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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That's hilarious! Did you create that?
Also, did I mention that it's accurate?
"The liberal media seems to think that it can put out anything and the public is gullible enough to believe it".
Yep, and when they get caught, all they have to do is have Dan Rather say "I'm sorry".
How about "I'm sorry I got caught trying to influence an election because I'm an old partisan liberal hack, and so is my producer, and we are lower then snake testicles".
Immediatly followed by who forged the documents and how deep the DNC (or anyone else) was in on it.
Think that's a bit of a leap? I bet Scott Peterson will be convicted on circumstantial evidence that is weaker then what we already know about this fiasco.
That's agreed. If CBS had been working on the story for 5 years, they definitely should have gotten it straight by now.
Another set for scandal. What if the DNC was involved in this one??
EXACTLY. As a friend of mine said on another board, if Fox News had done it to Kerry, the lunatic left-wing fringe would be screaming bloody murder.
A lot of people are saying that they don't really care about what happened 30+ years ago. But look at what happened this month. Someone has used crude forged documents to convince one of the biggest news organizations in the world -- the network of Edwin R. Murrow -- to smear a sitting president during a war, with a presidential election less than two months away.
That's right. Kerry needs to move on from 30 years ago and face the beautiful Rathergate scandal that his faithfuls, every loyal to the liberal cause, created for him.
I have created a Kerry crossword. If I fax it, who can scan and post it?
Suggestion:
Why not scan it in yourself? If you don't have a scanner, take it to Kinko's or something. I don't think many people here would like to give out their fax numbers. No offense intended.
Sounds like fun, though!
My scanner doesn't work. A fax number can be sent to me by FReepmail so no one else will see it. Any takers?
I would, but I'm having the opposite problem; my fax machine is broken (for receiving)!
You can get a free fax number that comes to your computer at efax.com. It will let you get 20 pages a month free.
OK. Problem solved. I got an eFax number and I'll send it to you via PM.
And now, back to the regularly-scheduled thread banter.
Kewl.
Alright everybody!
Doug's Kerry crossword puzzle is now posted as a thread!
Look in the Bloggers & Personal forum to see it.
They should make that into a T-shirt! They did the same for
"Watch CBS News?
I'd Rather not!"
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