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ONE MORE ARGUMENT (CBS Documents)
National Review ^ | 9-9-04

Posted on 09/09/2004 4:30:35 PM PDT by ambrose

ONE MORE ARGUMENT

As much as the Kerry Spot has tried to keep up with this, PowerLine has been on top of this story all day long. That site just presented what ought to be the straw that breaks the camel's back:

In the August 18, 1973 memo "discovered" by 60 Minutes, Jerry Killian purportedly writes:

Staudt has obviously pressured Hodges more about Bush. I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job.

But wait! Reader Amar Sarwal points out that General Staudt, who thought very highly of Lt. Bush, retired in 1972.

Okay, CBS. The ball's in your court. Explain all this. Make all of this make sense. Don't completely ignore all of this, like you just did on the CBS Evening News.

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.

[Posted 09/09 07:11 PM]


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004electionbias; 60minutes; barnes; benbarnes; brownshirtsforkerry; bush; bushmemos; cbsmemos; ccrm; danrather; dirtytricks; dncliars; forged; forgeries; forgery; fraud; hoax; hoaxmemos; kerrycampaign; killian; libel; lyingliars; mediabias; nationalguard; ratherbiased; rattricks; seebsnews; slander; smearcampaign; snopes; snopesmia; texasnationalguard
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To: ambrose
And just when Paul Begala and James Carville arrive on the sceen???
Hummmm ...very, very interesting!
61 posted on 09/09/2004 5:03:59 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: woodb01

Have a look here.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/scams/hitler_diaries/


62 posted on 09/09/2004 5:04:25 PM PDT by Flashman_at_the_charge (A proud member of the self-preservation society)
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To: Capricam
Guess I've lost it...I mean...I am excited and kind of thrilled that FINALLY a truth has outed that brings to light the lengths the mainstream media will go to push for Kerry or against Bush (or both).

What angers me is the bottom line...if a dead veteran were used to promote this, how dispicable and crude an action. And because it was meant to FALSELY DISCREDIT our President (or any President), I get outraged all over again.<p.Maybe I need to slap myself silly? LOL! Don't answer! hehe

63 posted on 09/09/2004 5:04:27 PM PDT by Republic (Terri Schiavo,saved by TERRI's LAW after 7 days of starvation, fights ACLU-Felos to keep law intact)
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To: Chieftain
On the bright side Dan, now you can work FULL TIME for Kerry!

He's doing that now.

64 posted on 09/09/2004 5:05:55 PM PDT by Rocko (The Dems will have "Bush Stole the Election!" put on their tombstones.)
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To: ambrose

65 posted on 09/09/2004 5:06:17 PM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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To: ambrose

http://www.dailyhowler.com/h071399_1.shtml


66 posted on 09/09/2004 5:06:59 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: ambrose

I would think the CBS shareholders just MIGHT have something to say about this!!


67 posted on 09/09/2004 5:07:33 PM PDT by mo
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To: ambrose

I love it..."RatherGate" just kicked a cow-pie on a hot day. That poor boy ain't never going to get that stuff off of his boot!


68 posted on 09/09/2004 5:08:44 PM PDT by Gator113
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To: tomnbeverly
Quote: "The FCC should censure CBS news for not reporting factual data... "

I have to disagree. For the FCC to take any action at this time would be seen (and spun) by some as being politically motivated. If you want to send a message to CBS News, just find something else to watch; if/when enough people do that, economic pressures Will hit the former Tiffany Network much harder than the FCC could. (I can't think of anything I watch on CBS these days, except occasionally Letterman; I gave up on both the CBS Evening News and the network's news magazines a few years ago.)
69 posted on 09/09/2004 5:09:04 PM PDT by BucketButt (Amateur curmudgeon, equal opportunity annoyer)
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To: Chieftain


70 posted on 09/09/2004 5:11:17 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: litany_of_lies

Through my mother, I used retired military "pull" to get my orders changed. Personnel wanted to send me to Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. I wanted to go to Viet Nam. One phone call was all it took, which is generally the case when the call comes from a 4 star. Of course, the Major in charge of assigning 2nd Lieutants was really pissed at me, but that's the way it goes.

According to my wife, one of the major reasons she married me was that she has never, to this day, met anybody who used "pull" to get to GO to Viet Nam.


71 posted on 09/09/2004 5:11:44 PM PDT by VMI70 (...but two Wrights made an airplane)
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To: ambrose

This just keeps getting more and more interesting.

The old media just has no comprehension of the "new media" and what it is capable of, and it will be their downfall.


72 posted on 09/09/2004 5:12:28 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16 (Proud to be a Reagan Republican)
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To: mo

I think in order to silence danny blather we should start to target the advertisers on CBS.


73 posted on 09/09/2004 5:12:39 PM PDT by mom-7
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To: ambrose

How could they get so much wrong in a forgery?


74 posted on 09/09/2004 5:15:18 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: ambrose

How could they get so much wrong in a forgery?


75 posted on 09/09/2004 5:15:24 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Diogenesis

Incredible. Marked for later.


76 posted on 09/09/2004 5:16:30 PM PDT by rusty millet
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To: Callahan
I'll play the DUer here so we can cover all the bases.. Is it possible Staudt could have influenced Hodges after he retired? Favor for an old pal?

It's possible. I believe that all the evidence of a forgery put forth here does have a possible explination. From a special order typewriter to a special order print ball to a Ltc. forgetting the proper abbreviation for a 1Lt. It's possible that a secretary signed the odd signature, the same Ltc. using several non-military abbreviations and on and on.

At some point you surpass the level of improbability of the theory of evolution.

Another FReeper created his own forgery that looked just as good did it in no time at all.

As for a retired General coming back to his unit a year later to use his influence for a political favor. There would have to be strong ties to the bush family for that to happen. (or pictures)

77 posted on 09/09/2004 5:16:36 PM PDT by bad company ( You can live on your knees or die on your feet.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

I like it. The Piltdown Memo!


78 posted on 09/09/2004 5:18:04 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (God is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Chieftain
"What the hell Dan, you were a Marine,"

Dan is the only Marine I've ever known about whom I was comfortable with the past tense.

79 posted on 09/09/2004 5:18:05 PM PDT by TexasCowboy
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To: ElkGroveDan

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

More like the Hitler Diaries, which for those who weren't around to follow it in the 1980s were the supposed discovery of Adolf Hitler's pre-war diaries where he praised Neville Chamberlain's peacemaking efforts. The Diaries were in fact East German/Soviet forgeries intended to influence European public opinion against the United States.


80 posted on 09/09/2004 5:19:14 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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