Rathergoat – Small Dead Animals

Jonah Goldberg;

In 2004, at the height of the Dan Rather Memogate story, I wrote in National Review: “Across the media universe the questions pour out: Why is Dan Rather doing this to himself? Why does he drag this out? Why won’t he just come clean? Why would he let this happen in the first place? Why is CBS standing by him? Why … why … why?
“There is only one plausible answer: Ours is a just and decent God.”

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Jonah’s no Steyn but he does have a way with words…

Hey Jonah’s going to bring popcorn!!
I’ll bring the beer, we’ll bring in Scott Reid and all the family should have some good sport watching charlatans act serious.
Cheers

I hear Walter Cronkhite is making a come-back?

Walter’s a wee little old man, AJ. He probably can’t even eat popcorn any more. ~:D

America’s Neil Macdonald won’t go away, either.

Who would have guessed that the Anchor’s chair would be complete with a flush handle?
CRB

The power of the blogosphere shone that day: the guy at Free Republic noticing the proportional fonts; someone else noticing the superscript; a guy saying the memos contained army jargon, not air force jargon; another saying air force memos were typed on 8″ by 10.5″, so lines would be visible when photocopied onto standard 8.5″ by 11″ paper; Charles Johnson casually opening up Word and precisely duplicating the memo using the default font and tab stops.
That was exciting stuff. Thank you Gunga Dan!

why doesn’t the old fart retire.

“Oh, Rather is also crying himself to sleep on his enormous pillow every night over the outrage…”
So I Married an Axe Murderer reference? Nice one Jonah!

Oh Danny Boy The Pipes,
The Pipes Are Calling….

The schweinhundts at the NY Times still can’t bring themselves to admit those docs were blatant, poorly done forgeries. I read an NY Times news story just a few days ago in which they referred to RatherGate. (Not calling it that, of course.)
The Comrade Writer at the Times, still stewing in his Dubya-hatred, in referring to those documents, wrote that they “were unable to authenticate” the documents.
IMO, we’re definitely unable “to authenticate the integrity” or patriotism of the powers-that-be at the NY Times.

Ole Gunga Dan shot himself in the foot that day.
It was also a good day to be an American.
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I’d rather not talk about dan, the fool amongst fools!!!!

Dan reminds me of Red Skelton’s friend Clem Kadiddlehopper always complaining about those darn birds. Only difference is Dans birds are real!

Rich boys like Bush didn’t have to serve in the Army and he did not serve.

“Rich boys like Bush didn’t have to serve in the Army and he did not serve.”
He was in the Texas Air National Guard. Where did you serve? What have you done for the good of Canadian society?

GWB can fly a F 102 Delta because he served in the ANG. What can you fly Leftard ok4ua ? And I don’t mean in a computer game.

ok4ua pretends to fly around with Lorne Calvert in the Govt of Sask. aircraft saying”don’t worry Lorne, you’ll have another chance in four years”,sniffle.

I’m sure leftists are secretly having a hard time stomaching more of this, even though they all know the “essence” of the story to be true…
Here’s Dan going against all common logic and appearing on FOXNews, in case you missed it:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/21/video-cavuto-grills-document-dan-over-memogate/

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070921-5.html
Suzanne.
Q I want to revisit a subject, because Dan Rather, obviously back in the news, suing CBS. He told Larry King that he stands by the authenticity of the document that was taken from Bush’s former commander, Colonel Killian, that states that during Mr. Bush’s time at the Air National Guard in May of 1972, he writes that Lieutenant Bush called in to talk about “how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November.” “He’s working on a campaign in Alabama and may not have time to take his physical.” First, is this true?
MS. PERINO: Look, I’m not going to go back and revisit all these questions that have been asked and answered. There was an independent panel set up by CBS and led by former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi, the retired president and CEO of AP. They determined that there was misconduct on the part of CBS in their authentication of the documents and the production of the story in general.
And I think that story speaks for itself. It was a sad day for that particular network in terms of — and a sad day for journalism in general. And we are not going — I’m just not — I’m just going to let that stand for — let that independent panel stand.
Q Is the White House saying unequivocally that back then, he did not ask for any specific favors, nor did he receive them in the fulfillment of his duty in the area —
MS. PERINO: I refer you to all the previous public comments that we’ve made on this before.
Q And has Rather’s attorneys reached out to anybody at the White House?
MS. PERINO: Not that I’m aware of. I mean, I could find out. I have no idea.
Q And has the White House made any effort to authenticate this document?
MS. PERINO: I think that the independence — independent panel, led by a former Attorney General and former — and retired
CEO of Associated Press, when they come down, when they make their decision and they come out with a report, I think that that speaks for itself, in addition to the remarks that we’ve made before.
And look, if one of the — look to the motivations about where this is coming from. This is a person who has filed a $70 million lawsuit. I’m just not going to comment any further on it.
Q So you are saying, though, that there were no — he never asked for any favors, nor did he receive them in fulfilling his six-year duty for Air National Guard?
MS. PERINO: Look, I’m going to refer you to all the previous statements on this. Obviously, I’m not steeped in all the history of this issue, and many other people have been at the White House.
Q We could bring you up to speed. (Laughter.)
MS. PERINO: Look, I’m not going to comment any further. I think you need to look at the motivations of why someone would say these things.

What have I done? Bush did not serve and neither did you bunch on this blog. There are assholes even in the National Guard. Go wave your flag somewhere else. What would an idiot like George bush do for America in or out of the Army?

Yes, that is the question: what have YOU done?

What have you done? I know what I didn’t do is lie and tell people I was in the army.

Boy ok4ua you really are a dick, what part of the Air National Guard don’t you understand. You lie outright and then defend yourself by asking another question. Your integrity is zero but since you are nothing but a troll we are not too worried. We just use you as a ‘contrarian’ indicator, if you say it then its wrong, thanks for that.
And since you said “Bush did not serve and neither did you bunch on this blog” – which you know is another falsehood, since I am currently serving but how could you know that. You are obviously convinced, in your tiny little mind, that whatever you say it true. Get over it and try to grow up.
You lie all the time ok4ua, just not about serving your country, not even you would believe that and you believe lots of strange things.

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