Posted on 09/15/2004 6:16:28 AM PDT by OESY
Beldar Blog nails it with the September 15 post. Read the whole thing.
Excerpt:
Dan Rather was complicit in defrauding the American public in an attempt to defeat a sitting President.
Rather must be fired now. Congress should subpoena CBS News' lawyers and all documentation of their advice.
But Dan Rather and CBS News had become co-conspirators by the time of their broadcast. ABC News has revealed that two of the experts whom CBS News consulted before running the broadcast — Emily Will from North Carolina and Linda James of Plano, Texas — could not and would not authenticate the fraudulent Killian memos, and expressly told CBS that.
The first witness must be an appropriate custodian of records from CBS News, who must be directed to bring every shred of paper, every email, every piece of videotape, every computer file, every outtake, every script, every memorandum of staff meetings — and every bit of advice rendered by inside or outside legal counsel to CBS News prior to the broadcast. There is no attorney-client privilege to shield advice rendered to assist a client in the perpetration of a crime or a fraud. See, e.g., Swindler & Berlin v. United States, 524 U.S. 399 (1998); United States v. Zolin, 491 U.S. 554 (1989).
They didn't want an internal investigation, so now they are going to get an external one. Bravissimo CBS.
Beldar is great. We should all read him every day.
CBS and Credibility? In the word of the retired Congress person from Colorado (her initials are PMS): "They just don't get it!"
Not really.
I never watch CBS, but I have been watching the CBS evening news lately to see Dan Rather squirm and lie. It's a beautiful thing.
I imagine a lot of others, like me, are too. Therfore, the viewership goes up. Everyone loves to watch a train wreck.
Its not only the end of Dan Rather, its the end of Dan Rathers.
Credibility? Bull Snit!
Only as long as this lasts...after that, viewership is going to dive.
Right now it is a lot of rubber-necking at the bloody accident.
Diminished???? Tommy, that sound you are hearing is a toilet flushing.
No.
Po-jama People by Frank Zappa
Some people's hot
Some people's cold
Some people's not very
Swift to behold
Some people do it
Some see right through it
Some wear pyjamas
If only they knew it
The pyjamas people are boring me to pieces
They make me feel like I am wasting my time
They all got flannel up 'n down 'em
A little trap-door back aroun' 'em
An' some cozy little *footies* on their mind
Po-jama people!
Po-jama people, people!
Lawd, they make you sleepy
With the things they might say
Po-jama people!
Po-jama people, people!
*Mother, Mary 'n Jozuf*, wish they'd all go away!
Po-jama people!
It's a po-jama people special...
Take one home with you & save a dollar today
Po-jama people!
Po-jama people, people!
Wrap 'em up
Roll 'em out
Get 'em out of my way
CBS....certainly bull sh*t
Can't damage what the lack.
That is just awesome!!!!!
Have any 'targets' of 60 Minutes' past segments, for which 60 Minutes lambasted them, run them out of business, etc., been as corrupt as Dan Rather has been?
Public opinion has been substantially influenced by their articles; have these also been researched so poorly? What kind of scrutiny will be placed on future articles? What kind of review needs to be done on previous articles? It's evident to me that what 60 Minutes has done, if not criminal, is awfully close to it.
Linda... YOU ROCK! This is awesome...
The sooner CBS fires Rather and cooperates with any probe to prosecute the original source(unimpeachable)for forgery of federal documents, the sooner they will be able to sleep. With or without pajamas.
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