Arrogance was the follow-up book to Bernard Goldberg’s bestseller Bias. After reading this Dan Rather interview, I think his third book could be titled Jackasses:
In an interview Monday evening, a repentant Rather conceded it had been a mistake to broadcast the documents. But even though he could not vouch for their authenticity, he said he still did not believe that they were fakes.
“Do I think they’re forged? No,” Rather said. “But it’s not good enough to use the documents on the air if we can’t vouch for them, and we can’t vouch for them.”
Rather said he had no regrets for his defense of the story.
“I believed in it,” he said. “I wouldn’t have put it on the air if I hadn’t of believed in it. And what kind of reporter would I be if I put something on the air in which I believed, and as soon as it’s attacked and under pressure, you run, you fold, you fade, you side-wind? That’s not the kind of person I am, and it’s not the kind of reporter I am.”
What an asshole.
Trump
It’s not enough to have Dan Rather fired. I’m so pissed off at his arrogance and idiocy, the only acceptable conclusion to this will be when they find Rathers corpse, with a suicide note professing immense sorrow for the wrong he’s done.
And then the Bush family pisses on his grave.
Thomas J. Jackson
Rather follows a long tradition of media slanting of stories and lying going back to the 1930s. No wonder journalists enjoy the same esteem as an IRS audit.
Sandi
In Dan Rather’s first admission: “It was an error that was made, however, in good faith… ,”
That is like telling a police officer when doing 30 over the speed limit, that speeding “was an error that was made in good faith. “When your guilty and get caught take your lumps and move on.
“A tree don
Dean Esmay
Hmm. “Mistakes were made?”
Whatever.
Now the real question is whether this dies or not. It shouldn’t, but it might.
John A. Kalb
I think a leftist might describe him as a “cowboy.”
Enoch Root
John, leftists already universally despise Dan Rather, and the whole of the news/entertainment complex, even more than the right-wingers. Just so you know.