Disgraced former anchorman Dan Rather is 92 years old and CBS, the network that fired him for trying to rig the 2004 presidential election, I participated A shameless rehabilitation campaign.
In the final weeks of the 2004 presidential election, Dan Rather was determined to prevent incumbent Republican President George W. Bush from winning re-election. and so on 60 minutes Ⅱ, He published an article claiming that Bush became unemployed during his time in the Texas Air National Guard. The story was true, and rather he had the documents to prove it. This story was also bogus and timed to defeat the wartime president. Bush Jr. was exposed as a liar and evasive, in contrast to his Democratic opponent John Kerry, who served in Vietnam for several months.
File photo: George Bush Sr. (right) proudly displays the bar of Lt. George W. Bush of the Texas Air National Guard during a special ceremony in which Bush was sworn into the Air National Guard, circa 1968. (Courtesy photo) : Getty Images)).
There was just one problem…
After this story was fact-checked and authenticated by Lazar, his 60 minutes The team and a few low-level bloggers at CBS, Free Republic, Power Line, and others (a novelty at the time) proved that the document was not just a forgery, but a weak and lazy forgery. Rutter’s smoke gun was not a product of Vietnam-era typewriters. Instead, they were created by Microsoft Word.
Despite being caught red-handed, instead of apologizing and recanting his lie, he instead stood firm and then proceeded to “expertly shop” for someone else – anyone. — who might save his con artist job. Before the Internet, CBS might have gotten away with this. But the World Wide Web has brought a whole new level of accountability to corporate media. Any attempt to legitimize this story or wish it to go away has been met with a public backlash that cannot be ignored. Eventually, CBS was forced to admit that the documents were fake. But to their eternal shame, they will instead continue to insist that Bush’s story of acting alone is accurate, even if the documents are fake.
Although Bush won re-election and CBS released a damning internal investigation, Rather remained behind the incident and was finally forced out the following year. Two years later, Mr. Rather sued CBS for $70 million, accusing it of making him a “scapegoat” for the story. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed.
Since then, Rather has been the most authentic, using various platforms, including social media, to demonstrate what many of us knew decades before Rathergate: that Dan Rather is a vitriolic, disingenuous far-left extremist. He has forever proven that he is a sect.
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The left constantly rehabilitates those who have sold their souls for a cause because they must encourage others to do the same. Even obvious liars, plagiarists, and bigots like Anita Hill, Christine Blasey Ford, Al Sharpton, Fareed Zakaria, Joy Reid, and others are eligible for rehabilitation.
The Rev. Al Sharpton preaches in Sunday Chapel at Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium on October 9, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Brian Stokes/Getty Images)
Dan Rather couldn’t be left out in the cold. This rehabilitation attempt is a signal to everyone in the media. Fall on the sword with lies and deceit. We continue to protect you and your legacy.
Hollywood tried to rehabilitate Rather by casting him no less than Robert Redford in the Rathergate movie, which claimed that Bush’s story was true. truth We’re screwed. (I liked it.)
Before CNN fired disgraced conspiracy theorist Brian Stelter, he served to rehabilitate Dan Rather by treating him like an expert guest and the Grand Poobah of journalism. .
On stage at Vanity Fair’s 6th Annual New Startup Summit: “Discovering Get Cooking” at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on October 22, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter speaks above (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Vanity Fair).
Netflix is going all in on Dan Rather’s 95-minute documentary.
And now, CBS has suffered untold reputational damage from Mr. Rather’s hysterical and dishonest partisanship. get on board Rehabilitation train:
Aside from his suspenders and cigar, Lazar remains exactly as I remember him. An intensely curious, thoughtful, well-read skeptic who wants nothing more than to chase the next headline and wear out the leather on his shoes.
When asked why he decided to become a reporter in the first place, Rather said: All I know is that it’s the only thing I ever wanted to be, and that was a reporter. I wake up every morning and as soon as my feet hit the ground I say, where is that story? ”
That’s all CBS has to say about Mr. Rather’s inexcusable interference in the presidential election with a massive and thick hoax.
In 2004, Rather submitted a report to “60 Minutes II” questioning George W. Bush’s service record in the Texas Air National Guard and reporting on “new documents and new information” regarding the president’s military service. did. However, the documents on which Rather and his producers based their reports could not subsequently be authenticated.
Listen, I welcome second chances because I have and will always need them. Please bear with me as I will need it forever. But repentance must come first. In fact, he still refuses to admit that his story was a lie.he is nearby fake but accurateand it’s not just lies and fabrications upon lies, it’s the opposite of repentance.
Dan Rather deserves nothing but ridicule, scorn, and contempt.
Flashback — CNN’s Cuomo to Dan Rather: What should the media do next?I learned from you that anchors “can bring integrity”
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