Posted on 09/10/2004 9:35:30 PM PDT by kattracks
CBS has been blown off stride by its own bombshell, joining several major news organizations that trusted the network's claim that it finally had the goods on President Bush.
All were essentially bested by Internet bloggers.
Led by anchorman Dan Rather, CBS reported in a "60 Minutes" broadcast Wednesday that it had obtained four old memos asserting that Mr. Bush did not fulfill his National Guard obligations three decades ago — lobbing the claim just as Sen. John Kerry was continuing to sink in public-opinion polls.
NBC, ABC, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe and others pounced on the story, heralding it as the smoking gun that would once and for all discredit Mr. Bush.
"[He] failed to carry out a direct order," The Post noted flatly in a front-page story Thursday, citing "documents obtained by CBS" as its source.
Much of the media had "no reticence about plowing forward and repeating CBS's loaded charges that they proved President Bush received preferential treatment and disobeyed an order to complete a physical," Brent Baker of the Media Research Center, a media monitoring group, said yesterday.
The enthusiasm for "Memogate" paled, however, before the persistence of suspicious Internet bloggers and the increasingly powerful amplification loop of alternative press organizations.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Bye bye, CBS...
Poooooooorrr Dan. He's still slobbering on the same winnie!
CBS, you will not be missed.
INTREP
This article's headline made me imagine a cartoon of Dan Rather whining about his self-inflicted boo-boo while John Kerry tells him that he should put in for a purple heart.
Pooooooor Dan. He was born with a silver linotype in his mouth.
Has dingbat Dan ever been right about anything....ever?
Hey Katt...nice post.
I have a question for you? Is it possible that some pro-Bush person or group put those memos together in the hopes that it would get some legs, only to have the legs knock out from underneath it?
Just so we are clear...I don't think anyone on the Bush team is responsible.
Has dingbat Dan ever been right about anything....ever?
nbc,cbs abc,nyt and bost globe all pounced.That's a lot of news organs for where they're going.
Look how QUICKLY the MSM POUNCES on a story, by the very next day, is out there harping on it on page one, without even checking their facts. And what happened with Swift Boat Vets? Their story was out there for 2-3 WEEKS, with the MSM IGNORING IT (has 60 minutes interviewed the Boaters?), only grudgingly reporting on it when they were forced to. It is so biased it is not EVEN funny.
> All were essentially bested by Internet bloggers.
The memos were debunked before the ink was dry on the
morning editions.
I can imagine a lot of legacy media newsroom managers,
watching the expose emerge on the net, and listening
to their presses roll, wondering if there was any way
to stop it ...
If you think we're outraged at CBS for the fraud,
imagine the news outlets downstream of them, that
ran headlines yesterday and today based on this crap.
Some of those people have Rather's home phone number.
Make that a HOT LEAD Monotype
What goes around in life, comes around. Maybe we are finally seeing the beginning of justice for the American people for what the leftist, elitist media has done to them with thier lies, spin and mis-representation.
I hope CBS and its liberal goons like Rather, take a major hit with this, and hopefully the ripple effect will not settle until way after the elections.
This is not just an election to defeat liberal Democrats politically, this is an election to defeat the Old Media.
I'll miss JAG, Joan of Arcadia, CSI,&AFC Football!
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