July 22, 2009

Judge restores Rather's fraud claim vs. CBasSholes

A NYC judge has OKd a claim that had been denied in Dan Rather's lawsuit over former pResident Doofy McDiaperrash's AWOLality.

Rather's lawyer Martin Gold said Tuesday the fraud stems from the pussy-assed, Rove-gargling dipshits at CBS' failure to keep promises they made to Rather before firing him over the story about Bush's Vietnam-era military non-service.

4 comments:

Lex Alexander said...

Rather is not completely blameless here, but the people who screamed (and still scream) for his head are guilty of at least two significant errors of logic:

1) "Unable to prove the documents are genuine" does NOT necessarily mean the same thing as "The documents are provably false."

2) The fact that the documents in question couldn't be proven genuine does NOT prove that GWB was where he was supposed to be. In fact, a whole host of evidence, available online at awolbush.com, proves conclusively that Bush was NOT where he was supposed to be. And we got even more evidence in support of that claim within the past few days when Bush's erstwhile ghostwriter said Bush had admitted as much.

Rather relied on documents of whose provenance he was uncertain, and that's a major-league mistake at any level of journalism, one for which he definitely should have suffered some consequences. But the substance of his reporting was accurate and could have been proven so without relying on those specific documents in the first place.

Lex Alexander said...

I should add that I sincerely hope Rather's lawyers will make public the stuff they get in discovery. I think it will prove beyond doubt that even though Rather did make a mistake, the game against him was rigged from the start.

big em said...

I agree wholeheartedly with Lex, and would add that this was a CLEAR case of the SCLM showing it's much more prevalent conservative bias (as virtually all commercial enterprises do). Robert Parry(@ ConsortiumNews.Com)
says it all so well, near the middle/end, in this article...
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/071909.html

Anonymous said...

STANDING.
and APPLAUDING HERE AND NOW.
siri