Gaps Plugged By CGI
By Mitch Berg
It’s been 11 years, and Dan Rather is still living in a special little world all his own, where unicorns bring credibility down from the skies:
The film, which is set to open in October, tells the story of Rather’s infamous 2004 report on George W. Bush that alleged Bush’s father had pulled strings to keep his son in the National Guard in a bid to avoid service in Vietnam. Rather says the film pulls no punches:
“The nuanced, not preachy, script makes clear our report was true. Facts can’t be denied. But today it’s more about big corporations having big power than about truth. Bush was up for re-election. Sumner Redstone wanted him re-elected and would have his news division do what he wanted. What develops is the habit of pulling back, working from fear.”
In Hollywood, I’m sure Rather’s “evidence” is true enough.
July 23rd, 2015 at 7:50 am
You know the scary thing is… there are people who seriously believe this stuff. My nephew recently lectured me that SCOTUS ‘stole’ the election for ‘W’ (this happened when he was 10-years-old). When I pointed out that all the recounts had ‘W’ as the winner in FLA, he was not moved. Combine this ignorance with a former Carter adviser recommending friends of the earth & animals shoot Republicans to save the planet and you have to wonder when Webster changed the definition of extremist to only include RWNJ’s.
July 23rd, 2015 at 7:52 am
Rather still fancies himself relevant, and his story somehow of interest. What a precious little flower.
July 23rd, 2015 at 7:54 am
Bush’s narrow win in 2000 infuriated the left. Dan Rather and CBS news started working on a plan to throw the 2004 election, using fake docs. It was supposed to be an “October surprise”, but word leaked out, so they did the hit early.
Its not just the fonts that proved the doc was done on a modern computer using Word, but people who were in the military at that time poked several holes in the item (no link now, just remember that from that time). The way titles were abbreviated, phrasing, I think even the day of the week it was supposedly typed.
I see Dan Rather as a slightly insane man. Actually after the 2000 election, but Rather and Algore seemed to go loopy.
July 23rd, 2015 at 7:56 am
In a world where ‘Sharknado (1,2,&3!)’ will likely become the ‘historical documents’ of climatology study, the fact that a fraud perpetrator like Rather is still getting run and the people at NBC News who blew up a pick up truck to make their story’s premise work still work in the news business, this Rather movie will become the narrative for the ’04 election.
July 23rd, 2015 at 8:25 am
The great fear is the next generation will grow up saying “I was too young to understand at the time and didn’t read the book but I saw the movie so I know all about it.” The Soviets understood re-writing history to make the present seem not only inevitable, but just. Hollywood does, too.
July 23rd, 2015 at 8:49 am
Why do the Dems never want to talk about the Florida Supreme court?
In what would would a Gore win in FL recognized by the US supremes not have truly been a stolen election?
July 23rd, 2015 at 9:15 am
Algore couldn’t even take his home state. Even the hapless Wally Mondale (and the DFL) managed to do that.
July 23rd, 2015 at 9:40 am
OK, it was conclusively proven that the memos could not have been written on anything but Microsoft Word, and Rather is still arguing that the report was true?
If Rather’s not more careful than this, he’s going to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that his generation of the MSM can’t report a story straight up and crush his former employers.
July 23rd, 2015 at 9:52 am
DMA…one theory is that MSM bias cost Algore the election. How? Being insulated in DC and surrounding himself by other liberal Democrats, Al had minimal contact with ordinary folks in flyover country. MSM portrays 2nd amendment rights supports as a small fringe group of loony tunes, so that is what Al thought about those who support gun ownership rights. He saw nothing wrong with supporting gun control. Hence, him losing his home state of Tennessee.
July 23rd, 2015 at 6:02 pm
Still amusing to hear the liberal mantra “Bush stole the election.” Which, literally is impossible because you can’t “steal” something that was yours to begin with. “Bush kept the election” would be much more accurate, but of course that doesn’t fit the liberal narrative.
July 23rd, 2015 at 11:09 pm
Isn’t this where the line Colbert used for years ‘truthiness’ originate. Even though it was used to slam the right from then on. Good old fake bit accurate Dan. It would be much funnier if it hadn’t caused a 55-45 coasting for Bush to a much too tight but not stealable 51-48