CHARLITE, would you kindly give a link to your earlier post about Hackworth so we all don't have to go look it up?
To: Mapes
You are as hard-working as an Oklahoma toad in a button-polishing contest, and I'm happy as a horse who inherited a peanut butter factory. After 17 attempts to smear Bush with a fabricated charge, it looks as if we may finally have something that sticks like Juicy Fruit on the Alamo wall. Keep in touch. Dan
Pretty funny.
The CBS report can't bring itself, even now, to say the documents were unquestionably bogus.
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Of course not. The arrogant Madhatter and his little group of liberal liars finds it all most proper at their little Utopian Tea Party....its all believable, and nobody is smart enough to know better!!!
Yeah, right.
Hackworth is a democrat and was involved? :(
I'm not entirely sure this report will achieve the closure they expect. It seems to me that CBS has been permanently damaged, to what extent remains to be seen. The leftists will all welcome this coverup, but everybody else will continue to associate the name of Rather with the crime of forgery.
The documents might be real and Clinton might not of had sex with that woman.
Lileks delivers a down payment on the scorn this whitewash deserves. No one has presented proof that I'm not Zantor, savior of the universe and Sex-God of the Seven Galaxies, but that don't make it true.
James Lileks is the funniest man in the world.
http://www.lileks.com/institute/index.html
Pay particular attention to the Gallery of Regrettable Food and Interior Desecrations.
And buy the books. Seriously.
David Letterman.... "Top Proposed Changes At CBS News": Stories must be corroborated by at least two really strong hunches; "Evening News" pre-show staff cocktail hour is cancelled until further notice; Reduce "60 Minutes" to more manageable 15-20 minutes; Change division name from "CBS News" to "CBS News-ish"; If anchor says anything inaccurate, earpiece delivers an electric shock; Conclude each story with comical "Boing" sound effect; Instead of boring Middle East reports, more Powerball drawings; To play it safe, every "exclusive" story will be about how tasty pecan pie is; Not sure how, but make CBS News more like "C.S.I."
"Rather himself told the investigating panel that "no one had provided persuasive evidence that the documents were not authentic."
Dan, you little jackbutt, have you never heard the journalistic phrase "If your mother says she loves you, check it out"?
You are a sad excuse for a journalist, a disgusting human being.
It was not the responsibility of others to prove the documents wrong. It was your responsibility to prove them right beyond a shadow of a doubt. Not maybe. Not "they look authentic." Not probably. Not "they sound right." No, it was your job to prove them 100 percent genuine.
You didn't, and you still ran with the story.
That is not what a journalist does.
Dan, you can take your sorry and shove it up your backside.
Absolutely incorrect.
The report, by being cowardly and squishy about:
a) the breathtakingly obvious liberal bias that launched the story in the first place, and,
b) the forgeries
....has served only to irritate all those people who waited four months for the plain truth.
Had there been an honest report followed by a loud apology from CBS, a broad round of firings, and the hiring of a serious ombudsman's office (one with real teeth), THEN the whole scandal may have had a chance at closure. But not now.
This scandal is one festering boil that will never go away.
The evidence of Rather/seeBS collusion with the Kerry campaign is incontrovertibly demonstrated by the "Fortunate Son" adds already being in the can, referencing the forged memos, before said fraud aired on 60 Minshitz.
bttt
And this is supposed to account for "authentication?" Sure. If you're stupid.