[Bahbah]

Well, well.

[Trippin]

M E L T D O W N !!!!

[SamAdams76]

It appears that those much-ballyhooed National Guard documents that we have been hearing so much about these past 24 to 48 hours have proven to be falsified.

[Izzy Dunne]

ABC had a story earlier.

Dog eat dog.

Pass the popcorn!

[gilliam]

If Nightline is saying they are forgeries, then CBS hasn't a prayer. But I will believe it when I see it.

[RetroSexual]

It would be nice if the liberal media ate themselves up over this. I'd like to see the end of them even more than I'd like to see W win the election!

Of course, I'd settle for both, too ;-)

[Paul Atreides]

CBS: First, the have to pull The Reagans. Now, this little nugget.

They certainly have an obsession with destroying Republican Presidents.

[TomGuy]

It is entertaining when libMedia turn on their own and start eating each other.

hehehe

[conservativecorner]

I love watching the old media swing in the wind. ROFLMAO!!

[umgud]

All joking aside, you can bet there is a huge pucker factor at CBS right now and Dan Rather is sweating bullets. And, in the John Kerry camp? This will be devastating. They were hoping it would give them a boost, now it may snowball and give them disaster.

[MJY1288]

Will Ted Koppel have Dan Blather on the show so Dan can play the victim of a Hoax :-)

The best part of this whole story is that the White House released these forged documents without comment and Dan Rather ran with the story :-)

These poor bastards on the left keep misunderestimating this Administration. I would love to be a fly on the wall at the Bush/Cheney headquarters tonight! They have to be LTAO

[asgardshill]

So See BS gets caught with its corporate hand in the cookie jar. Its a pity that Bush really can't sue them for libel and expect to win (public figure).

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Good. As for CBS, only ritual Seppaku can bring back their credibility now...

[faithincowboys]

SWEET, but I am suspicious.

Are they just doing this to kick Bush in the balls later?

[USNBandit]

After the forgery thing had been brought up on Fox for a couple hours I turned to CNN to find Paula Zahn still referencing the "documents" and Kerry's fund raising co-chairman...I mean Ben Barnes. Does the MSM realize they are only hurting their candidate by hyping this story which will be shown to be completely false?

[NeoCaveman]

ABC smells blood in the water. It's all about picking up CBS's market share. We could be seeing the triumph of the profit motive and competitiveness over the false religion of liberalism

[gilliam]

Nightline Daily E-Mail
September 9, 2004



TONIGHT'S FOCUS: New allegations about President Bush's service in the National Guard. Vice-President Cheney makes a statement that many in his own party consider over-the-top. Looking for the truth, but in politics these days, does the truth really matter?

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Negative attacks work. No matter how much voters say they only want to hear about the issues and all, the reason that campaigns put so much effort into defining their opponents in negative terms is that it works. You have only to look at the impact of the attacks on John Kerry's record in Vietnam. A rebuttal, even when it has the advantage of being accurate, never seems to have the same power as the original attack. And if you repeat something often enough, it takes on a life of its own.

Tonight we're going to look at two issues, separate but related. The first centers on new questions about whether or not President Bush really did complete his service in the National Guard. Our friends over at CBS News were the first to report on new documents that raise new questions about President's service. One of his former superiors, who is now deceased, wrote a memo to his file saying that then-Lt.Bush apparently disobeyed a direct order in not undergoing a required physical. The White House fired back of course. Chris Bury will report on the new documents, coming out at the same time as a new ad campaign by a group calling itself Texans for Truth. Sound familiar? Of course. Does this issue resonate with the voters?

Also tonight, Dave Marash will report on a statement made by Vice-President Cheney earlier this week. In essence, the Vice-President said that the election of John Kerry could make it more likely that terrorists would attack the U.S. This is, as many Republicans were quick to point out along with Democrats, over the top. The campaign, as campaigns are designed to do, immediately began explaining what he really meant. But does that matter, does anyone really pay attention to what comes after a charge like that? The Democrats are, of course, guilty of similar attacks. And these will certainly not be the last ones we see in the next two months or so.

Ted will anchor tonight, we'll look at the truth, or lack thereof behind these two stories. There is a football game tonight, so we'll be delayed on the East Coast. I hope you'll join us.

Leroy Sievers and the Nightline Staff
Nightline Offices
ABC News Washington Bureau

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[BunnySlippers]

Any forgeries? Or THE forgeries?

[ApesForEvolution]

Kerricelli is going to lose worse than McGovern did...He'll make Mondale look like a good candidate.

DemocRATs should be proud.../s

[July 4th]

Isn't this freaking great? It's actually REAL competition in the mainstream news business. CBS screws up, ABC calls them out!