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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[Phantom Lord]

To be fair, that was caller into a radio show and as of yet the only evidence presented that it was actualy Barnes daughter is that he has a daughter by the same name.

Until the actual Amy Barnes steps on camera and says it I will be skeptical. Anyone can all the radio and say anything.

[doug from upland]

Get me his phone number. I'll call. What was his exact quote?

[JPJones]

On the other hand, document forgery for the purpose of influencing the outcome of a presidential election should receive the severest punishment. Twenty years minimum.

Yeeeahh! Heads should role! FCC&FEC investigations for CBS.

[nyconse]

Pretend you are Dem for one day and call in sick..(they have no work ethic).

[Lurking2Long]

The only thing I want to hear out of Dan is.... "As of today....I am retiring from CBS."

My replacement will be...(Freepers please provide suggestions)...

[Darkwolf377]

I was VEY SERIES. Did you look at the thread? Where's your sense of adventure?



Know eye dint.

As for my sense of adventure, I'm a conservative living in Cambridge, MA--every time I go outdoors it's an adventure. Especially with the BUSH sticker on my Walkman.

[Lurking2Long]

Truly, I am ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

[b4its2late]

CASTRO OFFER POLITICAL ASYLUM TO RATHER

And he can become Castro's "Baghdad Bob"......

[theDentist]

Oh man, that isn't journalism, it's rumor-monguering.

Well, I'll pickl it up tomorrow. I'm reading all this, just saw the Pats win their season-opener, and I have to be up at 4 am. See you tomorrow.

[litany_of_lies]

If Rove has a role in this, it's in the decision to fax the documents they got from CBS without question, knowing that their unauthentic nature would be detected.

He's good, but I don't think he's THAT good.

[Yaelle]

The MSM is now on notice: they can't foist outright lies and fabricated news on the public without thousands of independent researchers with thousands of specialties fact-checking every syllable.

Yes! Ha ha ha! We have TRUTH on our side!

[nopardons]

Welcome...we're all here to get the CORRECT/undoctored news our and help one another! :-)

[mass55th]

Thanks for the link.

[Nascardude]

I just breased in to see what the retards at the Democratic Underground had to say about this. And surprisingly enough, I don't see any post about this at all!!

[mass55th]

ROFL!!!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

God Bless ya Jim if it werent for Freerepublic we might all be speaking some other language by now and God Bless our vigilant Freepers for the non-ending pursuit of the truth !

[bootyist-monk]

Here's a little somethin' just for Dan...

[litany_of_lies]

WaPo has a Page A1 story (according to their web site that soft-pedals the headline but exposes all of the major issues in the content:

It's on their home page as I type.

[rocky88]

""It has come to our attention, here at CBS, that the documents we hoped would be the nail in Bush's coffin were forgeries. We’re sorry our reporting is shakier than cafeteria Jell-O. We're really very sorry the documents were not genuine. We're even more sorry the world found out about that. Right now we’re about as uncomfortable as a too-small bathing suit on a too-long ride home from the beach. We're sorry we didn't have any REAL dirt on President Bush. We're sorry that Kerry is such a weak candidate. We're sorry that none of the mud we continue to throw at the President seems to be sticking. We've lived by the crystal ball, we're eating so much broken glass. We're in critical condition. We're sorry, we're sorry, we're SO sorry.""

LMAO that was hysterical - I needed that today!

[Keith in Iowa]

Here's the contcat info:

WASHINGTON OFFICE
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-3254 Phone
(202) 224-9369 Fax

And what the whazoo-aperture said:

http://www.theiowachannel.com/politics/3719652/detail.html