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Parallels Drawn Between CBS Memos, Texan's Postings
The Washington Post ^ | 9/18/04 | Michael Dobbs

Posted on 09/18/2004 12:49:57 PM PDT by CT CONSERVATIVE

Cleland confirmed that he had a two- or three-minute conversation by cell phone with a Texan named Burkett in mid-August while he was on a car ride. He remembers Burkett saying that he had "valuable" information about Bush, and asking what he should with it. "I told him to contact the [Kerry] campaign," Cleland said. "You get this information tens of times a day, and you don't know if it is legit or not."

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1 posted on 09/18/2004 12:49:57 PM PDT by CT CONSERVATIVE
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE; Admin Moderator

Incorrect title.


2 posted on 09/18/2004 12:51:27 PM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry deserves to be the last casualty of the Vietnam War.)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

Well that leaves out Clinton..Bill Clinton that is..LOL...


3 posted on 09/18/2004 12:51:35 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
We always use the correct title of any articles posted; if it's your opinion, please post (VANITY) beside it.

Parallels Drawn Between CBS Memos, Texan's Postings

4 posted on 09/18/2004 12:51:50 PM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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To: onyx

These newbies are SO Sept. 11, 2004. :-)


5 posted on 09/18/2004 12:52:23 PM PDT by JennysCool (Funny how militant environmentalists always ruin the lawn)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
Interesting Rather calls his source as "Unimpeachable"-a term associated with elected officials

My first thought was that Rather meant Bill Clinton, as he's out of office and
presently is "unimpeachable".
6 posted on 09/18/2004 12:52:53 PM PDT by VOA
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MacDougald declined to say how he learned about the problems with the documents so early. In addition to being released by CBS, copies of the documents were e-mailed by the White House to reporters as "60 Minutes" went on the air.

How about, IT WAS FRIGGIN' OBVIOUS?
7 posted on 09/18/2004 12:53:45 PM PDT by Crazieman (Hanoi John Effin Kerry. War Criminal. Traitor. Democrat.)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE
Interesting Rather calls his source as "Unimpeachable"-a term associated with elected officials

Please do not change titles.

8 posted on 09/18/2004 12:54:01 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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LOL!
The title alterations tick me off
and result in a whole lot of duplicate postings.


9 posted on 09/18/2004 12:54:41 PM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry deserves to be the last casualty of the Vietnam War.)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

Please include original titles, author and date of publication.
Thanks.


10 posted on 09/18/2004 12:54:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: onyx

You have to be a product of the publiK skoolz not to know what the word unimpeachable means.


11 posted on 09/18/2004 12:54:54 PM PDT by BCrago66
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

Definition
unimpeachable [Show phonetics]
adjective FORMAL APPROVING
describes a personal quality of honesty and morality that is so complete that it cannot be doubted or criticized:
Lord Fletcher, said the Bishop, was a man of unimpeachable integrity and character.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)


12 posted on 09/18/2004 12:55:38 PM PDT by G.Mason (A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
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To: BCrago66


LOL!


13 posted on 09/18/2004 12:56:15 PM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry deserves to be the last casualty of the Vietnam War.)
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Duplicate Post
14 posted on 09/18/2004 12:58:13 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort ("Col. Mustard in the Library with a Word Processor")
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To: VOA
he's out of office and presently is "unimpeachable".

I dunno, after he left office he was doing some mouthing off and some republican warned him he could still be impeached, (he had signed an eleventh hour agreement with the special prosecuter.) The practical effect would have been to strip him of his pension and government paid office (this was pre-harlem, when his post-office office was slated to cost more than all previous presidents combined. Bill always deluxe on the taxpayers dime.)

15 posted on 09/18/2004 12:58:18 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Islam: Men defend most violently, not what they know to be true, but what they fear may be false.)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

MEDIA ETHICS PROJECT SEEKS FCC RULING AGAINST CBS NEWS FOR RATHERGATE



Media Ethics Project (“MEP”) of New York today petitioned the FCC to sanction CBS News and its parent organization, Viacom, Inc., for its recent broadcast of news reports based on forged documents.

In announcing the FCC filing, MEP Chairman William L. Whitely stated: “Most people familiar with Dan Rather’s reports have seen solid evidence from various credible sources showing the documents to be forged. Yet, day in and day out, CBS has stubbornly continued to maintain that the memos are authentic. This supremely arrogant conduct violates the public trust and FCC rules and policies. Viacom cannot be allowed to flaunt the Commission’s rules in this manner. ”

MEP seeks a ruling by the FCC finding that the deliberate actions of CBS and Viacom maintaining the authenticity of the documents, constitute broadcasting of falsified, faked, distorted or staged news reports in violation of e Commission policies. MEP is asking the FCC to sanction Viacom including imposing fines and ordering forfeiture of one or more broadcast licenses .

Mr. Whitely added that, “This whole episode must be regarded as a remarkable failure of management. It is truly sad that the proud traditions of professionalism of CBS News, the division built by the likes of Morrow, Severeid, Reasoner, Mudd and Cronkite, have been allowed to slowly fade away. In their place is an organization where unprincipled ego, bias, negligence, partisanship and vindictiveness apparently determine the setting of management policy. Such changes are not in the best interest of CBS, the CBS affiliates and CBS shareholders, nor, most certainly, are they in the public interest as well. Staying to this course, the House that Paley Built will likely become the Network that Rather Wrecked.”

MEP has asked that the FCC expedite its consideration of the group’s Petition for Declaratory Ruling against CBS News.

See a full copy of the MEP Petition for Declaratory Ruling at http://mediaethicsproject.blogspot.com/ or www.mediaethics.8k.com

With MEP's filing, the FCC now has a formal Petition to review requesting that CBS be found guilty for violating Commission policy prohibiting the broadcasting of falsified, faked, distorted or staged news reports as contrary to the public interest.

All interested parties will now be able to contact the FCC to request that it take immediate action on the MEDIA ETHICS PROJECT Petition For Declaratory Ruling Against CBS News.

FCC Contact Information:

Chairman Michael K. Powell: Michael.Powell@fcc.gov ---
Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy: Kathleen.Abernathy@fcc.gov --- Commissioner Michael J. Copps: Michael.Copps@fcc.gov ---
Commissioner Kevin J. Martin: KJMWEB@fcc.gov ---
Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: Jonathan.Adelstein@fcc.gov


16 posted on 09/18/2004 12:58:51 PM PDT by tvn
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LOL

I've been afraid to post any article, cuz I just know I'll flub it up. Like a toddler that doesn't know any better than to push forward in the pursuit of doing what they wanna do, newbies boldly go where old geezer wimmen fear to tread.
17 posted on 09/18/2004 1:01:54 PM PDT by GoLightly
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Michael Dobbs is doing by far the best reporting on National Guard-gate. Someone give this guy a Pulitzer...


18 posted on 09/18/2004 1:02:09 PM PDT by somerville
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

BTTT


19 posted on 09/18/2004 1:04:21 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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20 posted on 09/18/2004 1:14:36 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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