BASH FATHER, BASH SON...The George Bush reelection team is bracing itself tonight as it prepares for another primetime assault by CBS News.
Five months after Dan Rather denounced the just-formed Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as "an experienced and successful Republican operation made up of veterans attacking Vietnam war hero John Kerry," the 72-year-old anchor and avowed Democrat is set to unveil an extensive interview with Ben Barnes, a former Texas Democratic politician who claims he helped a young Bush avoid service in the Vietnam War by getting him into the Texas National Guard in 1968.
Tonight's Bush attack marks the latest broadside that Rather and his CBS colleagues have launched against the Bush family. Beginning with his infamous ambush of George H. W. Bush during the Republican primaries in 1988 (which CBS beforehand promised would be softball "candidate profile" interview), Dan Rather and his colleagues have had it in for the Bushes.
Later in the same year, on the eve of the Republicans' convention, Rather was the sole network anchor to report on a lone man who accused the then-veep of lying about his service in World War II.
The Rest..,
Five months after Dan Rather denounced the just-formed Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as "an experienced and successful Republican operation made up of veterans attacking Vietnam war hero John Kerry," the 72-year-old anchor and avowed Democrat is set to unveil an extensive interview with Ben Barnes, a former Texas Democratic politician who claims he helped a young Bush avoid service in the Vietnam War by getting him into the Texas National Guard in 1968.
Tonight's Bush attack marks the latest broadside that Rather and his CBS colleagues have launched against the Bush family. Beginning with his infamous ambush of George H. W. Bush during the Republican primaries in 1988 (which CBS beforehand promised would be softball "candidate profile" interview), Dan Rather and his colleagues have had it in for the Bushes.
Later in the same year, on the eve of the Republicans' convention, Rather was the sole network anchor to report on a lone man who accused the then-veep of lying about his service in World War II.
The Rest..,
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