CBS Planning Another Anti-Bush Hit

Accuracy In Media ^ | September 23, 2004 | Cliff Kincaid

[bikepacker67]

The CBS scandal gets worse every day. Now, in an amazing twist, Michael Isikoff of Newsweek was on Chris Matthews' MSNBC "Hardball" show on Wednesday night claiming that CBS had been planning to air a story about the White House using forged documents to make the case for war against Iraq. CBS postponed the story so it could go on the air attacking President Bush on the National Guard issue. It backfired when 60 Minutes itself got caught using forged documents. Still, Isikoff indicates that 60 Minutes is planning to air the anti-Bush piece, perhaps as early as Sunday night, September 26.

There is only one big problem—the anti-Bush story, as described by Isikoff and eagerly embraced by Democrat partisan Matthews, is completely false. It's as phony as those National Guard documents.

The Iraq-uranium link, the subject of much media misinformation, has been documented and confirmed by authoritative reports from Britain's Lord Butler, who had been a cabinet secretary under five different Prime Ministers, and the Senate Intelligence Committee.

In an article on the Newsweek website, Isikoff claims that 60 Minutes had originally planed to run a story about "how the U.S. government was snookered by forged documents purporting to show Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium from Niger." Isikoff says the story, narrated by CBS correspondent Ed Bradley, "asked tough questions about how the White House came to embrace the fraudulent documents and why administration officials chose to include a 16-word reference to the questionable uranium purchase in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union." Isikoff says 60 Minutes has been working on the story for more than six months.

[Brilliant]

Agreed, but that is their only hope at this point. They can't carry water for Kerry without making themselves the issue.

[Brilliant]

The question of who sponsored the current proposal to resume the draft is beside the point. It's a simple question that deserves a straight answer: Will you resume the draft? Both candidates ought to answer it, and if Bush is caught off guard by not having a straight answer, then he's got problems.

[AFPhys]

I'm not very confident at all about the way the Old Media would handle a "yellow cake" story by C___BS now, but I HOPE that there is at least one of the major networks and at least one of the major newspapers that would absolutely jump all over their sorry butts and kick them from one side of the room to the other by citing the Senate Intelligence report, Lord Butler's Report and the 9/11 Commission Final report. Those have all gotten lost during the election season, and their very positive (for the administration) findings have been pretty much buried. A story by C___BS might just stir the pot enough to bring these back into the media in time to really seal the deal for the President.
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[EaglesUpForever]

There is only one big problem—the anti-Bush story, as described by Isikoff and eagerly embraced by Democrat partisan Matthews, is completely false.

Never stopped them before...

[EdReform]

Bump!

[AFPhys]

Go take a look at it. Not only did they find that Iraq had sought yellowcake, but found that Wilson's report was used to bolster that opinion. Note that this is NOT what the Old Media has led the American public to believe.
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[gogogodzilla]

>Do you honestly think that CBS would do the same thing
>twice in just a matter of weeks?

Actually, with Dan at C(bs), I CAN imagine another forged document scandal.

[FredZarguna]

didnt the 9/11 committee side with Bush that Iraq "did in fact have or try to get yellow cake?"

Yes, they did, and the task force actually found small amounts of the material. This is interesting because unlike some of the dual use facilities reported by David Kay, it has no purpose other than the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

[samtheman]

That's a great story. What town? Do you know if they ever put FOX on cable in that location?

[SE Mom]

"this smells like China ..... or KGB .... someone is at work here for a long time..... this is not behaving normally ...... i am now concerned we have a foreign government in the media and the Democratic party"

not sure I'd go with KGB or China...yet I have had this "sense" in my gut for about a week that SOMETHING is right out of the line of our vision- this isn't normal dirty tricks...I usually get angry- but now I'm just uneasy...really uneasy.

[Grampa Dave]

In the wine country.

AT & T never put Fox on. ComCast finally did after about a year with a lot more people leaving ComCast.

Most of the cable providers in N. California and S Oregon where I stay overnight on my fly fishing trips, don't have Fox News available inspite of many motel owners/managers asking for it.

[alrea]

CBS had been planning to air a story about the White House using forged documents to make the case for war against Iraq

that came from the Clinton Administration

[alrea]

could Harry Apes or even Mary Mapes have created these documents??

[talleyman]

Carl Rove, aka Lucy Ramirez is a genius!

LOL! BTW, where or who is Lucy Ramirez? Inquiring minds want to know...

[Spook86]

You are absolutely correct...as a J-school grad (and recovering reporter), this is not surprising. Journalism professors are among the most liberal on any college campus (and that says a lot). How many op-eds have you seen by J-school profs criticizing CBS News? Did you really expect to see any? In fact, the journalistic elites are still trying to float the trial ballooon that the CBS report was accurate, despite being based on fraudulent documents (?)

As my friends in Texas would say, that defense flunks the Aggie test, but never fear: the CBS News scandal is well on its way to becoming the next liberal urban myth, in the same league as "Alger Hiss was innocent," or "the CIA is selling crack cocaine in the ghetto," or "the GOP disenfranchised millions of black voters in 2000." As a service to our synapse-challenged counterparts at the DNC, I'll even offer some explanations for Rathergate, that will become part-and-parcel of Democratic spin. Pick your favorite:

1. It was a set-up by the GOP to sabatoge the Kerry Campaign

2. It was a Republican frame job to "get" Dan Rather, in retaliation for his confrontation with Richard Nixon.

3. Bill Burkett was a Republican "plant."

4. It was a Republican dirty trick to sabatoge Kerry, get Dan Rather, disenfranchise millions of minority voters, deny abortion rights, run up the national debt, and steal the election for George W. Bush.

Go ahead, suspend reality and decide which liberal lie will be used to explain this one away...

[ride the whirlwind]

...who is Lucy Ramirez?

Someone on FR suggested that Lucy R. = Hitlery. LOL

[JesseJane]

LOLOL!! Reminds me of a joke...

Redneck famous last words?

Heyyyyyy, watch this sh*t!!

:)

[talleyman]

To which Bush should reply, "So which one are you? - today, that is. And do we want a President who carries miniature flip flops in his pocket?"

[RichInOC]

CBS is full of Bush hit.

[pepperdog]

I completely disagree with your "simple question". The current draft discussion is the product of a bill introduced by partisan politics and then promoted by a biased media. If your simple question were answered honestly it would probably be "At this time there are no plans to re-implement the draft". Only a fool would say never. But an honest answer is not what they seek, they are looking for a "read my lips" moment that they can attack. BTW remember when FDR said I will never send your sons to die in foreign lands--probably not an accurate quote but you get the jist of it.