Posted on 09/13/2004 4:15:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Gee, you mean the forgers actually made sure the dates correlated. This proves nothing. A major new organization should see the hole in this. The question is, is this document authentic? CBS did not answer that question.
Since this is from CBS's own website, they are distancing themselves from "reporter" Dan. He may be out sooner than later.
My conspiracy theory is that CBS never believed this ANG story aired on 60-Min.2 had legs, but was put forward to distract attention away from Kerry and his record. The longer CBS and the other MSMs can keep Kerry's record away from people's consciousness, the longer they can keep Kerry competitive.
Oh, well, that settles that inconsistancy!
lol
This is more about principle and the MSM trying to swing an election. That is where the reporting should be... Why doesn't a credible news service confront CBS and Blather with the fact that they gave this report in hopes that it would damage the presidents standing in the polls. Once that is out in the public the legal proceedings can begin.
There can be no other Truth than the Truth.
LOL...As I said in my post #43, anything to keep the voters' attention away from Kerry's record.
Bernard, is that you?
The website plays to the online audience. There are millions that do not get their news online. Just an attempt to regain some of their credibility.
We are all missing something here.
If Dan becomes THE man of the Left .. his audience will double.
Think about it.
Dan is either listening to the lawyers telling him to deny, deny ,deny or he really does believe his own bull. Either way his career is over and Sumner Redstone will be ushering him to the North 40 very soon.
The Rowback begins.
CBS has not been idle all weekend. They have been talking to lawyers ("Can we get sued for this screwup?" and the answer is, not really) and to damage-control PR consultants.
Note that they still insist they have many experts, but they still keep their experts secret, an indication that they really don't have experts. An expert who authenticates a document is not a source. The experts themselves, if they exist, should be pleased to be associated with such a high-profile case, so if they are being kept secret it's CBS's doing (or, of course, there are no experts).
Note that they mischaracterize some of the negative testimony that they include here -- "Killian's son also questioned some of the documents...." He actually called them all forgeries. Likewise they fudge Manley's credentials: he's strictly a handwriting analyst, and they don't mention that he is an "expert for hire" that testifies as lawyers desire in cases, and they don't mention that in an article he wrote he insisted that you cannot authenticate a photocopy -- just what he's done here. I guess what he really meant was, you can't authenticate a photocopied signature unless the money is really good. The guy is a fraud. (Why is he in this case? From his mannerisms, my guess is that he's gay and part of all the pink anti-Bush hostility the fairies are experiencing right now).
As is usual with the MSM, what they leave out is more important than the pabulum that they pump in. They don't mention the blogosphere. They don't mention the last surviving Selectric Composer's inability to duplicate the memo, or the nightmarish gyrations the user had to go through to make it happen. They don't mention the almost $40,000 reward that is being offered to anyone who can duplicate the CBS forgeries on 1972 typewriters. They don't mention the other typographic peculiarities of the documents, like its use of True Type negative-offset letterspacing that would be invented almost 20 years later. They don't mention USA Today getting alternate versions of the documents! Why would there be several versions of a memo to file...?
And then, as support for their claim that the order to take a physical was not forged, they use the date -- which is the date Bush was suspended for not taking his birth month physical.
And this winner: "Both Wednesday and Friday, Strong was the only associate of Killian quoted by CBS as supporting the memo's contents." They don't mention that while: Killian's boss, his admin officer, his wife and his son have all called BS on these documents; the only one that vouches for them, Bob Strong, is a Democrat who at the time was a low-ranking sergeant who worked in a different building -- not the buddy-buddy of Killian that he and Rather portray.
CBS is trying to sneak its way out of this by pretending it is just learning these things were bogus... give me a break. They knew all along. Heck, they probably created the documents themselves. The originals are probably in The Dan's "My Documents" folder.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
"Sitting in for Dan Rather tonight, Bat Boy."
Don't you DARE malign Bat Boy like that! He'd never work for an organization which hired Blather.
NONE OF THIS WAS IN THE CBSNEWS STORY THAT AIRED TONIGHT!!! THEY REPORTED IT AS IF NOTHING COULD CONTRADICT THEIR CLAIMS, AND TOTALLY IGNORED THE EVIDENCE STACKED AGAINST THEM!
/sorry about the yelling
No, but Bernie is a great man, a better reporter, and an even better writer.
Better than I ever was.
cbs doesn't have a license -- networks are not required to have them, because they are content providers, not broadcasters. which is why when the fcc fined cbs for the janet jackson stunt, they fined its owned and operated stations, not the network itself.
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