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CBS' bomb turns blooper
Washington Times ^ | 9/11/04 | Jennifer Harper

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; cbs; cbsnews; killian
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1 posted on 09/10/2004 9:35:30 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks

Bye bye, CBS...


2 posted on 09/10/2004 9:36:24 PM PDT by RockinRight (Vote early, vote often)
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To: kattracks

Poooooooorrr Dan. He's still slobbering on the same winnie!


3 posted on 09/10/2004 9:38:01 PM PDT by Waco
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To: RockinRight

CBS, you will not be missed.


4 posted on 09/10/2004 9:38:05 PM PDT by Merry
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To: kattracks

INTREP


5 posted on 09/10/2004 9:38:27 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Secularization of America ALERT)
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To: kattracks

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.


6 posted on 09/10/2004 9:39:00 PM PDT by islander-11 (Owning a gun makes me a criminal like owning a six-iron makes me a Skakel.)
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To: kattracks

Pooooooor Dan. He was born with a silver linotype in his mouth.


7 posted on 09/10/2004 9:39:09 PM PDT by Petronski (With what? Spitballs!?!)
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To: kattracks

Has dingbat Dan ever been right about anything....ever?


8 posted on 09/10/2004 9:39:57 PM PDT by grace522
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To: RockinRight
"..Mr. Johnson and fellow debunkers at indcjournal.com, littlegreenfootballs.com, cnsnews.com, freerepublic.com and the Weekly Standard analyzed the typeface from the memos to find they were contemporary in origin, proving them likely fakes..."
9 posted on 09/10/2004 9:40:23 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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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.


10 posted on 09/10/2004 9:40:28 PM PDT by Heff ("Liberty is not America's gift to the world, it's the Almighty's gift to humanity" GW Bush 4/12/04)
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To: kattracks

Has dingbat Dan ever been right about anything....ever?


11 posted on 09/10/2004 9:41:21 PM PDT by grace522
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nbc,cbs abc,nyt and bost globe all pounced.That's a lot of news organs for where they're going.


12 posted on 09/10/2004 9:42:08 PM PDT by noodler
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To: kattracks

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.


13 posted on 09/10/2004 9:43:31 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (ANY U.S. Soldier's Blood Worth Tiptoeing ANYMORE Around Middle Eastern "Holy" Cities or Mosques???)
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To: kattracks

> 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.


14 posted on 09/10/2004 9:43:59 PM PDT by Boundless
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To: Petronski
Pooooooor Dan. He was born with a silver linotype in his mouth.

Make that a HOT LEAD Monotype

15 posted on 09/10/2004 9:47:12 PM PDT by spokeshave (Traitor Kerry did for free what the POWs received torture to make them say)
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To: kattracks
In an effort to improve its image, CBS announces a replacement for Dan Rather.


16 posted on 09/10/2004 9:49:30 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
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To: Oztrich Boy
Rather is toast.
17 posted on 09/10/2004 9:49:51 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (See B.S.)
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To: Boundless

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.


18 posted on 09/10/2004 9:51:02 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: kattracks

This is not just an election to defeat liberal Democrats politically, this is an election to defeat the Old Media.


19 posted on 09/10/2004 9:51:18 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (9-11 is your Peace Dividend)
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To: Merry

I'll miss JAG, Joan of Arcadia, CSI,&AFC Football!


20 posted on 09/10/2004 9:52:06 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (" You have never tasted freedom my friend, else you would know, it is purchased not with gold, but w)
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