1. Michele is running a RatherGate pool. My prediction: September 17, during a live Friday evening broadcast, an organ grinder’s monkey wielding one of those giant vaudeville hooks will drag Dan Rather kicking and screaming from the set. For the remainder of the show, a rubber chicken wearing pimp gear and smoking a joint will sit in Rather’s chair while the news is delivered in a Casey Kasem voice over.
2. Marian Carr Knox, TANG Col. Jerry Killian’s former secretary from 1956-1979, says she typed up every one of his documents, and that the CBS memos were most certainly NOT typed by her. She does, however, say that the content of the documents reflects sentiments she heard at the time. She also says Bush is “selected, not elected,” that he is “unfit for command,” that “choosy mothers choose Jiff,” and that “Howard Dean is dreamy, in a short, slump-shouldered troll sort of way.”
3. My sincerest thanks to readers Jeff Blehar and Marshall Reeve for the DVDs. Trust me: nothing beats going to the mailbox and finding an unexpected gift (except, perhaps, spending four days clubbing Dan Rather like baby seal).
update: It could happen.
Item #2 is a bit strange, no?
1. “I typed all memos for Killian”
2. “But I never typed the ones in question”
3. “Though the negative Bush sentiment existed”
4. “And I dislike Bush now”
Huh? Wha? Wait… I’m so confused!
The CBS memos are fake but there were real ones that now don’t exist? Ok. Got it. No wait, I lost it again. Damn.
Tomorrow may shed more light on this aged feminine Janus, one can hope.
Hey Jeff, again: no problem.
You know what would be even sweeter about your prediction?
September 17th is my 24th birthday.
To see Dan Rather dragged off-set by an organ-grinder’s monkey would be the BESTEST gift a boy could ever get.
My entry for the pool is actually Saturday, September 18th, however. Just because I never get what I want for my birthday.
I’ll accept a late gift, however.
Jeff, Jeff, you are soooo young. No one EVER gets what they want for their birthday after age 20.
And why are you sending gifts to jeff?
Because I’m a creepy internet stalker, of course.
Hey Goldstein! Pay close attention to that van parked outside of your house 24/7. Those aren’t extremely lazy movers.
Kathleen,
You should know that all of us non-bloggers are REQUIRED to give gifts to any blogger that requests it as a tribute to the blogosphere (At least that’s what Michele Catalano, Dean Esmay and Bill from INDC told me). Still waiting for my request from Jeff… but I am running out of money.
If any new blog reader is reading this comment, I can only say: “Run away, run away!”. They cannot be defeated with a holy hand grenade. Like a drug pusher, they draw you in with free content and then… once you’re hooked you must pay what ever they ask!
No one EVER gets what they want for their birthday after age 20.
I’ve gotten what I wanted for my birthday since I turned 20. Just not from whom I wanted.
And that has made all the difference.
Are you shitting me? Last birthday I got a restraining order from my wife and free coffee at the plasma place.
You people are spoiled.
Mrs. Knox is, of course, correct. Choosy mothers most certainly do choose Jiff.
It’s looking increasingly likely that Rather will not end the debacle and CBS will be forced to do so, and force Rather into retirement early while doing so. If Rather has enough pull, and enough hubris, to keep this going ad infinitum things could get very ugly for CBS. CBS still has a chance to avoid the absolute, rock bottom bedrock of this hole if they can stop digging before the origin of the documents is revealed. It seems most likely that that secondary story has the potential to utterly ruin CBS and render any attempt to back down after the fact useless. If they back down after the story has completely and utterly detonated they will look weak and pitiful. If they’re smart they will avoid looking like they were taken to the woodshed by the pajama brigade (which would be embarrassing, to say the least) they will admit their error, tell Dan to chill out and let him slide into his retirement next year. If they’re stupid they’ll let Rather bring this to a bloody end that could ruin the company and they’ll be forced to push him out the door early (which will look bad for him and bad for CBS). CBS has a chance to put down this weight before it crushes them beneath it. Will they take it?
I wish I had your optimism, Robin G. This will all blow over eventually and be forgotten. CBS will have all the credibility it had before.
Hardly anyone remembers the “exploding truck” faked by… I forget.
You might get your wish today-SeeBS is going to make a ‘PROCLAMATION’ at NOON today-possbly because the House of Representatives is considering an INVESTIGATION? But the DNC is running their “Favorite Son” attack ads which 1). says GWBush never served in the Air Force (First Lie-all his active duty for training, roughly 18 mos., is Active Duty Air Force time-something these never served IDIOTS don’t know) and 2). that GW disobeyed a direct order-BEEP, wrong answer/question (lie #2-will explain why in next sentence). First answering the “have you stopped beating your wife question” is undeserving of consideration, any more than saying the documents are forged but you must address the issues they bring up-EXCUSE ME-must be Monnbat logic. But to address disobeying a direct order-where is this DIRECT ORDER??? In a FORGED memo that there is NO PROOF Lt Bush ever even saw??? Correct Air Force (therefore, Guard and Reserve also) procedure (defined by AF REGULATION) is to send a Letter(properly formatted) to the Individual-with the words “Reply by Endorsement” in the Heading. This is done to 1). Provide a HARD copy of the order, 2). Define the extent of the Order and who it is directed , and Finally the actual reply would be filed to show the individual both received and UNDERSTOOD said order. Regulations don’t permit this by memo’s, and inferrring in another memo that the individual did not comply is NOT PROOF for any form of Military Justice-it provides no ACTUAL evidence that the individual really received and understood the order, OTHER THAN HEARSAY…I’m not a Lawyer, but did spend 22 yrs. in the AF…Retired AF and a Texan…
JFH,
Whew! Good thing I AM a blogger! E-mail me and I will give the address to send my gift.
*note*-going by Rightwingsparkle now,not using my Clark Kent disguise any longer (cuz of trolls)
http://www.Rightwingsparkle.blogspot.com
McGehee,
I aint touchin that one.
I wish Robin was right, but I think David is.
The main thing I think people should take away from this is that your hyperlink to me doesn’t work.
Robin G: “and force Rather into retirement early”
I wouldn’t call 70 early. Airline pilots are forced into retirement at 60 and they ain’t half the risk to us as this wrinkled up old grape is.
On the other hand, the average age for the ‘60 Minutes’ staff is about 75, so Dan is still young for CBS.
Damn, I sound bitter don’t I. Maybe I’m thinking CBS is going to wiggle out of this afterall. Excuse me, I need a drink.
We need Cronkite! He can reenact the memo’s stories as they should have been broodcast in 1972 in “Your were there” style.