CBSNEWS LAUNCHES INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AFTER SUSPICIOUS BUSH DOCS AIRED (drudge Siren)

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[Keith in Iowa]

CBSNEWS LAUNCHES INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AFTER SUSPICIOUS BUSH DOCS AIRED

Nothig more yet...

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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU SEPT 09, 2004 22:45:32 ET XXXXX

CBSNEWS LAUNCHES INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AFTER SUSPICIOUS BUSH DOCS AIRED

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CBS NEWS executives have launched an internal investigation into whether its premiere news program 60 MINUTES aired fabricated documents relating to Bush's National Guard service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

"The reputation and integrity of the entire news division is at stake, if we are in error, it will be corrected," a top CBS source explained late Thursday.

The source, who asked not to be named, described CBSNEWS anchor and 60 MINUTES correspondent Dan Rather as being privately "shell-shocked" by the increasingly likelihood that the documents in question were fraudulent.

Rather, who anchored the segment presenting new information on the president's military service, will personally correct the record on-air, if need be, the source explained from New York.

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[Atchafalaya]

I'd bet the wall in Kerry's office would be a whole lot more interesting, and amusing. Hell I bet it's funnier than (insert trademark Ratherism here).

[spyone]

Publius, that is outstanding!!! Dumb question....how do I save it?

[San Jacinto]

Things are geing hotter for ole Dan than a Presidio, Texas thermometer nailed to a tin building in July.

[Steel Wolf]

I have no doubt someone was trying to set CBS up with these documents. They're so obviously bogus ( the po box number especially)that only someone dying to change the election outcome would run with them with so much caprice.

Set them up how?

Assuming it was Karl Rove or Hillary Clinton (ie someone who wants Kerry to lose), handing heavily booby trapped documents to a major news organization, even through proxies, is very dangerous. I highly doubt this.

Assuming that it was someone who wanted Kerry to win, then it illustrates just how blindly desperate they are becoming. I say this of both the document makers and CBS. This is by far the more likely explination, but it's also a very pathetic and disturbing milestone.

[spodefly]

Kerry calls in Clinton attack dogs direct from CNN. CBS manufactures documents. NBC runs 'Kitty Kelly' week.

If I hadn't heard different on TV, I'd think there was less journalism going on than propagandizing.

[ken5050]

We're gonna see Dan Rather on the beach, waiting for IVAN...picking sand out of his ears..

[Publius]

Here's another dollop of sugar.

Were the documents genuine, the network could claim First Amendment privilege and refuse to name sources. But forging military documents is a federal felony. If the documents are fake, the network has to give law enforcement authorities the names of the sources.

They're in a Catch-22.

[idkfa]

Uh... that's Ted Koppel.

[sinkspur]

Tomorrow, I expect to see at least ONE GOP senator come out on the floor and tear Tom Harkin a new a**hole. Zell would do it, but I want a Republican!

John Cornyn, from Texas, would do it. He's a freshman, and he has no compunction at tearing new a**holes.

[JPJones]

Thanks for the link, this is great!

[NewLand]

"We at CBS deny anything to do with this forgery...after all, you can trust me!

[ArmyBratproud]

Somewhere, Zell is hanging out with his Labs....
and laughing his head off.

[Loyalist]

9/9/04 is the third anniversary of the day I joined FR. What a sweet gift to mark the occasion!

[SerpentDove]

"It is the day that the "NEW" Media overtook the "Old" Media."

It is indeed a beautiful day. Thanks, Jim! You (and all the FReepers) are the greatest!!!

Link to MY TRIBUTE TO JIM. (Past thread)

[Publius]

Go back to it and bookmark it. It shows up on your links within your profile.

[rocky88]

"Time to call for the resignation of Rather, the 60 Minutes producer and the head of CBS News over this garbage. They have just been outed (again) as the frauds they truly are. As happy as I am to see them get egg on their face, I am disgusted by their blatant partisanship. Bush should demand an apology from McCauliffe (sp) and demand his resignation as well. Pigs.."

Hope W blocks CBS from all press conferences and events until he receives his TELEVISED apology from Rather...

[Yaelle]

The statement added that CBS reporters had verified the documents by talking to unidentified people who saw them "at the time they were written."

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Which reporters????

[doug from upland]

EVENING NEWS -- Phone: 212-975-3691 or 202-457-4385, Fax: 212-975-1893
Email: evening@cbsnews.com

60 Minutes -- Phone: 212-975-2006, Fax: 212-757-9353

[DaveMSmith]

[Jewels1091]

Holy Cow!!! Is that true??????****PEOPLE if it came from the texas vet's, they are related to move on.org (soros) which has people in the DNC!!!