Posted on 09/20/2004 3:42:40 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
Hey CBS:
Depending on CBS and Rather for unbiased news is "A 'Mistake"
Guess that means Burkett never served in the plane with George W - and isn't that the criteria the press uses?
CBS/AP) CBS News said Monday it cannot prove the authenticity of documents used in a 60 Minutes story about President Bush's National Guard service and that airing the story was a "mistake" that CBS regretted.
It wasn't a "mistake" that they regretted, it was a blatant lie that they propagated that they thought they could squeeze in without notice.
It would have worked in the pre-blog era. Not so now SEE-BS.
blessings, Bobo
Jon Klein at about 7:15 is on CNBC talking about the lack of checks & balances w/ us ignorant bloggers. Guy from Powerline explaining why what Klein says is not so. Buckhead id'd as a lawyer, Name mentioned (can't remember) "very conservative" from Atlanta. Oh, wait, maybe they weren't calling Buckhead "very conservative" but only calling FR "very conservative. Yep, that's us, a bunch of far-right pajama-clad loonies. ROFLMAO!
How's this for a war cry: CAN DAN.
CBS is still refusing to admit the obvious: the documents are fake.
But does the media want to catch the lies? I haven't heard this mentioned. Why fax memos to someone who is there in person to receive them?
I caught the "Air Guard" quote, and I thought he was still trying to deceive listeners into to believing that Burkett actually might be familiar with Bush's Air National Guard service.
I think Carl said that this has been going on for a couple of weeks.
Collusion? Of course. Stupidity? Well, it doesn't nuance too well.
I don't think Burkett made them up himself because the doc's used some non TANG lingo. Wouldn't Burkett at least be able to use the correct wording since he was a Lt. Col? Someone, ever so clever, drafted up the documents and passed them on to Burkett is my guess. However, I think Burkett is the designated scape goat and is going to take the bullet on this.
No they don't....however, as we've seen thanks to Buckhead and several others including FR....we here in cyber space are becoming the new media. What can we do...to continue to expose this Bull Sh*t.
Burkett wasn't TANG. He was Army National Guard. Ain't the same, and he wouldn't have known the Air National Guard lingo.
A mistake is when you have a little oopsie... not when you pursue something for 5 years and then folow a lead with forged documents and ignore worries that they could be fake and then ignore thousands of internet users who know better than you do...
That would journalistic incompetance beyond belief- but because it is simply not believable it is more than that..
It is total bias and blindly pursuing an agenda- THE worst sin
Ted Baxter- I mean Dan Rathe should be fired
The thing to focus on is what he first said to CNN in a "man on the street interveie" which was "We intend to get to the bottom of this, end of story." Then 86 year-old Mary Carr Knox seemingly went from "I don't quite remember how it happend", to "I remember vividly about LT Bush" a week later. I'd like to know what her cure is for dementia!
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