Posted on 09/16/2004 8:08:02 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
White House Says CBS Documents Part of DNC Plot
By Jeff Gannon
Talon News
September 16, 2004
WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Controversy continued to swirl around documents that CBS has used to further its story about gaps in President George W. Bush's National Guard service. On Wednesday, the White House said that while there are questions about the authenticity of the documents, there is no question about the timing of their appearance 50 days before the election.
The White House released the documents shortly after receiving them from CBS.
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan defended the move saying, "We received those documents from a major news organization. We had every reason to believe that they were authentic at that time."
He said that the documents were released in keeping with a policy of openness about the president's military service records. In February, over 400 pages were given to reporters when the issue of Bush's service in the Texas Air Guard was introduced to the 2004 campaign just as it was in 2000.
McClellan noted that since the documents were released there have been a number of questions that have been raised about their authenticity.
While he said the White House is not planning to investigate the documents itself, he added, "There continue to be questions raised. Those are serious issues; they ought to be looked into fully."
McClellan focused on the political impact of the documents.
"The one thing that is not under question is the timing of these orchestrated attacks by the Democrats on the President's service," McClellan said.
The press secretary continued, "These are old, recycled attacks, and the Democrats have made it clear that they intend to try to tear down the President and throw the kitchen sink at us because they can't run on John Kerry's record, and because they see him falling behind in the polls."
He supported that claim by citing that on Tuesday, the Democratic National Committee launched what it called "Operation Fortunate Son."
McClellan said, "Fortunate Son was the name of a book from the 2000 campaign that was written by a convicted felon who was widely discredited. And this whole effort is simply to attack the president."
He added, "Then you have this so-called group, Texans for Truth, which is lead by a Democrat operative in Texas who has the support of the MoveOn.org organization."
McClellan pointed out that Susan Estrich, a manager for Michael Dukakis' failed presidential campaign, wrote an op-ed in which she talked about how the Democrats are going to start engaging in personal attacks on the president's character.
The White House spokesman lamented, "The American people deserve better. It's just sad to see that they are lowering themselves to this level."
Talon News asked whether CBS's role in promoting forged documents jeopardized the presidential debate it is to moderate.
McClellan said, "In terms of the debates -- and I wouldn't connect the two here -- those are ongoing discussions between the two campaigns, and I don't have any update from here at this point."
If it's a simple error, it's not a plot. If it's not a simple error...
From Bill Burkett (August 25, 2004)... Bush lies about his service, smears Kerry’s and seeks exoneration for the Abu Ghraib brass. NOTE: this is a PDF file.
George W. Bush, you may be the president [sic]. But I know that you lied.Interesting. The phase, "...we have now reassembled"? Quotes ardound the phrase "obey the orders of the officers appointed over you". The phrase, again, "ordered for duty". And, yet again, "It was an order".I know from your files that we have now reassembled, the fact that you did not fulfill your oath, taken when you were commissioned to "obey the orders of the officers appointed over you". I know that you not only lied to the American people in 1994, but have lied consistently since then. Mr. Bush, not every serviceman except you is incompetent. When you failed to show up as ordered for duty, they simply recorded the truth. And the truth was, they didn't think you were especially important enough to jeopardize their own careers to cover for your absence by fraudulently counting you as present in any piece of documentation when you clearly were not present.
Mr. Bush, in 28 years as an enlisted man, an officer, a commander and a member of the staff team, I never missed a drill that I didn’t make up. But then again, I was never given that opportunity. It was an order.
The article itself is quite revealing about the depth of hatred this Burkett guy feels for Bush. It's really gross.
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. . who is funded by George Soros who works for John Kerry who is a communist, socialist billionaire competing with Hillary Clinton for control of the Democratic Party (and the White House).
DNC Plot = Democrats Need Clinton (Hillary) Plot.
Yes. Interesting phrase. And interesting date 08/24/2004 that he posted it. Good find.
Are you serious?
DNC: The swiftboat vets are liars!
How can a simple error in validating source documents be a plot?
There is no way it is a "simple" error...any 14 year old(my son, 14, even said it looked fake) could have looked at that document and seen the discrepancies. ...better yet a national TV channel such as CBS and Dan Rather. It's an obvious smear campaign...and the wind changed...it's getting stinky towards the DNC and Kerry, thanks to CBS and Dan Rather!
Let Kerry debate himself, it would be interesting. I would not climb on board to the sinister, blatantly bogus debate schedule and format set up by the RATS.
An error in validating source documents????
The documents are obvious fakes.
The issue is where those fakes came from. Answer that question and you can see why people speak of a plot.
Whoa. I think you've just nailed someone.
How the Heck did he know this on 8/24.
If someone can ping some more Pajamahadeen, this needs some attention.
Ping to my Post #3.
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~2389865,00.html
Texans for Truth has local tie
Offspring of Bay Area's MoveOn.org begins airing anti-Bush ads in swing states
By Josh Richman, STAFF WRITER
A "grandchild" of Berkeley-based MoveOn.org will air a new television ad in swing states challenging President Bush's claims of service in the Air National Guard.
Texans for Truth, a section 527 advocacy group, begins airing its 30-second "AWOL" spot Monday in battleground states that have suffered the highest casualties in Iraq, said Director Glenn W. Smith of Austin, Tex.
Texans for Truth was created Aug. 31 by DriveDemocracy.org, a Web-based, Texas-focused grass-roots political organization; Smith co-directs that, too. DriveDemocracy.org is modeled upon MoveOn.org and got what its Web site calls "a generous start-up grant" from it -- money left over from MoveOn's 2003 campaign against the GOP-led congressional redistricting in Texas.
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Smith said this week's initial $110,000 ad buy -- on basic cable in Pittsburgh; Columbus, Ohio; Portland, Ore.; Phoenix; Detroit; and Lansing, Mich. -- was to be bankrolled with online donations from DriveDemocracy.org members and Move-
On.org members in Texas.
"We've been raising money since yesterday, and it's coming in at an unexpected clip," he said Wednesday morning, adding it was coming in small denominations.
But later Wednesday, screenwriter Daniel J. O'Keefe of Los Angeles wired Texans for Truth $100,000, bringing the group's total funding so far between $300,000 and $400,000. "He'd called yesterday, he'd gotten the e-mail, and he wanted to help out in a big way," Smith said.
Records show O'Keefe has given the Democratic National Committee at least $23,500 since August 2003.
"How can a simple error in validating source documents be a plot?"
The plot is their (the liberal media's) failure to dig deeper when they knew, or were afraid, that they'd discover that their story would fall apart. They do this all the time. They grab onto every negative rumor about Bush as if it were gold, and smugly ignore almost everything bad about THEIR candidate, Mrs. Kerry.
"Pajamahadeen"
priceless...
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