Dan Blather Rather is completely delusional. Apart from claiming a bizarre corporate media conspiracy to have him fired from CBS, Dan continues to maintain that the bogus Bush National Guard documents are in fact real.
I’m not sure it’s possible to offer any more proof that those damn documents were forgeries, and not very good forgeries at that.
Literally hundreds of thousands of people have looked at those documents since Dan broke the story, and the only person who still believes them to be real is Dan himself.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
THR: The documents were authentic?
Rather: The documents were a part of the story. But the story was about what is known, and questions unanswered, about President Bush’s service, and what we reported was true. This lawsuit is directed at Viacom, CBS, its ownership and its management. It has two parts: A contract with me that they broke, and the second part has to deal with fraud and how they handled the story. Basically, (it’s) the undue influence of the corporatization and the politicization of news coverage, some of which I didn’t know was happening at the time. Some goes back to our breaking the story of Abu Ghraib.
THR: But were the National Guard documents authentic?
Rather: I believe they are authentic. I believed it at the time, I believe it now.
THR: So all the people who have pointed out, for example, that the particular font on the documents didn’t even exist back then, they are wrong?
Rather: I’m glad you asked about that because, unfortunately, there has been a lot written and said about it, saying they were bogus, they were forgeries, none of which has stood up. But I do want to come back to the documents being just part of the story. The core of the story — what a journalist tries to do — is get the truth, or as close to the truth as possible. We did that. Our story was true.
-Chris Jones
