Wednesday - September 15, 2004

Blather-Gate Redux

I don’t need to go back over everything that’s been happening since Dan Rather stepped on his dick with the most recent documents release.

First off, let’s give some thought to the fact that CBS first stated they’d release a “clarifying statement” regarding the documents at noon.  Then it went to 1 PM, then 3:30 PM.  Now it is set for 5 PM.

Can you imagine how much word-smithing is taking place in order to release something that allows SEE-BS to not only justify Rather’s huge malicious hoax but also attempt to word it such that it is a vast right-wig conspiracy fobbed off on them.  My only question to those who have already asserted this is the following:  “if this is a vast right-wing conspiracy, release the name of the sources and do background checks on them to see if they are, in fact, Republicans.”

Of course, that will never happen.

So while we wait, why not read another “expose” Dan Blather is responsible for. 

In 1988, Danny Boy aired a program called, “CBS Reports: The Wall Within” where he had interviews with Vietnam vets who claimed to have been traumatized by all the killing they either committed or witnessed in Vietnam.  Except almost all of it was false!

Here are some snippets:

“Under Rather’s gentle coaxing, Southards described slaughtering Vietnamese civilians, making his work appear to be that of the North Vietnamese. ”

Gentle coaxing?  More likely Rather offered him a bottle of booze to invent the story. This guy spent most of his time in the brig for being AWOL.

“Rather then moved on to suicidal veteran named George Grule, who was stationed on the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga off the coast of Vietnam during a secret mission. Grule described the horror of watching a friend walk into the spinning propeller of a plane, which chopped him to pieces and sprayed Grule with his blood. The memory of this trauma left Grule, like Steve, unable to function in normal society. ”

The Ticonderoga was off California’s coast, not Vietnam’s duing this period.  And Grule never saw the accident.

“Mikal Rice, who broke down as he described a grenade attack at Cam Ranh Bay, which blew in half the body of a buddy, “Sergeant Call.” “He died in my arms,” Rice tearfully recalled. Rice described how the sound of thunder and cars backfiring would regularly trigger his terrible memories.”

Never saw combat.  Was a guard.

“Terry Bradley, a “fighting sergeant” who told Rather he had skinned alive 50 Vietnamese men, women, and children in one hour and stacked their bodies in piles. “Could you do this for one hour of your life, you stack up every way a body could be mangled, up into a body, an arm, a tit, an eyeball . . . Imagine us over there for a year and doing it intensely,” Bradley said. “That is sick.”

Spent a year in jail for being AWOL.  Never happened.  Fuckwad never even questioned the validity of this guy’s assertion.  Imagine a whole year of skinning bodies.  Do the math.  Acording to this guy, 50 an hour for a year.  1200 a day x 365.  This guy’s unit virtually single-handedly wiped out the Vietnamese people.  But, hey, we have a point to make and if facts interfere with our opinions we can’t let them get in the way.

So this is not the first time Fuckwad Blather has not checked his sources.  This son of a bitch hates the Republican party so much he’d rather (no pun intended) invent stories than verify them.

So, while we’re at it, how about sending an email to this address:  scams@cbsnews.com

According to CBS’s web page, that’s the address you can send an email to alerting them to a scam.

How’s this for an idea:

Dear CBS:

I was watching the television the other day and there was this older guy trying to pawn off some antiques. They looked genuine at first glance, but then I talked to some friends who know something about this kind of antique. They said that it could be reproduced quite easily with modern equipment. When I checked back with the old television guy, he assured me that it was genuine. I didn’t know what to do!

Finally, someone pointed me to a Web site where I could see a side-by-side comparison of a cheaply reproduced product (made in only a few minutes!) with the antique being pawned. Identical matches. I’m glad I wasn’t scammed, but there may be thousands who didn’t see this comparison and might think that the fake antiques are real! If you could look into it, I think you’ll save a lot of people from making a terrible mistake.

The television station was channel 46 in Atlanta, and I think the old guy’s name was Ran Dather, or some such nonsense. I appreciate the work you do, keeping the public informed of those treacherous scams out there!

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 09/15/2004 at 04:17 PM   
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