Rather and Rumsfeld own a ranch together in New Mexico!!!

[prolesunited]

Excuse me if others here already know this, but I certainly didn't. I was listening to CSPAN this morning and Brian Lamb slipped this in casually.

Is it just me or does anyone else find this highly improper? Do you think it has any relevance to the ANG situation?

I Googled it for confirmation:
Rumsfeld would never admit that he made a mistake, says an aide, who adds, "That's a good thing when selling a policy or a war. But if the choice turns out to be wrong, he probably won't acknowledge it until it's turned into a disaster."

Co-Owns New Mexico Ranch with Dan Rather, among others: You would think, especially after Saddam's capture, that Rumsfeld could pack it in, go out on top and settle down in that ranch in Taos, N.M., that he co-owns with, among others, Dan Rather, TIME reports.

http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,565993,00.html

[goclark]

1. Wonder if Rumsfeld slipped him the documents?

[bloom]

7. Maureen Dowd's column- yesterday ->

Pre-emptive Paranoia
By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: September 16, 2004

Here's how bad off the Democrats are: They're cowering behind closed doors, whispering that if it should ever turn out that Republicans are behind this, it would be so exquisitely Machiavellian, so beyond what Democrats are capable of, they should just fold and concede the election now - before the Republicans have to go to the trouble of stealing it again.

There's no evidence - it's just a preposterous, paranoid fantasy at this point. But it speaks to the jitters of the Democrats that they're consumed with speculation about whether Karl Rove, the master of dirty tricks and surrogate sleaze, could have set up CBS in a diabolical pre-emptive strike to undermine damaging revelations about Bush 43's privileged status and vanishing act in the National Guard, and his odd refusal to take his required physical when ordered.

In this vast left-wing conspiracy theory, Mr. Rove takes real evidence on W.'s shirking and transfers it to documents doomed to be exposed as phony (thereby undermining the real goods), then funnels it through third parties to Dan Rather, Bush 41's nemesis on Iran-contra. A perfect bank shot.

<snip>

Those who suspect Mr. Rove note that when he was Bill Clements's campaign strategist in a 1986 governor's race in Texas, he was accused of bugging his own office to distract from a debate, according to James Moore and Wayne Slater, authors of "Bush's Brain.'' They said it turned the election because after that, the Democrat could not get any attention.

Was the same scenario playing out yesterday evening on CNN? After a five-minute report on the CBS memo controversy, CNN spent about 30 seconds reporting that two more marines had been killed in Iraq.

<more>

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/opinion/16dowd.html?th

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It's interesting to reconsider this in light of the Rather/Rumsfeld connection.

[havocmom]

2. If he co-owns with Rather and others, isn't that likely to be

an investment thing? If so, many here problably co-own compaines with others they would not really associate with.

Havocdad would not be talking of retiring to New Mexico if he knew how many Republican movers & shakers I can spend my time annoying there! SShhh! Don't any of you guys tip him off; I wanna have some fun in my extreme old age.

[prolesunited]

3. I'm not buying it

And if you're a journalist, you certainly shouldn't be having such sort of relationship, business or otherwise, with a source.

It would be like a business journalist owning a share of a company that he's covering. It's just not ethical.

[vetwife]

4. I got to see the deed to that ranch ! Don't believe it !

[prolesunited]

5. Well, I didn't see the deed

But I did give you the link to Time, which reported it. I'm sure it's true.

[JohnyCanuck]

6. You want to know about ethics and the Media.

Read up about Project Mockingbird.



"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)

www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html

[alittlelark]

8. I have friends in Taos that protest

in front of Rummys Taos home on a regular basis - ha can't go back to Taos...The town HATES him!

[prolesunited]

9. Aww, what a shame.

Did you know Rather was in on the ranch with him?