Posted on 09/18/2004 7:27:43 PM PDT by jhouston
In the early-morning hours of Sept. 8, Dan Rather was preparing to fly to Washington for a crucial interview in the Old Executive Office Building, but torrential rain kept him in New York.
White House communications director Dan Bartlett had agreed to talk to "60 Minutes," but only on condition that the CBS program provide copies of what were being billed as newly unearthed memos indicating that President Bush had received preferential treatment in the National Guard. The papers were hand-delivered at 7:45 a.m. CBS correspondent John Roberts, filling in for Rather, sat down with Bartlett at 11:15.
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Assuming the memos were actually sent from there at that time. It would also have been possible that Burkett happened to fax something other than the memos to someone involved in the conspiracy, who then faked the transmission stamp on some memos to match the date/time of Burketts' fax. Forensic analysis would be needed to determine whether the memogate documents were actually sent from that Kinko's; it may prove that they likely were or that they certainly weren't, or it may be inconclusive.
I was wondering what the actions of WH communications director Dan Bartlett reminded me of. I realized that it reminded me of the actions of fictional WH communications director Connie Spano, in the blockbuster movie "Independence Day". Maybe Bartlett is a fan of the way Spano acted in the movie?
When Connie is being pressed to provide a White House statement about the strange 'atmospheric phenomenon', someone says CNN is running with a story about a nuclear test. She says 'Tell them to run with it if they want to embarrass themselves'. 'Our official position is that we don't have an official position'. Sounds like something Barlett said back to CBS on Sept 8.
Well there's a good character witness! I'll certainly believe anything Van Os says on behalf of Burkett, won't you? I'll also believe Barnes and Burkett, Rather and Mapes, and anyone else with some pricey swampland to sell. Just because Burkett compares G.W. Bush to Adolf Hitler doesn't mean his judgment and character could be in question....
LOL! I usually think politics is better without physical violence. But I'd make an exception for your scenario -- I'd like to see someone at 60 Minutes get popped for what they've done. They've been smirking at America for decades.
Hell, no. I can't imagine him being more involved than a phone call back to Terry Mc or the Kerry campaign. Something along the lines of "Hey, I jues' gotta call from this nutcase down in Texas, sez he knows ol' Barnesy, with this heah weird idear on howta embarrass Bush. Says he's got docka-ments. Mebbe you orta talk at 'im."
One-way communication. Nothing complicated. Max could handle that. I think...
Someone on Fox Sunday Morning show was talking about framing a guilty man. arrrggggg!!! But actually, this whole mess totally nullifies any attacks on Bush's service if anyone ever cared. I love it though when they keep printing one of those adorable pictures of him when he was in the NG. He was so cute. Still is.
Ah heah ya.
"Too bad we don't have one of those Star Trek space-based penal colonies yet. Love to see Mapes, Rather, and the rest of these pissants doing hard time on an asteroid mining colony far away from the rest of us."
No No, it would be much better if they were caught in a space time continuum and had to repeat their same pathetic mistake over and over and over again.
In a DEM scheme and liberal conspiracy CBS was to air these memos, prior to Kitty Kelley's interviews with NBC hoping to set up speculation that GW refused an order to take a physical, thus suggesting there was a drug problem.
I didn't quite get that right. Here's what he actually said in response to O'Reilly's question about Bill Clinton being an honest guy:
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.
Are you saying that some of Kerry's documents are forged too?
CBS hasn't learned a thing. The last paragraph from the story reads:
As the days begin to blur for Josh Howard, he embraces the same logic: "So much of this debate has focused on the documents, and no one has really challenged the story. It's been frustrating to us to see all this reduced to a debate over little 'th's."
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