Rush Limbaugh discloses more media lies:
Dan Rather was interviewed last night at the National Press Club in Washington by former CBS News employee-reporter Marvin Kalb.
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KALB: Every now and then it even looks as if the new media is at war with the old media. I want to go back to the National Guard story of last year. I've always been astonished that even before the program ended -- it was still on -- a blog site called FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer blasted the program. Four hours later another website called Buckhead ran a detailed critique of the documents that you used in the report. What happened, then, was that dozens of other bloggers joined in, then the mainstream media joined in, and then everything shifted and the focus was on you! The focus was not on the substance of your story --
RUSH: Stop the tape! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it right there. Folks, do you realize what you have just heard? Marvin Kalb is astounded. "Then the mainstream media joined in, then everything shifted and the focus was on you. Tthe focus was not on the substance of your story." Mr. Kalb, the documents were forged! The documents were FORGED! There was no "substance" to the story! But, see, this is what Dan's continued to say, too. He says, "Why, partisan political operatives continued to make me the focus of the story." Dan, you became the focus of the story because the documents were forged! You had experts in your pre-interviews who told you that they couldn't vouch for these documents and you didn't use those in the report. But here's Marvin Kalb. He's teaching future journalists at Harvard! He can't believe that this could happen in the Internet and then he wants to know from Rather what we can do about this. "What can we do about this, Dan? You became the substance of the story, rather than the substance of your story?" There was no substance to the story! They don't, folks, get it. They literally to this day don't get it.
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Of course, as I say, there was no substance to the story. The documents were forged, but that's irrelevant to Marvin Kalb. Kalb finishes with the National Guard aspect of the whole thing sort of dropped to the side and this media focus was on you, and this was Dan Rather's reply.
RATHER: What I learned is that there are bloggers who have as much integrity as I or the most integrity-filled people I know have, and who feel that it's their mission in life to ask questions and keep on asking questions. There are other bloggers, and I'll go ahead and say it, that some of the quote, mainstream press seem to take, you know, if not delight in our dilemma, they pick up pretty quickly on those bloggers who were partisan, politically affiliated and/or had an ideological axe to grind with us, and instead of saying, "Well, they've raised these questions," for example about the documents, "are these questions true," next thing I know, they were in mainstream newspapers, and away it went.
RUSH: Because the documents were forged! (Laughing.) It's just... Folks, it is priceless to listen to a partisan political operative complain about partisan political operatives. It's just too choice. It's just too much fun to listen to a partisan ideologue, like any journalist is, sit here and complain about partisan critics with an axe to grind. What are forged documents trying to affect the outcome of an election, if not ideological and an axe to grind and partisan? But you see, to understand this you have to understand the old monopoly mentality, and that is, "Whatever they said was it. Whatever they said was gospel. Nobody questioned it. You weren't supposed to question it! You were to accept it. Their reality that they created was the reality." There have always been two realities: the one they create, and the one that is, and the one that is most often was ignored, and it was recreated to fit whatever the template or the mind-set or the news cycle of the day happened to be. How many -- this was 2005. We're almost a year now from this, and they are still talking about this in terms that they claim they don't understand how it happened and so forth.
