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Phred
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Rather and Mapes continue to beclown themselves
#7437700 - 09/21/07 05:58 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is just too rich. Dan Rather has filed a 70 million dollar lawsuit against CBS for giving him the boot over the fake document story of 2004 (usually known as Rathergate).
He went on Larry King last night and gave a completely incoherent performance. http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/21/video-dan-rather-explains-it-all-to-you/
He was also interviewed by Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/20/AR2007092001854_pf.html
His ex-producer Mary Mapes (also now an ex-CBS employee) joined in at the Huffington Post with a bizarre reality-challenged rant of her own (see link at hotair.com).
These two have provided us with so much comedy gold over the years. It's great to see they can still deliver.
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Re: Rather and Mapes continue to beclown themselves [Re: Phred]
#7438292 - 09/21/07 09:05 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I’ll betcha the libs at CBS WILL settle with Rather for an undisclosed amount to avoid the airing of all that dirty laundry.;)
i hope the lawyers fuck EVERYONE in this one.
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Re: Rather and Mapes continue to beclown themselves [Re: Phred]
#7440322 - 09/22/07 12:08 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Rather and Mapes continue to beclown themselves [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#7440380 - 09/22/07 12:36 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Too bad his actions didn't match his words.
http://www.ratherbiased.com/
Mapes had been trying for years to "get the goods". Desperately. Rather was happy to forgo any skepticism to get this on air just before the election. He exposed his hairy red (or should I say blue) partisan ass for all to see
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Re: Rather and Mapes continue to beclown themselves [Re: zappaisgod]
#7440946 - 09/22/07 04:09 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Rather and Mapes continue to beclown themselves [Re: Phred]
#7441105 - 09/22/07 04:59 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Rather Sideshow masks the real story here:
Quote:
CBS Collaborates in Torture
by emptywheel
The most interesting thing about the Dan Rather complaint, IMO, is the description it gave of CBS and Administration attempts to spike the Abu Ghraib story.
In late April 2004, Mr. Rather, as Correspondant, and Mary Mapes, a veteran producer, broke a news story of national importance on 60 Minutes II--the abuse by American military personnel of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison. The story, which included photographs of the abusive treatment of prisoners, consumer American news media for many months.
Despite the story's importance, and because of the obvious negative impact the story would have on the Bush administration with which Viacom and CBS wished to curry favor, CBS management attempted to bury it. As a general rule, senior executives of CBS News do not take a hands-on role in the editing and vetting of a story. However, CBS News President Andrew Heyward and Senior Vice President Betsy West were involved intimately in the editing and vetting process of the Abu Ghraib story. However, for weeks, they refused to grant permission to air the story, continuously insisting that it lacked sufficient substantiation. As Mr. Rather and Ms. Mapes provided each requested verification, Mr. Heyward and Ms. West continued to "raise the goalposts," insisting on additional substantiation.
Even after obtaining nearly a dozen, now notorious, photographs, which made it impossible to deny the accuracy of the story, Mr. Heyward and Ms. West continued to delay the story for an additional three weeks. This delay was, in part, occasioned by acceding to pressures brought to bear by government officials urging CBS to drop the story or at least delay it. As a part of that pressure, Mr. Rather received a personal telephone call from General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urging him to delay the story.
Only after it became apparent that, due to the delay, sources were talking to other news organizations and that CBS would be "scooped," Mr. Heyward and Ms. West approved the airing of the story for April 28, 2004. Even then, CBS imposed the unusual restrictions that the story would be aired only once, that it would not be preceded by on-air promotion, and that it would not be reference on the CBS Evening News.
>>>By my count, we've got:
* A description of a craven CBS and Viacom hoping to "curry favor" with the Bush Administration * Heyward and West postponing a scoop for three weeks and thereby allowing torture to continue unabated * Personal knowledge of the scandal by Richard Myers ... and personal intervention on his part to hide a scandal * The deliberate refusal to publicize a huge news story<<<
I recommend not just a blogger ethics conference, but an entire college curriculum.
Sad thing is, you could effectively replace "CBS," "Dan Rather and Mary Mapes," "Mr. Heyward and Ms. West" and "General Myers" with the words "NYT," "James Risen and Eric Lichtblau," "Pinch Sulzberger and Bill Keller," and "Dick Cheney," and it'd all make perfect sense. .And let's not forget how the NYT refused to publish the NSA story until Risen threatened to scoop his own paper, and the NYT buried the most alarming parts of the news in the black news hole of a Saturday Christmas Eve. Rather's complaint paints a picture of a media outlet that willfully allows itself to be the Administration's propaganda tool--but that's clearly not unique to CBS.
And this is the background to the whole TANG episode: Dan Rather managed to expose the Administration's torture prisons, in spite of all of the efforts on the part of CBS to bury the story for the Administration.
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/09/cbs-collaborate.html
And yet lonestar2004 refers to "the libs at CBS." Wake up. There are no liberals in charge of CBS. Only suckups to the maladministration. Every day we have the same 4 or 5 corporations beaming their lies and stupidity into our living rooms, and you're worried about liberals inside your tee-vee. Are you still worried about "them damn commies," too?
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Re: Rather and Mapes continue to beclown themselves [Re: Phred]
#7441953 - 09/22/07 09:51 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Bloggers Question Authenticity of Rather Lawsuit
by Scott Ott
(2007-09-21) — Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather today insisted that his $70 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against his former employer is authentic despite troubling questions raised by bloggers.
“I stand behind the authenticity of my lawsuit,” said Mr. Rather today, basing his assertion on what he called “the preponderance of evidence, including documents that were provided by unimpeachable sources, backed up by independent forensic document experts and sources familiar with the contents of my lawsuit.”
However, within hours of its filing, some right-wing blogs began to question whether the document had, in fact, been produced by the man who at one time was one of America’s most trusted voices.
Bloggers have noted that while Mr. Rather is a multimillionaire who spent decades building a reputation of journalistic credibility, the lawsuit appears to have been filed by “a cranky stuffed-shirt who still believes the forged Bush memo was true like some folks believe the NASA moon landing was filmed by Stanley Kubrick on a sound stage in Great Britain.”
http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2695
Hee hee hee!
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Re: Rather and Mapes continue to beclown themselves [Re: Phred]
#7446639 - 09/24/07 05:14 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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> like some folks believe the NASA moon landing was filmed by Stanley Kubrick on a sound stage in Great Britain.
Uh... everybody knows that the fake moon landings were filmed at Norton Airforce Base in San Bernadino, California. 
Has the lawsuit helped CBS news' ratings any?
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