Victor Davis Hanson, NRO:
Worse than being duped, worse than cobbling together a highly politicized hit-piece during a war and in the waning days of an election, worse than the shady nature of the “unimpeachable” sources and the likely sordid origins of the story, and worse even than the pathetic nature of CBS’s “expert” witnesses — worse than all that was Rather’s ten-day denial of reality, culminating in the surreal half-admission that the phony documents could not be verified as accurate. That’s the equivalent of saying that a corpse cannot be proven to be alive.
Rather responds, “I would remind Mr. Davis Hanson that when Copernicus asserted—quite correctly—that the moon was in the seventh house, the Church had him burned at the stake. Which, while the procedure charred him to cinder, didn’t make him any less correct. In other words, and as Uncle Keppy was wont to say, ‘you don’t make butter by throwing chickens at the churn. But you do wound a mess of chickens.”
Or as Ross Perot used to say, “You can’t explode a porcupine in the barn and expect to make licorice.” Or something like that.
Is it just me or does Mary Mapes have an uncanny resemblance to the Shadout Mapes in the movie of Dune?
– Was that a “buttery” chicken joke?…..
– Van Os did a phone interview spot on FOX today saying he no longer represents Burkett, citeing health reasons….He didn’t make it clear who’s health reasons he was reffering to…
– Ratherfake….The gift that keeps on giving…
– …We now return you to your regularly scheduled program “Mood music for nipples and chocolate…”…
Copernicus was not burned at the stake.
Um, yeah, I know that. And you know that. But would a defensive Dan Rather know that?
This post suggests that no, no he wouldn’t.