DAN RATHER DECLARED AMERICAN HERO While Fox, NBC, KTLA ...Caught Lying

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From the article:

The Killian documents are irrelevant. It is the verified truth they contain that matters.

Unlike the false claims of weapons of mass destructions or of uranium from Niger (based on forged documents), or the credibility given to the Swift Boat liars (who received jobs and contacts from the Bush administration- surprise, surprise) and the lies about Dan Rather’s 60 Minutes episode, Dan Rather presented a well-researched piece wherein witnesses verified Bush’s failure to perform his duties in the National Guard. The documents are irrelevant. The documents have NOT yet been shown to be fake. However, because of chain of custody problems and difficulty in finding out who, if anyone, typed them up for Jerry Killian or whether he typed them himself, Dan Rather, out of extreme fairness to Bush, has apologized. The other networks have not yet apologized for their outright lies. Marian Carr Knox, Jerry Killian’s secretary, verified that the information in the documents is the same or similar to that in documents she had typed. Other sources verified the truth of the information. The only question is “Where did the documents come from?”

Now, it is yet to be seen whether these documents containing the truth are authentic. Who had access to Bush’s file and knew documents containing this damaging information were in it? Who, not only had access to the file, but was in a position to switch questionable documents (containing enough truth to be thought the originals) for the originals? What happened to the documents Killian’s secretary recalled typing that had the same information as the alleged fakes? Who would benefit from a switch? Who is benefiting from the fact that Republican owned networks are broadcasting claims of faked documents rather than the fact that 60 Minutes provided eye-witness verification to the favoritism Bush received and to Bush’s lack of fulfillment of his service? The only beneficiary that comes to mind is George W. Bush. It appears highly probable (more than 99 percent) that the Bush administration set up CBS in an effort to try to camouflage the truth. They had access and motive and they admittedly knew they were fake.

What was the Bush camp’s immediate reaction? They would have had to have known that the originals, which contained similar information, existed as the files would have been under the administration’s chain of command. How did they know that these documents containing accurate information were fake unless they were the ones who faked them? Suddenly, within a day after the broadcast, virtually every news station started reporting (based on claims of the Bush camp) that they were fakes or forgeries or purported to be so. The Bush administration claimed they had experts but they failed to reveal their experts. There were false claims that the type style used had not been invented by 1972, but yet, an actual check of past uses of that type font reveals that Lyndon Banes Johnson and John Fitzgerald Kennedy sent out documents which contained it. They died before the documents were purportedly typed by Killian or someone. Were the stations implying that the ghosts of LBJ and JFK were the forgers? Then, there were the claims aired by Killian’s kid about what he thought his father did. As the secretary asked, how would he know? Apparently the GOP would have us believe that all fathers go home and give their children a list of everything they do at work and of all their interactions with their co-workers. These stations should apologize for the lies about the type font, for not doing their homework, for their claims about the documents and for their defamations of Dan Rather until they have some facts to back up their stories.
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Why did the documents show up just before the broadcast? It was well advertised that Ben Barnes would be speaking. Though Bush’s favoritism may have kept him silent in 2000, Barnes had had an attack of conscience and was already speaking. Barnes’s comments could potentially have cost Bush the election unless something was thrown into the mix that would overshadow the truth Barnes told to 60 Minutes. Suddenly there were documents – close enough to the originals to fool Dan Rather and those he got to verify them. Now, no one who knew there were documents containing accurate information of this nature would assume, out of the blue, that these were fake except for these same individuals had faked them. So, who instantly claimed they were faked? Once again, HOW DID BUSH’S PEOPLE KNOW UNLESS THEY FAKED THEM? These are the questions honest news broadcasts would be asking. So unless and until we see these questions asked, we will know that we are watching Republican news from sources biased towards the Republican Party, sources who do not want us thinking about the truth. Is there one honest mainstream newsman, besides Dan Rather, who will ask the only questions that will actually get at the truth? Is Bush’s Ministry of Truth (see 1984) all that will soon be left?

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http://debateusa.com/featured/hull_richter.htm

When you hear the spin, it's important to remember that most of these stations lie for Bush.

[Howardx]

1. hal fishman and grant rampy

do it all the time.

[genius]

2. I've noticed.

Hal Fishman's commentaries are always offensively stupid.