Posted on 09/19/2004 9:40:13 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Silly us, we thought he meant "a source of the highest integrity."
He meant "unimpeachable" in the sense that you can't impeach or impugn the credibility of a source you've never met and can't find.
Dan's a clever guy with words.
Well, their forced and less than genuine mea culpa will not change anything for me. I loathe cbs just the same as ever.
Now if they would consider canning old man blather, well...then I would loathe them two-thirds as much.
I am certain cbs and the blather cabel is damn pissed that the holes in the story became apparent for everyone else to see BESIDES them.
CBS News released a statement yesterday standing by its reporting,
saying that each of the documents "was thoroughly vetted by independent experts
and we are convinced of their authenticity."
The statement added that CBS reporters had verified the documents
by talking to unidentified people who saw them
"at the time they were written."
Got that? "At the time they were written."
When RatherDishonestTM tries to interview Burkett on this, we should shove this
right up his FAX machine.
Source:Link to WP Sept.10
WHO tried to change the outcome of a Presidential Election??
Forgery of a military document is a F-E-L-O-N-Y.
Good point! Dan can't afford to come clean on this. Ever.
CBS MAKES THIS STATEMENT...
"Sandy Genelius, a network spokeswoman, said last week, "We are confident about the chain of custody; we're confident in how we secured the documents.'' "
THEN THEY FLIP FLOP TO THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS...
"But officials decided yesterday that they would most likely have to declare that they were misled about the records' origin after Mr. Rather and a top network executive, Betsy West, met in Texas with a man who was said to have helped the news division obtain the memos, a former Guard officer named Bill Burkett. ""
HOW CAN THEY BE CONFIDENT....AND THEN CLAIM THEY WERE MISLED.
They are a major news group with many investigative tools at their disposal.
THEY WERE IN A POSITION TO KNOW THAT BURKETT WAS NOT A GOOD SOURCE. ESPECIALLY SINCE BURKETT HAD BEEN DISCREDITED IN THE PAST. AND HAD RETRACTED THE SAME TYPE OF CHARGES.
THEY WOULD HAVE KNOWN...AS MENTIONED BY THEIR OWN EXPERT ON THE MEMOS...
"Yesterday, Emily J. Will, a document specialist who inspected the records for CBS News and said last week that she had raised concerns about their authenticity with CBS News producers, confirmed a report in Newsweek that a producer had told her that the source of the documents had said they were obtained anonymously and through the mail.
During an interview last night she declined to name the producer who told her this but said that the producer had been in a position to know.""
CBS FLIP FLOPS....JUST LIKE THEIR BOY KERRY.
Maybe this is the DNC just sending a message to CBS without making a direct and telling phonecall. "Please admit you made a mistake so we can moveon.org to the next spitball hate-attack."
Has anyone forwarded this to FoxBabesTM News, Rush, etc., yet?
Big ole bump!
The major bloggers have linked to it thanks to Cableguy and ratherbiased.com
Spitballs. (rim shot)
No problem; it was worth reading twice. In fact, I've been reading almost all the comments twice. They're that good! :-)
That struck me as funny. ;o)
Not that I know of. Cableguy sent it out to a bunch of people but I'm not sure who was on the list.
oops
You miss a day, you miss a lot. :)
"CBS would do well to remember the #1 lesson of Watergate - the coverup is ALWAYS worse than the crime. Always. Every single time."
also cc: martha stewart
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