NO CBS REPORT UNTIL JANUARY?

National Review Online ^ | 12-10-04 | Jim Geraghty

[Snapple]

Just heard from a person familiar with the network's inner workings that the report by ex-U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi, former head of The Associated Press, may not be coming out until January.

CBS News President Andrew Heyward said on September 20, 2004 that he hoped the panel will report in "weeks, not months."

[Posted 12/10 01:54 PM]

[Snapple]

I am disappointed, but not surprised.

The truth is so stupid they can't tell it.

[Batrachian]

Who cares about their white-wash? Is anyone so simple that they think this report will actually reveal the Kerry Campaign's involvement in this scandal? This report serves only two purposes. 1) to exonerate Dan Rather, and 2) to exonerate John Kerry.

They'll throw some producer under the bus to give the appearance of "red meat", and everyone will be happy. CBS's integrity will be restored and everything will be right with the world.

I ain't buyin' it!

[Diogenesis]

The facts are that they KNOWINGLY used forged memos
AND that CBS covered it up for months, and months, and months.

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Boycott each and every one of them for CONTINUING TO support CBS/Rather's Lies

Allegra (Aventis Pharmaceuticals)
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Infiniti Automobiles
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Kleenex
Lowes [new Rather sponsor]
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Pepcid Complete
Splenda (Low carb sugar substitute)
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Toyota [new Rather sponsor]
UPS Store
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Wellbutrin-xl (Glaxo Smith Klein) [new Rather sponsor]
Zelnorm (IBS medication)
Ziploc

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Forging Ahead, Behind the Curtain at CBS = Counterfeit Broadcasting System

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[Liberty Valance]

Rather's defense will be that...that...uh...we uh...yeah...uh, it's Bush's fault!

[Snapple]

Democratic operatives are not so stupid. This was a very primitive fake by a person who doesn't remember what text looked like on electric typewriters.

[airborne]

[airborne]

All your graphics are belong to us. Thanks.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The truth is so stupid they can't tell it.

LOL!

How do you explain that you boasted of your objectivity and your care to report the truth accurately - and then put out a fairy tale based on a seventh-generation copy of Microsoft Word document that purports to have be typed in 1973 and closely held until ten years after Democrats first began trying to smear Bush for not remaining active as a pilot in the TANG when there were no flying billets available for him in the first place?

How do you even explain that you took more than a day after the whistle was blown to admit the obvious fraud?

And, how do you explain that you needed to "investigate" that?! For months?! There will never be a report from this investigation; the longer you delay the longer you want to delay. Amelia Erhart will finish her around-the-world flight before CBS explains Memogate. Unless of course the Department of Justice actually does its job and prosecutes the forgery of putative government documents (another way of saying, "when Hell freezes over").

[Batrachian]

The involvement of Texas Democrats in cooperation with the Kerry Campaign isn't in question.

[John Jorsett]

What's the problem? 456 weeks is still "weeks".

They're probably waiting for some giant disaster so that the front page will be loaded with dead bodies, burning buildings, and explosions, while the "CBS Releases Report" story appears next to the denture cream ads.

[Miss Marple]

You are correct. I am going to make sure I check every story on the days of big news events. I am NOT going to let them sneak this past us.

[Semi Civil Servant]

CBS is combining their internal investigation of Rathergate with the U.N.'s internal investigation of Kofigate. Whitewash is cheaper by the gallon.

[Republican Babe]

Democratic operatives are not so stupid. This was a very primitive fake by a person who doesn't remember what text looked like on electric typewriters.

And it takes a very stupid CBS anchor to fall for such a primitive fake.....okay !

[EDINVA]

" ... They're probably waiting for some giant disaster so that the front page will be loaded with dead bodies, burning buildings, and explosions... "

NOT TO MENTION, THEIR SPECIAL FEATURE ABOUT A POOR, HUMILITATED MUSLIM TERRORIST

They are probably waiting till 1/20/05 to take away from the joy at W's SECOND Inaugural.

[hgro]

These CBS weazels will do everything they can to fabricate, coverup, blather for Rather in the hope that everyone will forget about the crimes the CBS organization and their star Rather committed during the runup to election day.

[blam]

"NO CBS REPORT UNTIL JANUARY? "

Would that be January 20th?

[Snapple]

KINKO'S CREW

One conspiracy theory about these documents was that Karl Rove concocted them and tricked Dan Rather into taking them so that the documents would be proved forgeries and the information in them discredited. Even Maurene Dowd sniggered up her sleeve about this one. This conspiracy theory of Karl Rove's modus-operendi was first put forward a few years ago by a leftist writer/publisher named Sander Hicks.

PLEASE FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS! We are now entering the Twilight Zone of "progressive" political conspiracy theory.

Hicks published the book "Fortunate Son" which makes the allegation that Bush was arrested for cocaine but got off with community service because his father had political connections.

The author, JH Hatfield was a career criminal (financial frauds, solicitation of capital murder) so St.Martin's Press dropped the book and Hicks picked it up and published it 9Softskull Press). Hicks and Hatfield were on 60 Minutes and Leslie Stahl made fools of them.

While he was out of prison, Hatfield wrote biographies about famous actors and a study of the TV show "The X Files." The cocaine allegation was stuck on to the end of the book as if it were an afterthought to get people to buy his book instead of one published by a Dallas News writer that was coming out at the same time.

If you do a google search for Sander Hicks and add some of the personalities allegedly associated with this National guard/Bush story (Burkett, Burke, Gough, Rove) about the possibly forged documents, you will get some interesting hits. Read on and I will paste some in this text.

Sander Hicks has been interested in Bush's National Guard history for a long time. He has posted what purports to be Guard Documents on his site. Hicks was also trying to write a book about Karl Rove. Hicks hates Bush and thinks Karl Rove is an evil genius. In the past, when Hicks did something stupid, he blamed his stupidity on Rove's genius. This is his personal conspiracy theory to account for the fact that he is a real idiot.

When Hicks' source for the cocaine allegation (Hatfield) turned out to be a criminal, Hicks informed the whole world that Hatfield got his story about the cocaine from Karl Rove. Supposedly, Rove planned that when the story about the cocaine surfaced via a criminal, the story would be discredited. Of course, why wouldn't Hatfield have wondered why Karl Rove would tell him something so damaging about Bush?

Hicks talked to this guy named Gough
http://sanderhicks.com/gough.html about Bush's records supposedly being thrown out by Bush operatives. So he knows about all that. The article mentions this guy Bartlett, whom most suspect of authoring these documents and xeroxing them at a Kinko's near his Texas home.

However, I read that Hicks actually worked in a Kinkos in NYC and used their xerox machines to self-publish books when he was a micro-publisher. Hicks later moved to Taos, New Mexico and started a book about Karl Rove. Or was it Karl Marx? Well, anyway...

Hicks and Hatfield got sued for publishing Hatfield's book, not because they slandered Bush (you can't be sued for slandering a politician), but because they claimed that Hatfield's boss had put Hatfield up to murdering another employee. [Like this wasn't all investigated and rejected by the FEDS when Hatfield was tried for solicitation of capital murder "al la Fallujah" with a car bomb in the downtown Dallas Cotton Exchange.] The facts are that Hatfield's boss passed a lie detector test and Hatfield refused to be fluttered.

A guy named Mike Burke wrote some puff-pieces about the misadventures of Sander Hicks and expanded on the conspiracy theory about how Karl Rove supposedly gave the writer/bomber JH Hatfield the Bush-cocaine story so that nobody would believe it because Hatfield had a "chequered past" as an assassin. Karl Rove, according to the story, went fishing in a rowboat with a car-bomber and told him that Bush used cocaine.

Would you go out in a rowboat with a car-bomber? Probably not unless you were as dumb as Fredo Corleon. But I bet that there are some Fredos that Karl Rove would like to "take out" in a boat!

Personally, I think that Hatfield put the cocaine "bombshell" in his cut-and-paste-epic "Fortunate Son" as an afterthought so he would sell more Bush books than the other guys. The cocaine "bombshell" was pasted in at the end of the book.

This seems like a rush job to me. If I really had a terrific scoop like that, it wouldn't be inserted at the end. It would be my centerpiece. Hatfield was just in a rush to beat out some other scribbler, so he slapped this lie on quick and got it into the printer.

Sander Hicks' cheerleader Mike Burke is currently conceeding that the current National Guard document may be a fraud, but he is claiming that it was a deliberately bad fraud that was supposed to be discovered and thus discredit the information in the document.

Burke explains that this what happened once before to Hatfield and his publisher Hicks regarding the Bush-cocaine allegation. I wonder if there is a fish story to go with this fable? Did Rove bait his hook in a rowboat on the Rio Grande?

What is kind of odd is that nothing about this National Guard document is on Hicks' "progressive" website. He has long been writing lurid accounts about Bush's National Guard years and posting documents on his site purportedly from the National Guards. Why is he laying low on this? Not his style at all. See www.sanderhicks.com

Mike Burke wrote these articles linked below. Both mention Hicks' and Hatfield's alleged "victimization" by the evil genius Karl Rove and suggest that Karl Rove is behind these documents. [Hatfield committed suicide a while ago because he was about to be rearrested for computer fraud and lose his parole for embezzling federal money from his company and soliciting the murder of the supervisor who found out. So he's off the hook.]

Compare them both.
http://www.pacifica.org/programs/dn/030811.html
http://idaho.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/11430.php

I am no expert on documents, but if I were trying to forge something old, I would use old ink, old paper and an old typewriter. Actually, I would use a professional forger. If these documents are forgeries, the forger is certainly not a professional forger. He is an idiot. Being a professional forger requires long years of careful application, dicipline and patience. Whoever did this forgery was just a moron who can't plan ahead at all and never heard of document forensics.

Karl Rove, the ultimate scapegoat for screw-ups is again being blamed for making bad forgeries in order to discredit the "true" information. How does he ever do it?

In reality, the Kinko forgery is just a fraud by some idiot who word-processed his private political fantasy and then xeroxed it over and over at a Kinkos. Now the flimsy forgery has emerged, phoenixlike, as a "brilliant" Karl Rove conspiracy. I guess the transformation somehow makes the mendacious morons brilliant operatives instead of useful idiots.

[Spok]

Incredible. Imagine if a Republican or Halliburton screwed around with a scandal investigation like this. Where, for pete's sake, is the freakin' outrage?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It will coincide with the first tank car delivery of White-out in history.

[Starboard]

As part of their overall damage control strategy, CBS clearly wants to delay the release as long as possible so that it's old news by the time it gets out. Combine that strategy with timing the release around some big news events and it will hardly be noticed. This is CBS' version of stonewalling.