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Rathergate bombshell: W volunteered to go to Vietnam

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by basso, Aug 26, 2009.

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  1. Northside Storm

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  2. basso

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    and when you ignore evidence that's staring you in the face, that says something as well.
     
    #22 basso, Aug 26, 2009
  3. rimrocker

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    Not to mention the fact that you're quoting a piece written by Bernard Goldberg, who has a personal vendetta against CBS and Rather.
     
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    A journalist without a vendetta is a bad journalist.
     
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    Bernie did not write the report cited.
     
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  6. rimrocker

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    There's no evidence. There's Goldberg's presentation of what the report says in one paragraph and given his history, one must assume bias. And really, a report sits around for four years and nobody sees this dynamite info until someone whispers in Goldberg's ear to look at a certain page? The Bush administration didn't push the fact that Bush "volunteered to got to Vietnam" at a time when it would have been most advantageous for them to do so? No groups like the Swiftboaters dug up these people and put them in front of a camera to say Bush volunteered? This strains credulity.
     
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    But neither does he quote from it. He just references a page and tells us what is there.
     
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  8. basso

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    no, the bolded portion (see the link, i bolded more), is a direct quote.
     
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  9. SamFisher

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    You mean like this?

    Why did you start the thread then? To illustrate the folly of your own ways? We already knew that....
     
    #29 SamFisher, Aug 26, 2009
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    well, we know the man's a liar, so you can't really trust the words that come out of his mouth.
     
    #30 Rocketman95, Aug 26, 2009
  11. basso

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    "didn't enlist to go." this is consistent with the initial intake process, and is no doubt true.

    doesn't change the fact that he may have subsequently volunteered to go.
     
    #31 basso, Aug 26, 2009
  12. SamFisher

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    Can you read?

    Russert: But you didn't volunteer or enlist to go.

    President Bush: No, I didn't. You're right.
     
    #32 SamFisher, Aug 26, 2009
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    Colbert FTW
     
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    Your thread title is that he volunteered. Now it's "he may have volunteered"? Which is it?
     
    #34 leroy, Aug 26, 2009
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    the docs say he did.
     
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    The New York Times, April 7, 2005...

     
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    And basso's retroactive rehabilitation of Bush's honor ends with a fizzle instead of bang. Who could have predicted this outcome?
     
    #37 gifford1967, Aug 26, 2009
  18. pgabriel

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    cbs did report evidence in their story, it came under attack and has never been prove fake or not.
     
    #38 pgabriel, Aug 26, 2009
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    Basso is not satisfied with Obama's birth records but he's okay on the word of some guys from a gazillion years ago. what a freakin joke
     
    #39 pgabriel, Aug 26, 2009
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    the docs Mapes produced, and that Rather used were proven fakes. they also ignored contradictory evidence.

    Why?
     
    #40 basso, Aug 26, 2009
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