ONE MORE ARGUMENT (CBS Documents)

National Review ^ | 9-9-04

[ambrose]

my own my...

[ElkGroveDan]

Oh man, that's awesome. This is going to down in history alongside Piltdown Man.

[Sacajaweau]

hmmmmmm

[hole_n_one]

It just keeps getting better and better....and funnier and funnier!

[ElkGroveDan]

Yeah that's it. Let's call it the Piltdown memo.

[AHerald]

This is going to down in history alongside Piltdown Man

Piltdown Dan.

[Savage Rider]

Who is Hodges?

[pgobrien]

ping

[FesterUSMC]

CBS=Communist Broadcast Station "We throw out the propaganda you decipher it"

[countess]

It bothers me that this memo doesn't refer to anyone by rank. I've never seen a Lt. Col. be so casual on paper when referring to a General.

[Howlin]

OMG......this is just TOO rich!

[Rep-for-real]

Okay, who or what is Piltdown Man? Thanks!

[litany_of_lies]

Relevant LAT paragraph (link above requires registration, and though it's 6 months old, is not archived-strange):

Bush's application, as well as his commission, were handled by then-Col. Walter B. "Buck" Staudt, who said, "Nobody did anything for him…. There was no … influence on his behalf. Neither his daddy nor anybody else got him into the Guard." Staudt, who retired in 1972 as a brigadier general, said Bush was enrolled quickly because there was a demand for pilot candidates.

Just d**n.

[vigilence]

This is better than when they staged a GM pickup crash to demonstrate "unsafe" gas tanks.

[Americanwolf]

Oh what a wicked web we weave (CBS) when we attempt to deceive. *EVIL GRINS ALL AROUND***


anyone got popcorn I want to sit back and enjoy this....

This puppy has picked up and starting running since this morning...

My questions is, is CBS going to come out and apologize, or release a statement saying that a bunch of Internet kooks are wrong about what they are seeing....

I am pretty sure that they will come out and call us all kooks, because it would be beneath Dan Rather, Leslie Monves and company to come out and admit they were wrong.

[spodefly]

If CBS ignores this, and gives no counterargument, no defense, then the general public will have no choice but to conclude that the network ran with a hoax - and now refuses to retract a lie.

CBS has crossed the line from being a "News" organization to being a propaganda organ for the DNC/Left-Wing. They don't retract lies ... they manufacture them.

[buwaya]

Just being a devils advocate here -

I also think they are forgeries, but just because the General retired the year before does not mean he could not lobby or exert influence.

[ElkGroveDan]

from BBC News:

Piltdown Man went from being one of the biggest discoveries of the 20th Century to being its greatest scientific embarrassment.

On 21 November 1953, the fossils discovered 40 years earlier and acclaimed as the "missing link" between apes and humans were finally revealed to be forgeries.

Today, the word Piltdown is a term of abuse, used to label any fraudulent or shoddy research.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/03/piltdown_man/html/default.stm

[tbpiper]

Looks like Wesley Clark's been fartin' around in his time machine again.