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CBS Planning Another Anti-Bush Hit
Accuracy In Media ^ | September 23, 2004 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 09/24/2004 7:10:28 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aim; cbs; cbsgate; cbsnews; ccrm; isikoff; lies; rather; rathergate
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Wow... Fraudulent documents seem to be a cottage industry over at CBS
1 posted on 09/24/2004 7:10:28 AM PDT by bikepacker67
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To: bikepacker67

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2 posted on 09/24/2004 7:11:52 AM PDT by samtheman (www.swiftvets.com)
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To: bikepacker67

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


3 posted on 09/24/2004 7:12:34 AM PDT by stuartcr (Neither - Nor in '04....Who ya gonna hate in '08)
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To: bikepacker67

Administration was snookered by forged documents? Gee, they must really be stupid.


4 posted on 09/24/2004 7:12:35 AM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: bikepacker67
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.

Bring it on! These guys have already dug a six foot grave, I guess digging down another foot or so won't hurt.

5 posted on 09/24/2004 7:12:45 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: bikepacker67

Journalism schools across the nation are going to give CBS its own legacy as a required course in ethics for anyone wanting a diploma.


6 posted on 09/24/2004 7:13:11 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever (The message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing...)
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To: bikepacker67

here we go again...


7 posted on 09/24/2004 7:13:17 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
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To: bikepacker67; JohnHuang2; deport

Here's another "interesting" article from AIM.ORG

http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1988/02b.html


Check the date.


8 posted on 09/24/2004 7:13:21 AM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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To: samtheman

Communist traitors.
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9 posted on 09/24/2004 7:13:28 AM PDT by rockrr (A day without democrats is like a day without mental disease)
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To: bikepacker67
LOLOL......oh, yes the forged documents regarding 'yellow cake'.

Bring it on, Dan!

10 posted on 09/24/2004 7:14:22 AM PDT by OldFriend (It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
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To: samtheman

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


11 posted on 09/24/2004 7:14:35 AM PDT by dhm005
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To: bikepacker67
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12 posted on 09/24/2004 7:14:45 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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To: San Jacinto

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...


13 posted on 09/24/2004 7:15:05 AM PDT by Gibtx (Wow)
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To: bikepacker67

Don't assume that the next hit will come from CBS. There are plenty of other media outlets who want in on the action. My guess, though, is that after seeing what happened to CBS, they will tread more softly. What they will do is focus on strategies that are akin to handing a noose to Bush, and hoping he hangs himself. For example, they might pressure him to give an answer to the question of whether he will resurrect the draft. If he hints that he might, then it's not their doing--it's his mistake.


15 posted on 09/24/2004 7:15:20 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: bikepacker67

the forged documents are actually just old "MadLibs" with Bush name written where it says (person's name)


16 posted on 09/24/2004 7:15:20 AM PDT by escapefromboston
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To: Always Right

Actually, I think the backlash would be huge if they did this... I both hope they do and don't.

I'm sick of the slime and sleaze coming out of CBS and the MSM,,,and yet

They still seem to live in a bubble and just do not get it.


17 posted on 09/24/2004 7:15:36 AM PDT by austinaero
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18 posted on 09/24/2004 7:15:56 AM PDT by mhking ("Honey, WHERE...IS...MY....SUPER SUIT?" --Samuel L. Jackson, "The Incredibles")
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To: bikepacker67

I don't know if it is chutzpah or abject stupidity (or both) for CBS, under the current circumstance, to air a story about ANYONE getting snookered by forged documents. But, then again, irony is lost on today's liberals.


19 posted on 09/24/2004 7:16:29 AM PDT by dirtboy (Kerry could have left 'Nam within a week if Purple Hearts were awarded for shots to the foot.)
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To: rockrr

"Mr. President ... I smell a big, fat Commie rat."


20 posted on 09/24/2004 7:17:00 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("This house is sho' gone crazy!")
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