CBS Evening News: Questions Linger Over Bush Memos

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

[gopwinsin04]

See-BS News in now forced to report accounts of NY Times and Newsweek investigating their own shoddy reporting..LMAO!!

What a comedown for the Tiffany Network, all the way down to partisan hacks.

[ServesURight]

Voice of Dan Rather, music playing:

"Free Republic honors so-called, fallen heroes. CBS News was once a mighty news organization that has now become synonymous with Weekly World News."

[sinkspur]

So the CBS website is more suspicious of the documents than CBS News is?

[Tom Bombadil]

1. CBS is acting more like a political party than a news organization interested in whether they may have gotten it wrong.

2. No provenance, no sale. Damning documents but no originals and no history.

CBS is starting to smell as putrid as their story.

[GreyFriar]

Mr. Blather also mentioned a "memo" acquired by USA Today that bolstered CBS's case. But it was too small to read and he did not read its contents.

I wonder if the same dem is shopping his forged documents to USA Today too?

[tioga]

Yeah, what gives with that? Has danra^ther approved that copy?

[narby]

So, is this from CBS, or AP?

Whoever it is, is attacking Rather's credibility in a gentle manner.

I'm amazed that they can't use a bit of judgement and just say THE D@MN THINGS ARE FAKE!

[atomic conspiracy]

They're starting to crack. I still expect the house of cards to collapse tomorrow or Wednesday. They can't sustain the hoax in the face of opposition from other MSM.

[Pete]

This was on CBS's website?!?!? Apparently, somebody didn't get the memo. And how about this?

CBS said it used several techniques to make sure the memos should be taken seriously, including talking to handwriting and document analysts and other experts who strongly insist that the documents could have been created in the 1970s.

Should be taken seriously? Could have been created in the 1970's? Not exactly a ringing endorsement from CBS News about...CBS News.

This article is just plain weird given Mr. Ra^ther's performance tonight.

[dalight]

This article is on the up and up... funny to see this when they just tried to deny every thing in this article on the show. I am thinking they are setting up two poor suckers to take the fall for them... saying we trusted these guys and they were wrong..

but then again.. hows come they still do if they are able to read this document they just released?

mmm..

[gopwinsin04]

Dan has just earned his forced retirement come next March, there is no way CBS can keep him on now..

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It was taken directly from the CBS News website, credited to both CBS and AP, and appears to use clips/commentary directly from tonight's broadcast.

[ErnBatavia]

They're all toast...all of 'em.

[narby]

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

WHAT document analyst said the could have been created in the 70's. I've only heard them quote the handwriting guy.

As for Strong, I think he's the perp who forged these, and they're relying on him to back them up. He's the only Kerry koolaid drinker who worked at the guard. He IS NOT a dis-interested expert.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Maybe someone should email the article to Danny Boy.

[drpix]

WHERE DID THOSE MEMOS COME FROM? THE PHOTO CBSNEWS WILL NOT PUBLISH: DAN RATHER CAPTURED ON SURVEILLANCE VIDEO

[gopwinsin04]

My guess is that a DNC staffer typed up the memo from some scribbled old military notebook, still a felony in Federal court!

[GoBucks2002]

Not gonna happen. There's only so much the other MSM will do against one of their own. See BS has trotted out enough experts to satisfy them.

Since the Kerry campaign woke from the dead on this issue, they now have other people's accusations to cover.
It's over, guys. Let's cherish the fact that Bush is 9 or so up in the polls, get back to our work in re-electing him, and wait for the next MSM coverup. Meantime, let's start introducing the voters to sKerry and Edwards' voting records.

[Tamzee]

raised "th" superscript

Blatant lie... the "th" they're talking about was NOT "superscript", it was no higher than the other letters on the page. And it was in exactly the right position to be struck with a special "th" key made for a typewriter.