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CBS News Concludes It Was Misled on National Guard Memos, Network Officials Say
New York Times ^ | 9/20/04 | Jim Rutenberg

Posted on 09/19/2004 9:40:13 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: EternalVigilance
NYT backfills for CBS

Good one!

201 posted on 09/19/2004 10:31:43 PM PDT by Eastbound ("Neither a Scrooge nor a Patsy be.")
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To: McGavin999
Creditability, once lost, can only be regained slowly and painfully over years of flawless work.

Exactly !

202 posted on 09/19/2004 10:31:55 PM PDT by Mo1 (Why is the MSM calling the Vietnam Vets and POW's a suspected group??)
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To: NavySEAL F-16
They must have an amazing ability to get inside the mind of a man who passed away 20 yrs ago.....they need to to a segment on the amazing telepathy of the CBS news staff....

WAIT A MINUTE! I'VE BROKEN THE CASE!!! I GET IT!!!! Capt'n Dan channeled Col Killian, and had Bill Burkett type 'em and fax 'em to make it look convincing.....yeah ...that's it!
203 posted on 09/19/2004 10:32:08 PM PDT by Newton ("Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem." -R. Reagan 1981)
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To: Iam1ru1-2
I heard it was someone who was kicked out of Heaven and thrown down to the Earth, and he whispered into Dan's ear as Dan was taking a bite out of his apple.

Yep.

And no figleaf is going to cover up his nakedness...

204 posted on 09/19/2004 10:32:21 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Savage Beast
Their defense is stupidity? No wishful. They wanted the story to be true, just like the rest of liberal America. If they want it, there must be some truth to it.
205 posted on 09/19/2004 10:32:23 PM PDT by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: Travis McGee; ntnychik; Grampa Dave; potlatch; Smartass; MeekOneGOP; nopardons; Happy2BMe; ...

206 posted on 09/19/2004 10:32:23 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: hobson

Excellent work in progress! Can't wait to see it after the lid has been nailed shut on Rather's career.


207 posted on 09/19/2004 10:32:42 PM PDT by LibWhacker (It is the black heart of Islam, not its black face, to which millions object)
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To: DameAutour
Indeed, that story in the WPost last night indicated that no on above Mapes knew the source. She alone was responsible for validation. It's going to insulate Dan some but his actions after the story fell apart are indefensible.
208 posted on 09/19/2004 10:32:46 PM PDT by KingKongCobra
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To: Jewels1091

HOW ABOUT AN APOLOGY TO PRESIDENT BUSH??????

Amen! That would be at least a teeny tiny step in the right direction, but I have been seeing (like everywhere) demands for apologies. I think we need to go way BEYOND that.


209 posted on 09/19/2004 10:32:59 PM PDT by Just Lori (CBS: Turn out the lights. The party's over.)
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To: piasa
Good catch. That's defiantly behind the fascist take over of our health care system.
210 posted on 09/19/2004 10:33:20 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: Newton

Two words---Quija Board.


211 posted on 09/19/2004 10:33:52 PM PDT by Stonedog (Mr. Blather... tear down this STONEWALL!!)
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To: YaYa123

"You're right! Mary wanted this huge expose' scoop that might bring down the president. She wanted it so bad, and she knew Dan did too, that she either intentionally overlooked flaws, or was too blinded by hatred for Bush to see them. Either way, Mapes has got to go."

I think you're right. She'll be forced to resign. They have to have a CBS News fall-guy. Rather will stay but will be quietly put to pasture early with a golden handshake. CBS execs will probably name his successor too, to help edge him out the door.


212 posted on 09/19/2004 10:34:19 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
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To: LibWhacker

Licorice: "Dan, even my feral friends think you are a whack job.
The Widow Heinz had you pegged from the start
'cause you are just like Kenny.
"


213 posted on 09/19/2004 10:35:21 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.)
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To: PhilDragoo
BTT and gooooood night!

(A very nice way to end the day - Dan Rather squirming in his own shi*!)

214 posted on 09/19/2004 10:35:26 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (46 days until November 2nd)
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To: YaYa123
Mary wanted this huge expose' scoop that might bring down the president. She wanted it so bad, and she knew Dan did too,

Agreed .. the fact that she has been after this story for 4 years is very telling

I still think someone more important tipped Mary & Dan off .. someone they could trust

215 posted on 09/19/2004 10:35:41 PM PDT by Mo1 (Why is the MSM calling the Vietnam Vets and POW's a suspected group??)
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To: George Smiley

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30043-2004Sep17.html

In an Aug. 21 posting, Burkett referred to a conversation with former senator Max Cleland (D-Ga.) about the need to counteract Republican tactics: "I asked if they wanted to counterattack or ride this to ground and outlast it, not spending any money. He said counterattack. So I gave them the information to do it with. But none of them have called me back."

Cleland confirmed that he had a two- or three-minute conversation by cell phone with a Texan named Burkett in mid-August while he was on a car ride. He remembers Burkett saying that he had "valuable" information about Bush, and asking what he should with it. "I told him to contact the [Kerry] campaign," Cleland said. "You get this information tens of times a day, and you don't know if it is legit or not."


216 posted on 09/19/2004 10:37:03 PM PDT by nonkultur
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To: Enterprise

HEY! I have a degree!

OK , I'll be honest....it was not really that hard to get.

I guess because I come for common folk. I had a good work/study ethic.

AND I GOTTA TELL YA....Half the crap they teach is liberal minded hogwash.


217 posted on 09/19/2004 10:37:04 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud (all)
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To: DrDavid

I do recall reading somewere that MM's F/9/11 used Burkett's advice, and perhaps the forged Docs.


218 posted on 09/19/2004 10:37:28 PM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (Sorry Kerry, you're 3 decimal places adrift: 3,000,000 not 3,000 "displaced"/murdered SE Asians)
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To: Happy2BMe

hehehe...I think I'm gonna go spy out what the DUmmies are saying about this for a few laughs. I might even bring back a quote or two.


219 posted on 09/19/2004 10:37:54 PM PDT by Stonedog (Mr. Blather... tear down this STONEWALL!!)
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To: Tragically Single
Who gives a rip about their chain of custody? THE DOCUMENTS ARE FAKE.

I give quite a large rip, actually. If the chain includes Kerry campaign officials, and that fact becomes public, the election is over and we take 56 seats in the Senate. That would be a good thing and that all goes back to chain of custody.

Given their protestations about 'unimpeachable sources' and a 'rock-solid chain of custody,' CBS will be hard pressed to be vague about where and how they got them. My belief is that the whole reason CBS has twisted this long before admitting the documents were forgeries is that they had to come up with an approach to doing so that does not reveal the Kerry campaign's involvement.

It will be important to watch the hand that is not gesturing over the next few days. That hand holds the actual chain-of-custody information.

220 posted on 09/19/2004 10:38:10 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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