Ep. 9 - Dan Rather, The Movie!
The Andrew Klavan Show
The Andrew Klavan Show
4.8 • 22.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:26.9 | Slack.com slash THQ. Hollywood is making a movie about CBS Newsman, Dan Rather. I can't |
| 0:35.3 | wait. I got my sleeping bag for the ticket line, got my bucket of popcorn, got my |
| 0:40.5 | Dan Rather t-shirt and merchandise. I can't remember the last time I was this excited |
| 0:45.7 | without actually being inside the Department of Motor Vehicles. The movie is about that |
| 0:50.4 | time rather, got so desperate to lay a journalistic glove on a thoroughly uncorrupt and honest |
| 0:55.5 | President George W. Bush that he reached back to an incident that occurred when the then |
| 1:00.1 | nearly 60-year-old Bush was in his 20s and allegedly did something, something, something. |
| 1:06.7 | Using his super duper secret journalistic techniques, rather managed to secure some completely |
| 1:12.0 | fraudulent Bush-damming documents that were so skillfully manufactured they were exposed |
| 1:17.4 | as fake 15 minutes later by a 10-year-old girl using my little iPad. Rather, as you'll |
| 1:22.9 | remember, at first insisted that no the documents were real, then he was forced to admit the |
| 1:27.3 | documents were fake but insisted the story he had made up was real, then he was forced |
| 1:31.8 | to resign in disgrace and humiliation, although he was heralded as a great and honest newscaster |
| 1:37.5 | by Brian Williams, who remembered how they had fought side by side in the Battle of Izengaard. |
| 1:43.7 | Rather than sued CBS, but his suit was thrown out of court by a judge who wrote in his decision |
| 1:48.7 | quote, unquote, today an elder statesman of 83 rather has moved beyond the incident and |
| 1:56.7 | found inner peace in his role as a bitter, quarrelous old man who keeps insisting that the |
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