CBS Benghazi failure recalls Rather

[kpete]

CBS Benghazi failure recalls Rather

By HADAS GOLD | 11/8/13 11:25 PM EST
He was the center of similar controversy in 2004.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/11/minutes-benghazi-failure-invites-dan-rather-comparisons-177096.html?hp=r3

Not true!

Rather's Chimp draft-dodger report = TRUE

Benghazi report = FALSE

See the difference?

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2013/11/morning-thread_9.html#comment-1115465798

[Nite Owl]

1. Anyone getting fired for this?

and this was an outright fabrication unlike Rather's inconvenient truth.

[FarPoint]

2. Who should be fired?

I didn't watch the 60 Minutes segment as I new it was hype. So, who reported and carried the story?

[Nite Owl]

3. I don't watch

60 minutes and don't even know their names anymore. Whomever produced it and didn't do the research should be a goner besides the gal who reported it.

It was Lara Logan who reported.

[arthritisR_US]

4. DR got fired for airing the truth, so just using CBS's

previous practices the starting point should be LL .....

[Lasher]

5. Dan Rather: "We reported a true story. That's the reason I'm no longer at CBS News"

May 1st, 2012

Joining Piers Morgan for a live, face to face interview, the longtime "CBS Evening News" anchor and "60 Minutes" correspondent opened up about the much-scrutinized 2004 report on George W. Bush's Air National Guard service record:

"We reported a true story. That's the reason I'm no longer at CBS News," revealed Rather. "Those who found the story uncomfortable for their partisan political purposes attacked us at what they knew to be the weakest point, which was the documents."

The "60 Minutes Wednesday" segment focused on a series of memos discovered in the files of Bush's commanding officer. Though their authenticity has long been questioned, Rather noted that the documents, and his report, have stood up:

"I believed it at the time, or I wouldn't have put them on. I believed it ever since, and believe it to this day. And I remark, the longer we go and nobody comes forward with proof that the documents were not what they report to be, the more I believe it."

http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/01/dan-rather-on-the-george-w-bush-memos-we-reported-a-true-story-thats-the-reason-im-no-longer-at-cbs-news/

[Jefferson23]

6. K&R