Posted on 09/10/2004 7:42:49 PM PDT by Ed Zoekuiper
Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian's supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. According to Hodges, CBS told him the documents were "handwritten" and after CBS read him excerpts he said, "well if he wrote them that's what he felt."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Good pt about McAuliffe ranting that the documents are real based on CBS info. If Kerry can't get good information on forged documents, how could he judge the quality of national security intelligence? Hey, maybe we should ping the RNC!
I am standing up and cheering, your comments are dead on. Bravo to you!!!
Hodges abandoning ship? LOL!!
All of the Old Media is tied to the DNC to varying degree. CBS just managed to be the lucky one to sustain the first mortal hit.
My guess is that the American people are not looking too kindly on the fact our "objective" media has been caught trying to destroy our President.
I'm furious his honorable record has been assulted for years by these partisan treasonous hacks. They deserve what ever comes their way.
I think they have run out of credible witnesses! :)
So it appears CBS was lying, Hodges was not "familiar with the contents" or even their existance. He was offering testimony to the integrty of Lt Col Killian only, not the documents CBS falsely claimed to have.
LOL
For real, hasn't SeeBS had a stable of bitter,old, shameless Leftwingers for a long time? It's long past time to break up that vicious team. What nature couldn't do, new media is.
In just two days this episode has become **MEMOGATE**.
Instead of a "third rate burglary" bringing down a President, this is a third rate forgery that may well bring down the mainstream media and the "fellow travelers" in the DNC who feed them their tripe.
And to think you FReepers were the cops that caught the evil-doers.
You know what.. .the rules will never be the same in politics and elections again.
BINGO!!!!!!!
Hodges didn't retire in 1971 - he was still the commanding officer of the 147th in August of 1972, because he signed the order grounding Dubya for not taking his flight physical.
It was Staudt that retired, and that was in March of 1972 (18 months before he was supposedly pressuring Killian to "sugar coat" his evaluation of Bush).
"In 1997, based on a tip from a psychiatrist, Rather's attacker was identified as William Tager. According to the psychiatrist, Tager, who was currently serving time for killing an NBC stagehand, blamed news media for beaming signals into his head, and thought if he could just find out the correct frequency, he could block those signals that were constantly assailing him. Hence the enigmatic inquiry."
WOW, and I do mean WOW, I never heard that part of the story before! Very interesting. Do I remember the stagehand being killed, was he the guy that was shot on the roof of a parking garage, or something like that?
Paging Paul Harvey!
Thanks for the correction.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I told my son the same thing about the game!
Even if the CBS producer didn't distinguish whether the memos were handwritten or typewritten, Hodges would no doubt have assumed they had to be handwritten if Killian really did create them by himself for his own personal use. If the producer had described them as typewritten, Hodges would have said, as the son and widow have said, that he would have difficulty in believing them to be authentic from Killian.
Great catch and reporting!
This is especially important since in tommorow's WashPo story Rather himself cites Hodges in his defense of the story. Here is the excerpt:
In a lengthy interview, Rather stressed that CBS had talked to two people who worked with Killian in the Texas Guard -- his superior, retired Maj. Gen. Bobby Hodges, and his administrative assistant, Robert Strong -- and both described the memos as consistent with what they knew of Killian. Hodges, who told CBS he was "familiar" with the documents, is an avid Bush supporter, and "it took a lot for him to speak the truth," Rather said.
link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12809-2004Sep10.html
Keep up the good work!
"But I guess CBS news can't be held to the same standards of verification that we use to sell somebody a $12 t-shirt."
Isn't that the truth? This is a freaking comedy. Thank God SeeBS is finally get theirs.
Lessee, it's 11:16 pm September 10th...I'm gonna go out on a limb here and predict that Rather is out of a job by this time next week.
He said "I Know" these documents are true. If his employers keep him they lose cred. No cred no advertisers.
Go 'Noles.
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