False Documentation? (Killian's widow says docs "very suspect" per ABC)

ABC News web site ^ | 9/9/04

[nopardons]

And I just can't stop smiling! :-)

[garjog]

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

[Mr.Clark]

Haha me too, this could be absolutely DEVASTATING for the MSM, especially for Rather. Could be the excuse CBS is looking for to gently nudge him out the door.

[paul in cape]

This whole mess has JOHN SASSO written all over it.

Check out this oldie but goodie from the Wash. Post.

The controversy became two frenzies in one when it was disclosed that the campaign of Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis had earlier secretly distributed to several news media outlets an "attack video" juxtaposing the Biden and Kinnock speeches and revealing Biden's word theft. The Dukakis campaign at first stonewalled and denied any part in the tape's distribution, but when the truth emerged Dukakis was forced to fire his campaign manager, John Sasso, and political director, Paul Tully – the two who had orchestrated the maneuver. Dukakis himself insisted he had no prior knowledge of their actions, and though wounded, his candidacy survived the incident.

Article Here

[Texasforever]

I am starting to believe that Rather will be forced out.

[Cboldt]

ABC writes in conclusion:

The White House is declining to comment on the veracity of the documents. Many Democrats are worried that if they are found to be forgeries, it will be a setback for Sen. John Kerry's campaign to defeat Bush in November.

Geee. Do you think? This is amazing. The general approach by DEMs that are aware this is an issue is to downplay ALL discussion of 30 or 35 year old events. To draw Bush and Kerry as equivalent in their service, and to try to get attention to shift to only "forward looking."

But it's too late. This appears to be nothing more than a fabricated dirty trick by the DEMs, plain and simple. Doesn't matter which DEM, it is a DEM dirty trick.

[nopardons]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.....very interesting.

[radiohead]

Mutual Seppuku would be especially amusing...

I must be a terrible person. I laughed out loud at that one.

For some strange reason, seppuku has crossed my mind several times over the past few days, mostly re Kerry. Wishful thinking? But another poster noted you needed a sense of honor to perform seppuku...

[mass55th]

Isn't it interesting that CBS never bothered to contact the family to 1) let them know they would be airing Lt. Col. Killian's papers, and 2) ask the family if they thought the documents were real. It would have been nice if they'd done that before they showed them on national TV? They never even bothered to consider the guy's family and how they'd feel about it. It just proves all the more that the only thing these people are interested in is bashing Bush.

[David M. Brooks]

If Killian was not a typist, then he didn't type those memos. The only typewriter (not typesetter) of the time that could have in theory produced those memos was the IBM Executive, and as another poster noted about the 04 May 1972 memo which had a centered letterhead, this would have been difficult to produce. I owned one of those beasties and while it would have been possible to produce the centered letterhead, it would have required tedious effort and calculation (due to the proportional font), you would never do it just to write someone a memo. Corrections were also more difficult than a regular non-proportional typewriter. If these memos were produced on an Executive then they were typed by an expert.

[colorado tanker]

Kenneth, Kenneth, what's the source?

[mass55th]

"Oh man. This is a disaster for CBS and the Democrats."

From another thread. Wish I could take credit for it.

[ApesForEvolution]

There is NO LOW TOO LOW for the Communist John Kerry and his DemonRAT(ic) Party.

[plushaye]

check Drudge now:

Siren: "CBSNEWS LAUNCHES INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AFTER SUSPICIOUS BUSH DOCS AIRED"

[mass55th]

Thanks for the heads-up! This is almost as good as sex!!

[ken5050]

Only if it opens onto an elevtaor shaft...

[Jim Noble]

WAPO breaking HARD for the AM.

I'm sure the NYT will have it soon...

[Texaspeptoman]

You know that CNN-HLN is STILL leading this story as CBS initially reported (along with Harkin's scree) for their "quickie breaks."

Cheers

[t2buckeye]

Exactly! The fact that they did not ask the family about Killian's PERSONAL files, is something a beginning journalist would not do. It's not just slipshod reporting or falling victim to a hoax...it is blatant bias...and CBS knows they got caught. They'll be spinning this one hard.

[cyncooper]

Connell said her late husband would be "turning over in his grave to know that a document such as this would be used against a fellow guardsman," and she is "sick" and "angry" that his name is "being battled back and forth on television."

PING