{"id":1172491,"date":"2021-12-30T11:49:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172491"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:49:54","slug":"dan-rather-mocks-lets-go-brandon-meme-cites-truth-social-media-bashes-him-with-his-own-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dan-rather-mocks-lets-go-brandon-meme-cites-truth-social-media-bashes-him-with-his-own-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Rather Mocks \u2018Let\u2019s Go Brandon\u2019 Meme, Cites \u2018Truth.\u2019 Social Media Bashes Him With His Own Record."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdan-rather-mocks-lets-go-brandon-meme-cites-truth-social-media-bashes-him-with-his-own-record%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Wednesday night, former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather, who resigned after he infamously ran a hit piece on former President George W. Bush that used forged documents, tweeted a mocking attack on the anti-Biden meme, \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon,\u201d triggering a flood of responses on social media reminding him of his own history.<\/p>\n<p>Rather tweeted, \u201c#LetsGoBrandonReallyMeans \u2018You can\u2019t handle the truth.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoBrandonReallyMeans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LetsGoBrandonReallyMeans<\/a> \u201cYou can\u2019t handle the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanRather\/status\/1476399879979110400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That catalyzed responses like these:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Speaking of not being able to handle the truth, aren&#8217;t you the &#8220;journalist&#8221; who presented unauthenticated documents in a news report on President George W. Bush&#8217;s Vietnam War\u2013era service in the National Guard, and was abruptly fired for it?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TruthHurts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TruthHurts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoBrandon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LetsGoBrandon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vnRoY2dNPx\">https:\/\/t.co\/vnRoY2dNPx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Kolken (@mkolken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkolken\/status\/1476581056572792839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The man knows nothing of the truth <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d10xz4s2kl\">https:\/\/t.co\/d10xz4s2kl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Barclay (@MrJustinBarclay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrJustinBarclay\/status\/1476583689559621635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Didn\u2019t you get fired for lying on television?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanGirdusky\/status\/1476546501870600199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honey. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/phEob07pmX\">https:\/\/t.co\/phEob07pmX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chad Felix Greene \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 (@chadfelixg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadfelixg\/status\/1476543165125603328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.mrc.org\/profiles\/rather\/crisis.asp\">Media Research Center<\/a>&nbsp;gave a summary of the scandal that ended with Rather\u2019s resignation:<\/p>\n<p><em>On September 8, 2004, Dan Rather cited \u201cexclusive information, including documents\u201d to justify major&nbsp;CBS Evening News&nbsp;and&nbsp;60 Minutes&nbsp;stories alleging that George W. Bush shirked his duties when he was in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1960s and 1970s. Within a few hours of those documents being posted on CBS News\u2019 Web site, however, typography experts voiced skepticism that the documents had actually originated with their alleged author and Bush\u2019s former commanding officer, the late Lt. Colonel Jerry Killian.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As the evidence mounted, Rather stubbornly clung to the idea that his story was bulletproof, and he derided critics as partisans and Internet rumormongers. When he \u201capologized\u201d on September 20, Rather would not concede that the documents were forgeries, only that he and CBS could \u201cno longer vouch for their authenticity.\u201d On November 23, 2004, CBS announced that Rather would soon be leaving his job as anchor of the&nbsp;CBS Evening News. An investigative report released on January 10, 2005 faulted CBS\u2019s rush to put the flawed story on the air and their \u201cstubborn\u201d defense in the days that followed, but oddly decided that they could not blame partisan bias.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In May 2001, Rather appeared on Fox News Channel\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The O\u2019Reilly Factor, <\/em>where he insisted former President Bill Clinton was an honest man, leading to this exchange:<\/p>\n<p><em>Bill O\u2019Reilly:&nbsp;\u201cI want to ask you flat out, do you think President Clinton\u2019s an honest man?\u201d<\/em><br \/><em>Dan Rather:&nbsp;\u201cYes, I think he\u2019s an honest man.\u201d<\/em><br \/><em>O\u2019Reilly:&nbsp;\u201cDo you, really?\u201d<\/em><br \/><em>Rather:&nbsp;\u201cI do.\u201d<\/em><br \/><em>O\u2019Reilly:&nbsp;\u201cEven though he lied to Jim Lehrer\u2019s face about the Lewinsky case?\u201d<\/em><br \/><em>Rather:&nbsp;\u201cWho among us has not lied about something?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rather later added, \u201cI think at core he\u2019s an honest person. I know that you have a different view. I know that you consider it sort of astonishing anybody would say so, but I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on the Feb. 7, 2002&nbsp;<em>Imus in the Morning<\/em>&nbsp;radio show, Rather doubled down: \u201cI think the fact that someone has told a lie, even a big lie or maybe several big lies over a lifetime, does not mean that they\u2019re an inherently dishonest person\u2026.I believe in redemption and that Bill Clinton \u2013 is he an honest person? I think he is an honest person. Did he lie? Yes, he lied, and on those occasions he was dishonest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night, former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather, who resigned after he infamously ran a hit piece on former President George W. Bush that used forged documents, tweeted a mocking attack on the anti-Biden meme, \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon,\u201d triggering a flood of responses on social media reminding him of his own history. Rather tweeted, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}