Why Memo-Gate is Important

[yardwork]

Dan Rather and CBS News reported the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and televised some of the photos.

For this they were labeled traitors by people who don't want the truth about this war to be told.

If Rove succeeds in discrediting Dan Rather over the TANG memos, then he will follow with a full court press to discredit everything Rather and CBS have ever reported.

The photos and story about Abu Ghraib will be discredited. The meme will be "CBS faked memos - what else did they fake?"

If you doubt that Rove is capable of this I have a bridge to sell you. Remember what happened to Valerie Plame when her husband politely corrected the blatant lie BushCo told in order to invade Iraq.

After CBS, down will come Sy Hersh and every other journalist who has reported on Abu Ghraib and every other atrocity associated with this war.

This is a line drawn in the sand. The relevant importance of the TANG story is not important. What is important is that Rove slimed a reporter within minutes of the report being telecast. Are we going to stand for this?

[KurtNYC]

1. Btw, have you noticed how nothing is _____-gate since * took over?

With Clinton, everything was dubbed ____-gate by the whores and now??? It's as if nothing * does could rise to the level of impeachment in their eyes yet Clinton getting a haircut was?

[still_one]

2. No one can kill the truth

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. The Prison Scandal has credibility in the Public's eyes.

You cannot discredit that!!!

[yardwork]

4. Watch them discredit it!

That's what this is all about. They want to discredit Dan Rather and bring down CBS. Then they tear down every story CBS ever reported, right before the election.

They hope to create a massive scandal that will cause Rather's resignation in disgrace and "prove" once and for all that the liberal media is out to get them.

This is Rove's agenda. Don't doubt it. Don't let it happen!

[Cha]

6. I don't "doubt it"!

Dan and CBS need our support!

[Cha]

5. I completely agree! And at the risk of

of being cliche..."It's the media, stupid!"

I am on pins and needles to see if CBS can be stronger than the rove big lie machine. We have been waiting for a miracle as far as the media is concerned and here it is!

[John BigBootay]

7. memo-gate is important, but not for your reasons...

Abu Ghraib is agreed to be real by MANY news sources. It will not become a "fake" story if CBS is exposed for relying on a fake document.

[yardwork]

9. Would anyone have believed that the White House would out a CIA agent?

Yet it happened.

[KoKo]

8. I have to have faith that CBS knows this and will fight to the death.

That's all we can hope for in this. That someone big enough can do it.