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| Dan Rather to Pundits Calling for War: Send Your Own Kids or 'Don't Even Talk to Me' |
| 2014-08-25 |
| [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 |
| #26 How do you call some lefty goof who don't have no cotton-pickin idear how to speak no good English? Rumble Bumble |
| Posted by: Anice Nim 2014-08-25 17:40 |
| #25 How do you call someone who ... steal an election? Dubya |
| Posted by: Rumble Bumble 2014-08-25 16:58 |
| #24 "fake but accurate" |
| Posted by: irishrageboy 2014-08-25 16:41 |
| #23 ISIS appears to like doing their killing on the spot instead of in camps, but other than that... |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-25 16:24 |
| #22 One quibble, EC. By comparison, I think these clowns give evil bastards like the Khmer Rough a bad name. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-08-25 15:55 |
| #21 ISIS is easy. No need to argue listen. Just kill them. They are the Khmer Rouge of Islamism |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2014-08-25 15:18 |
| #20 The stupidity is in his tacit assumption that if we don't intervene then nothing bad happens to us. Dan Rather, you ignorant ass, ISIS has different plans. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-25 14:46 |
| #19 What pundits are calling for war? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-25 14:29 |
| #18 Now that there is no draft to galvanize against war this is the new line I expect to hear again and again because it makes it *sounds* as if folks are just ordering other peoples children into a meatgrinder. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-25 14:27 |
| #17 When asked if you would rather or not, the answer is not. |
| Posted by: Mugsy Glink 2014-08-25 12:13 |
| #16 Dan Rather is still around? Why would anyone listen to him? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-08-25 11:27 |
| #15 Dan, it's not 1969 anymore. I hate the old fossilized libraries like him. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-25 11:14 |
| #14 Why would anyone want to talk to him? |
| Posted by: GORT 2014-08-25 10:37 |
| #13 How do you call someone who forged official documents in order to steal an election? Democrat |
| Posted by: SR-71 2014-08-25 10:27 |
| #12 How do you call someone who forged official documents in order to steal an election? |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-08-25 10:19 |
| #11 It's not parents who "send their kids" to war It's hard to change when you're welded to the 1967 playbook. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-08-25 10:16 |
| #10 And I thank them for their service. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2014-08-25 09:47 |
| #9 It's not parents who "send their kids" to war. Those "kids" are young adult responsible men who decide on their own free will to join the military and serve the United States of America. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2014-08-25 09:46 |
| #8 Dan Rather on "Reliable Sources"? Bwahahahahaha |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-08-25 09:27 |
| #7 ...Mr Just checkin', Kenneth. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2014-08-25 08:39 |
| #6 I think he's right---this time. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-08-25 07:03 |
| #5 What? No comment about the beheaded photo journalist by the great 'if I cannot find the news I will make up the news' Dan Rather. I think it might be better for America if you volunteered to keep your lying liberal diarrhea mouth closed. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-08-25 06:49 |
| #4 War with Saddam was initiated only after a host of UN sanctions were ignored and a large coalition of allies were assembled which included: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, France, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan Canada, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bangladesh Germany, Italy, Australia, Netherlands, Niger, Sweden, Portugal, Argentina, Senegal, Spain, Bahrain, Belgium, Poland, South Korea, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Denmark, New Zealand, Hungary, Norway, Afghanistan, Philippines, Japan |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-25 04:27 |
| #3 What's the frequency Kenneth? |
| Posted by: imoyaro 2014-08-25 01:32 |
| #2 Can we send Dan Rather to do a mine sweep first? Pluuuueeeese? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-08-25 01:30 |
| #1 There actually was a very long term reason to hold Iraq. But like everything that was correct, you parroted against it. There was a BIG reason I wanted Iraq stable, and not fake stable. You fought against it every step in Combat, every time. FU too. Tell your media buddies, they sunk the earth and they can rest now. Evil fucks |
| Posted by: newc 2014-08-25 00:59 |