Posted on 09/21/2004 4:01:05 AM PDT by notkerry
Burkett has now disclosed he had previously falsely identified the source of the forged documents as a former Texas National Guard friend, George Conn. CBS had claimed it had an unimpeachable source who clearly could not of been Burkett. If it was George Conn, CBS again has shown its utter failure of investigating reporting and/or its bias.
George Conn denied to the Boston Globe in February 0f 2004 that Burkett's stories were true. CBS needs to name their un-impeachable source!
This DU's rant is what is wrong with the democrats politics today. Most dem's aren't lunatics they just have a different point of view. Guys like this is why you see W's numbers up. They don't want to be associated with these off-the-wall morons who see a new conspiracy behind every negative screw up in their campaign. That's the biggest problem I see with thier philosiphy. It's never their own fault it has to be ours(Republicans)!
Are you sure he didn't say Lucy Ricardo.
Boy, this bus ride's getting bumpy! I think there's another Democrat lodged in the undercarriage...
Doesn't Burkett sell bulls? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1217752/posts
So wouldn't it make perfect sense for him to go to a cattle show? So, doesn't it appear that some one that asked to meet him at a Houston cattle show knew him?
Just sort of odd if a total stranger called me, after seeing me on tv the night before, he/she would know my interests.
So your idea is that Mystery Person just sees Burkett on TV - at no time in this TV interview is mentioned Burkett's interest in bulls. Surprising then, that Mystery Person comes up with such a slick spy-perfect way of meeting Burkett at cattle show.
Yes, good thought.
If the source is "unimpeachable" it can only refer to one individual ... the one who couldn't be impeached.
Am I missing something here? CBS accepted Burkett's word on the "original" source of the documents? They then failed to interview the alleged original source, but accepted Burkett's story because Burkette said he got them from a good source? That doesn't pass the laugh test. Burkett was known to be "unstable" and why would you fail to go to the "real" source?
It was the Kerry Campaign staff via the Democrat National Committee.
I like your thought if it is the slickmeister to whom you are referring. But I must point out that the slickmeister was impeached, but not convicted.
2. It probably wasn't Cleland either. Although Cleland is highly placed, Cleland himself would not have been in a position to know what Killian believed.
3. Therefore it seems clear that CBS is still covering up something very important about this story.
4. In addition, its likely the Democrats are also concealing their own activities vis-a-vis this matter. They probably had low-level investigators working this story, and these people were probably in contact with CBS. The "unimpeachable source" was probably contacted by these people.
5. IMHO, Burketts current story about the anonymous phone call sounds like complete BS. CBS's apparent willingness not to press Burkett on this or release any additional details about what CBS knew and when CBS knew it seems also to show that CBS is still covering up important informtation about this case.
Right. But Burkett on his own could not have sold this story to CBS. Burkett must have had help. Rather as much as confirmed this by saying he had an "unimpeachable source" backing up Burkett.
So CBS still has to be hiding their second source.
You're absolutely right, and I knew that. But it's not the validity of the facts so much as the point of the accusation that counts. I learned that from Dan Rather!
Oh yeah, I'm sure this would have been said with earshot of a group of people. NOT!! So who are all these Guard officers Bill? Why haven't they come forward to support your claims?
Exactly!
I also find it highly unlikely that someone having just stolen files to scrub clean the TANG records of GWB, would have thrown them in the trash can in the very office they just stole them from.
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