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Dan Rather to Pundits Calling for War: Send Your Own Kids or 'Don't Even Talk to Me'
[MEDIAITE] ...a former ancherperson, the man who put the BS in CBS News. In 2004 he put on a news story that highlighted dissatisfaction with Lt. George W. Bush in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war. This was almost casually--but gleefully--debunked by the Blogosphere at large. Rather's face was rubbed in journalistic mud, four of his staff were fired, and within a short time his career had settled to the bottom... told Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter that the scores of pundits calling for action in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere were reminiscent of the buildup to the 2003 Iraq War, which Rather called a blunder of "historic proportions," and that hawks needed to be prepared to send their own kids to battle before they so cavalierly recommend it for others. Quoth Rather: "All of these people on television, some of whom I have enormous respect for, it unsettles me to hear them say, listen, we the United States have to "do something" in Ukraine, we have to "do something" in Syria, we have to "do something" in the waters around China, we have to "do something" in Iraq, we have to "do something" about ISIS. What they're talking about are combat operations. "My first question to anyone who's on television saying "We have to get tough, we have to put boots on the ground, we have to go to war in one of these places" is: I will hear you out if you tell me you are prepared to send your son, your daughter, your grandson, your granddaughter to that war for which you are beating the drums. If you aren't I have no patience with you, and don't even talk to me." Rather also called upon the press corps to more forcefully prosecute the case against military action as expiation for the Beltway media's complicity in the last Iraq War. Posted by: Fred 2014-08-25 |
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