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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: YaYa123
How foolish and bitter Dan Rather looks now, for insulting FOXNEws at the airport today, asking that local FOXNews reporter if he didn't feel duped by working for FOX.

Did you see him fumble and try to get into the wrong car? LOL. His car was further up the drive. LOL.

241 posted on 09/19/2004 10:46:19 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: Billthedrill; Cosmo
White House officials have said they saw no reason to challenge documents that had been presented by a credible news organization.

Hysterical! Check out this little gem uncovered by "Enlightiator". From a Bush speech in Charlotte on 9/17:

"One of the interesting things about a changing economy is that our workers are more productive than ever before. That means instead of using a hoe, you use a backhoe. Or instead of using, you know, a regular old standard typewriter, you use a computer. In other words, that's an example of becoming more productive."

Full Speech:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/09/20040917-11.html

242 posted on 09/19/2004 10:46:22 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: LibWhacker
I didn't expect it would take them all of 11 days to concoct a story that insulates the Kerry campaign. That's all this admission has been waiting for.
243 posted on 09/19/2004 10:47:09 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: YaYa123

I think the next escapade of the document-loonies at the DNC will be an attempt to alter the Congressional Record to make it appear that John F'n sKerry once passed a bill in the Senate. Or maybe that he just showed up occasionally.


244 posted on 09/19/2004 10:47:19 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Eastbound
The more I think about it, the more I'm becoming convinced that Andrew Heyward is a complete fool. He let go to Texas the last person in the Division that needed to, and God only knows how he feels now after watching the raw interview.

(I'd almost put the word interview in quotes. There's just no amount of damage control they can do at this point....).

245 posted on 09/19/2004 10:47:21 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population - have them spayed or neutered.©)
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To: LibWhacker

No interview of Hodges or Killian's family? Why not? So, these CBS people HAVEN'T interviewed these people YET? They've been working on this "story" for FIVE damn years??? Sheesh. How much $$$ do these people get paid each year? Amazing.


246 posted on 09/19/2004 10:47:38 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: Jewels1091
CBS owes the President an apology for sure

Mapes and Rather go to the unemployment line

Deep Throat (whoever that is) goes to jail.

and if they can tie this in any way to the DNC, all of them get their walking papers.

247 posted on 09/19/2004 10:47:55 PM PDT by fish hawk
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To: LibWhacker
I for one am not jumping up and down with glee over this development. The longer they dug in the better. This will allow the MSM to declare this chapter over. It will allow them to go back to declaring Kerry "the comeback kid." After all CBS is investigating. Just as they had internal investigations after the Westmoreland affair.

This will allow them to get past the most important point to be dealt with here. Did the RATS pass on the memos? It will be up to the "new media" to press forward. Otherwise, the story will be put aside for another day (see post Nov.2) and McAuliffe, Cleland, Kerry,et al will breath easier. The longer CBS stood by the story the more curiosity there was and the more competitive drive to get to the truth by outfits desiring to score points on CBS. See ABC News.

No this is a two edged sword. Busts CBS and Rather. However, lets the complicity of the RATS and or Kerry campaign rest easier. We will now see the real strength of the pajama people, and possibly FOX News, tested. The stakes are HUGE. If the RATS are outed as being in cahoots with CBS it will damage Kerry in a major fashion. Courage.

248 posted on 09/19/2004 10:48:42 PM PDT by davidtalker
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To: MarkT

oh, but the full bore mea culpa will get great ratings!!
1) they are fake
2) Burkett is the source

This is Rather's last chance - but if tell's all now, he may survive with his career if not his credibility intact.

BTW, blogs fingered Burkett many days ago, even my blog had it weds ...
http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com

... so Rather is reporting what blogs knew some time ago.

welcome to the 21st century, Dan.


249 posted on 09/19/2004 10:49:21 PM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: Travis McGee

What always amazed me is that Rather himself anchored the story. He must have thought that the memo story would have the needed authority/vetting if he personally attended to the report. 'Course Rather thought this story could turn the tide but, as anyone here knew from the get-go, that tide of voters beached on Bush Point as opposed to Kerry Cove.

Under the circumstances, I guess a thank-you is in order for the Danster - single-handedly taking down not just CBS but a large amount of the little credibility left within the LMSM.


250 posted on 09/19/2004 10:49:40 PM PDT by torchthemummy (Florida 2000: There Would Have Been No 5-4 Without A 7-2)
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To: plushaye
If Burkett has to face felony charges, I wonder if he'll go down quietly or start singing about his DNC/Kerry contacts?

The guy is already bitter about his lot in life (his illness, benefits denied, and now he's mired in this controversy) that I doubt he'll stand for the further indignity of being a fall guy. He'll spill the beans--that is, if something doesn't happen to him first.

251 posted on 09/19/2004 10:50:17 PM PDT by gop_gene
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To: Ken H
"One of the interesting things about a changing economy is that our workers are more productive than ever before. That means instead of using a hoe, you use a backhoe. Or instead of using, you know, a regular old standard typewriter, you use a computer. In other words, that's an example of becoming more productive."

LOL. Home run!

252 posted on 09/19/2004 10:51:11 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: ModelBreaker

I agree, but I think it's too much to hope for that CBS will give up anyone in the Kerry campaign. They'll say they got them directly from Burkett, dealt with Burkett, etc. IF the Kerry people have any sense at all they didn't provide any physical evidence directly to CBS, they probably just helped CBS to get together with Burkett and told CBS that Burkett could be trusted (yeah, right).

I think both Rather/Mapes and Burket/Van Os will go to their graves before they give up Cleland or anyone in the Kerry camp. Unfortunately, I expect the best we can hope for is a major shake-up within CBS and a prosecution of Burkett, but Rather and his pals in CBS will fight to make Mapes the only scapegoat there..... I say fire everyone who touched this story and prosecute Burkett to the limit!


253 posted on 09/19/2004 10:51:26 PM PDT by Enchante (Jayson Blair left the NY Times and works for Dan Rather at CBS!)
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To: Ken H

That's too much. What a zinger


254 posted on 09/19/2004 10:51:45 PM PDT by Cosmo (Dan Rather is F@$#$ed : F@#$@ed like a horned toad under a moonlit Texas sky.)
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To: Newton

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!




Well, sorta. Actually, if they were gonna channel dead people...the would get John Edwards.


255 posted on 09/19/2004 10:52:01 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud (all)
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To: Ken H
Dang it. I forgot the thing about beer through the nose again. Ow.

That is very, very funny...

256 posted on 09/19/2004 10:52:58 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: LibWhacker
... signs that the memorandums were not genuine.

Is that the first time (not genuine) that they are admitting the memos are fake, or did I miss it?

257 posted on 09/19/2004 10:52:59 PM PDT by Diddley (Buckhead is a pioneer. Pioneers get the arrows.)
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To: fish hawk

CBS owes the President an apology for sure

and the partisan pajamahadeen...


258 posted on 09/19/2004 10:53:02 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: KingKongCobra

It must really suck to be a delusional DUmmy. The diabolically eeevil Karl Rove must give them feverish nightmares.


259 posted on 09/19/2004 10:53:23 PM PDT by AF68
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To: woofie

Don't forget Kinko's, folks. The oh-so-important memos were faxed from a freakin' Kinko's, later to be trotted out on 60 Minutes 2 as "news."


260 posted on 09/19/2004 10:53:42 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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