Posted on 09/14/2004 2:49:17 PM PDT by okiegop
THE FOLLOWING IS A STATEMENT ISSUED BY CBS NEWS:
For the record, CBS News stands by the thoroughness and accuracy of the 60 MINUTES report this Wednesday on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. This report was not based solely on recovered documents, but rather on a preponderance of evidence, including documents that were provided by unimpeachable sources, interviews with former Texas National Guard officials and individuals who worked closely back in the early 1970s with Colonel Jerry Killian and were well acquainted with his procedures, his character and his thinking. In addition, the documents are backed up not only by independent handwriting and forensic document experts but by sources familiar with their content. Contrary to some rumors, no internal investigation is underway at CBS News nor is one planned. We have complete confidence in our reporting and will continue to pursue the story.
CBS SUCKS!!!!
Interesting, but not exactly news. They've been peddling the same line since last week.
let them big a bigger whole
Translation: "We will whip this dead horse until people move on."
yeah. this is last friday's party line. today's party line is that nobody knows one way or the other, so cbs is sticking by their story. (i'm not making this up. see the washpost story.)
They left off:
Signed,
Baghdad Bob
You want to really spin up the liberals... lets have the FBI go and seize the documents from CBS and go after the originals.
Is Viacom stock still falling?
Bango, the "unimpeachable source" did not provide THESE documents (the forgeries), this statement refers to other documents from that source in addition to "recovered documents" (the forgeries). And I am relatively convinced Ms. Knox, the Bush hating Killian secretary is the source for the CBS story, the person (allegedly) intimately familiar with Killian's thinking, etc.
They don't really use the word "preponderance" right. I don't know how to describe where they went wrong with it, I just don't think it means what they think it means.
It sounds like they're using it to mean, "a host of other evidence", rather than a quantity of evidence which is slightly more likely then not.
Can anyone out there see what I'm saying? It's just not quite right.
Interesting that they haven't replied to my emails yet. Of course I did state that Dan Rather is a communist pig so that may be part of it.
The arrogance is disturbing.
There "unimpeacable sources" have either been discredited or recanted. Is CBS this full of themselves?
"Texans for Truth" is not a "preponderance" of the evidence, Dan.
We need more proof.
What did you know, and when did you know it!!
Translation:
Na-na-na-nu-nu...stick your head in doo-doo...
Every one the media world knows that these documents are fakes except Oreilly and CBS. When this all plays out, will the public get and apology?
This CBS memo is dated 1972. Can you explain that?
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