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Let's Force the Forger into the Open
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| 14 Sept 2004
| wildbill
Posted on 09/14/2004 9:42:00 AM PDT by wildbill
We, the people, the "guys in pajamas" can force the Rathergate forger into the open--if we only have the will to try.
We can start a campaign that focuses on the two media outlets--ABC and USA Today--who got the same information as CBS. Apparently they have come around to the view that the documents probably are bogus. Therefore any confidentiality arrangement with the source is void.
Our arguments should be the ethics rules of the Society of Professional Journalists. We can use their own rules against them.
Go to the Society of Professional Journalists http://www.spj.org/ethics_code.asp and then to their ethics page.
According to their published code of ethics, professional journalists should not only properly vet their sources, but do the following:
"Identify sources whenever feasible. The public is entitled to as much information as possible on sources' reliability.
Always question sources motives before promising anonymity. Clarify conditions attached to any promise made in exchange for information."
Write a letter to ABC and USA TODAY asking that they follow the above ethical rules for their profession. Remind them that these ethics require that journalists should:
"Remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility"
And that they should be accountable:
"Admit mistakes and correct them promptly. Expose unethical practices of journalists and the news media.
Abide by the same high standards to which they hold others."
I purposely did not compose a letter because I don't want everyone's letters to look alike. There are a few additional ethics guidelines that are applicable so check out the site and cut and paste to your letter.
The site also has a long list of people (with emails) to are on the Ethics Committe. They deserve a letter asking about how CBS should handle the forged documents and their provenance or source.
I haven't mentioned bloggers or other pundits in the MSM who should get copies of your letter--but that goes without saying to my fellow "guys in pajamas"
Let's Roll
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: abc; ethics; forger; journalism; source; usatoday
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Use their own professional ethics against the media. CBS is a lost cause, but ABC and USA Today may be more susceptible to revealing the source.
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posted on
09/14/2004 9:42:00 AM PDT
by
wildbill
To: wildbill
WARNING: Another vanity post.
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posted on
09/14/2004 9:44:31 AM PDT
by
COURAGE
(A charter member of the Grim FReeper Club)
To: wildbill
"According to their published code of ethics, professional journalists should not only properly vet their sources, but do the following:"
Good luck, not to dampen the project, however, IMO, the only thing that will create a revolt is to see the CBS bottom line $$$$$ going down the tube.
Then again if that happens I would want to see if Drather is selling or maybe Hillry's been reading the paper again making a few bucks.
Ethics do not apply to lying crooked liberals.
To: COURAGE
WARNING: Another WARNING about a vanity post by COURAGE, self-appointed FR Mod.
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:09:25 AM PDT
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: wildbill; Just mythoughts
Big business and ethics aren't supposed to have anything to do with one another according to free traders. When we get what they tell us it's supposed to be like, we revolt against the notion and demand ethics. Somethin ain't lining up here - can anyone help me? lol
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:09:41 AM PDT
by
Havoc
(.)
To: wildbill
My Favorite post for dims and trolls
who slither in here each day.
And the Lame Stream media
who find the real news on Free Republic,
then rewrite and spin the truth.
JOHN KERRY
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BUSH SIGNED FORM 180
WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?
WHAT IS YOUR SECRET?
WHAT DON'T YOU WANT
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E-Mail this story AND links to the media today.
John Kerry directly contributed to the lies of the anti war movement AND caused deaths and injuries
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John Kerry is not fit to be elected dog catcher let alone President of the United States.
ANYONE who votes for Kerry AFTER knowing this data
is guilty of covering up John Kerry's war crimes!
John Kerry, director of the Vietnam Veterans against the War,
testified before special session the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
April 22, 1971
KERRY GAVE TESTIMONY BASED UPON FALSE INFORMATION
THAT KERRY KNEW AHEAD OF TIME TO BE FALSE!

September 6, 2004 -- **BREAKING** In Yesterday's Lies: Steve Pitkin and the Winter Soldiers, Scott Swett tells the story of a former VVAW member and participant in the Winter Soldier Investigation who states that John Kerry and others pressured him to give false testimony about American atrocities in Vietnam. After more than 33 years, Pitkin is the first Winter Soldier "witness" to file a legal affadavit regarding that event...
My name is Steve Pitkin, age 20, from Baltimore. I served with the 9th Division from May of '69 until I was airvaced in July of '69. I'll testify about the beating of civilians and enemy personnel, destruction of villages, indiscriminate use of artillery, the general racism and the attitude of the American GI toward the Vietnamese. I will also talk about some of the problems of the GIs toward one another and the hassle with officers.
-- Steve Pitkin, Winter Soldier Investigation, February 1, 1971.
E-Mail and/or fax these url's to EVERYONE ASAP! Kerry MUST be exposed NOW!
PUT PRESSURE ON THE MEDIA TO COVER THIS BEFORE NOV 2nd
Steve Pitkin Story
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=YesterdaysLies1
Steve Pitkin Affadavit, August 31, 2004
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=PitkinAff
Steve Pitkin DD-214
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/graphics/PitkinDD214.jpg
Steve Pitkin WSI testimony
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=PitkinWSI
Steve Pitkin WSI video clips -- February 1, 1971 (4:16, 1.6MB)
http://www.wintersoldier.com/video/pitkin2.wmv
John F. Kerry
Timeline of a traitor.
Click Here
http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html
Guide to Local Media
Locate media in your zip code, gives you links to YOUR local media with phone, e-mail etc info.
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Kerry's disrespect in 1971 to USA Symbols Video
Windows Media .......... Real Player .......... Quick Time .......... AOL
Ramsey Clark to Join Panel for Saddams Defense
arabnews press release 25 August 2004
NOTE :
Ramsey Clark is pictured below with Kerry and
Vietnam phony vet Al Hubbard
Who was head of the
Vietnam Veterans Against the War movement.

Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. 65-June 66
- Al Hubbard, proven fraud who never set foot in Viet Nam.
The only Vietnamese he ever met was
when he was collaborating with the North Vietnamese in Paris
on the American Communist Party's nickel.
John Kerry's explanation:
"He (Hubbard) simply exaggarated his particular position.
But nobody knew it at the time. And those things happen."
Free online version of
Kerry's "The New Soldier"
You can read it online right now.

Kerry hopes everyone
in the USA gets this book!
NEW:
Without question,
we were held captive longer
because of the anti-war people,
the Kerrys, the Fondas and Haydens,
the names we knew over there -
they encouraged the enemy to hang on.
Excerpt from Stolen Honor website
- Leo Thorsness
Former Vietnam POW
CLICK HERE
Jane Fonda tells the student audience at the Michigan State University in 1969:
"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope,
you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communist."

Joe Moore, Can Tho Airfield 550th Signal Company
Copy and paste the links to everyone you know.
Steve Pitkin Affadavit, August 31, 2004
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=PitkinAff
John F. Kerry Timeline of a traitor
http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html
Kerry's disrespect in 1971
to USA Symbols Video
Windows Media
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.wmv
Real Player
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.rm
Quick Time
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.mov
AOL
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.mpg
Send this url for the online "The New Soldier" version
http://ejsmithweb.com/fr/newsoldier/
Send this url for the Stolen Honor website
http://www.stolenhonor.com/
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:09:46 AM PDT
by
68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
(MAKE SURE YOUR YOU ARE CURRENTLY REGISTERED AND VOTE Nov 2nd!)
To: wildbill
I have never heard of this Society of Professional Journalists and know nothing about them but I suspect that they are kinda like the UN or AMA.....They do a lot of posing, posturing and talking but have no real authority to do anything or backbone.
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:10:19 AM PDT
by
El Gran Salseron
(It translates as the Great, Big Salsa Dancer, nothing more. :-))
To: COURAGE
I would think that a little bit of slack can be cut for someone who posts content from another site relavent to to current events.
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:11:09 AM PDT
by
Thickman
(Regis to Kerry: "Is that your final answer?")
To: wildbill
We need a graphic for the bloggers in PJ's!
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
JOHN KERRY
CLICK HERE TO SIGN FORM 180
BUSH SIGNED FORM 180
WHAT ARE YOU HIDING? Bump!
10
posted on
09/14/2004 10:12:16 AM PDT
by
talleyman
(Dan Rather is the love child of Josef Stalin & Matta Hari and James Carville is a space alien - E.T.)
To: arasina; COURAGE
Hmmmm... if one replies to a vanity post, does that make it a vanity reply?
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:12:46 AM PDT
by
Terabitten
(Live as a bastion of freedom and democracy in the midst of the heart of darkness.)
To: wildbill
Code of ethics only applies to us the rats do as they please.
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:13:19 AM PDT
by
Fast1
To: gopwinsin04
VRWC !
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:18:19 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
("Dork"; a 60's term for a 60's kinda guy: JFK)
To: Fast1
focus on Rather the rest will fall in line .... attack the money ....
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:18:21 AM PDT
by
Gibtx
(focus.........)
To: Tragically Single
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:19:28 AM PDT
by
COURAGE
(A charter member of the Grim FReeper Club)
To: wildbill
To: Tragically Single

SAVE THE VANITIES!
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:22:36 AM PDT
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: arasina
[ WARNING: Another WARNING about a vanity post by COURAGE, self-appointed FR Mod. ]
LoL
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:22:43 AM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Bud, I think you just stepped on my post. You've posted all this stuff before, haven't you?
You have a right to do it, I suppose, but why repeat it all in someone else's post that proposes another idea?
Personally, I think it was rude and will probably stop a lot of people from reading or participating further. Is that what you wanted to do?
Thank you very much.
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:27:15 AM PDT
by
wildbill
To: wildbill; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Here I was defending your Inaliable Right to Post A Vanity Thread and you come after TONK? Get an education about FReeper history, wildbill, and ask your mama again about the meaning of the word RESPECT. Tonk has it bigtime; you have yet to earn it, and at this rate it'll be a long time coming.
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posted on
09/14/2004 10:33:42 AM PDT
by
arasina
(So there.)
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