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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Dan Rather even still: "Do I think they're forged? No"!

Posted: 9/21/2004 10:53:29 AM EDT

How does this crack-pot still have a job? Does he know or care how insane he is coming across?

www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1222667/posts

[relevant paragraphs]

In an interview Monday evening, a repentant Rather conceded it had been a mistake to broadcast the documents. But even though he could not vouch for their authenticity, he said he still did not believe that they were fakes.

"Do I think they're forged? No," Rather said. "But it's not good enough to use the documents on the air if we can't vouch for them, and we can't vouch for them."

Rather said he had no regrets for his defense of the story.

"I believed in it," he said. "I wouldn't have put it on the air if I hadn't of believed in it. And what kind of reporter would I be if I put something on the air in which I believed, and as soon as it's attacked and under pressure, you run, you fold, you fade, you side-wind? That's not the kind of person I am, and it's not the kind of reporter I am."

The situation changed last Thursday, Rather said, when Burkett acknowledged during a conference call with Rather and CBS executives that he had lied about how he came to possess the documents.

Before the story aired, Rather said he had interviewed Burkett about the documents and how he obtained them. Rather said his reporting on Burkett's background was one of the reasons for confidence in the story.

"When we talked to people in his home community in Texas," Rather said, "even those people that didn't like him said he's a truth-teller."

Posted: 9/21/2004 11:06:05 AM EDT

[#1]

Kind of undercuts the sincerity of CBS's mia copa, don't you think?

Posted: 9/21/2004 11:27:43 AM EDT

[#2]

The apology was forced, it isn't sincere, and it took far to long to arrive.

He doesn't feel bad because he gave false information. He feels bad that he got busted.

Posted: 9/21/2004 11:32:46 AM EDT

[#3]

And thats the way the cookie crumbles.......

Posted: 9/21/2004 11:44:40 AM EDT

[#4]

I haven't watched C--BS news in a LONG time, but I did watch the other night for Dan's "apology", if you can call it that. What a sorry excuse for a so-called "objective reporter". I did enjoy watching him suffer through it. Choke on it, Danny boy

Posted: 9/21/2004 11:46:53 AM EDT

[#5]

Dan...YOU'RE FIRED!!!

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132966,00.html

Posted: 9/21/2004 11:50:54 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Dan...YOU'RE FIRED!!!

We're not that lucky

Posted: 9/21/2004 1:10:28 PM EDT

[#7]

Calling the C-BS a half assed apology gives the network way too much credit. They have not apologized and they never will.

If Rather were willing to go to Iraq and do a story on his own beheading I would consider the effort a step in the right direction.

Posted: 9/21/2004 1:13:28 PM EDT

[#8]

He's a tard.

Posted: 9/21/2004 1:14:05 PM EDT

[#9]

He's a tard.

Posted: 9/21/2004 1:22:14 PM EDT

[#10]

You can say that again

Posted: 9/21/2004 1:33:02 PM EDT

[#11]

What's the frequency Kenneth? *KICK* What's the frequency Kenneth? *KICK*

Posted: 9/21/2004 1:36:28 PM EDT

[#12]

Double tard.

Posted: 9/21/2004 3:01:30 PM EDT

[#13]

its mea culpa... and Dan wouldn't know what those words mean...

Posted: 9/21/2004 3:11:40 PM EDT

[#14]

"Mea culpa", if you want to be technically accurate.

Rather, like so many other liberals, just won't abandon an untenable position. Contrast that with John Kerry, who's trying to FIND a tenable position and keeps flip-flopping to try to find the one that the voters like!

I admire someone who sticks to his guns, so to speak, but not when he's flat out WRONG and STUPID about it!

CJ

Posted: 9/21/2004 3:12:51 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Double tard.

+1= triple tard

Posted: 9/22/2004 7:18:33 AM EDT

[#16]

Brit Hume called Rather "pathetic" on Fox News Tuesday evening.

GunLvr

Posted: 9/22/2004 10:24:33 AM EDT

[#17]

Posted: 9/22/2004 10:26:14 AM EDT

[#18]

CBS is just that, 2/3 BS

Posted: 9/22/2004 12:04:48 PM EDT

[#19]

Posted: 9/22/2004 12:23:39 PM EDT

[#20]

I doubt Rather knew specifically the documents were forged - I'd love it if that were proven. But, I do believe his bias, demonstrated over years, made him WANT them to be real and support his predetermined agenda. Primary mistake of the greenest rookie, "It's true because I want it to be true." He was blinded by finding gold dust.

How about the next claim being they were planted by the Republicans to discredit him?

Posted: 9/22/2004 12:34:43 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Double tard.

+1= triple tard

motard

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