If any of you believe Dan Rather and Mike Wallace are professionals, take a quick read of John B. Dwyer’s most recent on American Thinker.
I remember another hit piece by Rather–an anti-gun Moore-style documentary–Guns of Autumn. The man finds news where there is none. I guess that’s what makes him a professional.
Interesting….and makes me think back to Gen. Westmorelands fight against CBS.
As an aside, on Veterans Day in 1984 I attended the dedication of the “soldiers” statue added to the Vietnam Memorial. While there I was invited to sit in Box #1 at the Veteran’s Memorial to hear speeches by the nations leaders including Cap Weinberger and General Westmoreland. Sitting next to me in the box was Kitzie Westmoreland, the Generals wife, who gave me a souvenir of the fight against CBS….a button that said simply, “Westie’s Warriors”. I still have it.
Comment by Wallace-Midland, Texas — September 11, 2004 @ 9:46 pm
I’ve got an segment of Jug Burkett’s “Stolen Valor” up that documents another one of Rather’s “tall tales”. This one was called “The Wall Within” and was about… psycho Vietnam vets.
Comment by Phelps — September 12, 2004 @ 10:24 pm
Found this post from two months ago regarding Rather, who announced today he is stepping down from his CBS anchor spot. The reference to the “Guns of Autumn” is very interesting to me. That supposed news documentary, produced by the 60 Minutes group in the mid ’70, was so biased, one sided, and simply false, that it was used by my professor in my college public relations class as a contemporary example of “propaganda”…
Comment by Christopher Hill — November 24, 2004 @ 12:11 am