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The Media Research Council has researched a number of quotes from Dan Rather that expose his blatant Liberal bias:
Unable to defend Rather’s use of forged documents in an attempt to smear President Bush, Rather’s supporters claim that his career cannot be judged by one episode of blatant political bias.
In response to this canard, the Media Research Council (MRC) says that “last September’s politically motivated fraud wasn’t a departure for Rather; it was just an extreme example of the obnoxious bias that’s tarnished his whole career.”
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Rather declared early in 1995: “The new Republican majority in Congress took a big step today on its legislative agenda to demolish or damage government aid programs, many of them designed to help children and the poor.”
Six years later, he attacked President Bush’s “big tax cut plan, partly bankrolled, critics say, through cuts in many federal aid programs for children and education,” despite the truth that there no “cuts” (in 2004, the Cato Institute calculated the Department of Education’s budget had soared 75 percent during Bush’s first three years, from $36 billion to $63 billion).
When CBS paired Rather with Connie Chung in 1993, he sought inspiration from Bill CLinton. “If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in the White House, we’d take it right now and walk away winners.”
When Hillary decided she wanted to win a New York Senate seat, Rather enthused: “Once a political lightning rod, today she is political lightning. A crowd pleaser and first-class fundraiser, a person under enormous pressure to step into the arena, this time on her own.”
Carrying water for John Kerry during his campaign for the presidency, Rather sought to smear Bush’s economic record when reporting on the brutal murder of four civilians in Iraq last March. He asked: “What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy, it may be, for some, the only job they can find.”
It was a different story when Kerry was on the receiving end. Then Rather played defense. MRC writes, “In a July interview, he presented the Democratic nominee as a hero victimized by a nasty GOP: “Have you ever had any anger about President Bush who spent his time during the Vietnam War in the National Guard running, in effect, a campaign that does its best to diminish your service in Vietnam?”
And he was news anchor for one of the big three broadcast networks, for over 20 years.
