“Dan Rather is still not sorry that he tried to influence the 2004 presidential election with fake news.”
Dan Rather is making the most of his Trump-era rehab washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/dan-ra…
Dan Rather is making the most of his Trump-era rehab washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/dan-ra…
https://twitter.com/danrather/status/1335811900802621441
“Who knew that all it takes to rehab a destroyed news career is for the disgraced to slap on a “resistance” clown nose and shoot off a couple of viral tweets?
That the rehab of Rather, who is best known for his attempts to torpedo a presidential election with forged documents, has taken place against the backdrop of the press's "fake news" panic is a touch of irony that can't be missed.
Yes, 2004 was a long time ago, back when Rather reported falsely that President George W. Bush had gone "AWOL" for much of his tenure in the National Guard.
Rather's charge, for which he lost his job at CBS, was based entirely on forged documents that looked nothing like the authentic documents from the era.
Perhaps Rather could be forgiven, and we could all move on from bringing up the AWOL scandal, if he apologized for what he did. But he hasn’t, and he won't.
Instead, he sticks by his false story.
Instead, he sticks by his false story.
Rather apologizes for nothing, he denies the obvious, and he now spends much of his time shouting on Twitter.
... our fact-first press loves Rather because, well, let’s be honest: He attacks the “right” targets. That is apparently all it takes to win support from these people.”
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