In a stunning development the panel has already revealed the discovery of Ms. Mapes' membership in an exclusive and exclusionary private club!
Isn't this a little like Jamie Gorelick being on the 911 commission ?
The '9/22 Panel' is just about as big a joke as the 'Gorelick Wall 9/11 Commission'.
-- CBS Evening News. Dan Rather read this 29-second item, sans any soundbites or anything critical of the networks, about 20 minutes into the show: "News executives were summoned before Congress today about errors the networks, including this one, made projecting the winner of the last presidential election and about changes they’ll be making for future elections. The executives said the errors were not intentional, not politically motivated and in the case, especially of the Associated Press’s Lou Boccardi, made clear the belief that under the First Amendment it is not the role of Congress to investigate news organizations. Some of the executives expressed support for the idea of a single, national poll closing time."
While the AP team understandably dropped the fraud’s chilling and bloody account from a later book on the same subject, they have shrugged off suggestions that the whole story has been impeached, suggesting that the liar’s tale was but a portion of the mosaic of a tale they stand by.
Part of that confidence is born from accounts gleaned by the AP reporters from Korean citizens (who have filed claims against the U.S. and South Korea) who described as many as 400 perishing: 300 refugees under the bridge at No Gun Ri and 100 more in a strafing run by U.S. planes. The AP reporters also rely on accounts from other interviewed American soldiers, who they report recollect as many as 200 deaths.
The story made its debut on Sept. 29, 1999, being featured in media all over the United States, including the front page of the New York Times. NBC’s Tom Brokaw also ran with the story a country mile, going so far as to take the AP’s great imposter with him to South Korea to do a teary-eyed "Dateline" show on No Gun Ri.
Many of the charges and counter-charges about the reliability of witness recollections and the like have been slung by author and historian Robert Bateman, whose controversial book on No Gun Ri emphasizes that the AP ignored and never reported that war correspondents on the ground in the area at the time, including one from the AP, never publicly or privately uttered a whisper of a suggestion of a massacre.
According to Bateman, the reporters still alive expressed to him their outrage over the original AP massacre story. Also, says Bateman, these same reporters were dismayed and surprised that nobody ever solicited them for their version before or after the story got worldwide attention.
Bateman also suggests that the AP knew or should have known of the fraud’s lie before even submitting the series to the Pulitzer Board. Be that as it may, there is another sticky point that has gone underreported.
Louis D. Boccardi, president and chief executive officer of Associated Press, recently elected chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board, served as a regular member of the board before during and after the awarding of the 2000 prize for the massacre story to the AP.
Strangely enough, such an appearance of impropriety or lack of objectivity is not the subject of any Pulitzer board rules or bylaws. Members are discouraged from voting on submissions they have never read or reviewed, but there is apparently no recusal mechanism for those who might have to struggle to keep an objective mind.
MEMO
To: CBS
From: madison10
Date: Sept. 23, 2004
RE: "Panel" to investigate Rathergate
Message:
1) Don't bother "Investigating" we all know what that means. Bwahahaha
2) No one will listen to the outcome.
3) You're toast
If Rather were a raving right wing nut instead of a looney left wing commie lib you can bet the Democrats wouldn't let "See B.S." get away with a "panel to investigate." There'd be some jail time, resignations, all the stuff that's supposed to happen when Justice is blind.
Things like this are why I bailed out of the Republican party and now register as an Independent. The Republicans let Clinton slide and now it'll be the same with Rather, just watch.
Two more newbies will soon be registering on FR so we can bring them up to speed.
Wonder how much these guys are getting paid to be "The Panel?"
In a stunning development the panel has already revealed the discovery of Ms. Mapes' membership in an exclusive and exclusionary private club!
Democratic insiders are fearful of what the scandal could do to their party.
"You start tying these connections together … I said I'm so scared because I know what's going on with my party," Democratic strategist Pat Caddell told FOX News. "The fact is, [Burkett] did not approach CBS, CBS approached him looking for the documents, which means someone tipped CBS off … which could be a violation of the law."
Great! Another facr finding commission. Here come the memo gate widows...