Dan Rather
NYT Magazine Honors Disgraced Dan Rather as Savvy New-Media Genius
April 13th, 2017 2:29 PM
Disgraced CBS anchor Dan Rather is being honored by the “legacy” media again, in an interview with Ana Marie Cox for this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Cox can’t describe what actually brought Rather his disgrace, only that he was an “early target of internet fact-finding.” As if George W. Bush wasn’t a target of Rather’s?
Cox treats him like a Wise Man on the future of journalism, as if…
Dan Rather: Don’t Be Distracted By Trump’s ‘Trained Monkey’ Act
April 6th, 2017 3:16 PM
Dan Rather, on Thursday, took to his Facebook page to warn against the “dangers of distraction” when it came to reporting on President Donald Trump. The disgraced former anchor of CBS Evening News began his rant by listing what he viewed were “unfounded allegations that clutter our news feed” like Susan Rice and the “wiretapping of the Trump team.”
Robert Redford Warns of Trump's Worse-Than-Nixon War on Media
April 1st, 2017 8:05 PM
Count on The Washington Post to wallow perpetually in its own Watergate myth. When they were trying to take down President Nixon, it somehow wasn’t a liberal power grab and a way to crumble the Vietnam War. It was all a noble crusade for “truth,” because Democrats never lied to win an election or to….start the Vietnam War.
The latest salvo is an op-ed by leftist actor-activist Robert Redford…
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Media Are Terrified By Trump
March 13th, 2017 9:51 AM
We are going into the third month of the Donald Trump presidency and the media are still having full-blown panic attacks over him. The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman was so terrified by Trump’s early morning tweeting that he suggested that the “nuclear codes” be taken away from the President. MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski moaned: “We are at a low point in American history....We are all really…
Rather to Write Book on Patriotism, Won’t Skip ‘Sins of Our Nation'
March 10th, 2017 12:06 PM
Disgraced former anchor Dan Rather will be writing a new book on patriotism, USA Today reported on Friday. The journalist stressed that the book won’t promote patriotism “as a divisive cudgel.” Instead, he proclaimed on Facebook that it's “a patriotism that will not ignore the sins of our nation, but challenge them honestly and head on.”
AP Report Promoting Pelley Claims CBS Has 'Long Played It Straight'
March 8th, 2017 6:22 PM
Associated Press media reporter David Bauder wrote a story Tuesday that overwhelmingly praised CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley for being a “blunt evaluator” of President Trump. Most of the story channels the bizarre idea that these blunt evaluations are somehow not the opposite of an objective method. The lowest point is this completely untrue and unhistorical comment by former CNN reporter…
Dan Rather: Those Who ‘Normalize’ Trump Will Answer to the Future
March 7th, 2017 5:08 PM
Disgraced journalist Dan Rather on Monday ranted about Donald Trump on Facebook, lecturing that anyone who “normalizes” the President will “answer to future generations.” The same man who, in 2004 used phony documents in an effort to torpedo George W. Bush in 2004, accused someone else of falsehoods: “The man who sends out a Twitter tirade accusing a former President of crimes for which he…
Rather Laments Press Doesn’t Have Power to Subpoena President Trump
March 2nd, 2017 12:53 PM
Thursday morning disgraced former CBS News anchor Dan Rather took to his Facebook page, as has become his newfound routine, to criticize Donald Trump and praise the press for doing a “great job” hounding the president. Rather, whose own unethical journalism cost him his career, seems to relish pretending he’s still a journalist and an untainted purveyor of truth.
Disgraced Dan Rather: Trump’s ‘Lies’ Could Be Bigger Than Watergate
February 15th, 2017 11:24 AM
Disgraced journalist Dan Rather, who was forced out at CBS for a failed effort to take down then-President George W. Bush, on Wednesday warned that the resignation of Mike Flynn could be bigger than the Watergate scandal. Rather, who used phony documents in an infamous report for CBS, assailed, “The White House has no credibility on this issue. Their spigot of lies - can't we finally all agree to…
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NBC's Jimmy Fallon Thanks Disgraced Dan Rather as 'Voice of Reason'
February 4th, 2017 7:45 PM
NBC Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon was roundly condemned by the Left for mussing Donald Trump’s hair for five seconds, and “normalizing” him for the American public. But they were quiet on Thursday night when Fallon spent a much longer time “normalizing” disgraced CBS anchorman Dan Rather, who defined “fake news” for a generation with his false Texas Air National Guard documents about George W.…
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Twilight Zone: Rather Scolds Conway Over ‘Alternate Facts’ Flub
January 23rd, 2017 11:25 PM
Dan Rather, a man whose career at CBS was destroyed by a lie he couldn’t let go of, appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball where he was outraged at Kellyanne Conway’s coined term of “alternate facts.” “Well, to say it was unfortunate is, to put it mildly. This was a big mistake,” he declared as he started to tear into the president’s advisor, “None of us can go into this world alternative facts.”
Columnist: ‘Fake News’ Now Trump’s ‘Rightwing-Populist Bludgeon’
January 12th, 2017 9:01 PM
Logic and proportion may be non-factors in media coverage of Donald Trump’s presidency, fears Lloyd Grove. In a Wednesday column, Grove opined that journalism “is in danger of passing through the looking glass, only to land in a menacing, topsy-turvy world, namely the White House Press Room…It’s likely to be [a] place where language will occasionally signify its opposite, and government…
Disgraced Dan Rather: Media Must Call Out Trump's 'Demonstrable Lies'
January 4th, 2017 8:30 AM
Disgraced CBS anchorman Dan Rather keeps pretending he is an expert on The Truth, expecting no one to remember his eternal refusal to admit he used transparently false information to try and smear George W. Bush weeks before the 2004 election. Rather offered another lecture on “truth” and “lies” on his Facebook page after Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker appeared on Sunday's Meet the Press
Press Thinks It Owns 'Fake News' Tag; Center-Right Has Had It 10 Years
December 31st, 2016 8:44 PM
On Christmas evening, appearing in print on Sunday, December 26, Jeremy Peters at the New York Times pretended that the term "fake news" has only gained common currency very recently during the social media era. He also effectively contended that the establishment press holds ownership rights over the term, claiming that "conservative cable and radio personalities, top Republicans and even Mr. (…