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IRAN: 'MISSILE BLAST NEAR NUKE PLANT'
DrewKaree:
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fredster, Dan Rather resigned...
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MrC, you spelled "retired" wrong.
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No way is Dan Rather's ineptness as bad as the White House's manufacture and subsequent cover up of an absolutely fake/staged/propaganda reporter. Dan Rather's name is Dan Rather, we know who he is. He didn't create the memo, he failed to check it thouroughly and he was held responsible. If you think there is some sort of moral equivalence, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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That story was clearly being used to affect the outcome of an election, and by a man who claims to be "just reporting the facts". His willingness to defend the report even AFTER he KNEW them to be made up showed the lengths he was willing to stoop to to use HIS credibility to make a lie stick to Bush.
He wasn't held responsible, he rode off into the sunset and on to 60 Minutes II, which has absolutely no problems hiring a man who obviously attempted to use his stature as one of the major news anchors in the U.S. to affect the election.
That you DON'T see a moral equivalence is pathetic. Rather's story was what EVERYONE was talking about, this joker had LITTLE TO NO INFLUENCE on what the American public read, heard, or saw on a daily basis. There was an ENTIRE press pool that reported their stories, and CLEARLY weren't hippo-tized by this guy.
I also notice you haven't started your thread about Ward Churchill yet, telling us all about how he skipped the tenure process and taught young skulls full of mush for years on end, taught them things that make this story look like Goldilocks.
Where's your indignation there?