Whole Story - A fraud, not a mistake

United Press International ^ | September 14, 2004 | Peter Roff

[PDR]

-- This is the full version of the story that was posted earlier in the day from the wash. times web site... it makes more sense when you can read the whole think.

[FesterUSMC]

Though it is not a certainty, the documents produced by CBS News to support the assertions of former Texas House Speaker and Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes that George W. Bush was the beneficiary of special treatment throughout his service in the Texas Air National Guard are likely fraudulent.

what is certain is that you can not prove the documents to be real or authentic. because the documents cBS has are photocopies and NOT the originals

[PDR]

true enough -- but until cbs makes the original documents they were given public it is a point that can be debated.

[Jim Robinson]

Take the CBS copy and hold it up to the light with a MS Word (default settings) copy. If the format fits, you must convict.

[FairOpinion]

That's it. A major network cannot be that gullible, therefore they were doing it deliberately and were knowingly complicit in the perpetration of a fraud.

When is the president of CBS resigning, right after he fired Rather?

[FesterUSMC]

LOL i have done this, it fits! and im convicting...

[Mike Fieschko]

Ahhh, getting nostalgic right now . . .

The classic 'modified, limited hangout'.

[Boundless]

> what is certain is that you can not prove the documents
> to be real or authentic. because the documents cBS has
> are photocopies and NOT the originals

But if CBS was handed physical paper memos, they may
well be the ORIGINAL forgeries, complete with nth-gen
copy artifacts, noise, blur and optical distortions.

On the bright side, as long as CBS stonewalls, they
are sidelined from any serious play for the opposing
team.

[FesterUSMC]

CBS DOES NOT HAVE THE ORIGIONALS!! AND NEVER HAD THE ORIGINALS!

[Rex Anderson]

Good article.

[FesterUSMC]

the only way you can believe that cBS has the origional memos is to believe that Killian wrote in XEROX !

[Duke of Milan]

"CBS DOES NOT HAVE THE ORIGINALS!! AND NEVER HAD THE ORIGINALS!"

Bingo.

[Zellenn]

Wow! This summarizes so many of the reasons why this story is so big.

Influencing the outcome of an election by KNOWINGLY using fraudulent documents on a national television network program that is purporting to offer news, rather than opinion, does not serve the public interest--and isn't that why there is an FCC?

[macbee]

An error such as the one Woodward and his former colleague Carl Bernstein made could even now be tolerated; a deliberate act of deception -- such as the one the memos now appear strongly to be -- cannot.

If this had been a forgery that attacked Kerry, Woodward would have certainly weighed by now. Seems doubtful that we'll hear from him on Ra^therGate at all.

[Polybius]

Bump for later reading.

[Dr.Syn]

If they are a deliberate attempt to deceive, to sway even a small portion of the electorate in what is expected to be the closest presidential election in a century, then CBS and the media are being used for nefarious purposes.

No...I think that CBS and the media are trying to use their viewing public for nefarious purposes...specifically an attempt at electing liberals. This happens every election, only this time it seems to be blowing up in their pompous faces.

[teancumspirit]

I think Rather's daughter may have something to do with the originals

[solzhenitsyn]

If they are a deliberate attempt to deceive, to sway even a small portion of the electorate in what is expected to be the closest presidential election in a century ...

The closest presidential election in a century?! How quickly they forget!

[umgud]

This is certainly a little more serious than prematurely calling a very close election...... This is direct intervention.

[massadvj]

It looks like CBS and the Boston Globe are all alone among the MSM on this issue. Meanwhile, out here in the blogosphere, we watch, wait and listen as the MSM relentlessly pursue Dan Rather and destroy his reputation, and deservedly so.

It appears to me that Rather cannot whether this storm. Affiliates and advertisers are soon going to be getting in on the act, if they are not already. Dan Rather going out as a discredited Dimwit hack whose lack of judgment single-handedly gave omniscient power to the Republicans for a generation or more is a fairy tale ending to this episode, to be sure. But we can dream, can't we?