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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They, meaning whoever made the shirt I saw on the street, and clothing manufacturers in general.
That's the best one yet, IMHO!
I was thinking about printing both #37 and #40 up on 42" wide vinyl so Freepers can carry them in front of CBS headquarters in NYC or their studio in LA. Thank Freepers JoJo Gunn, and poweqi for the idea and the artwork.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1224416/posts?page=36#36
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1224416/posts?page=36#36
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1224236/posts?page=50#50
Great idea! You might even start a store carrying merchandise from the whole scandal. But I do like the carrying-the-posters-in-front-of-CBS idea very much.
I'm not interest in doing that myself; there are plenty of online vendors that will custom manufacture that stuff. I have a large format plotter that can plot high resolution graphics on paper or vinyl. Just about anything that can be converted to a PDF, PostScript, or HPGL file can be plotted on it. It costs more than mass producing posters by offset printing, but it can print unique items very quickly. I'm more interested in printing the one poster that gets shot by MSM cameras.
That's a great idea. I had the idea but not the expertise to do the art work, ya might say it was a joint effort. I went to a local print shop and ordered 100 (the mim.) So if ya see one on a car...It will be me.
What part of Texas?
I know. I never said you should do all the work; that would be ridiculous with all the effort involved. I meant that it would be a great idea for somebody to make them or for you to have a manufacturer create them.
ROTFL. Where'd you get that from?
In Firefox you can select "set as wallpaper"....
Grab 'em and turn 'em against 'em!
http://www.johnkerry.com/downloads/
You know you want to.... :)
:^D
Very nice. Thanks for providing Firefox instructions, too, as Firefox user numbers are growing rapidly.
I smell my graphics editor starting up...
we'll have to see the results!
::evil laugh::
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=762&e=1&u=/ap/20040926/ap_en_tv/tv_cbs_fallout
Viewership for the "CBS Evening News" during the week the Sept. 8 "60 Minutes" report on Bush's service was aired was down 8 percent from the same week in 2003, according to Nielsen Media Research. The next week, it was down 9 percent. ... "CBS Evening News" ratings are falling faster this year than either of its competitors. CBS is already a distant third to NBC and ABC, and the gap is getting wider.
... Privately, there's considerable sentiment that "the time has passed" for change, as one manager said.
"They need to phase Dan out in the most compassionate and appropriate way they can," said another executive.
"I don't think there's a connection there between him and the viewers we want any more," said a third. "I think the show needs an overhaul and generally what comes with an overhaul is a new face."
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