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2004-09-16 Home Front: Politix

Dan Rather has a record of Unfair treatment of the Bush Family

EFL from Ratherbiased.com. Hattip to Neal Bortz. The link includes the full text of an ambush interview that Rather did in 1988 to try to derail George HW Bush's presidential campaign. Evidently the interview was so offensive that Walter Cronkite commented that he would have canned Rather over it. I have included only the intro. The transcript is at the link as well as the video:
The interview lasted approximately nine minutes. Before the interview was a six-minute piece on what Rather thought was Bush's role in Iran-contra. When CBS had requested to do an interview, it asked, "Part of our early coverage of the 1988 presidential election has been a series of candidate profiles produced for 'CBS Evening News.' We purposely saved your profile for last. Dan Rather is very interested in your profile, and has decided to do it himself." Iran-contra did not appear to be the subject. Watch the interview.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-16 4:32:04 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yes, RaTHer unfair....

Posted by jawa 2004-09-16 9:09:08 AM|| 2004-09-16 9:09:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This portion of the ambush came up on a radio show today:

"BUSH: This is not a great night, because I want to talk about why I want to be president, why those 41 percent of the people are supporting me. And I don't think it's fair...

RATHER: And Mr. Vice President, if these questions are --

BUSH: ...to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran. How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York? [Note: Rather actually was in Miami and he was off the set for six minutes. See Bizarre.]

RATHER: Well, Mister...

BUSH: ...Would you like that?

RATHER: Mr. Vice President...

BUSH: I have respect for you, but I don't have respect for what you're doing here tonight."

There is speculation that Rather has held a personal dislike for the Bush family due to the highlighted quote. From my standpoint, I can't see that Rather could have developed any more of an animus than he already had for Reagan's VP - probably the real root of hatred.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-16 4:28:52 PM|| 2004-09-16 4:28:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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