CBS Provides More Evidence Of The “Liberal” Media
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Among the materials that money has shaken free for Mr. Rather are internal CBS memorandums turned over to his lawyers, showing that network executives used Republican operatives to vet the names of potential members of a panel that had been billed as independent and charged with investigating the ‘60 Minutes’ segment.
Mr. Rather attracted the ire of Republican bloggers and talk radio in particular after the segment, which was broadcast on a weekday edition of ‘60 Minutes’ in September 2004. It purported to have unearthed evidence about favorable treatment extended to President Bush during his Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard.
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CBS employs Dennis Miller, Lars Larson, Phil Valentine and Bill O’Reilly in their radio division but they’re “librul”
After 4 years, I’m still convinced that there’s more truth to the Texaas Air National Guard tales than met the eye. Little Green Footballs & other right wing blogs tried their best to debunk the 60 Minutes story, but there was just too much truth and coincidence to really believe the right wing version.
If you look like a draft dodger, quack like a draft dodger and act like a draft dodger, then you’re probably a draft dodger.
No amount of right wing blog wash over can change that. Even if the fonts don’t quite match up, there’s was plenty of corroborating evidence.
When I start thinking about how patriotic Republicans portray themselves to be, and compare that to their smackdown of the Texas Air National Guard story and their slimy Swiftboat campaign, my head hurts.
I hope that history is not too kind to these bozos.
LOL,
Regarding Rather and CBS, I believe the term is
“thrown under the bus”. After years of the blatent bias Rather was busted not plageriazing like Biden but using obviously forged documents. CBS had what meager bits of credibility they still possessed. So, in a manner similar to Obama and his long term spiritual mentor, he was sacrificed not for principle but for the greater good.
I see that Reventave has an interesting way of looking at things. Even if it’s fake, it’s true. I suppose he thought OJ was innocent too.
I see that Amused Observer has an interesting way of looking at things. Even if it’s true, it’s false. I suppose he never saw more than 30 seconds of Reverend Wright.
Listen – the damned truth is that little Georgie would have gone to the stockade if daddy had not intervened to save his useless ass! But Rather was moron that got played by a Rove psy-op. He should have never went with the story without independent confirmation from people who would go on record. That would have meant he could never break the story (’cause no one would help him – they were ALL paid off) but it could have persisted as a credible rumor and less self-righteous heads might have been able to dig, needle, or cajole more records into release. (Brilliant Assholes query me this – how is it that Kerry released every single page of his records and Bush and McCain did not? They have nothing to hide – right?) But stupid most likely would still have won – in Texas (and the military), if you know the right people and have enough money you can bury anything – including your dead boyfriend that you intentionally ran over!
Terrier: including your dead boyfriend that you intentionally ran over!
Y’know. Any credibility you’re trying to have goes right out the window when you make with the transparently bogus accusations of the Hillary-killed-Foster type.
Sean D. Martin, Nov 17th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Terrier: including your dead boyfriend that you intentionally ran over!
Y’know. Any credibility you’re trying to have goes right out the window when you make with the transparently bogus accusations of the Hillary-killed-Foster type.
Actually, there are credible reports that 17-year old Laura Bush (nee Welch) did run over her boyfriend with her car, killing him:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp
Intention would be up to the person involved to talk about; but Laura won’t even let anyone ask her about it.
Relative to the country and western red county dweller the media probably is “liberal”. But the ‘selective perception and reasoning’ of the more urban and sophisticated conservative partisan regarding media slant is a fascinating thing to observe.
( :Tom: ) : Actually, there are credible reports that 17-year old Laura Bush (nee Welch) did run over her boyfriend with her car, killing him:
Yes, I know about that. And I haven’t seen anything suggesting she denies it happening, so the credibility of the reports that it happened should not be in dispute. Any more than the fact of Foster’s death can be disputed.
But when you start saying it was “intentional” you are, as I said, deep in the Foster-was-killed-by-Hillary territory and completely without credibility.
From the snopes article you cite:
“… each going approximately 0 mph…”
corrected:
“… each going approximately fifty mph…”
Dude that got killed was driving a Corvair. That thing would have killed him on its own eventually, so no harm done.
I’m just old enough to have been mildly exposed to this monstrosity of a motor vehicle. A friend of my parents had one and I drove it once. It seemed to have an extremely good power to weight ratio, but my understanding is that the suspension would buckle in a heartbeat and roll the damn thing. It was bad enough that it actually launched Ralph Nader’s career. His book “Unsafe at any Speed’ focused exactly on that issue.
Enjoy.
That thing would have killed him on its own eventually, so no harm done.
Careful. Show such utter disregard for human life and CSS will declare you a “sub human” forever more.
And reports have the guy who was killed as quite a personable and intelligent person and not an easily dismissed loss.
LOL,
Terrier perhaps you’d like to do a wee bit of research before you make brash assertations.
“Brilliant Assholes query me this – how is it that Kerry released every single page of his records ”
Sean, and what pray tell is true? Have you cites for your insinuations.
I saw probabally 10 minutes of the Reverend Wrights greatest hits. Obama sat through 20 years of that. Old time religion mixed with blatent racism and whacked out science fiction. If a white man acted in similar fashion the “unbiased” media would call for his head.
Like Jerry Falwell, right? Oh wait, the liberal media treated him like he wasn’t a racist homophobe but rather someone whose opinions are valid until the day he died.
LOL,
So what are you saying? That Falwell was McCains pastor for 20 years.
I know he didn’t mince words regarding homosexuality which he considered a sin, but not being an avid follower I’m not hip to his racist tendencies. Did he think blacks had created a disease to eradicate white people with?
“Did he think blacks had created a disease to eradicate white people with?”
Look up Tuskegee and Syphilis on Google and learn something.
AMused Observer: Sean, and what pray tell is true? Have you cites for your insinuations.
I saw probabally 10 minutes of the Reverend Wrights greatest hits. Obama sat through 20 years of that. (emphasis added)
Oh, goody for you. You saw more than the one 30 second spot that got such repeated airplay. You saw a whole ten minutes!! Out of what you admit was 20 YEARS of sermons.
Assume an hour of sermon and you’re seen maybe 10 out of 60,000 minutes. .017% is certainly enough to base an unwavering opinion on.
Sheesh!
Amused Observer: but not being an avid follower I’m not hip to his racist tendencies
And yet, you seem quite sure of Wright’s tendencies. Were you an avid follower of his?
One doesn’t need to be an avid folower of a religious leader to have grave concerns about the mindset of the spiritual mentor of the President of the United States.
The man advocates black separatism, and works hard to creat the victimology that cripples American born blacks in this country. I won’t quibble with your numbers but Wright thought well enough of that .017% of his thinking to publish and sell it.
The reference to the Tuskagee experiments is a straw man. What ever the morality of withholding treatment to a control group, it is quite a stretch for a sane man to compare that with a science fiction plot of our government deliberately engineering a disease and specifically using it to exterminate blacks.
Which part of the description of Wright as a separtist racist whackjob isn’t can’t be backed up by the man’s own sermons.
Amused O.: One doesn’t need to be an avid folower of a religious leader to have…
Missed the point entirely, I see. You claim to know so much about Wright after seeing the smallest of fractions of his sermons. But in almost the next breath claim you can’t speak with the same authority about Falwell because “you’re not an avid follower”.
Amused O.: I won’t quibble with your numbers [because you can't - SDM] but Wright thought well enough of that .017% of his thinking to publish and sell it.
He’s written around a dozen books. Do all of them just re-iterate what you saw in the 10 minutes that you’ve admitted is all you’ve seen of him? You can’t say because, exactly as you had before, taking one near infinitesimal piece and saying it represents an accurate picture of the whole which you haven’t bothered to read.
Amused O.: The reference to the Tuskagee experiments is a straw man. What ever the morality of withholding treatment to a control group, it is quite a stretch for a sane man to compare that with a science fiction plot of our government deliberately engineering a disease and specifically using it to exterminate blacks.
“The US Government has been conducting scientific experiments on and killing it’s own citizens for over 40 years and those experiments were directed solely at blacks.” If you had said that before July 1972 I’m sure you would have been ridiculed for dreaming up such a bizarre plot. The government deliberately engineering a disease targeted at blacks is not so far outside the realms of possibility that it should be labeled “science fiction”. Personally I’d tend to not think it hasn’t happened but a sane person, given what the government has done, can’t completely rule it out.