubya defied direct orders to get a flight physical which would have revealed illicit drugs. Dubya never showed up for about the last 18 months of his enlistment. Cash offers to prove he had shown up have gone uncollected. He is a DESERTER.

]]> By: Some Guy http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-392911 Some Guy Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:00:09 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/#comment-392911 Rather got caught with forged documents. INCOMPETENTLY forged documents. Whether he did it because he hates GWB, or just because he was so jealous of Woodward and Bernstein that he could taste it, he still went on the air with a story based of fabricated evidence. He pissed away decades of credibility, and he has nobody to blame for that but himself (and possible Mary Mapes, who seems to be just as convinced that she did nothing wrong as he is.) Rather got caught with forged documents. INCOMPETENTLY forged documents. Whether he did it because he hates GWB, or just because he was so jealous of Woodward and Bernstein that he could taste it, he still went on the air with a story based of fabricated evidence.

He pissed away decades of credibility, and he has nobody to blame for that but himself (and possible Mary Mapes, who seems to be just as convinced that she did nothing wrong as he is.)

]]> By: George Myers http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-392882 George Myers Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:54:07 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/#comment-392882 As a fan of CBS news (a cousin produced both Democrat and Republican convention coverages for them in 1976, he earlier a director of NBC's "Huntley and Brinkley" and a high school acquaintance is a "street reporter" for CBS in New York City) I think we should reflect on the lawsuit General Westmoreland filed for millions against the whole NBC network over an NBC news retrospective which alleged "body counts" were manipulated during the Vietnam War. He settled for an undisclosed amount. It is no coincidence, in my estimation that General Colin Powell a great American left the administration and his son, the former chief of the FCC also "left the building". Now we have a Federal Censorship Commission, with new jacked-up fines and an apparent new imperious "bridge" taking the world admired American independence of news coverages perhaps into the iceberg of intolerance. As a fan of CBS news (a cousin produced both Democrat and Republican convention coverages for them in 1976, he earlier a director of NBC’s “Huntley and Brinkley” and a high school acquaintance is a “street reporter” for CBS in New York City) I think we should reflect on the lawsuit General Westmoreland filed for millions against the whole NBC network over an NBC news retrospective which alleged “body counts” were manipulated during the Vietnam War. He settled for an undisclosed amount. It is no coincidence, in my estimation that General Colin Powell a great American left the administration and his son, the former chief of the FCC also “left the building”. Now we have a Federal Censorship Commission, with new jacked-up fines and an apparent new imperious “bridge” taking the world admired American independence of news coverages perhaps into the iceberg of intolerance.

]]> By: Will http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-392879 Will Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:25:54 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/#comment-392879 I'm sure Bushco and friends will claim national security or executive privlege or something. They'll say how their "above the law" and Fox news reporters will Demonize Rather while licking George's boots with their Sh!t eating grins!!! I’m sure Bushco and friends will claim national security or executive privlege or something. They’ll say how their “above the law” and Fox news reporters will Demonize Rather while licking George’s boots with their Sh!t eating grins!!!

]]> By: george http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-392848 george Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:26:50 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/09/27/dan-rather-may-call-bush-41-and-43-to-testify-in-cbs-suit/#comment-392848 Actually rather's documents were not innaccurate. They were recopied to protect the source of the original documents which would have been determinable from the originals. however the information on the documents was accurate. Actually rather’s documents were not innaccurate.

They were recopied to protect the source of the original documents which would have been determinable from the originals.
however the information on the documents was accurate.

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