http://www.gregpalast.com/dan-crashes-bush-flies-highThey finally put Dan Rather out of his misery. Today, CBS finally terminated him and sent him to the electronic glue factory — all for reporting the truth. But not all of it.
Rather’s “unsubstantiated story of Bush’s military service” (says USA Today) got him canned. Yet, all the poor man did was repeat a story we put on BBC Television a year earlier — that Poppy Bush put in the fix to get his son out of ‘Nam and into the Texas Air Guard, spending his war years guarding Houston from Viet Cong attack.
But Dan never reported this: the documentation from inside the US Department of Justice detailing the fix. Why not? Because it opened up a far more serious charge: that those who kept Little George out of war’s way ended up very well rewarded. We ran that full story — from the evidence of the fix to the evidence of the lucrative pay-backs — on the world’s biggest network, BBC, and we’ve never retracted a comma of it. Nor, by the way, has the White House denied our accusations despite our repeated offers to respond.
George’s slithering out of combat turned into big pay-days for those in on the fix and its cover-up: Harriett Miers (remember her?), Karen Hughes and Texas lobbyists.
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The Necklace-ing of Dan Rather
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and another article about Dan
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/06/con06252.htmlDan Rather, RIP, Assassinated by the Media Company He Loved
It was a physical assassination that brought Dan Rather to national TV attention when, as a Texas based-reporter known for bravery in covering hurricanes, he reported the murder of John F. Kennedy. (He got it wrong initially reporting JFK was shot by a bullet that exited in the back.)
His long and colorful career as a TV anchor has now been killed by a media assassination staged by his own company.
Call the team in from CSI to analyze the blood on the floor!
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CBS has had along history of turning its heroes into zeroes, Edward R. Murrow was pushed out even after his McCarthy investigation, which today is memorialized in a motion picture. What many don't remember is that CBS cancelled his "See It Now" program. Murrow would later say that TV was being used "to insulate the citizenry from the hard and demanding realities which must be faced if we are to survive." He warned that TV was in danger of being reduced to "wires and lights in a box."
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Now a trifecta of anchor exits is complete. Brokaw gone at NBC, Jennings dead at ABC and Rather pushed out while holding on for dignity's sake even after his anchor chair was knocked out from under it. When I visited the CBS News command module, I was dissuaded from sitting it it -- a warning sign even made sure no one but the Big Man himself was allowed to saddle up.
While News personalities come and go, the news machine grinds on only in a new era of convergence between television and the internet, with the only certainty that it too will change, and, on the evidence so far, not for the better.
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Harriet and Karen gang whores