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Posted on 09/11/2004 12:31:59 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
Edited on 09/11/2004 1:07:02 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
He needs to go down. The American people have earned the right to see him get taken out.
"Forgerers for Kerry!"
I sent an email to this effect to Fox News Sunday this week.
Except Chris Wallace is a professional who should be held to a different standard...and not commenting on this issue is one of them.
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Chris Wallace is, in my opinion, a fine host of Fox News Sunday. He asks follow up questions and keeps the discussion to the topic in question.
"How about a bumper sticker: "Forgerers for Kerry!""
It would never sell. They would just make their own that looked like the original. :-)
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I have Lexis-Nexis. I'm only posting about the first-quarter of the article, but this is the important part about the false memo. Mapes wasn't mentioned.
The Washington Post - April 13, 1999, Tuesday, Final Edition
HEADLINE: Another '60 Minutes' Apology on a Drug Smuggling Story
BYLINE: Lisa de Moraes
BODY: For the second time in four months, CBS's "60 Minutes" has made an on-air apology regarding a report about drug smuggling. This time it's over a memo that turned out to be bogus.
Correspondent Lesley Stahl delivered the apology on Sunday's broadcast, as part of a settlement with a customs official who had sued the newsmagazine.
In December, "60 Minutes" founder Don Hewitt apologized on-air for a June 1, 1997, story based on a British documentary about smugglers who swallowed heroin in latex gloves to get past authorities. An investigative panel later determined that the documentary producers had faked locations and paid actors to portray drug couriers.
In Sunday's apology, Stahl emphasized that the April 20, 1997, segment accurately reported on the flow of illegal drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border at San Diego.
But that report, which was presented by Mike Wallace, cited a memo said to be written by Rudy Camacho, the San Diego district director of the Customs Service, calling for customs agents to quickly process trucks owned by a company linked to Mexican drug cartels.
The Customs Service in Washington investigated and found the memo to be fake, and that no preferential treatment was offered, Stahl said. "60 Minutes" had already reported in February 1998 that the memo was declared bogus. But Camacho sued; the on-air apology was part of an "amicable settlement" between him and CBS News, a "60 Minutes" spokesman said.
"We have concluded that we were deceived, and ultimately so were you, our viewers," Stahl said. "Under the circumstances, we regret that any reference to that memo or to Mr. Camacho's connection with it was included in our original report and apologize for any harm to Mr. Camacho's professional reputation and any distress caused to him and his family."
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Look at previous post...
Article from Lexis-Nexis about 60 Minutes using a fake memo in the past.
They used the memo in an April 1997 story that discredited Customs. Customs investigated and proved memo false. 60 Minutes finally admitted in February 1998 that the memo was fake (but never apologized).
The person trashed in the memo had to SUE to get an apology on the air, which 60 Minutes finally gave him TWO YEARS AFTER THE STORY RAN in April 1999.
Was it not 60 min. That had the rigged the exploding P/U Truck gas tanks footage some time back ( 10 -15 years ) ?
Welcome to FR
The exploding truck stunt was done by Dateline ( NBC ).
O ya Thanks.
Birds of a feather.
one of the Libs favorite line
The end justifies the means.
John Fund rattled off a few of these errors on the radio today. He said CBS was behind the story that the Jennifer Flowers tapes were fake. They used a Clinton source. I wish I knew the whole story but I do not have John Funds memory.
I believe CBS TV also got nailed some years back for videotaping "staged" war news hat they ran as authentic realtime action.
Could be another TV network but I think it was CBS.
It bears researching for that scam.
Sounds like John "V" Kerry and his very own reinacted 8mm Nam fakeroo epic adventure production doesn't it? Or Michael Moore's fake documentary he is not calling a documentary for the Oscars as fiction and fraud does not go well with honest documentary film competitors.
CBS needs to have their NYC license reviewed by the FCC.
They have a continuing pattern of wilful, knowing, and malicious unlawful deceptive business practices in broadcasting their self-proclaimed "news" and they are also scamming their
advertisers as well as engaging in political activities disquised as neutral news journalism.
Not political commentary, but "investigative news".......
But this particular investigator has a long record of falsifying evidence and documents with no real consequences to boost rating and ad sales.
Now it is to change the results of a presidential election to suit a small minoritity (compared to the USA voter base) of media liberal puppeteers in NYC, DC, LA, Houston -
"Internal investigation" by CBS; is Janet Reno handling this?
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