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CBS News FReeped <--- (actual headline)
Illinois Leader ^ | Friday, September 10, 2004 | by Arlen Williams

Posted on 09/10/2004 11:57:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

NEW YORK -- Yesterday, Goliath CBS News was delivered a smooth stone to the forehead by a FReeper.

A poster in the FreeRepublic.com conservative news forum mentioned something peculiar about two documents CBS’s 60 Minutes claimed on September 8 were generated by now deceased Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian regarding an allegedly National Guard-evading George W. Bush in 1973.

Within minutes following the broadcast, FReeper "TankerKC" wrote this to FReeper "Howlin'":

WE NEED TO SEE THOSE MEMOS AGAIN!

{snip]

Since then, news of the potential forgery glitch spread like wildfire from blog to blog and into the mainstream press - especially that of CBS competitors ABC and NBC.

(Excerpt) Read more at illinoisleader.com ...


TOPICS: Free Republic; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2004electionbias; cbsjumpedtheshark; cbsnews; civilwarii; culturewar; fr; fraud; freeped; freerepublic; frinthenews; hoax; killian; mediabias; memo; ratherbiased; smackdown
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To: Howlin
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Holy Cow .. that has got to be a record .. LOL!!!

41 posted on 09/11/2004 12:23:02 AM PDT by Mo1 (FR NEWS ALERT .... John Kerry over dosed on Botox and thinks he's Bob KerrEy)
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To: Texasforever
"Every one of the old media cartel will have to think twice about using dubious documentation from this point forward."

Do you really think that is going to happen? Feebs like Rather are so stuck in the past that reality is no longer a factor to them.

42 posted on 09/11/2004 12:24:12 AM PDT by blackbart.223
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To: Jim Robinson; MeekOneGOP; Smartass; Happy2BMe; Prime Choice; onyx; potlatch; nopardons; ntnychik; ..

CBS’s DAN RATHER TAKES HOME TOP “DISHONOR” AT MRC CEREMONY

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather won the “Quote of the Year” award last night at the Media Research Center’s annual “Dishonors” Awards Ceremony. The audience chose Rather from among the evening’s top three “Dishonor” award winners. Rather won for his absurd defense of Bill Clinton’s honesty during his appearance on Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor last May 15.

Bill O’Reilly: I want to ask you flat out, do you think President Clinton’s an honest man?
Dan Rather: Yes, I think he’s an honest man.
O’Reilly: Do you, really?
Rather: I do.
O’Reilly: Even though he lied to Jim Lehrer’s face about the Lewinsky case?
Rather: Who among us has not lied about something?
O’Reilly: Well, I didn’t lie to anybody’s face on national television. I don’t think you have, have you?
Rather: I don’t think I ever have. I hope I never have. But look, it’s one thing …
O’Reilly: How can you say he’s an honest guy then?
Rather: Well, because I think he is. I think at core he’s 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.

“It really wasn’t much of a contest,” said MRC President Brent Bozell. “Rather’s insistence that someone – much less a President of the United States – could be an honest man at his core and still lie about any number things was more than the audience could take. Rather admitted that we would consider it – in his words – ‘astonishing’ that anyone would think that way and say so, and he’s right.”

43 posted on 09/11/2004 12:25:54 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Howlin

That one works too.


44 posted on 09/11/2004 12:26:15 AM PDT by blackbart.223
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To: Mo1

Well, the CBS guy on O'Reilly last night that made the "pajama" remark also said their producer had been working on this for 4 years.

Four years, well then what was the holdup. Waiting for the "smoking gun"...well they got it, but the "smoking gun" seems to have blown up in their faces.

I believe it has to be intense hatred of Bush that made them so blind to their own bias that they ran with an ill-researched piece. After all, they've had every hit guy from Clark to Wilson on their show this year.

They didn't disclose the conflict of interests between the books and Viacom, etc.

They'd made lots of mistakes while trying to take down GWB, only this time it's backfired on them!

Hasn't hurt GWB a bit, but probably done irreparable damage to CBS and also spilled over to discredit the DNC (since they're standing behind the forgeries, carrying water for Rather).


45 posted on 09/11/2004 12:27:13 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: Howlin
BUMP

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46 posted on 09/11/2004 12:27:25 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: blackbart.223
Do you really think that is going to happen? Feebs like Rather are so stuck in the past that reality is no longer a factor to them.

Yes I do. I am a well known cynic but even I am astonished that this has happened. The only reason Rather hasn't folded is that there is an actual crime that has been committed and he and CBS knows it and they are in it up to CBS' eyball.

47 posted on 09/11/2004 12:28:00 AM PDT by Texasforever (Kerry's new slogan "IT'S NOT THE STUPID CANDIDATE SO STOP SAYING THAT")
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To: PhilDragoo
"Rather: Well, because I think he is. I think at core he’s 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.

I guess that pretty well sums Dam Rather up.

48 posted on 09/11/2004 12:29:44 AM PDT by blackbart.223
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To: Jim Robinson

Can't sleep, eh? Me neither. Say, this is some great stuff here!!! Yahoo! See you tomorrow at the Tailgate shindig. We'll have fun but it will be a somber time, too, remembering the fallen.


49 posted on 09/11/2004 12:30:43 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy
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To: Howlin

You done us proud. Thanks.


50 posted on 09/11/2004 12:31:30 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy
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To: Jim Robinson

Gotta love it!


51 posted on 09/11/2004 12:33:48 AM PDT by GVnana (If I had a Buckhead moment would I know it?)
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To: dawn53
Well, the CBS guy on O'Reilly last night that made the "pajama" remark also said their producer had been working on this for 4 years.

You're correct .. it was with Tony Snow

52 posted on 09/11/2004 12:34:14 AM PDT by Mo1 (FR NEWS ALERT .... John Kerry over dosed on Botox and thinks he's Bob KerrEy)
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To: Jim Robinson; Howlin; TankerKC; Buckhead

Looks like Howlin; TankerKC; Buckhead gave DAN RATHER & CBS the Mother Of All Zots!.....Viking Kitty would be proud


53 posted on 09/11/2004 12:34:56 AM PDT by tophat9000 ("Blackrock Bob" (aka DAN RATHER)....is in full denial)
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To: Texasforever
"Yes I do. I am a well known cynic but even I am astonished that this has happened."

Not cynical enough. I am not astonished it happend. I rather expected it. And it will only get worse.

But it will work to The Presidents favor in the long run I believe.

54 posted on 09/11/2004 12:35:42 AM PDT by blackbart.223
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To: Jeff Chandler

You can't be series.


55 posted on 09/11/2004 12:36:58 AM PDT by hobson
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To: Jim Robinson

We are the genie that is NOT going back into any bottle!!! They can't get rid of us now! We are a force to be reckoned with. Yesss!


56 posted on 09/11/2004 12:38:16 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Jim Robinson

This is truly history on the road to the new media and the loss of influence of the old. It would be great to have a permanent link of that post on the main page of FR.


57 posted on 09/11/2004 12:38:27 AM PDT by microgood
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To: hobson

It was a hugh mistake on the rat's part.


58 posted on 09/11/2004 12:38:33 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Thank you Rush Limbaugh-godfather of the New Media.)
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To: Jim Robinson

You're going to be in the history books, Jim, has that sunk in yet?

Good job. Thank you.


59 posted on 09/11/2004 12:42:15 AM PDT by VxH (The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
It was a hugh mistake on the rat's part.

Can it be said that they have been stuned by beepers?

60 posted on 09/11/2004 12:45:22 AM PDT by dasboot (<img src="XXX">)
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