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Dan Rather: CBS 'Airbrushed' Me From Its History, 'Like the Kremlin'

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:05 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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Disgruntled CBS News anchor Dan Rather is steamed about his former network’s decision to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination without him.

"They are trying to airbrush me out of their history, like the Kremlin," he told a TV Newser columnist. "I had hoped that whatever animus was there, as time goes by, would fade, and maybe they would change their minds. What's next — I'm airbrushed out of Watergate coverage? Vietnam? Tiananmen Square? 9/11? Where does this lead?"

Rather and CBS famously parted ways in 2006 after 44 years, 24 of those with Rather in the anchor’s chair, after he aired a segment on "60 Minutes II" alleging that family connections kept then-President George W. Bush from seeing combat in Vietnam.

Rather’s report relied on falsified documents supplied by a retired Texas National Guard official who had been a vocal Bush critic. Rather later sued the network for $70 million, accusing its top brass of using the scandal to force him from his position. In 2009, a New York state appeals court tossed the suit.

Huffington Post reports that CBS will air footage that includes Rather — he was a young reporter instrumental in CBS’ coverage when Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas in 1963 — but snubbed him by not extending an invitation for Rather to appear in the network special.

The 82-year-old told the Associated Press that he "held off doing anything for anybody else for a while, thinking I may be asked to do something [for CBS]." He instead will offer his insights on rival network NBC.

Rather, long criticized for having a liberal bias that he purportedly weaved into his reporting, is no stranger to controversy. In 1987, he angrily walked off the set just before a remote Evening News broadcast from Miami. Rather was upset about a U.S. Open tennis match bleeding into the newscast. And he engaged in a heated exchange with then-Vice President George H.W. Bush over the Iran-Contra affair.

He has also been part of some bizarre encounters, including getting sucker-punched in the stomach during the 1968 Democratic National Convention and being taken on a wild goose chase in 1980 by a Chicago cab driver as Rather screamed out the window for help.

In 1986, Rather got mugged in Manhattan as the attacker repeatedly yelled: "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" The phrase became part of the American vernacular used to describe a confused person. Musical group R.E.M. later released a song titled "What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?"

Rather now works with AXS TV, a high-definition cable television station.

http://www.newsmax.com/US/rather-cbs-airbrushed-history/2013/11/14/id/
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Sorry Dan, but no one said life's fair. I liked you for many years. When you got punched out and hit the floor at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, you showed a lot of guts to get up and continue doing your job.




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Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:06 PM

AURAPTOR

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Knowingly lying to the American public has consequences.

Let's hope the same holds true for Obama and his comrades.

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:20 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Knowingly lying to the American public has consequences.

Let's hope the same holds true for Obama and his comrades.

Dan had a legendary career. He made a few mistakes. Everyone does. He did his mea culpa with sincerity all over tv, even to Fox News.



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Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:28 PM

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Dan thinks his only mistake was getting caught.

" Fake, but accurate. "

Hell, that should be the mantra of every Leftist in the world. If it isn't already.

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:42 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Reminds me of our back and forth about Jane Fonda a while ago. Not gonna settle anything here.

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:51 PM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Reminds me of our back and forth about Jane Fonda a while ago. Not gonna settle anything here.



I honestly forgot about that one.

As for Dan, I'd be a whole lot more forgiving if he just admitted he faked the story , to swing the election, and not try to play the part of rejected ex who was shown the door.

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:53 PM

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CBS is afraid if they put him on the air he'll say something insane, I bet he'll say something looney on NBC.

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 5:06 PM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Reminds me of our back and forth about Jane Fonda a while ago. Not gonna settle anything here.



I honestly forgot about that one.

As for Dan, I'd be a whole lot more forgiving if he just admitted he faked the story , to swing the election, and not try to play the part of rejected ex who was shown the door.


Did you at least like the REM video of "What's The Frequency Kenneth?"

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 5:14 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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CBS is afraid if they put him on the air he'll say something insane,


So what? Remember Howard Beale from 'Network'? Perhaps Dan can lead us out of the abyss.

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:00 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Reminds me of our back and forth about Jane Fonda a while ago. Not gonna settle anything here.



I honestly forgot about that one.

As for Dan, I'd be a whole lot more forgiving if he just admitted he faked the story , to swing the election, and not try to play the part of rejected ex who was shown the door.


Did you at least like the REM video of "What's The Frequency Kenneth?"



Know the song, very well. I think I have it on my iTunes list. Big fan of REM, so yeah.

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:09 PM

WHOZIT


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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
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Originally posted by whozit:
CBS is afraid if they put him on the air he'll say something insane,


So what? Remember Howard Beale from 'Network'? Perhaps Dan can lead us out of the abyss.



Or he may he'll say that Kennedy was killed by operatives in the FDA who wanted to make sure he could never use the "magic cheese", and then Rather would take hostages.

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:25 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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Originally posted by whozit:
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
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Originally posted by whozit:
CBS is afraid if they put him on the air he'll say something insane,


So what? Remember Howard Beale from 'Network'? Perhaps Dan can lead us out of the abyss.



Or he may he'll say that Kennedy was killed by operatives in the FDA who wanted to make sure he could never use the "magic cheese", and then Rather would take hostages.


Ah, the Magic Cheese Theory. From 'JFK' :

"But rather than admit to a conspiracy or investigate further, the Warren Commission chose to endorse the theory put forth by an ambitious junior counselor, Arlen Spector, one of the grossest lies ever forced on the American people. We've come to know it as the "Magic Cheese Theory." This single-cheese explanation is the foundation of the Warren Commission's claim of a lone assassin. Once you conclude the magic cheese could not create all seven of those wounds, you'd have to conclude that there was a fourth shot and a second rifle. And if there was a second rifleman, then by definition, there had to be a conspiracy."

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