CBS falls for Kerry campaign's fake memo [Mark Steyn]

Chicago Sun Times ^ | September 11, 2004 | Mark Steyn

[Popman]

the 'content' of the documents are true, even if the documents themselves are faked.

That was Ellen Ratner regurgitation of the DNC talking points from Fox & Friends via post # 21

[Diogenesis]

Oliphant's daughter is Kerry's speech writer.

Therefore, he trashes President's Bush's speeches.

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BOSTON GLOBE PUBLISHED KNOWN-BY THE GLOBE-TO-BE-FROM-PORN-SITES PHOTOS:

The Boston Globe KNEW the pics were porn, knew they were from a porn site frequented by Boston Globe reporters,
and knew they were held by an admitted racist who segregates whites from meetings,
and outrageously and odiously said they were from "credible" sources.
The Boston Globe KNEW lies were being published so as to result in murders of Americans.

The proterrorist writers at the Boston Globe KNEW exactly what they were doing.

Click for full size porno posted in the Boston Globe used
to incite Islamic terrorists to murder Americans around the globe.

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Boston Globe Publishes Fake Iraq Rape Pictures to have Americas Murdered (Again) - Thread 1

Boston Globe Publishes Fake Iraq Rape Pictures to have Americas Murdered (Again) - Thread 2

This latest lie against AMERICA was from none other than the bow-tied home of liar Jayson Blair =====> The Boston Globe.

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More examples?

From The Boston Globe's (and New York Times') own wars against the War for Enduring Freedom.

Turkish bombings, including that of the HSBC bank murdering a dozen people and wounding scores,
directly resulted from smears in the Boston Globe used to demean America and incite terrorists.
The Boston Globe front page article claimed the American liberation of Iraq from the murderous Saddam was a "rape".

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The Boston Globe has a history of front-page slurs against the valiant American military [which later were merely fabricated] [4/8/03]

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The Boston Globe has a history of falsifying front page polls
BOSTON GLOBE FABRICATES FRONT-PAGE POLL [4/9/03]

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“If she had lived (being abandoned alive in a submerged car driven by Sen Kennedy),
Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old.
Through his tireless work as a legislator,
(Democrat) Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”

Charles Pierce, January 5, 2003 Boston Globe Magazine

[ontos-on]

Michael Kelly, May he rest in peace. There was a good man. Thanks for remembering him to us.

[I used to think Andrew Sullivan was close to Michael Kelly's level, except for one little thing. But, of course, that little thing has now consumed Sullivan and his writing and twisted everthing in his universe to its service. The comparison between Kelly and Sullivan now stands in embarassing relief as it has been revealed what was the most important thing, the essence of each human being:

Kelly--devotion to his calling as a journalist and his willingness to put everything on the line and embed himself with the troops in a war he believed in;

Sullivan-- well ..... his one little thing has distorted all that he previously professed to believe in.

[TomGuy]

But, the talkingpoint is not only from Ratner, but also implied by Rather. See this post in another thread:

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This is the comment I found to be the most astounding. In essence, Rather is saying that forged documents have raised key questions and we should all concentrate on the "substance" that was made up out of whole cloth. If the documents are forgeries, and I believe that they are, there is no substance on which to focus. There is NO STORY if the "support" for the story is bogus.

15 posted on 09/11/2004 6:53:12 AM CDT by Bahbah

[Bahbah]

This is the comment I found to be the most astounding. In essence, Rather is saying that forged documents have raised key questions and we should all concentrate on the "substance" that was made up out of whole cloth. If the documents are forgeries, and I believe that they are, there is no substance on which to focus. There is NO STORY if the "support" for the story is bogus.

[Lyford]

Steyn bump

[federal]

bookmark

[Rebelbase]

"Their boy Kerry had a crummy August not because he didn't hammer Bush for being AWOL in the Spanish-American War but because the senator's AWOL in the present war."

Bang!

[TomGuy]

link for post #44

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1213038/posts?page=15#15

[Puzzleman]

...CBS wasn't set up, they totally know they're lying.

I agree. CBS knew the memos were forgeries and expected that President Bush would either ignore them (which would give the Dems a clear field to use the lies) or say they were forgeries (which would let the Dems say that Bush is a cry baby). Bush did neither. He released the memos to the blogosphere and let us do the job. And we did it well.

[Aquinasfan]

Thomas Oliphant wears spectacles and a bow-tie. I'm not kidding.

[The Raven]

Who does the "60 minutes" on 60 minutes?

[N. Beaujon]

WOW. Did he catch the irony, the hypocrasy, the perfidy of the Dimocratic party! I love this guy! (No wonder I've never heard of him, he's not a drooling, washrag liberal lapdog!)

[BibChr]

Thanks for not being that excerpt-happy guy!

Dan

[BibChr]

THANK you for the ping.

[BibChr]

Right.

Like, "I did not have sex with that woman — and, if I did, she was a Republican plant, and Ken Starr is an evil man!!"

Dan

[aynrandfreak]

the senator's AWOL in the present war

What a great line! This should become a standard GOP talking point.

[Quilla]

Amen!

[UltraKonservativen]

...Big Media are trashing their own reputations in service to a man who can never win...
Mr Steyn, we are not worthy.

2004 will go down in history as another election L-A-N-D-S-L-I-D-E for the Republicans over a totally inept democratic candidate BUT MOST OF ALL IT WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE YEAR THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA MAGGOTS LOST THEIR POWER TO INFLUENCE AMERICAN ELECTIONS.
Goodbye and good ridance.

[secret garden]

Steyn's take ping.

[ontos-on]

CBS knew the memos were forgeries and expected that President Bush would either ignore them (which would give the Dems a clear field to use the lies) or say they were forgeries (which would let the Dems say that Bush is a cry baby).

Right on! I think you hit it on the head. CBS is like Goebbels. There is no limit to what they won't try to push on the public. They control so much of the guiderails that they game the system and figure they can prevail either way.

This is what is behind the obvious arrogance. They must have known that the documents were forged--[I would not be shocked if they did not order up the forgery--via dark sources, of course. ] There is no way that they are that stupid. No, they knew it and that is what I like about your post. It explains how it did not matter to them that the forgery would be discoverable. They counted on that discovery not being able to be heard in the national conversation.

Well, they did not calculate the blogosphere would be able to be heard. But now, after 24 hours, they try the slimeball response of saying but not quite saying that the story that the documents were supposed to support is "true" so that is what should be focused on. Indeed, they arrogantly assert that we should listen to CBS now and trust in their reporting on this story despite the fact that the documentary evidence they used is now shouwn to be forged---deliberately concocted to falsely support a proposition.

Rather [& CBS'] response last night--after 24 hours deliberation-- is striking. They still believe they can carry it off and push the "story" even without the documentary support. They wont admit the forgery of course, and stupidly cite the fact that hte typeface was invented in 1930's without saying the obvious point that the typeface was not available to typewriters ever-and only became available to the genreal population via personal comuters in the late 80's early 90's.

CBS knows all this AND THEN DECIDES TO COUNT ON THE RELATIVELY SHORT ATTENTION SPAN OF THE GENERAL POPULATION TO NOT HEAR THE TRUTH THROUGH THE DIN OF DSITORTION WHICH IT IS NOW again INTENTIONALLY SPREADING INTO THE NATIONAL CONVERSATION.

THE REASON THEY TAKE THIS TACK IS BECAUSE THEY ARE, AFTER ALL, ONLY AFTER VOTES, NOT INTEGRITY.

It is this contempt for truth and intelligent conversation that you see on the cable shout shows. Say anything, regardless of how incredible. The point is only to grab a few percentages of boob votes.

THESE PEOPLE ARE SO ARROGANT AND SO MALICIOUS THAT NO PUNISHMENT WOULD BE UNDESERVED.