Looooooooosssseeerrrrrr!

Missed it, and don't care either.

Little Green Flambe

/Rather

Its a vast right wing conspiracy...

/Seriously...where's the checks...I'm tired of waiting for my money...

courage

Kurtx's article is pretty great too. Follow the hot air link.

I thought he was semi-intoxicated. Wonder what was in the cup he kept taking sips from.

Thank you, Charles. Been dying to see the Freudian Slip.

re: #6 coquimbojoe

Kurtx's article is pretty great too. Follow the hot air link.

Kurtz's PIMF PIMF PIMF PIMF

Senility on display from both sides of the mic.

Who is Dan Rather?

/

I'm willing to bet that niether Dan nor Larry had their pants on behind that desk.

Dan, Dan, a Sad Sad Man.

re: #11 rappmandu

Who is Dan Rather?

/

Granddaddy of the Troofers.

He can explain all he wants - the problem is that he can't explain why his memos are bogus - in form, content, and design. He ignores those problems, to instead focus on the narrative that makes no sense - that CBS was trying to curry favor with the Administration.

Where's his evidence of such a claim? That he still had a job at CBS despite pushing a bogus story on the American public and lied about how he claimed to have authenticated the story?

Courage Dan. Especially when you get deposed and are forced to tell exactly how you authenticated the documents under oath. Especially when CBS shows that the documents are indeed bogus and that you and Mapes lied and caused serious harm to the CBS News brand.

Again, Rather is lucky he still had a job. If I did my job so poorly and lied about critical details crucial to my job description, I'd have been tossed on my keyster, not given alternative assignments and allowed to cash paychecks.

Dan Rather's Pathetic Performance

Oh, I thought this thread was about his career.

:(

It wasn't there. At least they kept in the "Nobody to this day..." part.

Charles,

If you get interviewed on TV about the lawsuit, please wear suspenders.

re: #18 meMarc

Charles,

If you get interviewed on TV about the lawsuit, please wear suspenders.

Suspenders can be cool.

Old moonbats never die; nor, while there are SSRIs, do they fade away.

re: #19 The Other Les

re: #18 meMarc

Charles,

If you get interviewed on TV about the lawsuit, please wear suspenders.

Suspenders can be cool.

In that sort of H.L. Mencken way.

Dan, stop digging.

The Gripes of Rath have bored.

Ol' Gunga Dan will probably be wearing a straitjacket and living in a rubber room before his "case" can come to trial.

Charles, it's hard enough to watch Ubermoron's BDS rants...why would I subject myself to a joke of a has been?

I do wish Document Dan would finally get it through that thick, pea-brain skull of his that no one cares about him anymore. Like OJ, his day has come and gone, and America hates it when they're lied to. Good ol' Dan has been spinning and lying for years, and he was finally caught by the ombudsmen in the 'Sphere. As Allah noted this morning,

"If he wants to see independent journalism at work, wait until one of CBS’s corporate drone lawyers gets him on the stand and hands him Charles Johnson’s memo overlay as Exhibit 1. What a goof it’ll be to see points first made and supported by bloggers being used by CBS against Dan Rather."

Document Dan won't know what hits him when he walks into that courtroom. All we can say is "courage," Dan, and don't cry so loud the judge slaps you with contempt of court.

How does Rather respond to the claim that the documents were intentionally planted in a diabolical Machiavellian plot by The Evil Karl Rove?

Dan Rather's as much of a journalist as Larry King.

Were either of them alive? Two Zombies muttering to one another. Funny!

After further review, he looks even worse.

TRUTH: No one cares about Dan Rather. Really.

www.greensrealworld.blogspot.com

"Dan, please let some of the other patients have some medication too. You know that the other journalice need their medication just like you."- Nurse Ratchet

[Link: reason.com...] way ot,but a good read by Totten.

Because its just waiting to be said:

Courage. Dutch courage.

The discovery will provide for some fun threads here.

When is Rosie coming to Dan defense? And the Truthers? I can begin to understand why Dan has his Depends in a knot.

If this ever gets to trial what do you bet that ole Dan is as creepy and incoherent as he was in the trial about 20 years ago when the guy approached him with the line, "Kenneth, what's the frequency?"

Courage.

This is going to be good, when this goes to trial. I bet the suits at CBS are anxious too, but then, I have no clue who I want to root for. I want both to lose.

#23

Our eyes have seen the story of a senile, sorry man
Who was once respected far and wide and had many a fan.
But now he is pathetic and he's doing what he can
To keep on marching on.

Sorry, sorry, Daniel Rather.
Sorry, sorry, Daniel Rather.
Sorry, sorry, Daniel Rather.
He just keeps raving on...

O'Reilly said this trial would be mutually assured destruction. Rahter going down in flames and taking CBS with him.

re: #12 bulwrk

That's not even fair. I didn't watch since I don't watch TV, but I have it from a very reliable source (LGF) that both King and Rather were wearing suspenders. Now, the possibility exists that they didn't have their pants zipped up, but that's for you to decide.

That still doesen't answer the question kenneth... what IS the frequency?

Hard to tell who's more senile, Dan or Larry.

Hope Dan Blather's lawsuit against See BS thoroughly embarrasses them both--again.

Dan Rather's Pathetic Performance

one too many acid trips Danny boy....

This makes up for all those liberals who aren't having children of their own.

(Evil Lizard Grin)

re: #42 Cap'n DOC

you got me on that one my friend, if with suspenders they sit I must acquit

I hope he doesn't have any children; first of all for the good of the overall gene pool and secondly for the embarrassment of seeing your dad act like a complete loon on television with another senile maroon. If you sum King and Dano's current IQs do you hit double digits?

re: #43 Caligula

I can't look at your nic without thinking of that XXX flick Penthouse made some years back.

Great nic! Wished I'd thought of it.

Lucy Ramirez could not be reached for comment.

re: #51 goodbye_natalie

re: #43 Caligula

I can't look at your nic without thinking of that XXX flick Penthouse made some years back.

Great nic! Wished I'd thought of it.

+1

Dan Rather to journalism is as:

1. Mold to bread

2. Urine stains to carpet

3. 2 month old cucumbers to a fridge

4. All of the above

re: #41 BrianA

O'Reilly said this trial would be mutually assured destruction. Rahter going down in flames and taking CBS with him.

So everyone wins!

re: #2 Gmac

Missed it, and don't care either.

I don't care much for him either.

He still believed those documents are genuine? Even after the forger acknowledged his deed? GAAAH!

I've shifted from seeing Dan Rather as a malevolent power to seeing him as a sad, deluded figure who wants terribly to salvage some sort of dignity in his dotage. I feel for him, in a way. I do.

"deeply ideological people" = Those with a pair of eyes and more than a half dozen brain cells.

re: #18 meMarc

Charles,

If you get interviewed on TV about the lawsuit, please wear suspenders.

You mean pajamas?

re: #50 Captain Hate

I hope he doesn't have any children; first of all for the good of the overall gene pool and secondly for the embarrassment of seeing your dad act like a complete loon on television with another senile maroon. If you sum King and Dano's current IQs do you hit double digits?

Unfortunately, both do. Rather's ran as a democrat in Texas recently.

oooohhhh! and Mary mapes goes on to say that instead of arguing the facts about bush's service record, the right argued typeface...

pardon my ignorance, but if the argument presented isn't based on provable fact... what good does it do to argue against it? you may not find ANY fact in reality to contradict a fabricated event...

someone could say that xenu the galactic overlord exists... i can try all i like but i can't find irrefutable proof that he doesn't exist...

sorry Mary, but syllogistic logic shouldn't be used... EVER

re: #53 Captain Hate

re: #51 goodbye_natalie

re: #43 Caligula

I can't look at your nic without thinking of that XXX flick Penthouse made some years back.

Great nic! Wished I'd thought of it.

+1

I can't think of that flick without thinking Naked Helen Mirren.

Over on Hot Air, this wonderful comment was left:

Tell Tales Dan:

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well too. It was the beating of the throbing memo. It increased my fury as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

That’s right...courage.

sunny on September 21, 2007 at 9:43 AM

Kudos to sunny - that's perfectly marvellous!

Of course, I adore the Tell-Tale Heart; I tend, when very tense, to recite the first paragraph, if only to unnerve my acquaintances.

Mr. Corporate News denounces corporate news? Wierod.

as far as the name goes... that's what happens when you live in a den of iniquity!

and yeah... i actualy have an artists drawing of the assaination of caligula hanging over the toilet in my bathroom... so everytime i go in there i get to imagine political figureheads (all on the left) that i don't like recieving the same treatment... quite cathardic... :)

re: #52 Occasional Reader

Lucy Ramirez could not be reached for comment.

OR,

What did you do with her. (-:

/Bat cave

re: #64 Peacekeeper

Mr. Corporate News denounces corporate news? Wierod.

fucking cannibals

re: #43 Caligula

Mystery man, mystery man... Who is the mystery man? I thought this guy was the mystery man, which would make him no mystery man at all. At least he claimed he assaulted rather, or rather assaulted him.

Whatever. Pathetic.

re: #62 The Other Les

re: #53 Captain Hate

re: #51 goodbye_natalie

re: #43 Caligula

I can't look at your nic without thinking of that XXX flick Penthouse made some years back.

Great nic! Wished I'd thought of it.

+1

I can't think of that flick without thinking Naked Helen Mirren.

Everything went black after reading that post

Dear Dan,

I just don't think those years spent together were worth it. Good bye, I wish you the best of luck. My regards,

Your Senility

#40
Daniel has President Bush on the brain
I can see his moonbat lawyers going insane...

I see he's still pushing the fake, but accurate angle...

Give it up, Dan. THE.DOCUMENTS.WERE.FAKE.

re: #60 coquimbojoe

re: #50 Captain Hate

I hope he doesn't have any children; first of all for the good of the overall gene pool and secondly for the embarrassment of seeing your dad act like a complete loon on television with another senile maroon. If you sum King and Dano's current IQs do you hit double digits?

Unfortunately, both do. Rather's ran as a democrat in Texas recently.

Usually when people write "ran as" it means the person didn't get elected. Please tell me that's the case. One way or another, to run for future office means he or she has to convince the voters that insanity doesn't run in the family.

I figured that King had children considering the number of ex-wives he has.

memo dick

if dan rather is this unhinged, imagine what olberman will be like in twenty years.

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be
happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!

You thought it was a joke and so you laughed, you laughed when I had said
that loosing you would make me flip my lid.. RIGHT?
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed you laughed and
laughed and then you left, but now you know I'm utterly mad... And..

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!

Zounds! Gadzooks! He's nuttier than three loons. It will be fun to watch him reduced to a twitching mass when multiple forensic document experts testify that there is simply no way those documents were produced when they purport.

At some point these yo-yos will have to accept reality -- the documents are obvious and crude forgeries. A small child can see why that is so. And Dan will finally, finally have to slink off into the twilight with whatever was left of his reputation in shreds. His final impression on that audience he has valued so much over the years will be that of a sad, confused old man trying gain back a shred of dignity, while in fact he is ruining whatever was left of it. It is almost Shakespearean. Screw you Dan, dishonest liar that you are. You're asking for it and now I think you are going to get it.

CBS showed him a lot of respect and the whitewashed Thornburgh report gave Rather and the network a teensy fig leaf to preserve some self-respect. Now a real "Texas style" asskicking will commence and there will be tears.

re: #15 lawhawk

Courage Dan. Especially when you get deposed and are forced to tell exactly how you authenticated the documents under oath.

And the NY Supreme Court (it's their "entry level" court) judge who will be overseeing the discovery will not be pleased when Dan attempts to pull off the prevarication he is used to getting away with in responding to deposition questions.

re: #74 varmint

imagine what olberman will be like in twenty years.

I actually forced myself to watch Olberman's entire show last evening. He is, without doubt, the most vile, hate-filled man known to me.

I don't listen to Dan.
He's not the typeof person I can endure.
Wrong type, WRONG TYPE.

re: #62 The Other Les

re: #53 Captain Hate

re: #51 goodbye_natalie

re: #43 Caligula

I can't look at your nic without thinking of that XXX flick Penthouse made some years back.

Great nic! Wished I'd thought of it.

+1

I can't think of that flick without thinking Naked Helen Mirren.

I like to think of Naked Helen Mirren. The Golden Girls are beginning to look good now as well.

re: #29 hpk1942

Were either of them alive? Two Zombies muttering to one another. Funny!

Hey now, that's an insult to our Zombie.

One of the first statements Rather makes is something like "big government and big businesses have far too much power and are intimidating investigative journalism".

Charles, do you have an S-corp? How big is your corporation? The IRS wants to know.

re: #78 jamgarr

re: #74 varmint

imagine what olberman will be like in twenty years.

I actually forced myself to watch Olberman's entire show last evening. He is, without doubt, the most vile, hate-filled man known to me.

Was your hair shirt at the dry cleaners?

re: #83 Captain Hate

Believe me, it was tough!

re: #42 Cap'n DOC

Just because you're wearing suspenders doesn't mean you're wearing pants.

#29 hpk1949

Zombies? I think they are handpuppets. Just wonder whos unfortunate hands are stuck up there.

Are we going to see the first lawsuit where everyone on both sides pleads the 5th and refuses to answer any questions?

Just lots of winking, nodding, and vague gestures. Nudge nudge.

Because the first side to open their mouths will have their dirty laundry hung out for all to see.

Have Larry or Dan ever actually seen the internet?

Do they even know we're out here?

We, The People.

BITTER
END,
R

re: #80 easy

You must have really liked Calendar Girls, then!

Dan Blather is going to be on Neil Cavuto in just a little bit. Set your DVR's. :D

What's the frequency Kenneth?

Dan is linking the Abu Grabass story to his story abut the documents. Saying the same people worked on both stories.

he made a decision and can live with the consequences of that decision (like any other mature person would). Oh wait....

re: #92 Just_A_Grunt

Dan is linking the Abu Grabass story to his story abut the documents. Saying the same people worked on both stories.

That's absoloutely correct. Mary Mapes was the producer for the 60 minutes story that broke Abu Grab

re: #48 The Other Les

This makes up for all those liberals who aren't having children of their own.

(Evil Lizard Grin)

The Duggars are a great family. I'm amazed at how well-behaved their kids are.

Best quote:
(referring to Rather) Many of his friends think he has lost it, that he has allowed his resentment at Leslie Moonves and other CBS executives who sent him packing last year to overwhelm his good judgment. They use words like "self-destructive" and "tragedy."

re: #51 goodbye_natalie

re: #43 Caligula

I can't look at your nic without thinking of that XXX flick Penthouse made some years back.

Great nic! Wished I'd thought of it.

I never saw the movie, but I did see the Penthouse issue that was about basically nothing but the movie. Judging from that, the movie must've been incredibly lame.

Listening to him on Cavutto and he is pathetic. Apparently the "Supreme Commander" of CBS thought so, too.

re: #62 The Other Les

re: #53 Captain Hate

re: #51 goodbye_natalie

re: #43 Caligula

I can't look at your nic without thinking of that XXX flick Penthouse made some years back.

Great nic! Wished I'd thought of it.

+1

I can't think of that flick without thinking Naked Helen Mirren.

I saw her naked in some movie about the IRA. Lemme look it up.

re: #99 Ward Cleaver

re: #62 The Other Les

re: #53 Captain Hate

re: #51 goodbye_natalie

re: #43 Caligula
I can't look at your nic without thinking of that XXX flick Penthouse made some years back.

Great nic! Wished I'd thought of it.

+1

I can't think of that flick without thinking Naked Helen Mirren.

I saw her naked in some movie about the IRA. Lemme look it up.

Here it is, Cal, from 1984. It was quite awhile ago, so she was only like 39 then. She's very good in the Prime Suspect series.

re: #101 ploome hineni

G'mar Hatima Tova, Ploomie, and here is a reminder! :)

When Nixon was running for President, he used a catchphrase: "A driving dream". Dan Rather, on a newscast, said if he hears 'a driving dream' one more time, he'll jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge - an overplayed song of the time. Dan Rather is a slug.

jamgar
captain hate

i watch sometimes in the hope that alison stewart is hosting.

countdown started as a cheap daily show rip off. but it's gone completely off the rails over the past year. my favorite moments are when olberman looks directly into the camera and talks to bush. and then pauses, as if waiting for the president to respond.

re: #105 ploome hineni

And please forgive me if I have offended you, Ploomie.

he did every lying scheming manipulative thing he could do to get jon cary elected potus. that is so frightening. i just can't feel any sympathy for the pathetic old coot.

re: #92 Just_A_Grunt

And that is CBS covering for the Bush Administration how, Dan?

re: #2 Gmac

Missed it, and don't care either.

Me too.

Jonah Goldberg at JWR has a great article about Danny Boy. My favorite quote -

Frankly, we need this. And by "we," I mean a grand coalition of people who delight in watching one of the 20th century's most pompous gasbags fall from the top of the laughingstock tree and hit every branch on the way down.

[Link: www.msnbc.msn.com...]

Take, for example, Don Hewitt, the legendary producer of “60 Minutes.” “Any news organization, print or broadcast, has the right to protect its reputation by divesting itself of a reporter, irrespective of who he or she is, who it feels reported as fact something that reflected his or her biases more than the facts bear,” he said in a NEWSWEEK interview. “And if the reporter’s defense is that he or she had been ‘had,’ isn’t he or she someone a news organization worth its salt can no longer trust not to be ‘had’ again.”

Hewitt says he had questioned whether the reporting was biased at a CBS meeting convened to discuss the controversy that began to swell after the story aired. “Let me ask one question,” he recalls addressing the gathering. “If this had been John Kerry, wouldn’t you have been more careful about the story?” A senior CBS News insider said Rather is further damaging his reputation by suing. “I think it looks pathetic,” this executive told NEWSWEEK on condition of not being identified. "It looks like the musing of an older man who can’t let go. This will have no winners. But the biggest loser will be Dan.”

re: #61 Caligula

Journalism does not equal Logic. Journalism Equals L³ogic.

And in other news ...

Dan better be careful. The lawsuit may end up proving legally what everyone with an IQ between 60 and 167 already knows—The documents are fake. You were duped. Ms. Mapes is a windbag.

Yaaaaaawwwwwnnnnnnn....

re: #20 scaramouche

Old moonbats never die; nor, while there are SSRIs, do they fade away.

No, but they have that odor about them .

This just boggles my mind.

If it were me and my money, I'd go find a nice place in somewhere like the Colorado high country and buy myself a view.

Then I'd set out to learn to ski or prospect for gold or climb mountains or run white water or whatever I could until they had to carry me down.

If they could find my body.

.

re: #48 The Other Les

This makes up for all those liberals who aren't having children of their own.

(Evil Lizard Grin)

here's a little advice for those folks...

advice

Danny Boy

Oh Danny boy, the loony bin is calling;
You’ve dug your grave, yet still you dig some more.
Your mind is gone, and all the folks are laughing;
To Bedlam you must go forevermore.
But still you claim the memos are legitimate,
And now your fame, to infamy has changed.
Or did you say they’re counterfeit but accurate?
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, you are deranged.

And when you claim, though all the folks are laughing,
That you were wrongly scuttled from your throne,
You just compound the level of your gaffing,
And strike us harder in the funny bone.
And when in court, you testify so righteously
That CBS did treat you so unfair,
The throbbing proof will ruin you, litigiously,
And so, of flying countersuits you’d best beware.

Oh Danny boy, Ms. Mapes, Ms. Mapes is calling;
The two of you, a lovely couple make,
For Mary girl is equally delusional,
And such dementia’s very hard to fake.
And so your waltz of lunacy goes whirling on;
Your dissolution plain for all to see.
Or could it be you really know what’s going on,
And simply lack all vestige of integrity?

Oh Danny boy, your courage is incredible;
You have the nerve to play the victim card.
And even though fake memos are indelible,
You still maintain this comical canard.
And though you failed to inculpate the President,
And you engaged in journalistic fraud,
You want a multi-million-dollar settlement;
Oh Danny boy, such courage leaves us overawed.

Oh Danny boy, your “courage” leaves us overawed.

re: #75 Cicero05

Ooooohh! I'm so glad you posted all the words to that "song." I've used parts of it in some of my posts, but never could remember all the words.

Thanx!

All together now, Lizards...

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time...

re: #22 meMarc

Dan, stop digging.

Yes, when you hit bottom, it is best to stop digging.

This man has turned into a Rather pathetic creature and yet he continues to perfect it.

Glad I missed the show.
Why don't he sue his anti-Bush-bent secretary who manufactured the evidence?

re: #117 Winslow Leach, the composer
Standing "O"!

Next up for Dan Rather -- being photographed by paparazzi, getting out of his limo, wearing a kilt and no underwear. He's sunk that low.

Here is and excellent article at NRO.