CBS Stands by Memos on Bush Guard Service

AP ^ | 9-11-2004

[Semper Paratus]

"Requiem for a network"

[Rome2000]

Matley not returning phone calls and even the AP has an expert who says the docs are bogus.

[OpusatFR]

Sources? What sources?

I've had enough of anonymous sources in every facet of reporting from "sources" inside the State Dept to "sources" in Kelly's book to Rather's "sources."

Name names

[dr_who_2]

These people are positively loopy.

[Rome2000]

If Rather survives this CBS might as well hire O.J.Simpson to do sports.

[Fenris6]

Lovely standards.

Hey Left-Stream Media! I've got documents that prove Dan Rather & Micheal Moore are NAMBLA groupies. Of course, the documents are "difficult to definitively authenticate, but they come from solid sources."

LOL.

[Travis McGee]

CBS: Unsinkable!

[bcoffey]

From the article: "CBS can state 'with absolute certainty' that the disputed memos could have been produced on typewriters available in the early 1970s."

There's a simple way for CBS to resolve this: do a demonstration with a 1970s typewriter to which the TANG would have had access.

And if I can think of this, so can CBS.... their silence is deafening!

[Rome2000]

[ninonitti]

Still leading with head that says docs are good and yet facts in body of story say the opposite?

Frankennews?

[airborne]

CBS - AP - Boston Globe
Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

[Gibtx]

Just keep your heads about you. They think the new media will die out over the week end. They think you don't have the focus to keep it up and give it legs. My advice wait till Monday. On Monday morning at 6 AM EST. Let loose with the biggest freep you have ever done.

to the principles
to the advertisers
to the local media in your town.

show them a tidel wave. send faxes, emails, letters, to all of them from all of you.

just the facts. Ask for retraction and an apology.

[Freepdonia]

CBS Stands by Memos on Bush Guard Service

CBS also stands by its stories on the validity of the Piltdown Man, the Cardiff Giant, crop circles, the Loch Ness Monster and Big Foot!

[Sloth]

There's a simple way for CBS to resolve this: do a demonstration with a 1970s typewriter to which the TANG would have had access.

Heck, I'd be shocked if they could do it with any typewriter, anywhere.

[Timm]

"The documents are backed up not only by independent handwriting and forensic document experts but sources familiar with their content."

Good grief. Notice CBS is sliding subtly away from the claim that the *documents* are authentic to the claim that the *claims in the documents* are true.

When you see the questions arising from a preponderance of experts, I cannot believe CBS let these documents be the focus of a prepared news story.

[Rome2000]

Document examiner Sandra Ramsey Lines of Paradise Valley, Ariz., who examined the documents for the AP, said she was "virtually certain" they were generated by computer.

Lines said that meant she could testify in court that, beyond a reasonable doubt, her opinion was that the memos were written on a computer.

Dan Rather still thinks he is some kind of God whose word can't be called into question by the "pajama brigade".

Imbecile.

[ambrose]

He returned the LA Times' call. Matley says he looked at only one of the four documents, and only did a signature analysis:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1212995/posts


Since the document he looked at was photocopied, the signature could have been cut and pasted.

[Vineyard]

No ... CBS might as well hire O.J. to report on the Police Beat and crime!

Mike

[goldstategop]

They do not even have the ORIGINALS that would settle the question of the memos' authenticity. All they have are photocopies and that's just not good enough - just ask the experts.