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Digit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:42 PM
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CNN poll:Do you believe Dan Rather should have been fired?
This ticks me off, bigtime!

http://www.cnn.com

currently at 50/50
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StephanieMarie Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:43 PM
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1. The guy who needs to be fired is * n/t
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Rican1 Donating Member (144 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:45 PM
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4. Where's the outrage
over Novak revealing the identity of a CIA operative. Or Armstrong Williams being on the * payroll
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morgan2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:50 PM
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9. ya its fairly sad
tonight the big story is about the memo controversy because of that report that came out. Only brief mentions of Willaims being paid by bush. That damn liberal media!
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naryaquid Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 10:05 PM
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14. I agree. Where IS the outrage against Novak?
I never understood how he could go on with his media punditry like nothing happened.
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Rican1 Donating Member (144 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 10:19 PM
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16. Maybe we can raise $240 K to have Armstrong Williams
speak out against Novak
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zann725 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 03:46 AM
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29. TOTALLY!
n/t
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:45 PM
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2. done..
Yes - 51% 21901 votes
No - 49% 21420 votes

Total: 43321 votes

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BlackCoffeeSound Donating Member (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:45 PM
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3. Fired?
No. I think he learned a pretty valuable lesson on this one. Plus, I think there is a website devoted soley to Dan. Pathetic.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:46 PM
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5. No big fan of Dan Rather --
-- I would prefer to see the entire Fox News division and most certainly their prime-time programming division taken out into a very deep hole and buried alive.

CBS over-stepped its role in the Bush/Guard service documents case, but FOX assaults human decency on an hourly basis.
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MSgt213 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:49 PM
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8. No kidding. Fox news is 99.9 percent bullshit and you only get fired if
you attempt to buck their system.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:51 PM
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10. Yes. And in today's news was a report that --
-- Rupert Murdock is buying to own it all now.

So that what's already unforgivably horrendous will be worse still.

Might be time for a MSM media blackout at my house.
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:46 PM
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6. Fire Dan Rather?
Whatever for?
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:48 PM
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7. right now it is 51% Yes to 49% NO.
Incredible as it may seem ... because I too agree IT IS BUSH AND HIS GOONS THE ONES WHO NEED TO BE FIRED!
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deltau Donating Member (7 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 09:51 PM
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11. CNN poll:Do you believe Dan Rather should have been fired?"
I do think he should have been fired. They are letting him off too easily. There is very little credibility in any of the mainstream news media to begin with and letting him keep his job, even if he retires in March is wrong. They should have sent a more forceful message that yellow journalism will not be tolerated.
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Neanderthal Donating Member (23 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 10:00 PM
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12. Yeah, but.....
how do you really feel?
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Digit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 10:01 PM
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13. Fun with words....
I do think....(president).. should be... (impeached). They are letting him off too easily. There is very little credibility in..(this administration)...to begin with and letting him keep his job, even if he...(cleans up his act)...(anyday now)...is wrong. They should send a more forceful message that...(you fill in the blank(s)) will not be tolerated. :P
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Maria Celeste Donating Member (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-11-05 12:14 AM
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22. I agree
Big media is taking it in the shorts lately. The CBS/Dan Rather misconduct made it that much worse. Today's report is a whitewash. RW blogs and talk radio can only get stronger when the big guys like CBS screw up like they did. That Bush may actually have been AWOL etc is not relevant to CBS misbehaving. If the media wants anyone to take them seriously they need to act responsibly.


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txindy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 02:06 AM
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26. You're hysterical!
The media CAN'T take time out to not 'misbehave' - they're too busy parroting the lies that spew out of the WH. Got WMDs? Ooo, maybe they're under the sand! Ooooo!

:eyes:
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-11-05 09:12 AM
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23. Hi deltau!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 02:24 AM
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27. Fired for what?
For reporting the fact that bush in fact was AWOL?
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zann725 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 03:49 AM
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30. That's how much they've distorted the facts. Six months later, and STILL
they're all whiney and wild-eyed about a report that WAS the truth.

No, he shouldn't be fired. Nor should any of the others at CBS who were recently fired because of it.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 10:17 PM
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15. my my...
the freeping is bleeding onto DU.

dp
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 10:19 PM
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17. The poll's obviously been freeped. Currently 51% "yes".
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 10:27 PM
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Goldeneye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 10:29 PM
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19. still yes at 51%
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FizzFuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 10:34 PM
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20. NO!! I think that whole official memo that wasn't really official was a
Rove game.
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Osamasux Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 10:36 PM
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21. And Bush never answered the frigging question
because he really was AWOL.
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-11-05 09:14 AM
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24. 54% yes
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itcfish1 Donating Member (204 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-11-05 12:11 PM
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25. I don't see
the poll, They have a weather question
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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 03:38 AM
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28. I guess Rather wasn't on the White House media payroll.
If he had been he'd be in the money, not getting a pink slip.

Brokaw retired with fanfare, and why has Peter Jennings not been affected?
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