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Remember:More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than have died in United States Commercial Nuclear Power plant operations visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:40:49 -0700 From: Media Research Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Alert Special: 'For Clinton, Dan Rather is Putty in His Hands' ***Media Research Center CyberAlert Special*** 4:40pm EDT, Thursday June 17, 2004 Media Reality Check. "For Clinton, Dan Rather is Putty in His Hands: CBS Anchorman Has Long Track Record of Cheerleading and Softball Questions for President Clinton" Below is the text of a Media Reality Check distributed by fax today, which was put together by the MRC's Tim Graham in anticipation of Dan Rather's Sunday night interview with Bill Clinton on 60 Minutes which was taped earlier this week. For the posted version, which includes three historical RealPlayer video clips of Rather: http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2004/fax20040617.asp For the Adobe Acrobat PDF version: http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2004/pdf/fax0617.pdf Before getting to the text, the pull-out quote in the middle of the faxed page: How Deep In the Tank is Dan? "I think the fact that someone has told a lie, even a big lie or maybe several big lies over a lifetime, does not mean that they're an inherently dishonest person....I believe in redemption and that Bill Clinton. Is he an honest person? I think he is an honest person. Did he lie? Yes, he lied, and on those occasions he was dishonest." -- Dan Rather on the February 7, 2002 "Imus in the Morning" radio show. Now, the text of the June 17 Media Reality Check with, [in brackets], added links to CyberAlert articles with more extensive Rather quotes from the cited interviews: For Clinton, Dan Rather is Putty in His Hands CBS Anchorman Has Long Track Record of Cheerleading and Softball Questions for President Clinton Why would Bill Clinton choose Dan Rather to be the first TV interviewer -- in effect the master of ceremonies -- for his book unveiling? Because Clinton knows that for him, Dan Rather is a soft touch, a powder puff, an apple polisher, a lapdog. Look no further than Rather's thumbs-up book review in the New York Observer, "As presidential memoirs go, on a five-star scale, I give it five." Rather had the interview in the can, and he's still plugging Clinton's book. Or recall how Rather greeted Clinton's well-wishing about his new pairing with co-anchor Connie Chung at a CBS affiliates meeting on May 27, 1993: "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." > Rather isn't always this easy. On January 25, 1988, Rather talked over and yelled at Vice President Bush over the Iran-Contra scandal: "You've made us hypocrites in the face of the world!" By contrast, note Rather's record of softball sit-downs with Clinton: > December 19, 2000: On 60 Minutes II, Rather asked about Clinton's excellent record: "The country's still in the midst of an almost eight-year boom. The country's at peace. You've had by many measurements, if not most, a reasonably successful presidency. Why are we having a Republican President come in behind you?" And he pounded the Democratic line: "To those who are absolutely convinced that the Supreme Court had a Republican majority and wanted a Republican President and voted politics not the law, as an attorney, and as our President, you say what?" Rather asked about "personal failures" and Monicagate, but most questions were brief and open-ended. [For a full rundown of the above interview, see the December 20, 2000 CyberAlert, which features a RealPlayer clip: http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20001220.asp#2 ] > March 30, 1999: In the first TV interview granted after Clinton's impeachment, Rather tip-toed into a question on family healing instead of Clinton's lying under oath: "Mr. President, you know Americans like to know that the First Family is okay, that they're doing all right. Given the year plus what you and our First Family have been through, tell us what you can about how the three of you are doing." Rather's next toughie: "How about yourself? We're here in a room with pictures of Lincoln, Washington, Continental Congress. When you look back over this year plus, what's the moral of it? Does it have a moral?" [For a full rundown of the above Oval Office session, and a RealPlayer clip of it, see the April 1, 1999 CyberAlert: http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/1999/cyb19990401.asp#1 ] > August 19, 1996: On the Evening News, Rather asked Clinton about Whitewater, without noting the felony convictions of his business partners, the McDougals: "Now, we have in the papers this man James McDougal. He is helping the special prosecutor. Are you worried about that? Is he a truth-teller? Tell me how you feel about that?" He then turned to how liberals felt Clinton was too conservative: "This is their point, if you're going to preside like a Republican, why not have a Republican President, a real Republican?" > March 24, 1993: On 48 Hours, Rather whimsically asked: "Mr. President, it's my unfortunate duty now to ask the tough questions you don't want to hear. Number one: do you have a favorite in the Oscar race for the Academy Awards? Have you seen these movies? Which one do you favor?" The next day, Rather raved to CBS This Morning host Harry Smith: "He's a very good historian....any viewer-listener who had been in that room would have been impressed with the breadth of his knowledge." END Reprint of June 17 Media Reality Check # Also, to illustrate today's CyberAlert, we've posted, at the top of the MRC home page, a RealPlayer clip of reporter Sheila MacVicar on a January 14, 1999 ABC News prime time show, relaying how a few months after the embassy bombings in Africa and U.S. retaliation against Sudan, Osama bin Laden "reaches out to his friends in Iraq and Sudan." MacVicar trumpeted how "ABC News has learned that in December, an Iraqi intelligence chief, named Farouk Hijazi, now Iraq's ambassador to Turkey, made a secret trip to Afghanistan to meet with bin Laden. Three intelligence agencies tell ABC News they cannot be certain what was discussed, but almost certainly, they say, bin Laden has been told he would be welcome in Baghdad." 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