I have his book in paperback and Hardcover, and have bought several for friends as gifts a few years back (when it came out)…

It sure opened some eyes, and those who read it were so overwhelmingly shocked at the enlightenment, they didn’t know what to do with themselves.

At least people ARE starting to see through the web of lies…

-Aslan’s Girl

We are our own worst enemies…

These people? A who’s who among the right?

Am I late on this? When were they considered right? That is in both senses of the meaning…

Watching the media attempt to gloss over all the ills of a nation in crisis UNDER A COMPLETE DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED GOVERNMENT will be a comedy.
Rovin on November 7, 2008 at 10:58 AM

Sean Hannity’s quote about the media dying in 2008 is exactly right. Republicans have got to better harness the power of blogging, vlogging, social networking (facebook, myspace, twitter), talk radio, and Fox News to open up an avenue of communication to your voters.

Republicans also need to learn how to use the MSM more to their advantage. Yes, they are going to be biased, but: (i) all news organizations love to report leaks, so use that; (ii) some shows and formats lend themselves to bias more than others (e.g., edited interviews with Katie and Charlie and live appearances on “The View” are bad; a live interview on Meet The Press is less bad); and (iii) better message discipline can blunt the media’s attack. The Bush strategy of ignoring the media backfired famously.

If no clear answer can be found…it is a conspiracy to cover up. If a plausible answer can be found, Occam’s Razor being evident, then it is a conspiracy to mislead the public.

The 9/11 “truthers” are not all the unusual these days…still. Cynthia McKinney’s statement of “fact” that thousands of New Orleans residents were systematically murdered by the federal government is not all that unusual as well. Maxie Power’s still very much alive “fact” that CIA-imported crack to commit genocide against Blacks is still a popular widely-held “truth.”

And Dan Rather? He still clings to the notion, his fixed belief, that his reportage was unimpeachable and there was/is a conspiracy to oust him because he was too outspoken.

Any person who ever served in the military and paid a modicum of attention, could see readily that the memos, in format alone, were fake. The blogs made it more clear when we got into the technical aspects of their production. They were fake. The purveyor of these memos…a proven liar.

Rather’s claim of “fake but accurate” was accepted by shockingly large segment of the population…which is no surprise.

Conspiracy?

No. Stupidity.

Stupidity, pure and simple.

Rather has friends, fellow travelers and a stupid segment of the public who still to this day insist that the Bush Air National Guard “memos” were 100% accurate and beyond reproach.

The Thornburgh report (regardless of who was on the staff) should have made this clear…and did a poor job of it along the way…and the conspiracy theories will be with us for decades to come. Guess it was that mistaken desire to appear “non-partisan” that turned what should have been hard-driven fact-based investigation into a politically acceptable pan of mush. Not at all surprisingly similar to the the 9-11 Commission Report.

He looks like The Great Gazoo from The Flintstones.

I like to listen to Goldberg, but Krauthammer strikes me as being better at verbal evisceration.

I was just astonished when I flipped through Mary Mapes book and she wrote with a straight face that the typewritten document had been converted into the Word Times New Roman font by faxing it. WTF? Not only was it a lie, it was an obviously bad lie.

That was a turning point for me. Before I read that sentence, I thought that the media got things wrong because their perspective was different and so they interpreted things differently, kinda like the blind men and the elephant. However, after I read Mapes alibi, I realized that they were simply lying. Worse yet, they had been lyingo for years and I never knew it, believing it all.

The resistance grows.

Also, I’m impressed that CBS managed to put this list together – Buckley (Sr.) and Safire would have surely had some interesting things to say about Mr. Rather’s conduct during the memogate scandal.