Letters to the Editor
-
are all of you really so self-deluded?
someone way back:
***The key to the whole business: *where* did those documents come from? Establish that...and you have Bush and his liars nailed down beautifully.***
Yes, this is exactly what Mapes and Rather and the other Kerry supporters were unable to do...
which is why they were fired and rightly ostracized.
As Rather said: "The documents cannot be verified as authentic..."
-
About the typewriters...
I seem to recall reading (probably in Salon) that the documents the Guard and/or Bush admin released to attempt to verify his service, have the same, unusual typed characters that appeared in some of the "discredited" documents. So the typeface/typewriter question might be resolved fairly easily by looking at other contemporaneous documents from that Guard office, and comparing them to the supposedly bona fide documents the administration provided.
The whole issue/coverage of military service was so deeply aggravating - Kerry, the Real Deal, accused of being a fake when Bush couldn't even complete his "Champagne" duty.
-
Interesting Party
***I seem to recall reading (probably in Salon) that the documents the Guard and/or Bush admin released to attempt to verify his service, have the same, unusual typed characters that appeared in some of the "discredited" documents.***
It must have been Salon where you read it - and as if Mapes and Rather and everyone else wouldn't have jumped upon this in order to hold up the forgeries as "authentic..."
just stop digging...
-
About the typewriters...
You are somewhat confused. Let me clear it up for you. When these memos are used by the administration to support the President, they are authentic. When these memos are used by the media to discredit the President, they are forgeries. Compairing them for similarities or differences would just be crazy. Why would anyone do that?
How many fingers am I holding up?
WRONG!
-
arbg20
Yes, everyone must stop digging. Thisis all in the past and no one cares about it and certainly no rwsponsible public official either cares about it or would dare to do something about it.
Let the past be buried and forgotten.
How many fingers am I holding up?
RIGHT!
-
on edconley: 'Be the witness' letter
I want to thank you for your superb letter on this subject.
You've NAILED what I have been unable to put into words, and I feel a certain relief from that.
Although we could not change the tide of the media, I believe that an accurate autopsy of it IS necessary if any of us is to learn from it. Your letter here, I believe, is an essential essay that focuses on a dear part of our collective American soul that has been ravished by the corporate takeover of our once-Free Press.
Frankly, I do not believe MY dream of America can exist without the integrity we have lost. I stand disillusioned and in mourning. Your words, both in their accuracy and their honesty, have comforted me.
I sincerely thank you.
sarahsan from CA
-
Groenhagen
What is your problem with Clinton?
He was one of the finest Republican presidents in recent history and even undid some of those dangerous liberal programs that the rascally liberal Nixon put into place. I am certain that his wife is even more conservative than he is and will most assuredly kill even more arabs and moslems than both her husband and her husband's successor combined.
Maybe you are areally a liberal just trying to make us conservatives look like moonbats.
Moonbats are not real, they are imaginary. Wingnuts are real and without them, all hell will break loose if they are not tightened down securely.
Just try to tighten down a moonbat. I DARE YOU.
AU+H2O=1964
-
God bless you, Dan Rather
Thank heaven for Dan Rather. This man has courage and integrity like very few in his industry. My first thought when I heard about the lawsuit was, "Wow! What took him so long?!?" And then I realized that it takes time to build a case like this.
He's gonna get bashed upside the head by all the bush-kissing media, but I think the American people will sooner or later appreciate what he's doing--cracking this shell of corruption and deception right down to its rotting core.
Our world has a good chance to change for the better because of this hero's courage. God bless you, Dan Rather!
-
Bravo
This is the kind of article I used to subscribe to Salon to receive. Lately I've only been reading Greenwald. I found myself really worried that Rather will have a "sudden" heart attack. Whoever forged those documents and set him up is capable of poison. And yes, another letter writer is right--the "press" who focussed on Rather rather than the story is still doing the same thing.
-
CORRECTION
In reporting on Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS News, Sidney Blumenthal repeats Dan's allegation that I acceded to political pressure and, along with other CBS executives, tried to suppress the Abu Ghraib story. Dan is mistaken. As the executive who oversaw 60 Minutes II, I am proud of my role screening the Abu Ghraib story and approving it for broadcast. The subsequent delay of several weeks was not my doing, nor did I press for a delay of this landmark story once it was completed.
-
Editorial Cartoon
My local paper carried an editorial cartoon on this subject yesterday. There were two panels. The one on the left showed a younger Rather holding a paper saying "CBS News with Dan Rather". The word balloon above him said "Courage". The panel on the right showed an older Rather holding a paper saying "CBS Lawsuit". The word balloon above him said "Self-pity". Shows you the take that's being put forward by much of the MSM.
-
Email to Roger Charles who worked with Mary Mapes for years as a military consultant and now is Vice Chairman of sftt.org
Email to Roger Charles who worked with Mary Mapes for years as a military consultant and now is Vice Chairman of sftt.org:
Rog,
Do you have Mary's email address because I would like to know (now that she is no longer with CBS) who spiked (or didn't want to go with) that Israeli interrogator story which I had pitched to her and yourself and which she couldn't get the go ahead for before I finally got the BBC to do it?:
Israeli interrogators 'in Iraq'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3863235.stm
Take a look at the following if you haven't seen it yet:
Dan Rather stands by his story
His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
By Sidney Blumenthal
http://salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/27/dan_rather_suit/