Posted on 09/11/2004 5:31:55 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
We noted earlier that the Boston Globe cited Dr. Philip Bouffard as its prime source for the claim that the forged CBS documents were created on a typewriter, but that Dr. Bouffard has now complained that the Boston Globe misquoted him and that in fact, "There are all kinds of things that say that this is not a typewriter."
Now, unbelievably, CBS News is relying on the Globe's misquotation of Dr. Bouffard to shore up their own untenable claims of the documents' authenticity! I guess I'm beyond being shocked by anything CBS News does, but they must have known that Bouffard has complained about the Globe's misuse of his name.
This is, of course, a sign of CBS's desperation, but it is revealing in this respect: CBS claims to have thoroughly investigated and validated the documents before they ran their story. Yet the key witness they relied on Gen. Bobby Hodges, has said that he was lied to by CBS News and that in fact, he things the documents are forgeries. Notwithstanding their supposed investigation, CBS is so hard up for ammunition to support their position that they have to repeat an already-exposed lie by the Globe.
BILL AT INDCJOURNAL earlier reported that the Boston Globe misquoted the statement of forensic expert Philip Bouffard. He has posted the results of a telephone interview with Bouffard, where Bouffard says they misrepresent his conclusions, suggesting that the documents may be genuine when he didn't say that, and reports that he's "pissed."
Now Bill reports that CBS is repeating the Globe misquote as part of its efforts to defend its own position. Bill has posted the Globe ombudsman's address and suggests that you contact her.
UPDATE: I don't know what they said on the air, but CBS is amazingly sloppy on their website, where they get Bouffard's name wrong, calling him "Phillip Broussard" -- even though they're referencing the Globe story which, despite misquoting Bouffard, at least gets his name right. CBS reports: "Saturday's issue of the Boston Globe reports that one document expert, Phillip Broussard, who had expressed suspicions about the documents, said 'he now believes the documents could have been prepared on an IBM Selectric Composer typewriter available at the time.'"
Bear in mind that to be quoting from the Globe article they must have had it in front of them, and they still got the name wrong. (Even adding an extra "l" to the first name.) Sheesh. Get these guys some pajamas, fast!
ANOTHER UPDATE: David Hogberg saw the broadcast and reports. They seem to have gotten the name wrong on the air, too.
At the climax of the movie Return of the King, the evil villain's tower collapses spectacularly.
Atop the tower is what looks like a flaming CBS logo.
DAN MAYDAY MAYDAY BAIL OUT BAIL OUT EJECT EJECT EJECT!
Have they not reduced Miss Kitty's appearance to one day re: her tell-all book? They fear that she will be dragged feet-first, kicking and screaming, into the Blogosphere and the Free Republic Truth Grinder.
Ooo we gonna mess with that po' woman.
""We believed Col. Hodges the first time we spoke with him. We believe the documents to be genuine. We stand by our story and will continue to report on it."
So CBS, faced with a witness who they misled and/or who recants within days, states they choose to believe him "the first time." What the heck journalistic standard is that, other than "we only believe witnesses when they say what we want"?
Bouffard was very convinced it was a forgery but then some questions arose because of the potential availability of the IBM Selectric Composer. He didn't want to fully commit until he could see good documents. The ones available for review were crap.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
And it looks like the AP is saying that "CBS spoke with Dr Broussard (intentional sic to complicate googlers from finding out about Bouffard's problems with BG?). Reynolds is suggesting that CBS said tonight that BG talked to him, they never said they did. SO now the AP is trying to put forth the idea that CBS spoke to PB (even though CBS didn't say that tonight in its newscast) after PB said via the blogosphere that he was pissed with what BG did.
Am I right? Isn't that where we are right now?
I just e-mailed the Boston Globe's Ombudsman. The IBM Selectric Composer is not your mother's office typewriter. It cost as much as a full sized car. It probably cost more than the entire typewriter budget of the Texas National Guard.
You might want to e-mail the Ombudsman, at:
ombud@globe.com
Wow, CBS needs to be honest. We are dealing with the death of truth in this country folks. He needs to go. No way he can stay on. We got him. Are we going to get down to the meaning of "is" soon? A country needs a guy like Rather to step down after a fiasco like this. He was caught, he has to go NOW!!!
They feel that it worked for JFK during Cuban Missile Crisis. Ignore Khruschev"s second letter and only reply to th first.
You know Dan rather really proves that old rule. No one is completely useless. You can always serve as a bad example.
In flying we call it going into a GRAVE YARD SPIRAL (CBS and Danny Boy)!
Translation: "We hope its true and "
"these documents just might be false but we think we can stone wall and this will all go away"
We STONE WALL or OOPS, we mean "Stand by our Story" even though we look so stupid at best, or at worst the most partisan news scum on the face of the PLANET!
Only this time, there is no bluffing their way out of the situation, nor boats to rescue them.
L0L! Sure Enough!
"Dan, get your ass in here now! I appreciate your effort to help John Kerry, we all do what we can. But are you a moron? Sloppy, Sloppy work! The pressure to let you go is building like a West-Texas oilwell!"
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