Dan Rather On Larry King Wednesday Night!!! Taking Your Calls!!!

[Dinger]

C'mon DU, try as best you can to get through! I will! This will be his first live interview since CBS followed rove's order to get him out. I still can't believe that a real, true journalist like Dan Rather was treated like he was. Come to think of it, I've seen him on CNN twice this last week (Anderson Cooper). Wonder if John Roberts is getting nervous? Hmmmmmmmmm.

[enough already]

1. It will be good to see him again

Hopefully he'll talk about Rove's role in setting him up.

[laylah]

2. Kickin' it! Must see tv! n/t

[Donkeykick]

3. Who cares about John Roberts.

Wonder if John Roberts is getting nervous?

I would love to see Dan become a solid member of CNN--there are top quality journalists there that would complement his style!:-)

[still_one]

4. cnn doesn't have the guts

they have become a fox wantabe, especially since adding glenn beck to their line up

[Dinger]

5. Think I'll Call And Tell Them They Don't Have The Guts- A DARE

I'm sure I'll never hear from them, but to me, it's a matter of principal.

[still_one]

8. I doubt you will hear from them

[Gabi Hayes]

6. HERE's what to bring up: the Greg Palast story that went FARTHER

than the Rather/Mapes story on Bush AWOL, containing an up-til-then unquoted letter, which ''had remained locked for years in the file cabinets of the U.S. Justice Department prosecutor in Austin, Texas.''

http://www.gregpalast.com/index.php?tag=dan_rather

The Necklace-ing of Dan Rather

You aren’t stupid, they just talk to you that way. It’s 2004. Falluja’s on fire, your pension’s burning away, the last General Motors worker is turning out the lights in Detroit — and the biggest issue of the election, aside from Christians who don’t want homosexuals to have families, was whether some elderly news celebrity, Dan Rather, had besmirched the reputation of our President, a former Naval Aviator. They can’t get you to ignore that man behind the curtain, Dorothy, unless there’s a fascinating show on stage to distract you. And, for the final days of the presidential campaign, they gave us the lynching of Dan Rather.

We know George Bush was a Naval Aviator because it says so right on his toy box. Actually, he never was a Naval Aviator and never once landed a plane on the deck of an aircraft carrier. During the Vietnam War, our future President flew in the Texas Air National Guard protecting Houston from Viet Cong attack. Our President obtained that job the same way he got the current one: The fix was in.

Congressman Poppy Bush, said Rather, put in the fix for his son, despite Junior’s too-dumb-to-fly test scores, by putting in a call to the head of the Texas Air Guard via Texas Lt. Governor Ben Barnes. That’s what Dan Rather reported on 60 Minutes, that Bush Jr. got the Texas top gun post, and thereby dodged the draft and the bullets of Vietnam. It was a hell of a scoop and his network rewarded him and his producer, Mary Mapes, by firing their sorry asses. That wasn’t enough.

The president of CBS, Leslie Moonves, bullwhipped his network’s stars and, with his own spit, polished the soiled war record of our President, declaring that Rather’s producer: …ignored information that cast doubt on the story she had set out to report — that President Bush had received special treatment thirty years ago, getting to the Guard ahead of many other applicants.
Really? Well, Mr. Moonves, look at this evidence:
“His dad called then - Lt. Gov. Barnes to ask for his help to get his son not just in the Guard, but to get one of the coveted pilot slots which were extremely hard to get. contacted General Rose at the Guard and took care of it. George Bush was placed ahead of thousands of young men, some of whom died in Vietnam.”

[Dinger]

7. Yes, Yes, Yes!

Excellent post!!!!