CBS Evening News: Questions Linger Over Bush Memos

CBS News ^ | Sept. 13, 2004 | Dan Rather

[longtermmemmory]

CBS flavord cool aid, YUM! (/s)


CBS REVEAK THE NAMES OF THE SOURCES.

There is no first amendment protection for fraud, forgeries, or LIES. THat is first year constitutional law!

[pollywog]

CBS says that the information came from " solid sources"!!

HAHAHA....I heard they can't even REMEMBER who their " solid sources" were!!!!!

[longtermmemmory]

You are wrong. Contacting advertisers DOES WORK

see the Dixie Chix, Lipton dropping them.

see CBS's thereagans, advertisers fled in droves.

It works.

We need to write ALL OF RATHERS SPONSORS.

[sevry]

I put together a summary that hits the high points of this story, at least as of a few days ago, taking care to mention Buckhead a couple of times.

After you read that, does any doubt remain that Rather and crew tried to pull a fast one?

[dep]

here is how to get cbs's attention in a way that has deep meaning to them.

[Sivad]

This has probably been asked countless times but I wonder
if any other documents generated by Lt Col Killian which
refer to individuals other than Bush have been uncovered.
One would think that the C-RatherBS camp would be looking
pretty hard for similar supporting documentation, not that
it would prove authenticity. But, if Killian had saved
files regarding Bush then why wouldn't he or someone have
files/memos referencing all sorts of different individuals
and issues that could be used for the sake of comparison?
Why not? Because other memos will only exist if the felon
who generated the Bush memos gets back to work on his/her
computer.

[PJ-Comix]

As an old CBSer, trust me, this shows that bosses at Black Rock are trying to backpedal on the story, while Rather is trying to keep it at full steam ahead.

YUP! CBS News is DEFINITELY backpedaling away from Crazy Danny.

Rather will go ballistic when he sees this. Like Captain Queeg, he will rant over disloyalty, incompetent junior officers/staffers.

"Ahh, but the memos that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a typewriter key that could have typed them DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled my mind out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow national guard officers..."

[dila813]

If I was them, I would say I was defrauded and write it off. Continuing to play games leaves them open to lawsuits.

Defamation of Character of someone like President Bush would be a huge judgment. I think it would bankrupt CBS.

[dila813]

Sounds like a French Slow Surrender.

[Wissa]

document analysts and other experts who strongly insist that the documents could have been created in the 1970s.

Then why doesn't one of those experts take the challenge and duplicate the character spacing on the memos using 1970's technology?

[Wissa]

Dan is either listening to the lawyers telling him to deny, deny ,deny...

I guess he figures if it worked for Clinton all these years it'll work for him too. He may be right. Time will tell.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

If anyone is interested, CBS's self destruction already has a soundtrack: The DAN RATHER SONG (one of my favorites).

(Click here for the story of another CBS failure in intimidation about this song. - The CBS Threat).

[PJ-Comix]

I figured it out---You're John Cameron Swayze!!!

[laredo44]

and document analysts and other experts who strongly insist that the documents could have been created in the 1970s.

This is so simple it boggles the mind. RE-CREATE THE DOCUMENTS CBS!

What's so tough about that? Tell everyone how the creation was accomplished. Simple. What typewriter/typesetter/whatever was used, what font, the steps, everything. Others can use your description and validate your approach. Done. Case closed. But you don't. Is it because you can't. That's what it looks like. Dan, all the resources of CBS News and you can't even find the typewriter that might have produced the documents? Five days later and you can't even name the equipment? How impotent are you? How lame is CBS News?

Those claiming the documents are forged have already reproduced the documents. They did it in about 15 minutes. They told everyone how they did it. They are believable. What are you?

[hershey]

Kerry's no ordinary fool. He'll come up with something even funnier and dumber by the end of the week, and Dan the Man will run with it.

[F16Fighter]

Whether Rather and CBS like it or not, it is THEY who are now on trial.

This will be CBS's Waterloo.

[Henchman]

Hey, I'm not fighting you. I wasn't onto that aspect. There are so many things wrong with these memos there is no way RATher didn't know they were fake IF he reviewed them at all.

Rather's arrogance is what caused this problem. He is toast at CBS. CBS is being given a pass (Professional Courtesy) by the TV media. However, CBS will not give the source of the memos a free pass. CBS is afraid of the DNC, so it won't be the DNC targeted; BUT it will be one of the DNC's boys. Just wait!

[MindBender26]

No! I am not John Stammerin Swayze!

:~)

[finnigan2]

If I didn't know better, I could swear this CBS news item is the first gentle attempt to remove Rather's cold dead hands from around the neck of this story and return it to some sort of objective reporting.
You don't suppose this is the first move by senior management to step in and say we've had enough of this Dan, it's all down hill from here so we're sending you off to the showers before you bring the whole damn network crashing down around all our ears.

[tdadams]

Rather than bring down a president, as many at CBS no doubt hoped would happen with these memos, it looks like they'll instead take down a few careers at CBS news, almost certainly including the man who sits at the anchor desk.

Now that's poetic justice.