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Has the once venerable name in news turned over its studios for partisan political activism? September 29, 2004 Tuesday, September 28, 2004, just 3 weeks after the widely discredited story by 60 Minutes II using forged memos, CBS is back at it again. This time the claims are carefully crafted in such a way that they could easily be considered political propaganda. Goebbles might have been impressed. CBS reporter Richard Schlesinger on the CBS Evening News ran a story related to the draft, clearly implying that the Republican administration under President Bush is going to invoke the draft to support...

Something to Yak About - Gillespie on Phony Docs: 'Was a Crime Committed? I Think So' Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie laid it on the line Wednesday, telling reporters he thinks criminal activity is behind the bogus documents used as the peg for a Sept. 8 CBS News report smearing the president. "Was a crime committed? I believe so," said Gillespie. "Obviously, forgery is involved. But the Texas Legal Code also says it is a third degree felony if one 'makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with knowledge of its falsity and with intent that...

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Group Wants Panel To Focus On Possible CBS Violations of FCC Policy Prohibiting Airing of False, Faked or Staged News Reports Media Ethics Project of New York today has submitted a filing to the members of the panel established on Monday by CBS to review the facts and circumstances related to CBS News’ broadcasting of a series of reports on the National Guard service of President Bush based on forged documents. The panel’s members are former US Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and retired Associated Press chief executive Louis Boccardi. The MEP filing with the panel includes the Petition for Declaratory...

Immediately, Communists for Kerry implements the following new changes in management CBS is renamed "Communist Broadcasting System." The inadequacy of Nielson Rating system is replaced with the more advanced Capt. Smersh system with the remarkable result of a consistent 100% approval rating. These changes allow for a culturally superior fall line up of TV shows on CBS.

SUMNERTIME BLUES by ReadyNow Danny Rather, Jayson Blair, Crafting careful ink and air. Many listen, many read -- "Trusted sources," these. Indeed. See how just a found-out lie Makes these trusted sources die -- No one knows if, where, or when They can taste of trust again! New York Times and CBS, Wallow in untruthfulness. Danny Rather, Jayson Blair -- (Peter J. belongs in there). So do Aaron and the Post, Mary Mapes and other toast: NPR and PBS, L.A. Times and all the rest. Twisting, lying, bending facts, Making subtle sneak attacks, Under colors false and pious: "No such...

Pretty much a cut & paste response, but figured I'd throw it out there anyway. My email: I have removed WCCO from my TV channel listing until your support of CBS & CBS News programming is pulled. CBS has proven time and again they have no journalistic integrity, and further now have perpetrated criminal deception on its viewers by trying to influence a presidential election with forged documents IN COLLUSION with the Democratic Party. They have stonewalled repeatedly in the face of clear fact with the hope that this issue will be forgotten; I assure you it will not. CBS...

WASHINGTON – Bill Burkett of Baird, Texas, will have a prominent place in the annals of political trickery. He'll be remembered as the one who aimed at President Bush and felled the mighty Dan Rather and "60 Minutes." Who could've contrived this hoax? Suspicions settled on Mr. Burkett, himself a former Guard officer with a lively hatred of President Bush. With a sinking feeling, Rather and staff, who'd worked long and hard at developing the "scoop," realized they'd been had. Rather flew to Texas and strong-armed Burkett into an interview confessing all - almost all. He said he'd worked in...

Whoever, having devised any scheme or artifice to defraud transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. --- U.S. Criminal Code, Chapter 63, Section 1343. That was no mere "dirty trick"; it could be a violation of the U.S. criminal code. If the artifice had not been revealed by sharp-eyed bloggers, a national election could have been swung by a blatant falsehood. Who...

September 24, 2004 Investigator for CBS Criticized '60 Minutes'By JACQUES STEINBERG ick Thornburgh, the former attorney general selected by CBS to help investigate a flawed report broadcast earlier this month on "60 Minutes,'' sharply criticized that program in a memoir published last year.In the book, "Where the Evidence Leads'' (University of Pittsburgh Press), Mr. Thornburgh described "60 Minutes" as having "chimed in with its usual sensationalized treatment'' in a 1992 report about the Justice Department's handling of an investigation into illegal lending by an Italian bank.When, as Mr. Thornburgh writes in the book, "60 Minutes'' later sought to interview him...

Dick Thornburgh, the former attorney general selected by CBS to help investigate a flawed report broadcast earlier this month on "60 Minutes,'' sharply criticized that program in a memoir published last year In the book, "Where the Evidence Leads'' (University of Pittsburgh Press), Mr. Thornburgh described "60 Minutes" as having "chimed in with its usual sensationalized treatment'' in a 1992 report about the Justice Department's handling of an investigation into illegal lending by an Italian bank. When, as Mr. Thornburgh writes in the book, "60 Minutes'' later sought to interview him because he had been an under secretary general of...

NEW YORK - Station managers at several CBS affiliates said today they appear to be a target of a national e-mail campaign placing pressure on the network to oust Dan Rather as anchorman of the CBS Evening News. The anger stems from Rather's role in a 60 Minutes report on President George W. Bush's service in the National Guard. CBS has apologized for reporting on documents critical of Bush's service, widely assumed now as fakes, and appointed a panel to investigate what went wrong in the report. Many e-mailers offer the same message: I will not watch CBS News again...

In 2002, CBS News anchor Dan Rather attended a Democrat Party fundraiser in Taylor County, Texas. This is the county where Abilene is located. It is known for its powerful and reportedly corrupt Democratic organization. The fundraiser was organized by Rather's daughter. The previous year, he told Fox's Bill O'Reilly on "The O'Reilly Factor" that "I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things." The entire transcript of this interview can be found at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,24898,00.html. Now Rather has been caught basing a story on a so-called "memo" that, as Yogi Berra might say, has...

I say there good man, I have examined those documents and I can absolutely guarantee you that they are real,REAL FORGERIES!!!Even I can see that...  

After an 8 MILLION dollar loss 2 days ago, and an anemic recovery yesterday, Viacom, the CBS parent company is headed into seriously negative territory again today. Already seeing losses of some +/- 15 MILLION in equity, the outlook would appear to be a bit ominous for Viacom if Rathergate continues. Use the MAINSTREAM MEDIA KIT in the next message to help CBS and other Mainstream media sources understand that their biased days are numbered.

If the documents in question, are conclusively proven to be a fraud, there are SEVERAL criminal laws that come into play... 18 U.S.C. 371 - Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States - Fines and up to 5 years in prison18 U.S.C. 372 - Conspiracy to impede or injure officer - Fines and up to 6 years in prison18 U.S.C. 494 - Contractors' bonds, bids, and public records18 U.S.C. 506 - - Seals of departments or agencies (this MIGHT include the military signatures and military branch)18 U.S.C. 1001. - Statements or entries generally (Fraud)CBS 60 Minutes Hit Piece...

Help turn CBS into an antique today!  Join the campaign to "Just Turn it Off" or "Just Change the Channel".  Send the list of media sources below to all of your friends, relatives, everyone you know!  Give them an INTERNET alternate media source!!!  After seeing more of the truth, rather than the propaganda from the Media Wing of the Democrat Party, they'll start having less desire to watch the trash on dnCBS and maybe spend more time with their family!To copy the following list of links and send them, 1.  Highlight the list below with your mouse and pointer2.  Use...

please post any links or research info you may have on media bias. i am looking to put a comprehensive list of media bias sources together, along with contact information, and widely distribute it. if we all work together, and coordinate this, "main stream media" whores can become the big controversy right in the middle of this election cycle...

There is one thing that has become completely, and VERY obvious --, the Main Stream Media isn't just demonstrating their bias, THEY ARE OPENLY COORDINATING AND CAMPAIGNING FOR THE DNC!! Think about it, even with the SOLID PROOF of forged documents, a considerable amount of the Main Stream Media is still running with discredited stories. They're trying to rehash old news that's been gone over for 4 years now. In the famous NAZI style, they're trying to repeat the same old lies often enough until they're believed. One thing that threw them for a loop was CATCHING the forged documents!...

Dr. Philip Bouffard, a forensic document specialist in Georgia who has compiled of database of more than 3,000 old fonts, said people who bought the I.B.M. Selectric Composer model could specially order keys with the superscripts in question. Dr. Bouffard said that font did bear many similarities to the one on the CBS documents, but not enough to dispel questions he had about their authenticity. A spokesman for I.B.M., John Bukovinsky, said he knew only that it introduced proportional spacing to some typewriters in 1944, most notably in the Executive line. At Lexmark, a spokeswoman, Maria W. Gambrell, said typewriters...