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.

[scott7278]

Yep. Time to start calling a spade a spade.

[freeperfromnj]

Because the people at the top can put a stop to this B.S. yet they are allowing the News Division to continue the smear campaign against the President.

[steve in DC]

"Ow! OWCH! Ow! OWCH! Ow! Ow! OWCH! Ow! OWCH! Ow! OWCH! Ow! OWCH! Ow! OWCH!

"Darnit! It really hurts when...OWCH! Ow! Ow! OWCH!...I hit myself in the head...OWCH! Ow! Ow! OWCH!...with this hammer.

"Would someone please make the pain...OWCH! Ow! Ow! OWCH!...go away?"
Andy Heyward, President, CBS News

[JiggyMac]

What??

CBS is anti-Bush? And they would use phony documents and news stories to implicate a sitting President in impeachable offenses?

No way! /end sarcasm.

You ever scene how hard a rat fights in a cage when it knows it's about to die. I think we're seeing something here.

Oh and...

Communist Traitors
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[bikepacker67]

Hey that's purty-durn handy!

Thanx Jane!

[Inge C]

The Uranium papers were indeed forged, intentionally by guess who???? Chriac and his morons, produced these forged documetns to embarrass Britain and the USA.

[finallyatexan]

Thanks for that comment, now I can't eat my breakfast.

[Malleus Dei]

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

I honestly think that CBS would do ANYTHING to get Kerry elected. ANYTHING.

[Howlin]

Look! Yellow cake!

[samtheman]

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

LOL!

[jmstein7]

I think we need to fire a warning shot across CBS's bow regarding the implications of such a story.

[lonster]

this needs to be required reading. i remember that interview. ole dan got his head handed to him. what i think is funny is how he ever thought he was going to get the better of the bush the elder.

[Cboldt]

Fraudulent documents seem to be a cottage industry over at CBS

They are a cottage industry in Iraq, no joke. A forged document showing Mohammad Atta (9/11 hijacker - "pilot") meeting with Iraq was passed off last year, but debunked as a forgery.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1221349/posts?page=701#701 <-- Atta/Iraq

[Constantine XIII]

Maybe they're hoping that they can climb out when they get to China.

[LibSnubber]

In my book:

Communist traitors = domestic terrorists

[Petronski]

I find that simply impossible to believe. They wouldn't dare, would they?

[Polyxene]

C-omplete B-ull S-h!t

[Jaded]

Is this suppose to be new information? Doesn't this somehow involve France & Italy?

The FCC should b*tch slap CBS NOW. And hard.

[RXSalesman]

Do you know if there are any links to watch Rather's 1988 interview of the Vice President? I remember being upset about it when it occurred. In light of the recent developments, I would like to watch it again.

[xkaydet65]

OK there's a connection here to the DNC. This past week Wolf Blitzer had fmr. US Att'y Joe DeGenova and fmr White Hous Counsel Tom Quinn to discuss Rathergate. DeGenova was demanding an independent prosecutor to probe an attempt to influence a federal election using forged documents. Quinn's retore began " If you want to talk about forged documents you have to talk about the State of the Union speech..." Blitzer cut Quinn off and DeGenova proceeded to clean Quinn's clock, but the non sequitur of the State of the Union just hung there. You don't suppose the DNC and CBS were staying in touch over 60 Minutes latest attack on the President. I mean the reference came out of nowhere and I usually do not see Wolf Blitzer put the clamps on a liberal's rant. Maybe this was not supposed to be addressed at that time.

Why did Quinn do it? DeGenova was making much too good a case for a Spec Pros and Quinn was flustered and looking for a comeback. I think FR and the Blogosphere could examine this "connection."