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TEXAS GUARD DIRECTOR: '60 MINUTES DOC 'FORGED AS HELL'!
Newsmax ^ | 9/12/04

Posted on 09/12/2004 8:40:04 AM PDT by areafiftyone

The Director of the Texas Air National Guard at the time President Bush served there said Sunday that Guard documents obtained by "60 Minutes" purporting to show dissatisfaction over his performance are "forged as hell."

"They're forged as hell," former Guard director Earl W. Lively told the Washington Times. "There's no way that [Bush's commanding officer] Jerry Killian would have written what they've come up with."

Lively was referring to documents aired by CBS news star Dan Rather on Wednesday, purporting to show that Bush's commander Lt. Col. Killian felt pressure from his own superior officer, Col. Walter "Buck" Staudt to "sugarcoat" Bush's record.

But Lively confirmed to the Times that Staudt had been honorably discharged in March 1972, nearly 18 months before the date of the forged Killian memos.


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To: Cboldt
Which was my point, really. CBS is holding firm to a position that is very Catch-22-like. It doesn't make sense, but like a proud 1 year old standing over his first bowel movement in the toilet, they're smiling bigtime while they refuse to budge.

It's stunning, really.

41 posted on 09/12/2004 11:03:50 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: areafiftyone
The Washington Post uses language a little less definitive. Still, they are calling BS on CBS in the linked article. I guess WaPo is giving CBS a chance to fess up before they just flat out call them liars.
42 posted on 09/12/2004 11:05:10 AM PDT by handy (Forgive me this day, my daily typos...The Truth is not a Smear!)
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To: areafiftyone
BUMPmark.

CBS is exceeding their hull depth. They are going to implode anytime now and the creaking of their bulkheads is almost deafening.

43 posted on 09/12/2004 11:30:25 AM PDT by LTCJ (CBS, all your Boyd Cycles are belong to us.)
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To: badpacifist
"I will never believe anything CBS says again for you have lost it all now. I think all of you now should be taken into a field and shot as domestic terrorists."

Many of the Double-Standards-R-Us crowd will look for ways to reward CBS and Rather for Service-To-The-Party...like Michael Moore's Oscar for his crockumentary in service of their cause.

44 posted on 09/12/2004 11:31:41 AM PDT by intolerancewillNOTbetolerated (Throw The Obstructionists Out Of Congress Bush/Cheney '04)
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To: areafiftyone

i think rather should resign.


45 posted on 09/12/2004 11:33:13 AM PDT by ken21
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To: areafiftyone

This is great, but the MSM is completely stonewalling. They've circled the wagons. It's deeply troubling.


46 posted on 09/12/2004 11:33:17 AM PDT by FreedomFighter1013 (Let's stop apologizing for saving the world)
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To: intolerancewillNOTbetolerated
Or Carter and Arafat's Nobel Prize ...

Or Wes Clarkeeee's stars.

47 posted on 09/12/2004 11:33:59 AM PDT by bvw
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To: areafiftyone
FCC needs to beat CBS senseless with a whiffle bat yesterday.....this is bullsh*t that they are able to play national inquirer games with our election process..Janet Jacksons tit skit doesn't hold a candle to this Boob Dan Rather in offensive material.... At least I think Janet's revelation was real.... Why hasn't the same outrage been applied to CBS by the FCC on this matter ?

Stay safe !

48 posted on 09/12/2004 11:39:57 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: GeekDejure

I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body!


49 posted on 09/12/2004 11:40:32 AM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: areafiftyone
TEXAS GUARD DIRECTOR: '60 MINUTES DOC 'FORGED AS HELL'!

Dear "Papa" Bush:
1. I'm still sorry about not voting for you in Nov. 1992.
2. I hope you're getting more pleasure from watching Rather twist in the wind
than you get from parachute jumps.
It's gotta be sweet when you recall Rather ambushing you on live, national TV with that
"p-ssing" contest some years back.

Signed,
VOA
50 posted on 09/12/2004 11:44:02 AM PDT by VOA
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To: kittymyrib
"Can you imagine working with this pompous jerk?"

No, I can't. :-) I would punch him out after just a couple of minutes of being near him.

The fact remains, though, that should they decide to replace him then they would just replace him with some other pompous jerk that we would all wind up loving to hate. :-)

51 posted on 09/13/2004 8:24:11 AM PDT by El Gran Salseron (It translates as the Great, Big Salsa Dancer, nothing more. :-))
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