I am glad that CBS has finally acknowledged that the documents were false.
Actually, I am not, because as long as they continued to assert their legitimacy, it was clear to everyone that CBS had an agenda. It still bothers me that they only indicated their regret at using the documents. They never indicated any regret at attempting to destroy President Bush's reputation, only at the manner in which they chose to do it.
Apologies are in order. Here is a list of things that, to my knowledge, CBS has not done, but should.
(1) CBS should apologize to the President of the United States for impugning his character with NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER.
(2) Since the only substantive evidence of the Bush/AWOL story was these now discredited document, CBS should publicly state that the AWOL story appears by all evidence TO BE WRONG, and that it appears, based on all available evidence, that George W. Bush served his country honorably in the TANG.
(3) CBS should investigate themselves to understand the bias in their reporting that would allow such a fraud to be perpetrated against them. There is a structural problem there that obviously has a strong bias, or this episode would never have happened. They clearly cannot be considered unbiased anymore.
(4) CBS should answer the question that all America should be asking; If you lied about this, what else have to lied about when we didn't catch you?
Something about Baird, Tx has me smelling a patsy. Everything is leading back to blame it on the insane guy who's always hated Bush.
Does anyone really believe that someone with CBS would think that faxing something from Kinko's would be anonymous?
Burkett is a red herring, the exact reason Has-been-Dan is going to interview him.
I'm not buying it.
(4) CBS should answer the question that all America should be asking; If you lied about this, what else have you lied about when we didn't catch you? Correct me if I'm wrong...but didn't the whole "outrage" about Abu Ghraib start on...60 Minutes II?
IIRC, there was an investigation into what was going on there, that had started either in or before January of this year, and they were the ones who insisted on interfering with an ongoing DoD investigation.
Of course, everyone jumped on this...including Michael (2 Million Cheeseburgers served) Moore, in his crockumentary, John Kerry (a SELF-CONFESSED war criminal), Terry MacAuliffe, John McRINO, and of course, an inconsequential little peon known as Al-Zarqawi...who CITED Abu Ghraib as justification for beheading Nick Berg.
(This, of course, was followed up by Nick's already leftist father, Michael Berg, blaming Nick's death on "the sins of Bush and Rumsfeld.")
Also, does anyone remember the exchange that SecDef Rumsfeld had with She Who Must Not Be Named (and who is probably preparing her inaugural address right now), at that open hearing earlier this year? She said some comment about the photos, and SecDef said, "It's interesting how you got a copy of the photos before I did..." (someone please PING me to that original exchange.
I think that there is much more than just Memogate...there is probably AbuGate (not that we want to bring that up again, but think about it--started by CBS, adopted by the DNC, the 527s and by terrorists) and a host of other things.
If everything is fair, let's dig deep. Let's use (not exploit) this opportunity to expose the truth, and to expose, as Michael Savage puts it, "the enemy within"...if it is true that now people are REALLY paying attention.
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