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In the lead up to the March 2003 Iraq invasion, CBS's Dan Rather interviewed Saddam Hussein. Now, less than four months before America goes to the polls to elect a new president, NBC's Brian Williams is going to interview Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I wonder if Williams will ask the lunatic despot who he's supporting in the coming elections? Regardless of the answer, TVNewser reported about...
Another motion picture featuring inside details of a CBS News story could soon hit the big screen. The New York Observer's Felix Gillette reports a producer and screenwriter are at work on the film adaptation of Mary Mapes ' 2005 book about the 60 Minutes II report which devolved into Rathergate. Sources tell Gillette that producer Mikkel Bondesen is "actively working" on the adaptation of " Truth...
The tree doesn't grow far from the apple. A little under two years after Katie Couric, Dan Rather's successor as anchor of the CBS Evening News, suggested just before the 2006 election that President Bush was manipulating gas prices to benefit Republican candidates, on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show over the weekend a conspiratorial Rather predicted “the people who can affect the price of oil...
The media seems to have a problem of confusing Barack Obama with Osama bin Laden, with the latest instance being on the Morning Joe show on MSNBC, where Dan Rather made the mistake and no one on the Morning Joe cast corrected him. Video at YouTube and shown below: This is not the first time media personalities have made the mistake of referring to Barack Obama as Osama, although this time it was the...
It's been a while since I've read LGF , but Soccerdad's post got me to wander back one last time to spot what should be the next revolting figure of the past generation to join Dan Rather in the dustbin of history: The families of the kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldiers met with Reverend Jesse Jackson Wednesday at the Ben Gurion Airport and heard from him information he obtained from sources in...
When asked for his opinion on the whole Jesse Jackson/Barack Obama dust up, Dan Rather talks about his admiration for the legendary civil rights activists, and says Osama bin Laden wouldn’t be possible without him. Say what? Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Bill W) I can understand accidentally mixing up Obama and Osama. It happens. What I [...]
As you know, Jesse called Obama the N word and said he wanted to " cuts his nuts off ". Dan Rather rushed to the rescue, and here's what came out of it:
On MSNBC's Morning Joe today, Dan Rather was carrying water for Jesse Jackson. In the process, he referred to Barack Obama as Osama bin Laden. From NewsBusters : RATHER: ...with Jesse Jackson, and I realize this is not popular to say with a lot of people, but I have a respect for Jesse Jackson. That he was an important figure in paving the way for an Osama bin Laden to appear. What's hilarious is that...
It may be time for Dan Rather to join the rest of us in retirement. Via FiveThirtyEight . Video link and turbulent comments thread over there. Second comment points out Rather's age: seventy-seven in a few weeks. Asked by Tiki Barber about his take on Fox News' release of the Jesse Jackson off-camera video, Rather premised his take by noting that in today's 24/7 news media culture, you had better...
Dan Rather says here that Jesse Jackson paved the way for Osama bin Laden. Is this a full-blown Osama/Obama flub? Or does he mean it actually, that Jesse Jackson somehow led to the rise of OBL?
The judge in Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS has ordered CBS News President Andrew Heyward and CBS CEO Les Moonves to appear at depositions to be taken by lawyers for the ...
Dan Rather was on Morning Joe discussing Jesse Jackson using the N word, and saying he wanted to cut Obama’s nuts off, when he then referred to Barack Obama as Osama Bin laden, and no one said a word to correct him. It’s amazing how people say what they’re really thinking, without even realizing they [...]
