Posted on 09/10/2004 2:23:42 PM PDT by chunkycheese
Did anyone notice the fax number that appears on the top of the docs that CBS faxed to the whitehouse.
The fax number works. I just faxed CBS - if that is their real fax number.
Absolutely not. Bernie Goldberg addressed CBS "experts" in both Bias and Arrogance.
One thing that CBS can NEVER be accused of is letting FACTS get in the way of a good story. Rather would be better off coming on air tonight with panties on his head, claiming he's a prisoner of Bush's Media War.
CBS couldn't find an impartial document specialist? Biased, thy name is CBS.
James Byrd!!!
Dirty tricks!
Rather is in this up to his eyeballs!
James Byrd!!!
Dirty tricks!
Rather is in this up to his eyeballs!
I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that C-BS, in its coordinated campaign with the Cintonistas and the Ketchup/Breck ticket, supressed information that would prove that the infamous "memos" (which appear to have been generated by C-BS) as a pack of lies.
Bernie Goldberg called it when he published Bias. CBS ignored his warnings, and they're reaping the consequences.
Everyone look at the link in post 12...
Since CBS ratings are already in the cellar it would seem that Rather's only function is to give the Kerry campaign donations in kind.
Is it over? I just got Hannity on.....
My personal opinion is that outright fabrication goes on ALL THE TIME in our media, and it is only when they take on someone with big guns (i.e. GM, or GOP in this poorly-run forgery case) that they have even a chance of getting called on it.
Ms. Mapes's key point is her claim that 60 Minutes II sat on the story at the Pentagon's request for over 2 weeks, showing it only after they discovered the photographs were about to leak in other media outlets and after they informed the Pentagon of this fact and of their intent to air the report finally.
CHARLIE ROSE: Mary, let me just go first to you. Tell me about this story coming to 60 Minutes II because it has gotten such enormous play---how it came to you---and the relationship---because Dan [Rather] said at the end of the broadcast that there had been communication with the military, and you had been sitting on the story for whatever reason.
MARY MAPES: Well, we first got word of this---I think it was in mid-February---and I work with an associate producer Dana Roberson---Dana got the first tip---and we ended up chasing it, chasing it halfway around the world and back again. Trying not just to chase the rumors of it, but---but to find out what the reality of it. And in the beginning, a lot of it was whispered accounts of pictures that existed somewhere, an investigation that was going somewhere against someone, and we were able luckily to narrow that down and get our hands on the pictures which really gave us our first real hard proof that this was real.
CHARLIE ROSE: And what was the conflict within? Tell me about the journalistic decision to go with it. I mean, what did you need before you were willing to go with it? How much pressure was there not to do... to do it? What kind of communication with the Pentagon?
MARY MAPES: Well, we were always going to go with the story. I mean, once we had the facts of the story and the pictures and---and what we felt the context in which we could put the story, we were ready to go with it. When we contacted the Army, and I think this was the---we delayed the story 2 weeks as part of the process and continued to gather information along the way---but---when we first spoke with the Army about providing a spokesperson, which they felt they needed to do, they didn’t have anyone on hand they said who could speak to us at a high enough level about it and ultimately they asked: Please, could you wait until we have a general here or someone who could speak knowledgeably about it. And they also raised concerns about the hostages and Fallujah and the situation in Iraq. And we thought it would be the better part of valor to defer the story for a week, which we did. And then the second week came along and we kind of got the same sort of response from the Pentagon, that they wanted more time for the hostage or Fallujah situation to play itself out, and we got from high levels in the Pentagon a request that we hold it. And then the third week, the week we ran it, we made the decision early on that we were going to run it, in part because---and we had spoken to the Pentagon about this---the pictures were beginning to leak out and the story was beginning to leak out, and it was, um, time to g
CBS was conned, and they're paying the price while Kerry suffers enormous collateral damage...depending on the source. I'd love to hear GW say in a stump speech that Kerry has more positions on Iraq (and everything else), than a ten dollar whore on a Saturday night. But that's probably been said in private and on the net. Wouldn't do as a stump speech. Sigh.
Rather is looking more and more like David Krenshaw from the Dragon's Fury Series.
I will for the first time in years and years and years watch Dan Rather tonight. If he was looking for a rating spike he got it.
Rather and the Dims will ride this lie just as long as they can and never apologize or air a correction. Their hope being that everyone see the lie and some will never learn the truth. Fool a few here-fool a few there, and pretty soon they can amass a horde of misinformed, useful idiots.
They're showing Rather on CNN now. He is a lunatic.
I had replied, then it's pulled.
I am sure we understand that BW is an issue to be dealt with, since FR has gotten prolly the biggest publicity ever off this.
Good on the mods for zotting the dupes.
One second is pretty close. Do we need a clock with .01 second accuracy?
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