The Hoaxing of CBS (FR Mentioned)

The Weekly Standard ^ | September 10,004 | Richard Starr

[buzzyboop]

A NUMBER OF EXPERTS have now weighed in on the inauthenticity of the documents CBS breathlessly revealed on 60 Minutes earlier this week--documents purportedly typed by the deceased commander of George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard unit in 1972 and 1973, but actually produced on a personal computer using Microsoft Word. I predict--and here I'm going out on a limb 10-feet wide and only an inch off the ground--that it's only a matter of time before CBS admits it was deceived. If there's any honor and professional pride left in the CBS newsroom, they will then expose the party or parties who deceived them.

[MissAmericanPie]

In that article the journalists at CBS are dismissed as simply "suckers for a good anti-Bush story". To the contrary, they have always assumed Middle America to be the suckers.

Now, after decades of distortions and bias, they are being called on the carpet and made to answer the charges the public has against them. They are not journalists as much as political ideologues with an agenda.

[Happy2BMe]

$10,500 IF YOU CAN PROVE RATHER'S DOCS WERE REAL

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BUT YOU CAN'T - CBS U-R-RATHER-BUSTED!!

[bvw]

And all while wearing pajamas, too! Buckhead should get the First Annual Free Republic Order of the Pajama Award of Merit!

[bvw]

Then why did Dan Rather proffer the 1931 vintage of Times Roman Font? They are just trying to come up with further fabrications that will save them -- and that instead just dig their pit deeper.

They should -- individually, any person involved in this -- be contacting their lawyers immediately. Almost without a doubt there are Federal Criminal Code offenses that have occurred, and any thing -- meeting, communication -- each producer and researcher takes *with* his co-workers is only a further step in the criminal conspriracy.

[potlatch]

It is pretty stupid to deny they are fake when even the remotest possibility exists that they aren't.

And we know that possibility isn't remote at all!!!

[Cinnamon Girl]

The Weekly Standard print is too tiny to bother with. Could someone at CBS please type it over in 12 point Times New Roman or something so I could read it better?

[bullseye1911]

didn't CBS do a hatch job on ford and the gas tank??? seems they had to eat crow on that one???

Actually, it was NBC's Dateline with 1980-1987 chevy pickups. They staged the event by tying model rocket engines in close proximity to the tanks, then crashed them (full of fuel) ignited them and viola', a flaming death trap!
Understandable confusion, they're (NBC-CBS) one in the same!

[camas]

thanks

[pogopossum]

It was ABC and it was Chevy. Typical.