Posted on 09/09/2004 8:14:01 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa
Edited on 09/09/2004 8:52:15 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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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so happy I need yet another IPA.
... robert the rino rejoices.
I've posted this on a lot of old media meltdown threads, but it has rarely been more appropriate.
Dan Rather, I think, is the doomed marsupial on the left.
Hell yeah! Looks like CBS is Rather busted....I hope they go down in flames! The Dems are sinking faster than the Titanic!!!
bookmarking
Bend over and bark like the beaotch you are... dan ohhh...
this is absolutely rich.
robert the rino, rejoicing
sorry jim...
laughingmyarseoff...
robert the rino...
great day to be a six year freeper... or so.
..Well I'm laying in the bubbly. One bottle for when W is declared the Winner, another if he goes over 55% of the vote! I might even have a third if John Thune whups Little Tommy Daschle!
Hey, I don't have anywhere to go on the following day, so I can sleep it off!!
Good on you, Howlin! Freepers RULE!!,,
You have the exact plans that I have!!! We'll party!!!!
Yeah but he is an admitted commie so what the he11!
really a rather good day eh?
"Has it come to this, at long last? Have you no shame -- no shame at all?"
Concerned about politics posted this today:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9967-200...
CBS News released a statement yesterday standing by its reporting, saying that each of the documents "was thoroughly vetted by independent experts and we are convinced of their authenticity." The statement added that CBS reporters had verified the documents by talking to unidentified individuals who saw them "at the time they were written."
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A senior CBS official, who asked not to be named because CBS managers did not want to go beyond their official statement, named one of the network's sources as retired Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, the immediate superior of the documents' alleged author, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. He said that a CBS reporter read the documents to Hodges over the phone, and that Hodges replied that "these are the things that Killian had expressed to me at the time."
"These documents represent what Killian not only was putting in memoranda, but was telling other people," the CBS News official said. "Journalistically, we've gone several extra miles."
The official said the network regarded Hodges's comments as "the trump card" on the question of authenticity, as he is a Republican who acknowledged that he did not want to hurt Bush. Hodges, who declined to grant an on-camera interview to CBS, did not respond to messages left on his home answering machine in Texas.
Simply amazing.
Stay safe !
LOL, that figures! (I missed that thread, thanks.)
RATHERGATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Want a ticket to the inauguration?
Got some?? :-)
No, it's RAthERGATE!
Sounds like a fun evening.
I might take Nov. 3 off. People I work with will be really ticked and I'll be in such a good mood. I told them today that "Fallujah should be bombed back into the stone age" and everybody got really quiet, no one said a word. Sometimes I think I'm the only conservative there.
In other words, we knew a democrat would lie, and we knew that a military type would hate Kerry, so we "checked" these documents by reading them over a telephone to a retired military republican..........
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