Posted on 09/09/2004 8:42:37 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
Gosh, the DNC is gonna have to stay up all night to keep up with the New Media in the future, aren't they?
You are right; it's obvious FR screwed up their Rollout Plan A, and they have no Plan B.
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 memorandum, but was telling other people," the CBS News official said. "Journalistically, we've gone several extra miles."
No! I have a long list of names for him; genius is not one of them.
vaudine
They READ THEM TO HIM OVER THE PHONE?
Where did the documents come from?
I bet Bobby Hodges won't play along:
""Lieutenant Bush is an outstanding young pilot and officer and is a credit to this unit," Lt. Col. Bobby Hodges wrote on May 27, 1971. "This officer is rated in the upper 10 percent of his contemporaries."
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Freeped:
fraud@johnkerry.com
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Last Name: Freeper
Street: Main
City: Stream
State: REELECT-BUSH!
Zip: 621311-251521
Country: FR
Comment: Kerry lied while good men died.
Just have them call Dan Rather to get the truth..... LOL!!!!
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.
The sad thing is that among the many dupes on the DNC mailing list, they will have no idea about the dubious documents on which the DNC is basing their "Take Action for the Truth" strategy.
I agree. Why else would he allow them (the press, etc.) to maul his military service all over the public airwaves, print press, etc.? What the heck is he HIDING that makes his four months in Viet Nam and his self-inflicted Purple Hearts fair game? Inquiring minds want to know...
I'm so glad there isn't collusion between the DNC and the media.
Boy! The DNC sure got this here petition drawn up quick after that big Sixty Minutes story revealed the secret memos!
Just quick on their feet them democrats are.
~smirk~
Ditto. Kerry's military records must be really bad for the Dems to be making stuff up about Bush like this. They even have to forge documents to do it? Kerry must have a nasty, nasty record!
Bump to find later
"You're gonna need a bigger boat..." (Chief Brody)
DNC took the last flying pig out from 60 Minutes.
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