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CBS Says Producer Violated Policy by Putting Source in Touch With Kerry Aide
NYTIMES ^
| 09/22/04
| JIM RUTENBERG and BILL CARTER
Posted on 09/21/2004 8:50:42 PM PDT by Pikamax
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To: wattsup
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:50:04 PM PDT
by
spodefly
(A bunny-slippered operative in the Vast Right-Wing Pajama Party.)
To: Pikamax
"It is obviously against CBS News standards and those of every other reputable news organization to be associated with any political agenda," the network said in a statement. ROTFL!
You can't make this stuff up!
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:50:45 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
("John Kerry reporting for spitball and typewriter duty.")
To: drhogan
You remember right, I recall the very same comment, and it is true. Bill and Hillary would both be serving time were it not for the media. Al Gore would have conceded after the automatic recount, etc. etc. etc.
63
posted on
09/21/2004 9:53:57 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
("John Kerry reporting for spitball and typewriter duty.")
To: wattsup
My question is this: How does the Kerry campaign explain away the fact that they and the CBS memos cite the same bogus Air Force Manual 35-13 without being in contact with each other. Two groups just dreaming up the same non-existent manual goes way beyond coincidence? Because "AFM 35-13" does, ideed, appear in Bush's official records in the context stated. See http://www.usatoday.com/news/2004-02-14-bush-docs.htm document #18.
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:56:29 PM PDT
by
ajf0
To: Pikamax
"It is obviously against CBS News standards and those of every other reputable news organization to be associated with any political agenda," the network said in a statement.Well, I see they made it to their second sentence before telling a lie. But it's a whopper.
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:59:14 PM PDT
by
Wolfstar
(Silence in the face of atrocity is complicity. Vote GWB 11/2/04 for 9/11/01 & the Russian kids.)
To: Pikamax
BS News said yesterday... LOL. Without the graphical "C", it seems some accuracy is added.
To: Anti-Bubba182
If that happens, I wonder how she will react and what she would have to say.She's just another rabid Dem partisan. She'll fall on her sword now, then turn up on CNN or MSNBC as a political commentator.
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posted on
09/21/2004 10:01:02 PM PDT
by
Wolfstar
(Silence in the face of atrocity is complicity. Vote GWB 11/2/04 for 9/11/01 & the Russian kids.)
To: Anti-Bubba182
...I wonder how she will react...PS: She'll eventually write a book, get filthy rich, and become some sort of heroine to the Left.
68
posted on
09/21/2004 10:02:43 PM PDT
by
Wolfstar
(Silence in the face of atrocity is complicity. Vote GWB 11/2/04 for 9/11/01 & the Russian kids.)
To: Wolfstar
....Or she could get really POed a rat out a lot of good stuff.
One can hope.
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Her father said something similar.
70
posted on
09/21/2004 10:05:21 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: shield
...is the $64,000 question."Was that pun intended? 
71
posted on
09/21/2004 10:06:39 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population - have them spayed or neutered.©)
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Her father came out and said he is ashamed of what she has become, just another typical liberal.
72
posted on
09/21/2004 10:34:15 PM PDT
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: Anti-Bubba182
Setting Mapes up to take the fall. If that happens, I wonder
how she will react and what she would have to say.
They are trying to CYA for the sKerry campaign that if exposed would be worse than Watergate
73
posted on
09/21/2004 11:22:49 PM PDT
by
danamco
To: Wil H
"It is obviously against CBS News standards and those of every other reputable news organization to be associated with any political agenda
Really???
Just remember "BaghdadBob"'s fundraiser with daughter Robin!!!
74
posted on
09/21/2004 11:25:34 PM PDT
by
danamco
To: danamco
"..CYA for the sKerry campaign that if exposed would be worse than Watergate"
Certainly, it would devastate the Kerry campaign, but Mapes has a very limited time window if she gets mad and wants to retaliate if she is fired. At the same time they could try to drag their "independent investigation" on until after the election if they think the public would stand for it and that is a stretch.
To: Nathan Zachary
If they fire her, she will spill the beans. We know it all was a plot with the Kerry campaign.
How much will you bet that she will only use Hillery's "I can't recall"!!!
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posted on
09/21/2004 11:35:02 PM PDT
by
danamco
To: Pikamax
The Abu Ghraib scandal was one of several exclusives for Ms. Mapes, who began working for the news division in 1989, mostly as a producer for "The CBS Evening News." In 1999, she secured for Mr. Rather an interview with Shawn Allen Berry, a white man who was convicted in the racially motivated killing of James Byrd Jr., whom Mr. Berry and two others dragged behind a pick-up truck near Jasper, Tex. Ms. Mapes nearly went to jail for refusing to hand over tapes of the interview to prosecutors. She also secured a major interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton after President Bill Clinton faced impeachment proceedings. So basically, every report the "highly regarded" Mary Mapes has done has either bashed Bush, or supported Clinton. No, she has no agenda, right?
To: Wolfstar
"She's just another rabid Dem partisan. She'll fall on her sword now, then turn up on CNN or MSNBC as a political commentator"
Maybe she can manage the "Suicidal Watch Squad" at DU
78
posted on
09/22/2004 1:22:43 AM PDT
by
FoxRun
To: Pikamax
mapes didn't put this clown in "touch" with the kerry campaign, he IS with the KERRY CAMPAIGN to begin with. HE got CBS to put on the 'forutnate son' show FOR KERRY.
the idea that a democrat activist, had to get help from CBS to let kerry look at his documents?
ridiculous..
they are all in it together.
no meetings were arranged, they were planned from the get go... and KERRY is in this up to his botoxed eyebrows.
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posted on
09/22/2004 1:50:42 AM PDT
by
Robert_Paulson2
(the madridification of our election is now officially underway.)
To: Pikamax
Some colleagues expressed worry that Ms. Mapes would be a scapegoat and that others, like Mr. Rather; Betsy West, a CBS News senior vice president; and the CBS News president, Andrew Heyward, would not be held accountable. I don't believe it!
Not with the unbiased conviction held by Dan rather, 60 minutes, and executives of CBS!
I can't comprehend the idea that they would destroy the livelihood of such a "behind the scenes" scrapper that only wants to make a living and just enjoy a life in modest comfort. /sarcasm
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posted on
09/22/2004 2:00:52 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
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