Now He’s Gone And Stepped In It
By Mitch Berg
Use bogus documents to try to impeach the President’s National Guard record during a presidential compaign?
Oh, OK. Not good.
But insult Katie Couric?
Now Dan Rather’s gone too far!
Commenting about CBS Evening News’ freefall since Couric occupied Rather’s old seat, Gunga Dan said:
“the mistake was to try to bring the ‘Today’ show ethos to the ‘Evening News,’ and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience.”
Now he’s gone too far!
[CBS top suit Les] Moonves, asked about the remarks at an appearance in New York sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, called the remarks “sexist” and said he was surprised at the amount of negative coverage Couric was receiving. Couric, the first solo female news anchor, has been struggling in the ratings.
“She’s been on the air for nine months,” Moonves said. “Let’s give her a break.”
Mr. Rather: I have a friend who has documents proving that Katie Couric never actually was on the Today Show!
And they’re authentic!
Honest!
June 13th, 2007 at 4:49 am
Be sure to have Lucia fax them from a Kinkos in Minnetonka, or better yet Sioux Falls, so they can be properly “authenticated”.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:05 am
The President’s National Guard Record, or lack thereof, was impeached LONG before any documents, regardless of their authenticity, were uncovered. But you don’t seem to care about facts that impeach you.
Move along, nothing to see here!
Flash
June 13th, 2007 at 8:02 am
You mean the records that showed he completed far more hours of service than required by his contract? Those records?
The records that showed he learned to pilot the F-102, a plane with an accident rate more than 3 times that of the current fleet of fighters? Those records have been impeached?
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0185.shtml
You mean the records which show that he was honorably seperated from the service? The ones that Kerry STILL won’t show us? Those records?
June 13th, 2007 at 8:04 am
Don’t bother, Loren. Flash would rather wallow in his own little world of disinformation.
June 13th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Here is a link to a web site created by the men who served with President Bush. Flash, please read through it and tell us which part isn’t true. Surely you aren’t calling these servicemen liars?
http://www.wingmenforbush.com/
June 13th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Here’s the deal – President Bush, whatever his shortcomings in whatever areas – can fly a freakin’ fighter jet. He did enough time in a cockpit to figure that one out, tootsie-pop.
Who cares what Dan Rather says about anything? We don’t heed the raving howlings of any other unemployed jackass on the sidewalk, why pay attention to him?
Katie Couric – hey, man. I like them trying to “tart up” the news. She’s got it going on, in her own special way. She’s much easier on the eyes than Dan was, and I’m OK with her. Bugger off, Danny Boy.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:06 am
Flash ended with the only true part of his entire comment:
Move along, nothing to see here!
And before that, he claimed, ironically:
But you don’t seem to care about facts that impeach you. Alas, it was an uphill climb to get there, since the facts, per usual, are on my side. So when Flash writes:
The President’s National Guard Record, or lack thereof, was impeached LONG before any documents, regardless of their authenticity, were uncovered.
…he’s technically correct; “Impeachment” means to make a claim against someone’s authority or legitimacy. Of course, “conviction” needs to follow, and the left came nowhere close to “convicting” Bush of any such thing, except in their own minds, as reflected in the constant, chanted repeating of their Goebbelsian big lie.
To wit: Bush served two years on active duty, two more at vastly more than normal levels, and the final two at what was a normal level (minimum!) for someone who was nearing the end of their hitch, and was trained in a plane that was being phased out of service. Please get the facts straight (which pretty well means “quit reading left-leaning sources of information”).
The left’s “impeachments”, as usual, are all
barkconstant, Jack-Russell-like yapping and no bite.June 13th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Ah but Mitch, we all know it’s the seriousness of the charges that matters most. Actual conclusions are not required.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:21 am
I thought Flash wasn’t reading you anymore because of your refusal to admonish Swiftee.
June 13th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Master of None once again proves how contextually challenged those on the Right can be. I had said ‘I was done’ bickering about that issue. I couldn’t ever stop reading Mitch. For each day he looses sight of the reality most of the rest of us are aware of.
It is becoming more comical seeing him defend the indefensible. Of course, that is nothing like the Real Mitch. Let him argue all he wants that they are one in the same, but each moment Blogger Mitch continues to distance himself from the Real one. SitD was a much better read when Mitch was writing from the heart!
As for my comment above, it was nothing more than bait to see how obsessed people might be with a non issue. Answer, far more so than even I expected.
Flash
June 13th, 2007 at 11:31 am
I can predict a contextual near future in which Mitch, fresh from some actual tax-generating activity presents Flash with his ass tied up with a ribbon and bow.
Defend the indefensible? Comic.
June 13th, 2007 at 11:59 am
“fresh from some actual tax-generating activity”
Not sure what the implication is here
“presents Flash with his ass tied up with a ribbon and bow.”
I have no doubt that in his mind, and that of the lemmings that follow him, that is exactly what will happen. Reality, however, will be much different.
Flash
June 13th, 2007 at 11:59 am
flash says his previous comment was “nothing more than bait”, but he should have stopped at “nothing”. I am imagining flash singing “Listen To Your Heart” to Mitch. Yes, it is disturbing.
June 13th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Loren raved: “The records that showed he learned to pilot the F-102, a plane with an accident rate more than 3 times that of the current fleet of fighters?”
Not a small matter for a man who almost died eating a pretzel. Also those Alabama bar stools can be mighty tippy.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Alabama bar stools can be mighty tippy.
And this from a guy who knows his stools.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Angryclown’s stool has chunks of soft-headed wingnuts in it.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
flash sez “I’m done with this”.
Sorry, I took “this” to mean Shot in the Dark. Sometimes I’m too optimistic when self righteous jerks announce they are leaving.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Angryclown boasted “Angryclown’s stool has chunks of soft-headed wingnuts in it.”
Kermit has to wonder if Angryclown has conducted individual interviews to ascertain this.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
“self righteous jerks announce they are leaving.”
The Real Mitch calls me a ‘Good Democrat” I wonder if Blogger Mitch would support your claim. Time will tell.
Flash
June 13th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Yeah, step offa my neighbor Flash. He’s OK. And even if he WERE a “self-righteous jerk”, he’s got the neighborhood kegerator… 😉
But Flash, please don’t call me “Blogger Berg”. People will think you’re Eva Young.
June 13th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Being a “self-righteous jerk” is what makes you a “Good Democrat”.
….but if you’ve got a kegerator…..
June 13th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
“Kermit has to wonder if Angryclown has conducted individual interviews to ascertain this. ”
I don’t know about interviews, but it is obvious that AssClown has seen the evidence up close and personal….but then with his head occluding the daylight it has to be pretty dark up there so it is likely that he mistook the pieces of Jiffy Pop that gives his rubbing alcohol lunches some fiber for the “soft-headed wingnuts” that torment his dreams.
As for Flash, well I can attest that in person he barely resembles the drooling moonbat he plays on the internet which is no doubt why he hopes that Mitch is “just kidding” here at SITD.
‘Course he has no such dillusions about yours truly. I shred moonbats in much the same manner, and with the exact same gusto offline as on.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
“And this from a guy who knows his stools.”
Here I was thinking maybe Mitch was making a sly scatological comment about AC’s investigatory habits rather than his preferred seating arrangement. Silly me.