Posted on 09/17/2004 8:58:58 PM PDT by The Bandit
Edited on 09/17/2004 9:05:20 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
"And, believe it or not, we got a message from Union Station saying they had a package for us. We went down to get it. You know what it was?
"It was a memo sent all the way from Texas. Black and white spotted. One of our staff members 6-year old daughter named it Checkers. And you know, the kid loved that memo and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna stick with our story."
So now it starts. It looks like they are starting to cover up the trail of the memos through the sKerry campaign.
That's the way he sees it, that's the way he decrees it.
Mmm-hmmm. Riiiiiight. I don't suppose that "somebody" has a name? Like....DAN RATHER maybe???
The NY Times and the Washinton Post smell blood. This COULD get good.
The Washington Post found this same information, but the NYT seems to have dug a little deeper. I sense a competition developing. Let the games begin....
"I helped them before I didn't."
"I spent some time on the phone with the Kerry campaign seniors yesterday," Mr. Burkett wrote on Aug. 21 in an e-mail letter circulated to a list of about 600 Texas Democrats.So was the call back August 22? 23? 24...?"So I gave them the information to do it with," Mr. Burkett wrote. "But none of them have called me back."
Isn't it interesting, how everyone else can find so many people to talk to, yet, none were featured by Dan?
There's something familiar here....can't quite..... grassy knoll ... lone gunman...a magic bullet
He may have been unsuccessful at first, but I think Burkett's motto is "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again". And he did.
Cleland is now on record confirming that he spoke with Burkett and referred him to the Kerry campaign.
Add: This guy is too self-absorbed to realize that the Dims are about to set him up as the fall guy for the whole plan gone awry. He's an unstable whack-job, and it will be very easy to isolate and blame him for the whole affair. IMO, this was Rather's exit plan all along.
Maybe, when ol' Max was in Texas, he was doing more than "delivering" a letter to W's ranch.
He's probably still harboring hopes that THIS time his charges against Bush will stick. That's probably all he thinks about.
" I referred him up to somebody in the campaign."
oh reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally...
there's an opening here for some good news organization to try and somehow claim the mantle of credility that has been left lying like the carcass of a dead animal along the side of the road. While CBS and 60 Minutes have been devestated beyond repair for years, if not decades to come, other MSM have an opportunity to try and set the record straight. Rather had that opportunity and he decided to put his partisan sympathies ahead of his career and ahead of the network and corporation he serves. There are others, unlike Rather and others, who will value their journalistic integrity above their partisan interests, particularly given the stakes and potential rewards involved.
Anyone remember when the producer, Mapes, was out to interview Burkett?
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