{"id":3073,"date":"2004-09-24T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T23:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2004-09-24T16:20:57","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T23:20:57","slug":"hed-rather-not-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=3073","title":{"rendered":"He’d Rather not, thanks."},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson, NRO<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nRather 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.”
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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<\/p>\n

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