npr.org - 12/23/2008
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David Folkenflik Morning Edition , December 23, 2008 At 77, Dan Rather moves a bit slower than you may remember from his days as the globe-trotting anchor for CBS News. He's about 15 blocks and a million miles away from CBS an anchor in winter, putting together reports with his producers for ...
pewresearch.org - 12/18/2008
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pewresearch.org —
Just 11% say Bush will be remembered as
an outstanding or above average president -- by far...
the lowest positive end-of-term rating for any of the past four presidents. Yet Bush's impact on public opinion over the past eight years is seen in ways that ...
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Bush and Public Opinion
boomantribune.com - 12/20/2008
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boomantribune.com —
Dan Eggen reports: It was bad enough for
President Bush to have shoes tossed at his head...
during his farewell journey to Baghdad. Now comes a new poll in which Americans call Bush all sorts of names -- some of them a lot worse than "dog." In a poll ...
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Bush is a Criminal
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NPR Rewrites Rathergate History to Cover Up Fraud
Little Green Footballs —
... National Public Radio does their best to rewrite history in this shockingly disingenuous piece on the Rathergate affair, told from Dan Rather’s perspective as he openly states that the memos in his infamous 60 Minutes II piece were never proven to be fakes: Dan Rather Hopes To Tell His Bush Story In Court. ...
RatherGate returns on NPR
TigerHawk —
... and unbelievably self-justifying essay by Rather's producer, Mary Mapes. If Vanity Fair 's incessant campaign against Bush had not already trashed its credibility among everybody who is not an unreconstructed lefty, Mapes' essay sure would have. Now comes NPR's Dan Folkenflik , who obviously made no attempt actually to learn about the story he was reporting. He clearly did not read either the original work at Little Green Footballs and other blogs or the Thornburg panel's report. It is impossible to do either and believe that there is any reasonable doubt that the documents ...
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