Posted on 09/25/2004 8:07:03 PM PDT by justaboutanybody
Earlier this week, amid controversy over the validity of the recently released documents saying President Bush skirted his military duty in Texas, CBS News said they can now longer confirm that the memos from Col. Jerry Killian are real.
Questions have abounded since the release of the documents two weeks ago that were allegedly from the last Texas Air National Guard Colonel Jerry Killian, who said that he gave President George W. Bush preferential treatment in the guard and in making up lost flight hours.
On Monday night's CBS Evening News, anchor Dan Rather apologized for the "mistake" and that he "was sorry." Rather added, "if I knew then what I know now, I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents." Rather also admitted that he "wasn't as good on this story as I would have liked to have been."
The network, whose has been deeply hurt by this scandal, also revealed their "unimpeachable source." The man is former Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett, who has called Bush a liar who has "demonic personality shortcomings."
Burkett now admits that he lied about who he got the documents from, but says he did it because Rather's Dallas-based producer, Mary Mapes, pressured him to reveal the source.
CBS News president Andrew Heyward admits that CBS rushed the story to air, which aired on the Sept. 8 episode of 60 Minutes II despite concerns expressed by some of the CBS-hired document experts that the memos could not have been made on a 1972 typewriter.
"In retrospect, we shouldn't have used the documents, and we clearly should have spent more time and more effort to authenticate them," Heyward admitted to The Washington Post.
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Still believe that Blather's daughter is involved.
Then, in my book, they've admitted SQUAT!
That's agreed. Notice the quotation marks.
CBS and Rather have admitted a "mistake in judgement"
Only because they got caught!!
Did they spell it like that or are you taking liberties? :)
Yep!!!
It wasn't a mistake. it was three way collusion.
That's a direct quote, no liberties taken.
A "mistake in judgment" is using a 5-iron from 110 yards out. A "mistake in judgment" is punting on 4th and one when you are 7 points down in the last 30 seconds of a football game. A "mistake in judgment" is sending your bank account number to a guy who sent you an email and says he'll split a million bucks with you when he is able to get it out of his African country. This was not a mistake in judgment -- it was a deliberate attempt to do damage to a president and affect an election.
Yeah, agreed. I mean, Dan Rather obviously wants to promote his liberal agenda, (in his mind) why not do it through his job?
The euphimism "mistake" is code for having gotten caught trying to bring down a sitting U.S. President with lies.
Dan Rather:journalist::Michael Moore:filmmaker
They also said they had been working on the story for five years. It may be that when they thought they finally had their confirmation they would go for it. They also probably thought that if they don't use it now, they will never be able to use it.
What makes me mad is that as far as the documents were concerned , they only said they had not been able to validate them (not that they weren't true). I know it's hard to validate documents but I thought that it was relatively easy it invalidate (poor forged) documents, which is what I thought everyone has done.
Why haven't they thrown CBS out of the debate, as moderator, yet. I hear nothing on this anymore.
Of course; anything else, in CBS's point-of-view, would be suicide to admit!
The Six Stages of a Project --
1. Wild Enthusiasm.... (check)
2. Denial.... (check, Rather is still hung up here)
3. Hopeless Despair.... (check)
4. Search for the Guilty.... (Panel appointed, check)
5. Blame of the Innocent (coming soon)
6. Praise and Honor for Nonparticipants
Not only that, but CBS specifically said that the documents had been validated in the broadcast!
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7. Give the "New Media" the credit they deserve. (not done right, probably never will be)
Yes. They understand they misjudged a large portion of the American people who no longer swallow the swill they've been dishing up for years. So far, it appears they're only sorry they got caught.
True. The liberal media seems to think that it can put out anything and the public is gullible enough to believe it.
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