- I just recorded the following interview with Dan Rather,
On the Matt Drudge radio program, 3-16-3 10:15 PM.
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- The Truth is starting to come out of the Media! They
Can't stand the Censorship any longer !
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- Here are a few of the most important things CBS News
Anchorman Dan Rather said:
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- "There has never been an American war small or large
in which access has been so limited as this one."
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- "For Godsakes - and for the sake of the war effort
- Lets not turn the war into entertainment! It's an obscene comparison
but then there was a time in South Africa where people would put flamming
tires around people's necks if they dissented and in some ways the fear
is that you will be necklaced here, You will have a flaming tire of lack
of patriotism put around your neck. Now, it is that fear that keeps journalists
from asking the toughest of the tough questions and to continue to bore
in on the tough questions so often."
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- "What you have is a miniature version of what you
have in totalitarian States. If they produce films about how great the
great leader is and how he is getting greater in every way, every day..."
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- "The Pentagon's stated policy is maximum access
and maximum information consistent with national security."
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- "But what is going on to a very large extent I am
sorry to say is a belief that the public doesn't need to know, Limiting
access limiting information to cover the backsides of those in charge of
the war, Is extremely dangerous and can not and should not be accepted."
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- "And I am sorry to say that up to and including
the moment of this interview that overwhelmingly it has been accepted by
the American people."
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- "And that the current administration rebels in that
they relish that and they take refuge in that."
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- "The belief runs so strong in both the political
and the military leadership that in the current war effort those who control
the images will control public opinion."
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- "They realize what an entertainment-oriented society
ours has become."
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- "I hope this doesn't go any farther...it has gone
too far already. I am appalled by it. I do think it is an outrage. This
is a personal opinion."
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