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Truth or Consequences Bush vs Rather

flounder

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Truth or Consequences


Truth or Consequences

Eight years ago, Dan Rather broadcast an explosive report on the Air National Guard service of President George W. Bush. It was supposed to be the legendary newsman’s finest hour. Instead, it blew up in his face, tarnishing his career forever and casting a dark cloud of doubt and suspicion over his reporting—and that of every other journalist on the case. This month, as Rather returns with a new memoir, Joe Hagan finally gets to the bottom of the greatest untold story in modern Texas politics, with exclusive, never-before-seen details that shed fresh light on who was right, who was wrong, and what really happened.

by Joe Hagan

May 2012



(Page 5 of 6)

Case in point: a story that seemed to tie together all the questions hanging over Bush’s Guard service appeared in the controversial book Fortunate Son, by J. H. Hatfield, during the 2000 campaign. In the book, Hatfield made the incendiary claim that Bush had been arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession but had had his record expunged through his father’s political influence with a state judge in exchange for community service at PULL. (The book also claimed the arrest file was stowed in a safe in Harriet Miers’s law office in Dallas.)

This story did a lot of work: it explained why Bush stopped flying, why he lit out for Alabama, and why he ended up at PULL when he got back to Houston. Within days of the book’s publication, however, a newspaper discovered that Hatfield had served five years in prison for hiring a hit man to kill a former colleague. The publisher, St. Martin’s Press, quickly pulled the book from the shelves, and, under pressure to reveal his sources, Hatfield claimed that Karl Rove himself had confirmed the story during a fishing trip. Rove denied all such claims. A small publisher in New York later reissued the book, offering as evidence of Hatfield’s honesty some phone records showing a two-minute call to Rove’s home before the original publication.

A year later, Hatfield died of a drug overdose in an apparent suicide. Hatfield’s defenders came to believe he’d been set up by Rove as the dupe messenger who could be easily destroyed. And with that, the Bush Guard story officially took on the dark aspects of a conspiracy: a puzzle in which the missing pieces became the story.


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hypocritexposer

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Monday, September 4, 2006, 3:02 PM [NFL]

You reggie bush lovers really need to come back to reality, he is an overrated running back who beat up on weak defenses his whole college career, and what did he do when he faced a good defense, fumbled the ball and did absolutly nothing. Everyone has been calling the texans stupid for not picking reggie bust ...er... bush, heaven forbid a owner actually cares about his team and not just money "ooohhh reggie would sell more jerseys, he'd sell tickets" real fans don't care about that, we want our teams to win, THATS what sells tickets and jerseys, defense wins championships, the texans picked mario williams because just his presence makes everyone around him better because the offensive lineman are concentrating on him, allowing openings for the other linemen and middle linebacks, if the eagales think the texans are gonna be an easy oppenent, then their in for a rude awakening come week one

in closing, reggie bush is the most overrated player this season, possibly ever. He isn't that great, sure he'll get the occasional big run, and within seconds the bush lovers (no pun intended) will all be screaming reggie bush is a future hall of famer, pleaseeeeeeee, he has bust written all over them, thank god the texans didn't pick him, or we would have been stuck with that big bust, mario williams presence alone makes the texans defense so much better, so stop kissing the ground reggie bush walks on, because there have been alot of guys that came up in every sport that had alot of "abilities" but how many of them have acually turned that ability into a great sports career, didn't stromile swift have alot of ability too? how about ryan leaf? reggie bush is just an average back at best, but I'd say more likely below average, and anyone still saying the texans suck based on LAST YEAR really need to do some research, because philidelphia is going down week one, and all these people saying otherwise, or that the texans are still a bad team need to wake up and stop living in the past, ONE BAD YEAR DOESN'T MAKE THEM A BAD TEAM, and picking philly to beat them based on that just means you have done no research, sorry philly fans, your teams a little overrated.

http://community.foxsports.com/Htownsfinest/blog/2006/09/04/enough_about_reggie_bush_already
 

Tam

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Hey Flounder why don't you take some of the research time you are wasting on a PAST President and do us all a favor and dig up all you can on Fast and Furious. I heard today Obama "the present President" and Holder "the Present AG" knew all about it and they were actually going to use the botched plan to attack the 5th Amendment. There is a book coming out with Holder memos that proves Holder lied to the Congress about what he knew and when he knew it.

When you are done with that why not dig up all you can on the guy Obama appointed as his Safe School czar. I hear his mentor is a well known member of a group of men who love little boys. And he himself has wrote a book saying the best thing for a young boy is an older male lover. Quite the guy to be in charge of America's SAFE school program. Just about as good as a guy that believes gas prices in the US should be as high as those in Europe. But then why would Energy Sec. Chu care what the price of gas is he doesn't even have a car.

If those topics don't excite you why don't you research why Obama would appoint a radical kook like Van Jones to his Administration. There is a scarey guy to have close to the White House. But then when you appoint Holder as the AG and he believes the United States Department of JUSTICE should look the other way when the perp is Black and the victim is White what harm can Van Jones do.

And please don't forget to post your findings here for all of us to see just what you are willing to publicly say about the men Obama surrounds himself with. They say the best way to get to know a person is to get to know those he surrounds himself with. All I see is LEFTWINGNUT RADICALS around Obama. But I guess if you really want to understand Obama you can just take the Harvard Class on "UNDERSTANDING OBAMA" :roll:
 

backhoeboogie

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Flounder,

You entirely missed the whole point as to what killed Rather when it comes to Bush. You are as far out in left field as you can probably get. Wrong coverage and at a different time.

If Rather is going to be on the television, most of us change channels. Same for other out there reporters who belong to the liberal elite.

Rather cooked his goose. I saw his comments and words on television when we were in a crisis and the Trade Center was under attack.

You and your rhetoric and clouding the issues of what Rather said tells me you are worse than he ever was. Pound sand.
 

Whitewing

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I'm thinking it's going to be a very long election night for someone here. :lol:

And what's really funny about it all is that everything the left whined about in relation to Bush's actions, Obama has not only continued doing most of the same, he's even doubled down in many instances.

In the end, it's obvious their objections weren't based on the policies they whined about, they were based on the fact that Bush had the horrid (R) behind his name, nothing more.
 
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