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CBS Statement Expect Today (Per FOX news)
FOX NEWS | 09/15/2004

Posted on 09/15/2004 4:37:57 AM PDT by tsmith130

Kelley Wright just reported that CBS is expected to make a statement this morning regarding the documents!


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; forgery; killian; lurch; medialies; napalminthemorning; rather; rathergate
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To: CA Conservative
I read over on the DUmmies board that Rather is supposed to interview the secretary today.

Will this interview appear on his news show or on 60 Minutes tonight?

They are ecstatic, because they are sure that this will allow Rather to ignore questions about the documents themselves, and to concentrate on the charges instead

The DUmmies are in a desperation mode over the forgeries and are now grasping at straws. Some are saying if they are forgeries then it was a KARL ROVE plot.

261 posted on 09/15/2004 8:01:29 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (What's the Forgery, Dan!!!???)
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To: Petronski

I think they may say something like that....

AND THEN...point out the Secretary from the Guard...
GIVING UNSUBSTANTIATED claims that the content was the same as what she had seen.

EVEN THOUGH...according to the Houston Chronicle....she said last week...that she had no first hand knowledge of anything like that.


262 posted on 09/15/2004 8:03:09 AM PDT by ArmyBratproud
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
I am proposing that CBS deliberately tried to make these memos look authentic, knowing all along that they weren't.

I just can't believe that Rather is as stupid as everyone around here seems to think. I suspect he has something up his sleeve which will attempt to make us "people in pajamas" look like wackos.

The memos may be transcriptions of real memos, or they may be just pure fabrications based on somebody's "recollection".

Regardless, I still think SeeBS will claim they did it to protect their source.

263 posted on 09/15/2004 8:03:20 AM PDT by snopercod (I'm on the "democrat diet". I only eat when the democrats say something good about America.)
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To: tsmith130

264 posted on 09/15/2004 8:06:15 AM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Comrade Hillary - 6/28/04)
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To: momathome

An e-mail.

Well, that is par for them....

If they stand by their story...they know they can't go on air and keep a straight face.

If the retract.....they don't want answer reporter's question.

Cowards Buy Stories - CBS


265 posted on 09/15/2004 8:06:21 AM PDT by ArmyBratproud
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To: VRWC_minion
This whole CBS thing has backfired against the objective so much it's not funny.

I can't agree. It's LOL, sidesplitting, roll-on-the-floor funny.

And it couldn't have happened to anyone who deserved it more. CBS is filled with pompous self-inflated condescending people who are actually very lazy in their work and very partisan in their reporting.

CBS is kind of like the old Pravda during the Cold War. But on a bad day.
266 posted on 09/15/2004 8:07:40 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: snopercod

Every media person I've seen seems to be trying to give rather a pass on his involvement in this scam. They seem to think he is an innocent bystander.


267 posted on 09/15/2004 8:08:21 AM PDT by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: conservative in nyc

Standing firm on quick sand!


268 posted on 09/15/2004 8:08:43 AM PDT by not2worry (The future of Our Country is in Our Hands on November 4, 2004!)
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To: Spook86

269 posted on 09/15/2004 8:09:20 AM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Comrade Hillary - 6/28/04)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

I don't know what you mean by what we want. All I want is the truth. The truth is very obvious. Dan Rather and CBS are a joke they have 2 choices bury themselves deeper in their own mound of lies and incompetance (true they have several ways of doig this, but it all makes them look like idiots.) or admit the truth.


270 posted on 09/15/2004 8:09:26 AM PDT by Tempest (Don't blame me, I'm voting for Bush.)
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To: since1868
I know I have no life I am so exited about this news conference

LOL. I don't believe it is a news conference. It is a "printed" statement.

I'm excited and edgy too. These events are bizarre, precedent setting, and in many aspects, appear to be irrational. There is a paradigm shift underway in the MSM.

271 posted on 09/15/2004 8:10:50 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: snopercod

Your conspiracy theory makes no sense. For days now they have been trotting expert after expert out to authenticate the documents in question. THis has only served to damage CBS' credibility. If Rather has had the real documents up his sleave the entire time there is no way he would have stuck his neck out to defend the fake ones. That would have been just plain STUPID.

If he wanted to pull a rope-a-dope, he would have stalled and denied the charges, but he would not have pulled out "experts" to authenticate docs he knew to be fake.

I think you guys are getting WAY too paranoid here. One of the hallmarks of paranoia is a belief in the omniscience and omnipotence of your opponents. CBS is neither. They've been caught in a lie and are now trying to spin their way out of it.


272 posted on 09/15/2004 8:11:45 AM PDT by MMkennedy
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To: NoobRep

He is quite elderly I believe; the
sec. to Killian is 86, for crying out loud.


273 posted on 09/15/2004 8:11:45 AM PDT by txrangerette
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To: Tempest

Poor choice of words...truth of course. But a resignation because of a breach of trust is what I want. (A dollar and a dream)


274 posted on 09/15/2004 8:12:11 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (What part of SHALL PASS NO LAW do they not understand?)
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To: ArmyBratproud

Yes, your additions are very likely, despite the problems you cite. SeeBS: have truer words ever been spoken?


275 posted on 09/15/2004 8:12:28 AM PDT by Petronski (SeeBS: have truer words ever been spoken?)
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To: tsmith130
Here it is now...

CBS NEWS
CBS BUILDING
NEW YORK, NY


MEMORANDUM FROM: Dan Rather
TO: ALL

RE: CYA Journalism

It has come to our attention that certain individuals wearing pajamas have questioned the quality of our reporting. For crying out loud! Who are you going to believe? Us? Or ten thousand misfits in their pajamas? This seems like a no-brainer to us. We're CBS and you should know better than to doubt us.

Signed,
Dan Rather
Editor and grand poobah

Hmmm... Looks pretty authentic to me.

276 posted on 09/15/2004 8:13:00 AM PDT by Redcloak (Vikings plundered my last tag line.)
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To: NoobRep
He's not commenting now, but I believe he made a statement in the past supporting George W. Bush's service.

Texas Speaker Reportedly Helped Bush Get Into Guard

Tuesday, September 21, 1999

excerpt:

Staudt said in an interview that he knew Adger, but that Adger never mentioned Bush to him. Bush has said that he met Staudt in late 1967, during Christmas vacation of his senior year at Yale, called him later, and by Bush's account, "found out what it took to apply."

~snip~

277 posted on 09/15/2004 8:13:14 AM PDT by cyncooper (We're mad as Zell and we're not going to take it anymore!)
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To: Buttaboom

Did the reporter play audio or video of that....or is that just the reporter's description.

Trust no reporter. I have spent quite a bit of time in NB, Texas. He has a rep as an honorable man.


278 posted on 09/15/2004 8:13:39 AM PDT by ArmyBratproud
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To: cyncooper
ou're looking at it from the wrong perspective, FRiend. This is not defensive and the hearings must take place, IMO.

Our opinions diverge on the wisdom of making this a Congressional matter, and I've expressed my thoughts in other threads. We may see Congressional hearings, and the outcome will speak for itself.

As for my use of the word "defensive," it is n't necessary to characterize the nature of the reaction. If a reaction is what CBS wanted, the CBS is getting what it wanted. The story stays hot. The allegations stay hot. If for no reason other than the bizarro effect.

279 posted on 09/15/2004 8:15:15 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Petronski

As I noted earlier, USA Today received the same memos plus two typed in the same manner independently from CBS or the WH.

Same typing.


280 posted on 09/15/2004 8:15:27 AM PDT by cyncooper (We're mad as Zell and we're not going to take it anymore!)
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