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Dan Rather and the Chandra Levy story.

 
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benn



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 6:52 pm    Post subject: Dan Rather and the Chandra Levy story. Reply with quote

Should we start a topic about Dan Rather's handling of the Levy story? Maybe some side effects might develop that will help us to look in the right directions for more clues.

Here is one I had not read before.
benn

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/22/190650.shtml

Civil Rights Leader: Dan Rather Slurred Blacks with Chandra Comments

Carl Limbacher Jr.
Monday, July 23, 2001


The character of Buckwheat on the Little Rascals. Bigots have used him as the stereotype of a frightened black man.
A prominent California civil rights leader said this weekend that "CBS Evening News" anchorman Dan Rather used racially offensive language in an interview last Thursday with nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus.

The leader demanded that Rather apologize or be sacked.

Rather made the racial slur while explaining why CBS News brass finally caved in to mounting pressure over his decision to ignore the Chandra Levy-Gary Condit story.

Rather told Imus on-air:

"What happened was they [CBS management] got the willies, they got the Buckwheats. Their knees wobbled and we gave it up."

The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, head of the Los Angeles-based Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), told NewsMax.com that Rather's reference to "Buckwheat" - the easily frightened black character in the 1930s' "Little Rascals" comedies - is demeaning to African-Americans.

"Whenever you think of Buckwheat you think of black people," the Rev. Peterson said, adding that the comment has been cited as that used by racists and others to describe a frightened black man.

"You think of the 'Little Rascals' and the character Buckwheat. You think of 'Amos and Andy' where they played roles like that. The Buckwheat image has been used against black people for decades.

"Had a white conservative said that, or someone from Fox News Channel said that, there would be an outcry today from the black community," the civil rights leader predicted, "because that is a derogatory term which mostly applies to black Americans."

Repeated calls to the Baltimore headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition office in Chicago, as well as the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem, were not returned.

Several staffers at CBS News in New York, where Rather does his broadcast, declined to comment on Peterson's complaint. A spokeswoman for "CBS Evening News" did not return two calls seeking comment.

But a source familiar with the CBS news operation told NewsMax that Rather's appearance on Imus' show had CBS executives very worried.

NewsMax broke the story last Wednesday night that CBS executives had forced Rather to report the Levy-Condit story after Rather had censored the story for more than two months. Rather himself confirmed the NewsMax report on the Imus program Thursday morning.

CBS was worried enough about Rather's appearance on Imus that he was briefed heavily for the show, and CBS news staff prepared "talking points" for him to read to answer likely questions and issues raised by Imus during the phone interview.

But no one expected that Rather would come out swinging against CBS management, which included his use of the racial term "Buckwheats," the source said.

Despite CBS stonewalling about Rather's nationally broadcast racial slur, the Rev. Peterson remains adamant that he won't let Rather get away with his racist remark.

"I'm offended that Dan Rather is able to say that word on the air and get away with it."

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 1:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are a lot of newspeople that don't think Chandra and Laci and missing women are worthy of individual attention from news organizations. We post columns from them all the time. I often post my responses to them as well.

It's just a fact of life. Even the coverage that her disappearance did get was basically based on whether Condit would lose his seat or not from the apparently, to them, inadvertantly exposed affair. Most never gave any serious consideration to Condit being involved in her disappearance, just allegedly a congressman caught with his pants down and thus of only salacious interest at best.

It is the big picture that shows the interest is far from salacious that I address in Murder on a Horse Trail: The Disappearance of Chandra Levy. That interest will only become newsworthy, however, when the attention is from a grand jury, or why a grand jury is not allowed to focus that interest.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

>>> Rather made the racial slur while explaining why CBS News brass finally caved in to mounting pressure over his decision to ignore the Chandra Levy-Gary Condit story. <<<


well now, isn't that interesting? we've all seen proof that dan rather is the go-to man when the left wants to shape the public's understanding of a story with high stakes political consequences ... it makes all the sense in the world that he would be important in getting the public eye turned away from the story of a washington affair gone deadly bad. i don't think for a single moment that gary condit was anywhere near important enough in his own right to warrant that kind of high profile silent treatment, though ... he was just one more smarmy politico victimizing young women in washington, and those jerks are a dime a dozen on capitol hill.

there had to be something else about that story that called for special treatment by a top of the line story-spinner like dan rather ... betcha anything the reason we saw that kind of star power telling the viewing public that there was nothing in the chandra levy story that needed to be talked about was the dna found all over the walls in scary gary's apartment. a legitimately thorough investigation of chandra's disappearance would have involved finding out who was in her lover's apartment leaving their dna behind and whether she knew who left it there.

unless any investigation of her disappearance and death was stopped in its tracks early on, political careers would have been blowing up in all directions as the names of those dna depositers [eeeewwww!] became public. that kind of life-shattering loss [and a political career going down the toilet is certainly a life-shattering loss for the flushee] sounds to me like motive to not only silence a young woman who knew those names, but also a pressing reason to shut down any investigation related to silencing her and to make sure the public doesn't notice any of that. yup, ol' dan was definitely the go-to guy for that one.


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