Freepers are apoplectic about Rather

[rumguy]

They are en masse calling and emailing CBS and Rather. The phone lines at CBS are jammed - most can't get through. One freeper said 'this is war.'

"I want to write all CBS Sponsers... I will actively boycott and protest their sponsership of CBS in any way, shape or form in whatever way I can until Dan RatherFOS is put out of our misery!

333 posted on 09/10/2004 3:42:00 PM PDT by Caipirabob"

[dammit905]

1. Doesn't have any effect when we do it...

Don't see why it would have any effect when they do it.

[calimary]

38. [email protected] - email them and say THANK YOU!!!

[email protected]

Positive reinforcement, guys! Besides, the freepers are avalanching them the wrong way anyway, so we need to provide true balance.

[Kimber Scott]

60. My email to CBS

"Thank you, CBS and Dan Rather, for standing up to the political propaganda machine in order to bring us real, verifiable news. America is being plundered by sensationalistic, rumor-mongering masquerading as "news." Our country is in peril because of it. Thank you, for maintaining a lifeline to truth. I respect your integrity and hope you will continue to bring "real news" into our livingrooms, whether we like it, or not!"

[rumguy]

61. very good email

They need to know that millions are standing behind them.

[skooooo]

69. My response from CBS News...

I wrote them a little earlier today. Here is their response. Thank god for CBS.


===========================
Thank you for taking the time to write. Your support is appreciated.
As you can imagine, we've been inundated with negative emails. It's
refreshing to hear from a viewer such as yourself. We strive for the highest level of journalistic integrity and will continue to do so, no matter what the cost. A free society demands free, unmuzzled media expression.
Regina,

CBS Evening News

[Union Thug]

2. BWAHAHAHAHAH.... "exxxxxxceeeeeellllentttt"

Oh I love to see them squirm... This is a thing of beauty.

[jonnyblitz]

3. they only care that Bush got caught. they don't care that he is

a complete FRAUD! :puke:

[Bluebear]

7. Therein lies their whole moral fiber.

[jonnyblitz]

13. your sigline pic of Babs Bush and the comment she made

((((chilling)))))) I can remember when she said that...

[blue neen]

43. Well, her mind is a waste, and it's not beautiful.

[The Ref]

71. Barbara's beautiful mind...

Well, it's not all wrinkly like most people's.

(For those of you who forgot your biology lessons, wrinkly brain=intelligent. Like humans, dolphins, etc. Smooth brain=too stupid to move out of the way of a truck.)

[cthrumatrix]

14. better yet..it exposes CNN has a "hack network"

[gollygee]

45. Exactly! (m)

It doesn't matter whether or not the documents are legit. It doesn't matter whether he lied. It doesn't matter if he skipped out on the physical because he was using cocaine. All that matters is that Dan Rather dared to report on Bush's dirt. How dare he . . .

That is the ultimate thing that bugs me about freepers.

[merh]

4. Like freepers can do in Dan Rather!

they are as full of themselves as their fearful leader is!

The power of Kool Aide!

[Mr_Spock]

5. Wow, just because they reported the news? Funny how nutty they are.

I guess they're just getting emotional like some here get at times - it's just funny. I assume they're humans too - extremely ignorant humans.

[cheshire]

6. All GOP can dish it out but can't take it. yuck yuck

[Protected]

8. So they're going to boycott Wal-Mart?

LOL. Please.

[luaneryder]

20. Like that's gonna happen!

[redstateblues]

49. And Home Depot?

[zappaman]

9. ouch

The truth sure hurts, don't it?
Just emailed CBS to say "thanks".

[belle]

62. Me too.

[democrat_patriot]

10. Every call and email = ratings for CBS.

CBS will surely show everything now.

Why does Faux get 'good' ratings? Right wings freaks who eat it up, and the Patriotic Left watching to make sure they don't get away with it.

[xcmt]

11. I just peeked there.

They're going nuts. What I especially love are the following arguments:

"He's focusing on the story, not the evidence! He's only talked about the superscript and the font!" Which is 2/3rds of the evidence right there. They just need to hammer proportional spacing now.

"Every other news source is reporting them as forged!" And yet none of them has any evidence whatsoever. The only news source talking evidence right now is CBS.

[Fleshdancer]

12. JEEZ! If the AWOL story was NOT true, then Bush would be able to prove it

We have documentation saying HE WASN'T THERE. Actual paper with actual writing. We have people who admitted to pulling strings to get Bush in to TANG in the first place! It's not as if CBS is throwing out wild accuasations *cough*FOX*cough* without proof for cryin' out loud.

:eyes:

[mumon]

40. "You can't handle the truth."

- Jack Nicholson.

[belle]

63. Well, exactly: it's on Bush now to PROVE HE WAS THERE.

And that's how it should be framed from here on out. It was *his* responsibility to show up. Let's see if he can muster any actual evidence that he did.

[AmerDem]

15. They know this is almost a death blow to shrub!

They will be kicking until they are covered in 6 feet of dirt!

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. A fine way to end a week and start the weekend!

[redstateblues]

50. Big Mo Is Starting To Smile On Us

The Tide Is Turning

[Bleacher Creature]

17. Apoplectic is a great word.

KICK!

[librechik]

42. apoplectic that their apocalyptic apotheosis is mere

apocrypha

[Gold Metal Flake]

67. Now you are flirting!

With your alluring alliteration!

[A_Possum]

18. Werrrrryyyy stewpid of them

All their freaking out does is show how damaging those memos are to Bush.

[necso]

19. Of course,

he stood up to them!

And I can tell you from personal experience that they don't like it.

In fact for a simple test of "neo-hood", I suggest standing up to a person and see how he/she/it reacts. If he/she/it reacts like a complete, out of control, vicious, threatening, asshole*, then he/she/it is a neo.

*: In these circumstances, I simply cannot use any other word. As for the "he/she/it", we are talking neos here, and I will use such terminology as is appropriate!

[phish420]

21. Freepers are weird

They want to boycott CBS for showing that claims that the documents are forged are wrong> So they think it is the job of the media to report lies and discard all truth? I mean I knew they were bad, but jeesh...just shows what kind of nutcases they really are.

[calimary]

37. The same people who want to do that now were singing CBS's praises

several months ago when Les Moonves pulled the Reagan movie. I finally saw that movie, by the way. It was NOT unkind to him. Not by a LONG shot. My husband even said it actually made you LIKE Reagan.

I like how the apoplexy is on the other foot now!

[Philostopher]

47. "Apoplexy is on the other foot"

Calimary, that is beautiful -- I really like that!

I dropped them a line to thank Dan for having integrity -- it's to be encouraged, no matter what your political affiliation, and that's pretty much the gist of what I sent.

[EST]

22. Does freep rhyme with creep?

Teehee

[wryter2000]

23. e-mail your support to CBS

[email protected]

[grasswire]

24. they never watch CBS anyway...

...and I hope CBS knows that. They already despised Rather.

Hooray! I feel good.

[catbert836]

25. Just like them

That's what they do whenever they hear real journalism. Fortuneatley and unfortunately, it dosn't happen too often.

[luaneryder]

26. This one is too funny

What BLATHER did was give everyone a flying finger tonight! He don't care if it's the truth or not! His job is not at stake! He has plenty of money and communists that love him! He could care less what we all think. He's not accountable to no one, W's character assassination be demand! He has the pulpit, his boss backs him up 100%, sponsors don't give a SH**, HELLywood loves him...DO YOU HONESTLY think he cares what we think?!! HELL NO! To the liberal establishment, Truth be demand! I HATE THE SOB and the evil RATS!! November 2 can't come toooooo soon for me! THIS IS ONE AMERICAN WHO IS FED UP with the stinking lying SOB's evil RATS!!
49 posted on 09/10/2004 4:15:36 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
........
Rose is flying pretty high tonight:D

[lasttrip]

27. lmfao. thanx.

[DancingBear]

28. Laura - stop posting and call the girls for supper!

Is our children hungry??

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

29. LOL Yeah

Truth be DEMAND....like the sound of that

[lakemonster11]

68. demand?

I could (sort of) forgive it the first time, but the guy repeats it twice!!! It's like Bush's "held hostile." You can tell these people don't read.

[Catherine Vincent]

30. lmao @ Rose in Texas

Stupid bush buttkisser!

[librechik]

44. Rose--your boy has the House, the Senate, the judges and the

keys to the ship of state. What on earth are you complaining about?

That this is a democracy, we're not all stupid ;ike you and it's still legal to complain about the King? Why don't you go move to Monaco,or North Korea, where your mindset is somewhat normal.

[The Ref]

72. That would be the YELLOW rose, of Texas

if Bush wrote it himself.

[Longhorn]

33. Truth be demand!

What the hell does that mean? What a hilarious idiot!

[xxqqqzme]

34. 'truth be demand'

I'm gonna have 2 remember that one...Rose has lost her listening and, obviously, her reading skills.

[Catfight]

35. He's probably beating his wife right now because Rather exposed

Bush for the COWARD and LIAR he's ALWAYS been. The WHOLE world knows Bush dodged duty but has no problem sending boys to die.

Burn motherfucker BURN! As the freaking wackjob Bush created quoted in FH911. You want to divide this country, keep bringing it on.

[Clinton Crusader]

41. LMAO!!! now dont go doing anythng RASH

:hurts:
:kick:

[rumguy]

48. that is a true gem - nice find

[WolverineDG]

52. umm, if this is how rose thinks?

THIS IS ONE AMERICAN WHO IS FED UP with the stinking lying SOB's evil RATS!!
49 posted on 09/10/2004 4:15:36 PM PDT by RoseofTexas

then why is she voting for bush????

:P

dg

[alphafemale]

54. I think we found the "perfect -match" for the Moran Mullet Man.

"Truth be Demand!" "Get a brain Morans!"
They'd be magical together.


On edit.
LOL! I need to pay better attention. Bad, bad typos.

[Politicub]

58. Freepers wail "Truth be damned!"

LMAO!!! I love it. Truth is finally seeing the light of day.

Everyone hates a liar and Bush is a proven liar!!

[belle]

65. Commies, everywhere you turn, huh, friend. Sucks, doesn't it.

:crazy:

[blm]

31. Freepers don't care about TRUTH or FACTS. they only care about BushPower

being absolute.

They don't care about the Constitution or good governance. They will sign a loyalty oath to Bush just as so many subjects were forced to do so by many a King throughout history.

They are Royalists, loyal to the Bush family. If it were up to these people 200 some years ago our national anthem today would be God Save the Queen.

[oasis]

75. Freepers are as scared of the truth as a possum is of an axe handle.

:scared:

[Catfight]

32. Freepers don't go to war, they let minorities fight them for them. n/t

[PurityOfEssence]

36. I always love the misspellings... (Say, is "FOS" "friend of Satan"?)

Charming little critters.

[Jackpine Radical]

39. Reat Leon Festinger, "When Prophecy Fails"

for the classic description of what happens when cultists get smashed by reality. Then go back to FR & have a look at all the wonderful examples of pathology.

Here's a quickie intro:
http://www.fact-index.com/l/le/leon_festinger.html

Festinger's theory arose from his observations of a Wisconsin-based flying saucer cult of the 1950s whose prophecy of universal destruction failed to come true. The cult prophesied a vast flood would soon kill everyone on Earth except for the members of the cult, who would be carried away by flying saucers. Before the predicted flood, the cult was very secretive and very reluctant to speak to the media or make converts. After the predicted flood, they stopped being secretive and spoke very eagerly to the media.

Leon Festinger, who studied the cult, explained this precisely by the fact that their prediction failed: there was no global flood and no flying saucers arrived to carry the cult to salvation. The cult was ridiculed, and though they had an explanation for the failure of their prophecy -- on the night in question their prayers "had spread so much light that God saved the world from destruction" -- nobody took it seriously. This is why Festinger suggested that the cult became fervently evangelistic. The only way for them to reverse their humiliation was to convert other people to their beliefs. If everyone believed, no one would laugh. However, this did not work: after such a spectacular failure, the cult predictably failed to convert anyone. For further information on the cult and its behavior, see Festinger's When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study and "When Prophecies Fail".

[Renew Deal]

46. Shove it up your ass freepers

:toast:

[rullery]

51. I sent my e-mail of appreciation to CBS and Dan Rather

for daring to tell the truth. If we ever allow such free speech to be supressed by a vocal group of neo-fascists, America will no longer be a free land.

[Neshanic]

53. Dan Rather was in rice paddies in Vietnam reporting when

these freeper pigs were piglets in their sty.

[Walt Starr]

55. Stupid Freeps, could have easily buried this story by ignoring it

but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! You fucking ignorant moronic sons of bitches just HAD to go make spurious claims that the documents were forgeries and keep the story moving along and sprouting additional legs.

Why, if I didn't know any better I'd say some liberals infiltrated your ranks just PRAYING for an opportunity like this in order to fan the flames of fear and inject the (un)righteous indignation to PUSH this sort of thing and RUIN the credibility of your heroes in the media.

If I didn't know any better.....


:evilgrin:

[Zen Democrat]

56. Rather has been rumored to be connected to CIA for 40 years ....

This may be an extension of the CIA getting revenge for Plame.

[EST]

64. Wha?

n/t

[avenueb]

57. my response from cbs

Dear _____,
Thank you for taking the time to write. Your support is appreciated.As you can imagine, we've been inundated with negative emails. It's refreshing to hear from a viewer such as yourself. We strive for the highest level of journalistic integrity and will continue to do so, no matter what the cost. A free society demands free, unmuzzled media expression.

Regina,

CBS Evening News

[undercoverduer]

59. This needs to get out!

It shows how fed up CBS is with the shit the White House pulls.

[Clinton Crusader]

73. wow! what did you say to get a personal response?

:kick:

[LynnTheDem]

66. Freepers are good little Nazis.

And like the Nazi brownshirts, they hate TRUTH, FACTS and REALITY.

Just wait until bush makes dissent treason; the freepers will be having orgasms as they call in to have their friends, neighbors, relatives, us, all "disappeared".

[Darby]

70. Funny that * saw a DENTIST but no time for the DOCTOR??

[lectrobyte]

74. What was the LBJ quote about Cronkite: "If I've lost him, I've lost

the country"? Do I detect the feeling of deja-vu all over again?