CBS 60 minutes says oops .... again

60 Minutes

[ragman]

Sunday night the 60 Minutes crew corrects last Sunday's story on the under supplied National Guard troops. It states that when they said that other guardsmen were killed by improperly protected vehicles, that they were wrong that the information given them by the guard was incorrect. Seems appropriate that the retraction came right after Andy Rooney's remark about liberal media. He found only half supported Kerry and the other half hated Bush.

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[ragman]

"By their words they will be made known"

[Ptarmigan]

What a bunch of moronic wankers.

[MarkT]

It is also natural that an apology would occur only after it could not do any good, with the election over and all that.

[Temple Owl]

ping

[ragman]

and they say we are predictable.

[anniegetyourgun]

I recommend they cancel 60 minutes and apologize for having foisted it on the unsuspecting public for all these years.

[infidel29]

Will Rather and the whole of CBS/Viacom just shut up and go the f#$k away already? All of them, every last one of them down to the last V-J on MTV. All of the pimply faced counter workers at Blockbuster. All of the whining lie-berals who want CA, OR, and WA to secede off into their own little DUtopia called "PRANCE". The aftermath of the election is worse than the build-up to it.

[LibWhacker]

They should just admit it: They run an errors segment, a Rooney segment, and an apology segment.

[finallyatexan]

And the CBS crew didn't bother to check to see if that one guardsman was wrong before they aired the piece.
PATHETIC!

[Ptarmigan]

I am still mad at CBS for cancelling Garfield and Friends in 1995.

[blondee123]

WHO even watches it anymore?

[randog]

Wasn't Wednesday 60 Minutes cancelled?

[Clintonfatigued]

Oops, they did it again! Misstated their facts, biased against Bush. Why don't they check their facts, try telling the truth? They're not that intelligent.

[infidel29]

The Bush bashing aside, how many times have they had to come back after the fact and say they were wrong about the facts of a report or that they jumped the gun on a story. It`s gone beyond ridiculous! Did they have "Manimal" or was that NBC? Sadly I liked that one.

[putupjob]

Oh, ok CBS, the election is over. We knew that already. Bush won.

[infidel29]

It was supposed to be, maybe CBS made a mistake on that as well.

[ragman]

I believe that they made the retraction a regular segment.

[Boiler Plate]

Who is still watching these idiots?

[loboinok]

"By their words they will be made known"

Book and verse?

[Chong]

"He found only half supported Kerry and the other half hated Bush."

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[Cyclopean Squid]

"I am still mad at CBS for cancelling Garfield and Friends in 1995."

Hey, wait a minute...You're not Sylvia, you're one of the Kung Fu Creatures on a Rampage...Six!

[Ptarmigan]

Brings me back memories.

[RJL]

Seems appropriate that the retraction came right after Andy Rooney's remark about liberal media. He found only half supported Kerry and the other half hated Bush.

An old blind squirrel stumbles over the truth; after the election of course!

[mwp99]

This seems to be the new M.O. for the lamestreamers. Run a story, be it slightly inaccurate, a little misleading, or a flat-out lie, on the front page or as the lead story on a telecast, and then run a wimper of a retraction a week later buried in the back of the paper or at the end of the show. Their days are numbered, and they know it.

[CFC__VRWC]

This seems to be the new M.O. for the lamestreamers. Run a story, be it slightly inaccurate, a little misleading, or a flat-out lie, on the front page or as the lead story on a telecast, and then run a wimper of a retraction a week later buried in the back of the paper or at the end of the show.

Nothing new about it - they've been doing this for many, many years. They've just been doing it more often, and on bigger stories, recently.

[FreePaul]

...Why don't they check their facts,...
...they were wrong about the facts...

This is CBS we're talking about here. Facts are not a consideration. The criteria is what will sway the opinion of the lowest level of society who watch their programs. If someone told them that there were facts involved in a story they would be terrified to put it on the air.

[Bullish]

Andy Rooner should shut his stupid pie hole. He hasn't said anything relevant in 20 yrs.

[Ptarmigan]

I never watch anything on CBS anyways. Dan Rathers should of retired years ago.

[infidel29]

seriously, soon they`ll be retracting things they have yet to say.

[Richard Kimball]

Will Rather and the whole of CBS/Viacom just shut up and go the f#$k away already?

As long as there's botox, wigs, padded shoulder suits and support pantyhose, they will creak into the studio holding onto their walkers, and lie for the Democratic party.

[Radix]

Isn't Dan Rather dead?

I was certain that I read documents which stated that was the case.

It must have been his ratings that I was reading about!

[ArmyBratproud]

They blame the false reporting on the Guard......


Something tells me they never checked that issue with the Guard.

I would not be surprised to find out that 99 percent of the story was false!

They did this the sunday before the election...

CBS is pathetic.

[rwfromkansas]

Ditto!

That still gets under my skin.

Luckily, you can get some on DVD now. :)

[infidel29]

Every time I think of Dan Rather and his lackeys I think of this line from "The Crow" After Funboy shoots Eric Draven(Brandon Lee) a few times he asks the eternal question "Don`t you ever f$#kin' die?"

[Keith]

BTW, have they called Ohio yet?

/sarcasm

[Poser]

This was no accident. It wasn't shoddy reporting. It was a purposeful attempt to sway the election with a story they knew to be false. The did it with the fake memos too.

Although I'm not sure it was illegal, I'm sure it doesn't meet their FCC requirements to maintain licenses for their stations. CBS stations should lose their licenses.

[Ptarmigan]

Yeah, I am glad they have Garfield and Friends on DVD. The second volume comes out in early December.

[rwfromkansas]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000244EK6/104-1035364-5959124?v=glance

[rwfromkansas]

Luckily I am not the only older person who still has a place for cartoons sometime. I see you obviously already know about the DVD.

[Ptarmigan]

Same here. I look forward to getting the second volume.

[no_mm]

....secede off into their own little DUtopia called "PRANCE".


HAHAHAHAH...PRANCE......love it....HAHAHAHA

[RecallMoran]

I'm not seeing a lot of difference between Dan Rather and Monica Lewinsky.

[GulfWar1Vet]

I made a booboo! Someone kiss my booboo!

[ragman]

thats why I occasionally watch 60 minutes. Not as sophisticated as Garfield but still funny or is that peculiar

[spacewarp]

At what point will a RICO statute suit be brought against CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC and ABC (Particularly CBS and NBC) for their conspiracy to attempt to bring down a sitting president???

Paul

[halfright]

Its just a shame there are still sheeple that will watch CBS or buy shares in the rest of the viacom conglomerate.

All it took was deleting CBS and MTV from my remote. I feel better already. I highly suggest it to all Freepers.


We HAVE the power

[infidel29]

well, they want to be Europe-ed on, and France is already taken, not to mention the other liberal characteristics that "Prance" covers...

[PoorMuttly]

Me worked with Garfield once.

The flatulence was unbearable...but you will only know that when Smellavision comes out.....along with the flying car.

[okokie]

They are a bunch of jerks who don't know "come here" from "SIC UM"

[djpg]

I did not watch 60 minutes, but did this really happen? Just before an election, they run as story that might effect the outcome, and then they publish a retraction after the election is over? That is like a prosecutor waiting until the defendant is executed before retracting some of the evidence.