{"id":54435,"date":"2015-07-23T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T11:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54435"},"modified":"2015-07-23T06:31:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T11:31:51","slug":"54435","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54435","title":{"rendered":"Gaps Plugged By CGI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 11 years, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/dan-rather-humbled-by-robert-redford-playing-him-in-new-film\/267947\">Dan Rather is still living in a special little world all his own, where unicorns bring credibility down from the skies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The film, which is set to open in October, tells the story of Rather\u2019s infamous 2004 report on George W. Bush that alleged Bush\u2019s 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:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe nuanced, not preachy, script makes clear our report was true. Facts can\u2019t be denied. But today it\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Hollywood, I&#8217;m sure Rather&#8217;s &#8220;evidence&#8221; is true enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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\u2019s infamous 2004 report on George W. Bush that alleged Bush\u2019s father had pulled strings to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54444,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54435\/revisions\/54444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}