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September 19, 2004

Dan Rather's serving the Kool-Aid

Interesting analysis from longtime-Democratic operative Pat Caddell, on Hannity & Colmes:

COLMES: Are you suggesting Michael that Dan Rather purposely did this story in order to hurt George W Bush and help elect John Kerry?

PAT CADDELL [DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST]: I'll say that, I believe it.

COLMES: Is that your suggestion?

MICHAEL REAGAN: Let me tell you, absolutely.

COLMES: You do believe that.

REAGAN: Absolutely. Why? Because he bit the apple he wanted to bite the apple of. He bit into the fraudulent papers to tell the story.

COLMES: All right, let me go to Pat Caddell here. Pat, you believe that?

CADDELL: I've always had great respect for Dan Rather. I cannot believe what's going on in this story. I think the entire elite in this country is on Kool-Aid. This is one massive Jonestown going on. What are you people drinking? I mean, what are you people drinking? The headline of the L.A. Times today, which I brought if you want to see it, and the same one in the New York Times, which is "Documents False, Content True". You know, I can say, I'll bet you the Czar's secret police were saying that about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Oh they're fake, but you know, you cannot in this country get up and say we have falsified documents, not saying where you got them from if they're false. All of their people, and I'm sitting here going, meanwhile, John Kerry and the Democratic Party are grabbing a hold of this and going right down the tubes with it and I've said on this show for a month. I mean, this is insanity--

COLMES: But Pat, do you really believe that Dan Rather purposely did this because he has a political agenda?

CADDELL: I think that Dan Rather no longer, let me just say, I'm beginning to believe that Dan Rather doesn't know the difference any more. If you watched him as I watched, do you know what he said tonight? Let me tell you what he said tonight. He said, well, the woman they interviewed is showing, well I didn't type the documents they're obviously false. And then he says, "She said something then more interesting"--that these are the things he thought about. That's more interesting than the fact that the documents are fraudulent? Let me tell you this: if you had interviewed the 86-year-old lady and there were no documents, would she be on in the New York Times, would she be on the front page of the LA Times, and would she be on 60 Minutes? The answer is no.

SEAN HANNITY [FOX NEWS]: Hey Pat, what's even worse is all the people they've ignored and had to bypass to get this story on.

CADDELL: Oh please, the guy you had on last night, the founder of CNN, is an exact example of what's wrong in this. The elite press cannot stand the idea that you got intelligent people, they get on the internet and see with their own eyes. This idea that we have to feed you, but I'm going to tell you what's really scaring me. What scares me with this, it's like what's going on with NBC right now. Three days of Kitty Kelley? Do you know guys that they did not, not once, I went and looked at their website, do you know that the swiftboat people, I don't believe them, not once have they been on?

HANNITY: Not once.

CADDELL: Three days in a row. You know, what is happening? What is that about? If you don't think that's about an election you're crazy.

HANNITY: Hey Pat, I'm going to be honest, it's your party that's imploding. I'm just going to let you guys do--

CADDELL: My party is being destroyed by this. And by the way, but let me tell you the larger issue here, what's really at stake is the freedom of this country. I would like to tell my friend Carl Bernstein--

HANNITY: Well, there are serious issues; I take it seriously.

CADDELL: Let me just finish a point here.

HANNITY: Go ahead.

CADDELL: I would like to tell Carl Bernstein, he's a very good friend of mine, he better wake up if he wants to see the first amendment. The reason we have a first amendment was the Founding Fathers did not like the press--read what Jefferson thought about them. We have a free press for one reason: to protect the country. That was the deal. It was not for them to tell the American people who to vote for, or who not to vote for, or what truth they can hear, or what truth they couldn't hear. When they do that, some day we're going to lose that right, we're going to lose our own freedoms over this. This is dangerous stuff.

Kool-Aid drinkers.

Heh.

The transcript is from Johnny Dollar's Place, where he posts quicker than you'd think possible. Check it out.

Posted by Mike Lief at September 19, 2004 08:50 PM | TrackBack