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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (126825)	6/18/2008 8:14:39 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Rather chose to base a story on obviously forged documents - forged by some crazed Democratic loon.

To: American Spirit who wrote (126825)	6/18/2008 6:58:06 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Tom Wolfe: Rather, 60 Minutes 'Idiots' for Airing Bush National Guard Story Tom Wolfe knows you're an idiot. By Noel Sheppard \| June 18, 2008 - 11:24 ET Best-selling author Tom Wolfe made some statements about American journalism last week that would raise a lot of eyebrows in newsrooms around the country if anyone cared to notice. For instance, he believes "newspapers are declining rapidly," that when a television news outlet does "a big story it`s always wrong," and that Dan Rather and his "60 Minutes" crew were "idiots" for airing the totally erroneous piece in August 2004 about George W. Bush and the National Guard: They should have looked at the piece of paper. Obviously not written by a typewriter. What follows is the relevant section of Wolfe's discussion with PBS's Charlie Rose last Wednesday (video available here, relevant section at 33:30, h/t and photo courtesy NY Post): Story Continues Below Ad ? CHARLIE ROSE: You are at the stage in your fourth decade where people want you to give one last great lecture. I know you do them too. So if you were giving one last lecture about journalism. TOM WOLFE: About journalism. CHARLIE ROSE: Not just about finance but about journalism, what would you say because you`ve seen so much of it? TOM WOLFE: I think what I would say is today as newspapers are declining rapidly, they`re losing money. I would just point out that all news today comes from the newspapers. All of it. Television has never initiated a successful story in its life. When they have a big story it`s always wrong. They had something about Israelis and atomic bombs. Absolutely wrong. They have George Bush being criticized in some letter -- The so- called Dan Rather ... CHARLIE ROSE: About George Bush`s... How he got into the National Guard. TOM WOLFE: Right. Idiots. They should have looked at the piece of paper. Obviously not written by a typewriter. Obvious to most, Tom -- except those in the media and on the far-left who still believe the story. —Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. newsbusters.org