Comments on: CBS considered Drudge, Coulter, Limbaugh as part of ‘independent’ panel to review Rather in 2004.

By: republicanSScareme

republicanSScareme — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:32:17 +0000

CBS was identified as a Zionist-Nazi controlled organization some years ago. That explains the list.

By: representativepress

representativepress — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:46:59 +0000

My understanding is the story was true and that the story did not hinge on those documents alone. The deal with documents was that they could not be proven OR disproven as authentic.

Everyone, please subscribe to RepresentativePress on YouTube. Unlike every other channel on YouTube, I don’t get listed as a partner. I am getting marginalized which is a shame since some of hte most important things I report don’t get heard in nearly all media outlets INCLUDING most Internet media outlets.

By: Anacher Forester

Anacher Forester — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:45:56 +0000

It’s unfortunate to see Nicholas von Hoffman and Robert Barkley get lumped in with this murderer’s row of neo-cons.

-AF

By: mauro7inf

mauro7inf — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:08:12 +0000

To be fair, Ann Coulter is quite independent. From reality, I mean.

By: Anacher Forester

Anacher Forester — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:48:54 +0000

Wow. I knew Rather got royally screwed but that’s outrageous.

CBS considering these wingers for their Rather “independent review panel” is sorta like Frank Perdue announcing plans to have foxes guard his hen house. Funny how the Grand Poobah himself, lifelong Dem Sumner Redstone, flipped Republican two days later.

-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud

By: kassandrasduplex

kassandrasduplex — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:21:08 +0000

That is BUSH was given preferential treatment to avoid service in Vietnam!

By: kassandrasduplex

kassandrasduplex — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:20:17 +0000

Since when was it proven that Dan Rather, a former U.S. Marine and southern Texas Oil Patch American “notoriously reported false information”? The Thornberg investigation never proved the memos were forgeries. And even though the Killian memos were never proven beyond doubt one way or another, the substance of Rather’s report was essentially true: he was given preferential treatment to avoid service in Vietnam. However the Niger yellow-cake uranium documents WERE PROVEN forgeries but the U.S. media seemed unwilling to emphasize that littel fact.

By: upside99

upside99 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:46:20 +0000

S.D. Says:

Say, where is the Coultergeist anyway??

‘She’ has been in hiding since ‘her’ estrogen injections have been wearing off and ‘her’ 5 o’clock shadow became a Grizzly Adams’ full beard.

But not to worry, ’she’ had some new treatments and ‘her’ facial hair and Adams Apple are shrinking once again.

By: trollsbwild

trollsbwild — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:13:15 +0000

Who does CBS think they are kidding and did they believe thefacts would not come out?
What a farce!

By: Linus

Linus — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:32:42 +0000

Can anyone say “lynch mob”?

By: marcg

marcg — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:32:33 +0000

How in the world did they go from some of the biggest hate mongers and Kool-Aid drinkers in the country to Dick Thornburgh? Oh..didn’t they have Glenn Beck’s number?

By: greenpagan

greenpagan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:26:26 +0000

I guess CBS was trying to prove how “fair and balanced” they were in their efforts to screw Dan Rather who had the story but whose source apparently “reconstructed” the damning evidence of Junior’s military history. To this day I have to wonder whether it was some kind of set-up or just another fock-up…

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By: rmwarnick

rmwarnick — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:24:42 +0000

Did Rather report false information about Bush’s National Guard career? Or was it correct information backed up by fabricated documents?

By: impeachcheneythenbush

impeachcheneythenbush — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:19:32 +0000

That list of panel candidates should be hanging across the Nation

Fixed it for you.

By: impeachcheneythenbush

impeachcheneythenbush — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:18:04 +0000

In the past, Mr. Rather has criticized CBS’s choice of panel members, alleging that Mr. Thornburgh’s association with the Bush family (President George H. W. Bush appointed Mr. Thornburgh to his position as U.S. Attorney General) undermined the panel’s objectivity.

“Discovery to date reveals far more,” Mr. Rather’s legal team wrote this week. “Only conservative lawyers were considered for the Panel; their names were vetted by Viacom’s Washington lobbyists (as well as with unnamed ‘GOP folks’).”

In a response to the judge dated November 3, here’s how CBS lawyers countered:

[A]s is clear from the deposition testimony, because of the perception that CBS News and Dan Rather had a liberal bias, CBS purposefully chose a Republican lawyer, not for any nefarious purpose, but to open itself up to its harshest conservative critics and to ensure that the Panel’s findings would be found credible.

Well, my perception is that CBS (and their owner Viacom of course) were sniviling cowards for whom the truth meant nothing.

By: stormkite

stormkite — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:17:48 +0000

Stands to reason, actually.

The basic imperative of modern ‘journalism’ is “Don’t make the viewers send nastygrams to publishers, Corporate, or advertisers.”

The Wingnuts have a well-trained and well-oiled nastygram generating machine, which they will spin up as soon as reality intrudes into their radar, so the intelligent media manager/executive tries very hard NOT to bring the right wing into inadvertent contact with reality, and reacts immediately to apologize and placate them when it happens.

By: zuch

zuch — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:17:45 +0000

HUH?!?!?!?!? WTF?!?!?!?

What are they smoking????

Cheers,

By: A Patriot Acting

A Patriot Acting — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:16:07 +0000

Reporting false info? REALLY!!?? You mean like the Bush Administration and the Pentagon’s media propaganda campaign that CBS was more than happy to feed to the American public?
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/103345/private_military_contractors_writing_the_news_the_pentagon’s_propaganda_at_its_worst/

That list of panel candidates should be hanging in every Post Office across the Nation. A melange of neocons, fascists, loonatics and PNAC signatories(of whom I count at least seven on that list) who all deserve to be rounded up and shipped off to a dark dank place.

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:12:07 +0000

That’s like the “INDEPENDENT” panel appointed up by the Governor of Alaska to investigate if the Governor of Alaska used her Office to improperly apply pressure on a State employee…
… And we all know how that ended.

By: The Republic of Stupidity

The Republic of Stupidity — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:07:26 +0000

CBS considered Drudge, Coulter, Limbaugh as part of ‘independent’ panel…
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Independent panel??? WTF??? More like a hit squad…