Behind the Curtain at CBS = Counterfeit Broadcasting System
(18 USC 494) Falsely Making, Alerting or Forging a Public Record.
(18 USC 494) Uttering or Publishing a False Public Record.
Posted on 09/14/2004 9:16:46 PM PDT by quidnunc
It is now open warfare within the halls of CBS News in New York, as the network's uberanchor, Dan Rather, attempts to salvage some modicum of respect in the wake of a growing forged documents scandal.
According to a CBS News producer operating out of the network's 57th Street facilities, Rather and his supporters now believe the controversy surrounding the four discredited Texas National Guard memos has been engineered by the Bush campaign.
"All you have to see to understand this is the report that John Roberts did on Bush's appearance at the National Guard convention Tuesday," says a CBS News producer. "Rather's guys are now going after the president of the United States in a way probably no news organization has ever done before. This is now deeply personal to them."
On Tuesday night, Roberts, whom some CBS insiders believe is in line to replace Rather in the anchor chair upon his retirement, reiterated the network's defense, saying that CBS continues to stand by its reporting on Bush's National Guard records.
Roberts, using a tone of voice that appeared to mock Bush's appearance before the National Guard Association, reported that Bush "barely mentioned his service" today, and that the president was attempting to turn the controversy about his Guard service away from the questions 60 Minutes had raised to "those asking them."
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Worth posting this again: I can't get a heartbeat. We need the defibrillators. FReepers at work again.
Free Republic and the New Media
Self | 09/12/2004 | Chris Davis
Posted on 09/12/2004 4:54:35 PM PDT by writer33
It all started in 1988. President Ronald Reagan’s second term was ending, Americans were ready to launch the presidency of George H.W. Bush, and in Sacramento, California, a “loveable little fuzzball” stepped behind a microphone, replacing Morton Downey, Jr, and giving us his brand of conservative truth. It was astonishing. It was exhilarating. And it was unheard at the time. Before 1988, Americans had been treated with the nightly news from the “Big Media.”
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To hell with the memos! I'd like to see the goddamned media focus on Bush's CURRENT record. (Which is only a continuation of his past record.)
Right. So CBS News presses ahead knowing that the documents... ...were forgeries? I don't think so. I bet for every one of the experts noted in the WP article, CBS has at least five stating that the documents are real.
There's nothing.. in the memos that is scandalous enough to warrant this level of hype over them being a possible forgery. So, what's all the fuss about?
If the documents are a forgery, only Karl Rove would have put those papers out there. It is consistent with his trickery. In the 2000 campaign, Rove put out braking news, the same day of the first debate, of a tape sent to him of Gore's debate strategy. No one ever saw the tape because it was all a lie placed by Karl Rove to steal news time away from the debate. Rove has played many of the same tricks in the past.
How do we know Karl Rove is not behind this ?
It's up to rove to prove he is not guilty of this Just like it's up to those that believe the docs are forged to prove they are forged.
There is NO evidence to collaborate forgery! That is why CBS is sticking to its story.
"There's no way that I, as a document expert, can authenticate them," Marcel Matley said in a telephone interview from San Francisco. The main reason, he said, is that they are "copies" that are "far removed" from the originals.
SO Rather thinks this fraud was "engineered by the Republicans"?
Yeah, and the dog ate his homework, monkies fly out of his a$$, hell froze over and Dukalis actually won.
(18 USC 494) Falsely Making, Alerting or Forging a Public Record.
(18 USC 494) Uttering or Publishing a False Public Record.
Even if they were not forgeries, they support Bush. Dan Rather an main stream media to biased to point it out.
See:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1216297/posts
WTF??
Orchestrated by the Bush campaign?
Even if this were true and it's obviously not, regardless of the source, journalists should always make sure documents they use are real and not forgeries. It's their responsibility that they used the forged documents.
It's all Bush's fault!!!
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Wonder how Roberts is feeling now?
Competitive analysis is the key to defeating your enemy.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the're not after you.
We are seeing Bizarro World unfolding before our eyes in the last 30 years.
Actually, they are blaming Hillary. One even said that Rush may be right.
Whew. But I got the feeling that NBC and ABC, are okay with all this trouble for their competitor, c-BS.
According to a CBS News producer operating out of the network's 57th Street facilities, Rather and his supporters now believe the controversy surrounding the four discredited Texas National Guard memos has been engineered by the Bush campaign.
> According to a CBS News producer operating out of the
> network's 57th Street facilities ...
At this rate, in another two TAS articles, we'll know
the floor and office number.
> Rather and his supporters now believe the controversy
> surrounding the four discredited Texas National Guard
> memos has been engineered by the Bush campaign.
Oh no! Rather drank the koolaid. That was only supposed
to be for the "little people", Dan, not the evil master
overlords.
Good stuff
Yep, they're losing it
fliping floping like their candidate, heck they can't even come up with a unified defense...pathetic
looks like a Jim Jones Kool aid party
Emily Will, a veteran document examiner from North Carolina, told ABC News she saw problems right away with the one document CBS hired her to check the weekend before the broadcast.
“I found five significant differences in the questioned handwriting, and I found problems with the printing itself as to whether it could have been produced by a typewriter,” she said.
Will says she sent the CBS producer an e-mail message about her concerns and strongly urged the network the night before the broadcast not to use the documents.
“I told them that all the questions I was asking them on Tuesday night, they were going to be asked by hundreds of other document examiners on Thursday if they ran that story,” Will said.
But the documents became a key part of the 60 Minutes II broadcast questioning President Bush’s National Guard service in 1972. CBS made no mention that any expert disputed the authenticity.
“I did not feel that they wanted to investigate it very deeply,” Will told ABC News.
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