Dan Rather

Megan McArdle: 'A Marshmallow Planet' More Likely Than Finding Truth in 'Truth'
By Tom Blumer | October 16, 2015 | 12:50 AM EDT

The disgraceful determination of Hollywood to rewrite history not favorable to the left, its causes and its personalities has perhaps reached its nadir with the laughably misnamed movie Truth.

The film is about Dan Rather's September 2004 60 Minutes report on President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard Service during the 1970s. In Rather's words, "The nuanced, not preachy, script makes clear our report was true." The script may say that, but the historical record doesn't. On October 2, John H. Hinderaker and Scott W. Johnson's writeup detailing how bogus that report was from top to bottom appeared online at The Weekly Standard. Reading that essay in its entirely is undoubtedly important; but in this case, so is ridicule. Megan McArdle at Bloomberg View supplied that back in July.

Even Lefty Vox.com Mocks Dan Rather 'Truth' Movie
By P.J. Gladnick | October 15, 2015 | 5:23 PM EDT

Just how bad is the movie 'Truth' that will be released tomorrow? So bad that even the notoriously liberal Vox is mocking it. Vox writer Todd VanDerWerff goes so far as to describe it as an example of why "so many people hate Hollywood liberals." As we shall see even Dan Rather in 2004 disagreed with the premise of "Truth."

Delusional Dan: Rather Still Insists Phony Career-Ending Story ‘Was True’
By Kyle Drennen | October 15, 2015 | 10:51 AM EDT

In an interview on Wednesday’s NBC Today, disgraced ex-CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather told co-host Matt Lauer that he still would have reported the fraudulent story that ended his broadcast network career: “What I wouldn't do differently is back off the story. The story was true. Because it was true, undeniable facts about how President Bush got into the air National Guard to avoid service in Vietnam, and the fact that after getting in he disappeared, those were facts and that was true.”

Robert Redford Dismisses Dan Rather Scandal as ‘Technicality,’ ‘Small Glitch’
By Kyle Drennen | October 12, 2015 | 11:51 AM EDT

In a softball interview on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer teed up liberal actor Robert Redford to push propaganda about his latest role as disgraced CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather: Redford dismissed the scandal: “The whole thing unraveled over what was a small technicality at that time that was blown into major thing. And the bigger story was of course the story that Dan and Mary Mapes were working on about the Air National Guard. And suddenly that got pushed away in favor of this small glitch that became the scandal.”

Notable Quotables: NBC Helps Hillary with Softball Townhall
By Rich Noyes | October 12, 2015 | 9:05 AM EDT

This week, Hillary Clinton is treated to fawning tributes and softball quesions during her "town hall" forum on NBC's Today, while network reporters finger the "far right" as at fault in the surprise resignation of House Speaker John Boehner. Plus, CNN's Christiane Amanpour claims some in the GOP are part of a "war on Muslims," and ex-CBS newsman Dan Rather is sticking to his bogus story: "There is no doubt in any reasonable person's mind now, the story was true."

FNC’s Perino, Kurtz Blast Upcoming Dan Rather Movie
By Jeffrey Meyer | October 8, 2015 | 11:34 AM EDT

On Wednesday night’s Kelly File, Fox News hosts Dana Perino and Howard Kurtz had some harsh words for the upcoming movie “Truth” which attempts to tell the story of how a fake story about the National Guard service of George W. Bush resulted in the downfall of CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather. 

 

Dan Rather Confesses 'A Lot of Flaws,' But Not on Rathergate
By Tim Graham | October 8, 2015 | 7:14 AM EDT

The forthcoming Rather-phony-documents movie – shamelessly titled Truth – is the latest occasion for Rather to claim (to The Hollywood Reporter) "We reported a true story....There wasn't any doubt then, and there is no doubt in any reasonable person's mind now, the story was true."

Rather does sound more like a wounded dog than usual after his two-hour interview. "I have a lot of flaws and a lot of vulnerabilities," he says at the end of the two-hour interview. "I've made a lot of mistakes. I have a lot of wounds, some of them self-inflicted, some of them still partially open. But I'm a fighter."

Mary Mapes Can't Handle the Truth in 'Truth' Trailer
By P.J. Gladnick | September 24, 2015 | 2:54 PM EDT

"You Can't Handle the Truth!!!" ---A Few Good Men.

Apparently former CBS producer Mary Mapes can't handle the truth at least according to her portrayal by actress Cate Blanchett in the newly released movie trailer for the upcoming fictional movie "Truth." I say fictional because Mapes in the film somehow maintains the truth of her story about George W. Bush getting favorable treatment in the Texas Air National Guard based on documents that were proven to be forgeries.

Michael Moore Again Slams America in New 'Bomb-Throwing Documentary'
By Randy Hall | September 11, 2015 | 4:50 PM EDT

Six years after Capitalism: A Love Story unsuccessfully called for audiences to revolt against the evils of free enterprise, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore has returned to the big screen in a far mellower mood with Where to Invade Next.

During its initial showing at the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, the documentary-style film showed Moore returning to his old tricks: hammering the United States while promoting “free” big-government programs in other nations.

Redford Takes Potshot at W, But Inadvertently Reveals ‘Truth’ Not Dan Rather’s Motivation
By Brent Baker | September 2, 2015 | 1:21 AM EDT

A Tuesday USA Today preview of the movie Truth, which presumes Dan Rather’s 2004 “Memogate” hit piece against President George W Bash was accurate, conveyed the hostility of actor Robert Redford, who plays Rather, toward Bush. But Redford also undermined the “truth” premise by relaying that “loyalty” was Rather’s main motivation in defending his flawed story.  

Dan Rather 'Suspicious' Trump and Fox Are Faking Feud
By Mark Finkelstein | August 26, 2015 | 10:07 PM EDT

When it comes to fake news stories, if anyone's an expert it's Dan Rather . . . The disgraced former CBS News anchor has a new twist on the vast right-wing conspiracy. Instead of plotting against poor innocents like Bill and Hillary, those conspiratorial conservatives are now creating phony feuds among themselves! 

On Rachel Maddow's show tonight, Rather declared himself "suspicious" about the battle between Donald Trump and Fox News, suggesting that Trump and Roger Ailes might have "gotten together and planned out" the feud for their mutual benefit.

Dan Rather Still in State of Denial Over CBS Departure
By P.J. Gladnick | July 21, 2015 | 3:34 PM EDT

Fake and not a bit accurate. What part of that does Dan Rather after all these years and many investigations later not understand about why his September 2004 report produced at 60 Minutes by Mary Mapes was a complete fraud? Certainly no expert has come forward to claim that the six  supposed Texas Air National Guard documents showing special treatment for George W. Bush were authentic instead of the obvious fakes they turned out to be. 

And yet Rather continues to cling to the fiction that the documents were real and that he was unfairly removed from CBS News the following year. Perhaps he might have been able to retain his anchor job had he admitted the easily provable obvious: that the documents were fake and, as a result, his documentary based on those fake documents was equally fraudulent. Instead Rather went into a complete denial of reality which he maintains to this day as you can see in his quotes in a Page Six Cindy Adams column about the soon to be released movie about that scandal with the laughable title of "Truth."