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"A Fertilizer Spreader in a Windstorm”
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 4:50 pm
by Bicycle Bill
Good thing Trump considers all major networks (except Fucks News) to be purveyors of 'fake news' and pays them no attention, or else he'd really be pissed about this:
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather has accused President Donald Trump of lying to the degree that reporting on his White House is like “facing a fertilizer spreader in a windstorm.” The journalist made the comments in an interview with CNN’s Reliable Sources over the weekend, when he discussed the need for the media to hold the president to account and expose any false statements that come out of the White House.
“I think it’s absolutely imperative,” Rather told host Brian Stelter. “Now more than ever is when the press needs to be a kind of truth squad for this and every other president. It’s perhaps more important with President Trump because there are more untruths to set the record straight,” he continued.
“I do think that most people get it. That most people understand that they’re facing on a daily basis from the White House and from the president himself, the rough equivalent of you’re facing a fertilizer spreader in a windstorm,” Rather added, also suggesting that people were no longer surprised if the president made false claims. (duhhh ... like that's news to anyone)
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Re: "A Fertilizer Spreader in a Windstorm”
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:17 pm
by Lord Jim
I saw that interview yesterday...
Rather is correct of course in his assessment, however I couldn't help but be struck by the fact that given his own fraught history with factual accuracy, (which forced him to resign in disgrace as anchor of The CBS Evening News) he's a somewhat poor messenger on the topic...
"A Fertilizer Spreader in a Windstorm”
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:42 pm
by RayThom
Lord Jim wrote:... Rather is correct of course in his assessment, however I couldn't help but be struck by the fact that given his own fraught history with factual accuracy, (which forced him to resign in disgrace as anchor of The CBS Evening News) he's a somewhat poor messenger on the topic...
I agree. Has anyone ever found out what the frequency was... and who the hell was Kenneth?
Re: "A Fertilizer Spreader in a Windstorm”
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:51 pm
by rubato
“facing a fertilizer spreader in a windstorm.”
Best Description of the GOP, Ever!.
yrs,
rubato
Re: "A Fertilizer Spreader in a Windstorm”
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:53 pm
by rubato
Lord Jim wrote:I saw that interview yesterday...
Rather is correct of course in his assessment, however I couldn't help but be struck by the fact that given his own fraught history with factual accuracy, (which forced him to resign in disgrace as anchor of The CBS Evening News) he's a somewhat poor messenger on the topic...
Rather had one
( 1 ) instance of failing to do adequate diligence in a decades long career.
One. The GOP tells more overt lies in an hour than that.
yrs,
rubato
Re: "A Fertilizer Spreader in a Windstorm”
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 9:39 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
Spot on, Rube.
Re: "A Fertilizer Spreader in a Windstorm”
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:15 pm
by Econoline
Ayup...them were the good ol' days, when the truth used to matter...
Re: "A Fertilizer Spreader in a Windstorm”
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:25 pm
by Burning Petard
Yes Lord Jim, you are correct, but another newsman was famous for saying, there is the rest of the story.
The single document was faked which Rather (or his staff) did not get supporting documentation. But does anybody who has spent time in military service really believe there is no documentation verifying Bush 43' attendance at military duties, that he was there but without any paperwork paper work recoding his presence?
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