Beldar and the "Unimpeachable" CBS Source

BeldarBlog ^ | Saturday, September 18, 2004 | Beldar

[Boundless]

"If we had gotten back from the White House any kind
of red flag, raised eyebrow, anything that said,
'Are you sure about this stuff?' we would have gone
back to square one," Josh Howard, the program's
executive producer, told the Los Angeles Times in an
interview Friday. "The White House said they were
authentic, and that carried a lot of weight with us."

[Boundless]

The White House, of course, said no such thing.
They just let CBS keep digging the hole.

Beldar doesn't bring up the earlier reports that CBS
thought they had an "unimpeachable" source for the
memos.

We've been speculating on what source might match
such a description. However, we need to keep in mind
the blind lust that CBS had to run this fiction.

It now appears that CBS mistook the apparent
acquiescence of the WH as a tacit validation of them.

CBS never had an "unimpeachable" source.
They expected the WH to impeach the documents,
and misread it when the WH rope-a-doped instead.

[harpo11]

Now here is one of Dan's
unimpeachable sources.
There isn't one commie, or
brutal dictator Dan wouldn't trust.
But, an American Loving Republican==never!

[bushfamfan]

And like the White House was to expect CBS to actually go with documents that were fraudulant? This is a major problem for CBS and they are in the wrong here. It's over for them in their attempts to smear this President.

[Slings and Arrows]

LOL! "Waaaaaaaaah!!!! I shot myself in the foot, and that mean ol' pwesident didn't twy to stop me!"

Josh, never play poker with Dubya - he'll take the shirt off your back and make you think you got the better part of the deal!

[Common Tator]

There is a new tator column on the Debates or is that Rebates.

Click here for the latest 'tator take

[sargon]

CBS deserves all the criticism it is getting.

Why should they expect the White House to bail them out from their shoddy journalism?

The White House saw this FORGED BS and said, "OK, CBS morons, go ahead with your 'blockbuster' revelation."

Rather and CBS have been hoisted on their own petard.

And they deserve it.

I predict Rather will be forced to resign in disgrace; or else he will issue an abject and humiliating apology...

[sundialman]

Black Rock is the nickname of the CBS Headquarters building in NY.

The Black Rock Hillbillies
to the tune of The Ballad of Jed Clampett
(theme song to The Beverly Hillbillies)

Here's a story about a man named Dan
His C-B.S. show love a juicy scam
One day, while hunting for some news
He got a fax, and, boy, was it crude...

Oily story. Black mail. Texas B...S.

Next thing you know, he puts it on the air
A pack of lies, turns into his worst nightmare
And his experts said, "We are far from sure."
And Dan replied, "That never stopped me before!"

Well now it's time to say goodbye to Dan and his career
As he stares at the coming headlights, like a frightened deer
But you all are invited back to his principality
To have a heapin helpin' of Dan's malarky

See B.S., that is. Set a spell, Take the Emperor's clothes off.

Y'all come back now, y'hear?.

[harpo11]

LOL!!! That's what I'd call a right nice Texas clean & jerk!

[Ciexyz]

I'm confused by CBS's assertion that the White House saw the documents and gave them the okay. Doesn't make any sense. Why would CBS expect the White House to say, Cute, you're smearing me, we have no objections. It's like CBS has cinders for brains.

[TruthWillWin]

On that Friday, just before the Labor Day weekend, Mapes excitedly phoned her bosses from Texas to report a breakthrough in the document quest. "I've got them," she told Howard.

Got them refers to?:

A. Documents.
B. Republicans.
C. Bush.
D. All of the above

[Slings and Arrows]

I'd call it strategery. ;-)

[dalight]

Still we haven't heard the end of this one.. the LA Times reported:

The network's new reporting will be wrapped up soon, perhaps this weekend or early next week, Howard said. More sources have come forward in recent days, and CBS is leaning on its original sources to see if they will go on the record, he added.

I remember a cryptic comment by Scott McClellan:

Whitehouse may release more military records

Posted on 09/16/2004 1:17:11 AM EDT by Racehorse

In a related development, White House press secretary Scott McClellan hinted that more documents regarding Bush's National Guard service may soon be released. Asked whether officials in the White House have seen unreleased documents, McClellan called that "a very real possibility." Other officials with knowledge of the situation said more documents had indeed been uncovered and would be released in the coming days.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...

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