What seems like a long, long time ago Dan Rather was a very powerful force in American journalism. He not only was the anchorman of the CBS Evening News, he was also the face of the network’s renowned news division — the “Tiffany” network of bigger-than-life legends like Ed Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Mike Wallace and many, many others.
That was then. Now Dan Rather is suing the network that employed him for 44 years, asking for $70 million dollars in damages. Technically, the lawsuit is about a dry legal issue — breach of contract. But it is also about something much more personal to Rather: his legacy. It is a lawsuit, fundamentally, about saving Dan Rather’s reputation.
That reputation took a turn for the worse back in 2004. As has been widely reported, just 55 days before a very close presidential election, Dan Rather and his producer Mary Mapes put a story on the weekday edition of 60 Minutes that brought on the media equivalent of World War III. There were accusations that Rather, Mapes, and maybe the entire CBS News Division had set out to deliberately destroy George W. Bush and get John Kerry elected President of the United States – a charge everyone at CBS vehemently denies.
The story was about how the young George Bush got preferential treatment during the Vietnam War; how he wangled his way into the Texas Air National Guard back in the 1960s to avoid service in Vietnam; and how he was able to do it because his father was a big-shot, a United States Congressman from Houston. The story portrayed the Bush as a slacker. Others have said it portrayed him as a “cowardly draft dodger.”
And to bolster their story, Rather and Mapes got their hands on “never-before-seen” documents (as Rather put it in his story) that supposedly backed up their months (and in Mapes’ case, years) of reporting. But in no time flat the documents came under attack, mainly by conservatives on the web who examined the typeface of the memos and concluded they were fakes.
CBS News management aggressively defended the story in general and the documents in particular – until they didn’t. After about two weeks, CBS threw in the towel and said it could no longer stand by the story. Rather, who had been vigorously defending his story, reluctantly went on the air and admitted the documents could not be authenticated. Later he would say he was forced to do it.
In the aftermath of the fiasco, CBS established an outside panel to look into the matter. In January of 2005 the panel issued a report which concluded the news division failed to establish that the documents were legitimate and not bogus. Mapes was fired. A vice president and two producers were forced to resign. And Dan Rather was a dead man walking.
He had already lost his job as anchorman of the evening news but was allowed to stay on the weekday edition of 60 Minutes, which his story had sent on a glide path to oblivion. And when that show died an inglorious death Rather went over to the Sunday edition of 60 Minutes. But that wouldn’t last long, either. When his contract ran out CBS yanked him off the show, but made him an offer he decided to refuse: Rather would get an office and an assistant and he could report stories for any CBS News broadcast that called on him – if any CBS News broadcast ever chose to call on him. CBS offered Rather $250,000 a year, according to my sources, who say he wanted a million. When he didn’t get it, he quit. According to Rather, he was pushed out the door by the head of CBS, Leslie Moonves.
In 2007, Rather filed his $70 million lawsuit against his old company saying he wasn’t allowed to defend his story because the top management of CBS’ parent company, Viacom, wanted to appease the Bush Administration and protect its business interests.
Until now, the controversy over the Rather/Mapes story has centered almost entirely on one issue: the legitimacy of the documents – a very important issue, indeed. But it turns out that there was another very important issue, one that goes to the very heart of what the story was about – and one that has gone virtually unnoticed. This is it: Mary Mapes knew before she put the story on the air that George W. Bush, the alleged slacker, had in fact volunteered to go to Vietnam.
Who says? The outside panel CBS brought into to get to the bottom of the so-called “Rathergate” mess says. I recently re-examined the panel’s report after a source, Deep Throat style, told me to “Go to page 130.” When I did, here’s the startling piece of information I found:
Mapes had information prior to the airing of the September 8 [2004] Segment that President Bush, while in the TexANG [Texas Air National Guard] did volunteer for service in Vietnam but was turned down in favor of more experienced pilots. For example, a flight instructor who served in the TexANG with Lieutenant Bush advised Mapes in 1999 that Lieutenant Bush “did want to go to Vietnam but others went first.” Similarly, several others advised Mapes in 1999, and again in 2004 before September 8, that Lieutenant Bush had volunteered to go to Vietnam but did not have enough flight hours to qualify.
This information, despite the fact that it has been available since the CBS report came out four years ago, has remained a secret to almost everybody both in and out of the media — one lonely fact in a 234- page report loaded with thousands of facts, and overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the documents.
I made an online check and discovered that while a few websites noted the CBS finding, the story got no ink (that I could find) on the news pages of any big mainstream paper. I did manage to find two opinion pieces about the CBS mess – one in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the other in the Miami Herald — that briefly, and only in passing, mentioned the “Bush volunteered” angle. But that was it! A check of network newscasts turned up nothing. And when I questioned two journalists with intimate knowledge of the story, both said Mapes never shared her information with them.
For the record: George W. Bush has always maintained that he joined the National Guard not to avoid service in Vietnam but because he wanted to be a fighter pilot. He has openly acknowledged that he did not want to be drafted and serve in the infantry, and says he signed up for the Guard knowing full well he would have to spend almost two years in flight training and another four years in part-time service.
It is also true, however, that in his 1968 application to join the Texas Air National Guard Bush was asked if he wanted to go overseas and he checked the box that said “do not volunteer.” But as the Washington Post reported on July 28, 1999: “Bush said in an interview that he did not recall checking the box. Two weeks later, his office provided a statement from a former, state-level Air Guard personnel officer, asserting that since Bush ‘was applying for a specific position with the 147th Fighter Group, it would have been inappropriate for him to have volunteered for an overseas assignment and he probably was so advised by the military personnel clerk assisting him in completing the form.’” He later told the Post: “Had my unit been called up, I’d have gone . . . to Vietnam. I was prepared to go.”
However the complexities and seeming contradictions are interpreted, if Bush at any point had volunteered to fly combat missions in Vietnam – as the CBS investigation unequivocally states — how then could he have been a slacker? The clear answer is that he could not – unless, of course, he volunteered to go to Vietnam knowing full well he wouldn’t be taken. But if that was the case Mapes would have had an obligation to report both that he volunteered and then produce a credible witness to say it was a sham. She did neither.
Mapes, a well-known liberal at CBS News, has always contended that she had no agenda, that she was not out to get President Bush. But if she knew that George Bush had volunteered for service in Vietnam – as the CBS outside panel clearly concludes — she obviously had an obligation to share that with her viewers.
Now the question is, did she share what she knew with her correspondent, Dan Rather. Or to put it another way: What did Rather know — and when did he know it? The answers may come out at trial, if his case against CBS goes that far. At the moment, neither side appears anxious to settle.
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Mr Goldberg, I just heard you saying that it is ok to call someone retarded on megans fox program, How would you know, have you ever been the recipiant of those remarks. I had a “retarded” brother and my mother and father went thru hell all of their lives because of it. other people who have not been thru the agony have no idea of how much you suffer. They assume because you have a child with a problem something is wrong with you also. they stare, and point and make fun of you and your child. Its bad enough that you have all the work and responsiblilty of a special needs child, but other people who have not been so blessed, make you look like a fool, like you did this on purpose. Believe me when I say, its not fun and the word retarded is slung around all the time by everyone., who are too stupid to be at all the least bit sensitive to others. So the next time you feel like insulting an unfortunate group of people. think before engaging your mouth. Normally I like you and you are right on the money, but in this case you are very wrong and no we are not out here agreeing with your supposition that those of us who have sufferedd think it is some joke. CMM
Would you comment on why this story from Israel re the dedication of a memorial to the victims og 9/11 has not appeared in any mainstream publication or TV outlet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRPYTiN5Oso
The health reform is not about health, is all about more taxes and more control. Attack their weakness and break the bipartisan stranglehold? It’s about all we have left. Register Independent (Indies). The biggest fears the Politicians have are: not being re-elected, term limits, tax revolts and loss of power. Bipartisan politics does not work. Why not register for 1. More candidate voices and 2. MORE VOTER CHOICES?
If we don’t come together, we may be doomed.
If not you then- whom? If not today- then when?
I just registered to join your forums and everything was fine till I actually tried to sign in. the red writing said that the account was inactive and that is pretty good to just now sign up and immediately be inactivated.
Thanks Bernie you are a pal
regards
hammer_blue
Mr. Goldberg: You don’t think the protestors were a cross section, so Hannity and Beck are liars. The cross section thing is an opinion. I was in D.C. I also like to think of us as a cross section. Tune in Maddow or Oberman if you want real lies after lies after lies. Hannity and Beck don’t just set out to lie like you implied. Maddow and Oberman do. Why didn’t you say that? The president lies. Joe wilson was right. Why didn’t you say that? Your arguement was very, very weak!! This battle with the left is very difficult because their ideas are built on lies. For instance, they say socialized health care will actually cost less. It will cost more!! They know it will cost more. The whole idea that humans cause global warming is a lie and they know it. Yet it is their gospel. They will fight you to the death over it. We have to have the Hannitys and the Becks because they expose them for what they are– with the truth!!
During O’Reilly’s discussion about the difference between commentators and journalists: it was hinted that the Glenn Beck show does not tell the whole truth. Can you elaborate on this? As a jounalist, where are deceptions that we should be aware of as concerned citizens watching his show?
GOOD news Bernie & the RW won’t talk about…
Stocks spike to 1-year highs
Economic optimism helps Wall Street extend gains, with the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P hitting the highest points since fall ‘08.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Stocks gained Wednesday, pushing Wall Street to its highest level in a year, with a rise in industrial production and a spike in commodity prices and equities fueling the advance.
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) gained 108 points or 1.1%, according to early tallies, closing at the highest point since Oct. 6, 2008. The S&P 500 (SPX) index rose 14 points or 1.4% and closed at its highest point since Oct. 3 of last year. The Nasdaq composite (COMP) rose 27 points or 1.3% and was on track to close at its highest point since Sept. 26, 2008.
Stocks ended Tuesday’s session at the highest point in nearly a year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the recession is very likely over although the job market will still struggle. The upbeat economic sentiment stretched over into Wednesday’s session and was helped along by the day’s economic news.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/16/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?postversion=2009091616
Willy Burns, how does it feel to explore your inner idiot?
Right Wing applies broad brush tactics to ACORN but…would never consider the same treatment for their friends in the clergy.
If the same outrage was directed at the ‘faith based community’, we’d have witnessed the end of the Faith Based Initiatives some time ago.
Funny how a white boy preacher can bugger a kid, or do meth and engage in homosexual conduct, or seduce a parishioner and destroy a marriage, or just flat out steal their church into bankruptcy and “all is forgiven”, but let a couple of black women talk to a phony pimp and his girl, offer a little bad tax evasion advice, and Congress itself has to act against the organization.
But, no, no, there’s no racism here. Move along, folks. Nothing to see here. All the restraint that the Dems have shown about investigating the Bush Gang, and the righties are going to jump all over for an SP for ACORN. Shameless
Bernie, Just hold much does FoxNews pay you to be Bill O’Reilly’s monkey?
robert a. wood says:
September 16, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Joe Wison is a hero! He has the guts to tell the truth. Obama IS a liar.
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Obama lied about what?
Willy Burns, The question should be; what has Obama not lied about?
Obama lied when he stated that illegal immigrants would not be afforded health care under his grandiose plan. We all know this to be a big lie. He is a liberal and it is their (liberals) forte to allow illegal immigrants the same opportunities that are only supposed to be allowed to citizens. So, therefore he is a liar.
p.s. I am from Illinois where he claims to be from and he fought for illegal immigrants to have the same rights as citizens to include the ability to apply and receive state funded health care.
Joe Wison is a hero! He has the guts to tell the truth. Obama IS a liar.
Bernie, I agree with you that the main stream media is no more. It is now the OLD STREAM media just like the main street became when the by pass was built. We now call it OLD MAIN STREET.
Mr. Goldberg– I’d like to nominate another moniker for the “main-stream” media: “left-wing fundamenalists.” They insist upon a literal, word-for-word interpretation of their political Bible, and denounce and demean as heretics and partisans anyone who doesn’t agree.
apologies for the redundancy–my computer mis-behaved and I thought the first message didn’t go through
Mr. Goldberg
I’ve enjoyed your Fox News commentaries and I’d like to suggest a new moniker for the so-called “mainstream media.” For years I’ve referred to these people as “left wing fundamentalmists.’ Or simply, “fundamentalists.” After-all, they refuse to accept any thinking or belief that isn’t precisely and literally spelled out in their political Bible.
Keep up the good work.
Bernie, you said what I have been saying for months. Why are we calling it the mainstream media when it lacks credibility and has become irrelevant to rational and well informed Americans. Anyone with even half a brain stopped listening to their propaganda of “America is the villain” message long ago. The term “has been” media would be more accurate.
…but what if it IS the villain???
Dear Bernie
Good idea to get rid of “mainstream media.” How about lamestream leftwing instead ?
I always enjoy your writing. When I see you on the screen I stay there. I never watch network news and feel better without that garbage. I’ve never watched even one minute of Katie News. Does MSNBC stand for Media Spin from the National Barack Channel ?
Best Wishes
Marshall Mller
Lilburn, Georgia
Bernie, you are the greatest!! I enjoy you on fox, even though it’s hard to get a word in with Bill O. – You are working for us and we thank you!!!
Bernie, I think another good name for the former MSM would be What’sLeftMedia. Since they’ve lost most of their viewers to Fox, they are What’s Left, and “Left” is What they are. Just a thought.
I attended a Town Hall meeting in Tinton Falls NJ on 9/12/09. Let me first say that I was accused by the crowd of being a Fox listener– Like that’s a bad thing~
Rush Holt started his speech by saying– “Americans are dying younger, living sicker lives and paying more for health care than ever before”– WHERE IS HE GETTING HIS STATISTICS from???????? Is he right??? I don’t think so!!!!!!!
This is a big wake up call for me– I really didn’t think our senators and rep’s were so out of touch with the American people !! But they are!!
I was outraged by his bare faced lies all in an effort to deliver his preset “speech” to ram gov’t health care down our throats even though the majority of Americans are happy with their current insurance. He admits this but then went on to say with gov’t health care it will be more effective, cost less-really nothing at all and be very high quality patient care. He is out of his mind!!
I am a true believer in The Founding Father’s ideals for this country and it was so outrageous how Holt went on with his gibberous comments about how tens of millions of Americans do not have health care now (not true!! ) & how our Social Security system is good shape, and how the Gov’t Health Care proposal will “save” us money and how he is involved in a bill that would recover carbon emissions and he would then collect the carbon emissions in a big balloon and stick it under the ocean floor somewhere— This will only cost us a billion dollars & how “He” wants to save the planet from global warming–He also flat out said that doctors are currently cheating the system getting paid by ordering unnecessary tests on their patients. And then went onto say Capitalism is the reason for the failure of the health care system as we know it today. He likes Socialism. Share the wealth around. Take it from the rich (who happen to work very hard for their income) and give it to the poor (people who don’t work very hard to support themselves). He thinks that the era where the most wealthy morally owe it to the poor (who can’t afford health care, or just don’t want it) the commitment of health care even if a bill has to be passed to mandate this. This guy is out of his mind!!!!!!!!!!!!
He also addressed the question of abortion being paid for by the proposed gov’t health care – his answer to this question was to say that 40% of abortions are now covered by private insurance companies anyway. IS THIS OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!!!! Other than medical necessity due to life threatening illness to the mother would I predict that an abortion would ever be paid for by a person’s private insurance. This statistic is a LIE!!!!– All Rush Holt did was lie!!!
His format for this so called “town hall meeting” was to submit questions into a box and then the mayor of the town of Tinton Falls would then pick the questions at random and read the questions to Holt for an answer. Holt never once answered any question — not one. He had a set agenda and basically just read a preplanned speech in response to the questions.
I questioned him in person at the end as he was walking out and put it to him that I was very dissatisfied with his lack of answering any questions on point. Like the questions that were repeated to him asking, how will we pay for the gov’t health plan? and how will you get doctors to participate? and what qualifications will these doctors have?- will they be US trained or come from a 3rd world country where health care and quality of life is so much less than our great nation’s?–and why is the gov’t health plan allowing illegals to participate?– He stopped me and said he had answered all of these questions but I was just not listening to him during his responses (That I was making such a disturbance trying to interrupt him)— He said he had answered all of these questions to the best of his ability– I then replied , “well then respectfully you don’t have the ability to answer these questions because you did not even attempt to do so.
When I answered out of turn during his carefully pre-planned speech, the mainly democratic audience tried to shut me up and the few others who were also obviously opposed to gov’t health care as well. Holt had the local police come down the isle and stand by our row in an effort to intimidate us to shut up and yet the police just kept letting the Dem’s clap away~ laughing and giddy at everything this guy said– which was all a bunch of BS!!
What happened to my 1st amendment right– you know Freedom of Speech??
It was like being spoken to by a dictator-shut up-sit back- listen -clap in agreement with the speaker or risk being intimidated & thrown out & arrested by the police– IS this my America??????????
Rush Holt is the BIGGEST liar I have ever seen-other than Obama—saying the gov’t health plan would not cost any more than what it costs to run the health care system now for 2 months currently–???–what does this even mean?? He also said that Tort Reform would not make a miniscule difference in reforming our current health care system. He said that frivolous lawsuits, if eliminated, would not make a difference in saving costs for our health care system now. Where is he getting his information from???? From NO WHERE!!!!!!!??????
He also said that Medicare today is run 97% efficient. How does one respond to this statement?
In closing this town hall meeting was a very bad scene–(Un-American) — Rush Holt is living in Fantasy Land –where there is an insurance store (as he tells the tale)– A store in Neverland that will allow the average American to pick your own health plan. And if you pick the gov’t plan it will be practically free– and you can keep your doctor and will live longer, happier and with more money saved. Hearing this garbage made it a clear indication that Obama won and he will get what “HE” wants– not what we want or is right or good for this country-sounds like a dictator to me!!!!!–
People in the crowd kept saying to me “We won– Obama Won!!!– get over it and gov’t health care is going through. They were saying to me, “Your side lost– get over it!”
I was obviously viewed as a heckler but what I really am is an American, who feels like all my rights are being stripped away. I am not embarrassed to say I have no moral obligation to ensure that a certain amount of uninsured people in this country get health care. No one is denied medical treatment irrespective of your health care status now. Just because a certain number of Americans are uninsured and many choose to be so, should not be the impetus to change the entire US health care system especially since the majority of Americans are “happy” with their current health care. Do we really want to live in this country where we are FORCED to buy health care? What will the gov’t force us to do next? –Join a civilian army perhaps?
But how do we stop this from going through????????? –God Help Us!!
You obviously haven’t been in the position of needing health care you can’t pay for, have you? I know people with non insurance and are out of work or disabled (but too emotionally wrecked to undertake the 2+ year process of securing disability) who haven’t seen an MD in years and years, and can’t get chronic conditions addressed because they’re not yet life-threatening critical.
Don’t you get that if you and your employer don’t have to pay inflated insurance premiums, you’ll have more than enough to pay the added taxes and come out ahead under a government-sponsored plan (especially single payer)? No one is suggesting ther wouldn’t be a tax increase. But that would be more than compensated for by the elimination of insurance premiums. Especially once the 30+% differential between the insurance companies’ premium intake v. benefits paid is shaved off. Medicare’s is only about 2%.
Can’t call the irrelevant “old press” “elite” press.
considering: . elite or elites = A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual…………………… Clearly inconsistent concepts
Even worse than mainstream press
Bernie…..now watching you Monday night on Bill O’Reilly. I’ve been to many 100,000 people football games and this Capitol event was much, much larger. I was there and it was great At least 200,000 folks their and Bill’s sources are flawed. This got much bigger than anyone expected and the folks from all over the country were great and well behaved.
Keep up the good work!
Bob Brickner from Fairfax Station, Virginia
Subject: Obama’s statement about keeping your health plan NOT TRUE
President Obama says, “If you like your health care plan you can keep it.”
This statement is not true.
When health care reform passes you will no longer be able to buy the kind of health insurance you have now.
For example, if the plan you have now excludes coverage for preexisting conditions, that will go away.
If they have a cap on what they will pay out if you are really sick, that will go away.
If they want to drop you when you are sick or raise your rates so you can’t afford it, that will go away as well.
You will no longer be denied life saving procedures by insurance company death panels like you have now.
So when Obama says that you can keep your health plan, don’t believe him. He’s lying to you.
He’s going to force you to get a better plan for less money whether you like it or not.
http://marc.perkel.com
Lt. George W Bush Texas Air National Guard record
Lt. Col. Killian Memorandum for Record, 8/1/72: “…suspended from flight status due to failure to perform to USAF/TexANG standards and failure to meet annual physical examination (Flight) as ordered…Officer has made no attempt to meet his training certification or flight physical.”
(grounded.gif ) – Bush’s suspension from flying; “Reason for Suspension” Failure to accomplish annual medical examination.” (9/29/72; confirming verbal orders of 8/1/72) (James Bath is also suspended on this same document.)
Too scared, too drunk, or too snorted up?
It was only a simple physical after all.
Great research Bernie. Is the report the outside panel produced available to the public? Maybe even online somewhere?
People, Of course, STILL missing from your beloved Bush’ records…
Bush’s last DD-214
Records from the Flight Inquiry Board convened after Bush was suspended as a pilot
Any evidence of Bush’s reclassification into another AFSC after suspension as a pilot
Air Force Form 142 (Aviation Service Audit Worksheet)
Any photos of George Bush in a military uniform after 1972
Anything at all from any Alabama unit with Bush’s name on it
Any copies of form 44a from the Alabama National Guard certifying attendance
Anything proving service by Bush between May 1972 and May 1973
HMMM…guess that shows what Bush really is….
Well we do know one thing Bush is not. The type of person who would let someone drown while they went home to sleep and then have a nice breakfast. Never bothering to call anyone except their advisors.
Or promise no new taxes for 95% of the people during the election and then immediatley raise excise taxes once in office. Just wait for the other tax hikes being discussed. Don’t believe me….fine. We will see who’s right. Or say England and France have healthcare model we should model…..
Thought this would interest you:
In England, hospitals spent less on breakfast, lunch and an evening meal than the £2.12 a day allocated for food by the prison service. One spent just £1.
Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb said: ‘It’s incredible that so many hospitals are failing to serve healthy meals. If prisons can serve good food then so can hospitals.
You will notice I actually provided a name you can google to verify fact. Unlike yourself I do not post data that cannot be verified with actual evidence.
What about France you say:
Since World War II , the French system has been grounded in the philosophy that everyone should have access to health care. That doesn’t mean everyone is treated equally. There are those who are more educated or higher socio-economic groups that use more specialty care and probably have access to better quality care, but everyone has access to the minimum.”
HHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! Debating a child is more challenging. You lib wacko’s are a waste of time and effort. Wait, that took no effort at all. You lefist nutroots are a silly bunch.
The liberal nutroots go BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Sheep waiting for slaughter….
It took Castro a violent revolution to implement communism. All it taking here is some Democrat with a few ubiquitous catch phrases to reel in the idiot’s and slackers.
Ardy2009 says:
Well we do know one thing Bush is not. The type of person who would let someone drown while they went home to sleep and then have a nice breakfast.>>
Oh but, His father G.H.W. Bush did! George Jr. never got the opportunity to do anything, except warm bar stools, in Texas & Alabama!
Billy Boy, I’m answering this ’cause I have some time to kill and you are such an easy target, and the rest of the posters take great pleasure in reading your moronic rantings. So let’s see how you blubber your way through this response to your repeat of Democrat Underground/Daily KOS blogs from 2004 that you posted above:
“People, Of course, STILL missing from your beloved Bush’ records…
Bush’s last DD-214 : CORRECT! Guard members don’t get DD-214s (except for Title 10 active duty tours) – they get NGB Form 22 – and it’s there if you actually look rather than mouth off.
Records from the Flight Inquiry Board convened after Bush was suspended as a pilot THERE AREN’T ANY – because that is a commander’s perogative and very costly. And they are called Flying Evaluation Boards, not Flight Inquiry Boards.
Any evidence of Bush’s reclassification into another AFSC after suspension as a pilot : LOOK AGAIN – THERE IS ONE to a 9000 series admin position to clear the pilot position on the manning document.
Air Force Form 142 (Aviation Service Audit Worksheet) NOT A GUARD FORM. A separate sheet called a RIP is used for service, along with an annual report of duty days. They’re all in his records if you’d just shut up and read them.
Any photos of George Bush in a military uniform after 1972 PROBABLY NOT..So what. Who besides John Kerry runs around having people take pictures of himself?
Anything at all from any Alabama unit with Bush’s name on it SO LET”S RIP UP THAT DENTAL EXAM SHEET that was in the Washington Post and other pubs.
Any copies of form 44a from the Alabama National Guard certifying attendance NONE AT ALL _ The Guard uses NG Form 105, not AF Form 44a, which the AF and AF Reserves use. Didn’t know that, did ya?
Anything proving service by Bush between May 1972 and May 1973 YEP – Right there on the pay records released in 2000 and again in 2004.
Now, Billy Boy, fearsome Naval Aviator and combat hero, would you please show us your DD-214 to prove your service, and all your combat medals and in-theater service ribbons?
And keep up your posts – they are quite entertaining.
Jeff “Global Cooler” Gannon, Earth to GC – you are replying to a post penned by “Wil Burns” – not “Bill White”. It’s unfortunate that you are letting your sarcasm and slurs go to waste like this. Public displays of your ineptitude can only trigger more self-loathing.