Rep. Cox Requests House Rathergate Probe

NewsMax ^ | Sept 14

[lowbridge]

What are the odds of lowbridge scamming Rather with those documents... just a thought.

Can I get ten to one odds? (I learned this in Vegas)

[Sal]

Great link on #49. Establishes malice on CBS's part. I liked this post from that thread:

It makes clear the degree to which CBS knew that they were working with phony material ahead of time AND WITHELD IT FROM THE PUBLIC.

[Mia T]

THE KERRY-RATHER-BARNES FORGERIES DECONSTRUCTED
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA_bump

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

I think they should schedule the investigation till after the elections. Right now this is working to Bush's benefit, to investigate now could backfire. Besides,most likely you won't get any information till someone sues for defamation.

[bert]

.....The GOP congress being perceived as being on some partisan witchhunt,.....

Your understanding of the situation is imperfect.

There is a war in progress and enemies must be killed or severely wounded.

Metaphorical Death is a highly underrated motivator.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

When the lane is clear you plow forwards. You don't call time out. Calling time out is exactly the lame kinda thing Pubbies are known for over the years.

At the same time you don't put out a fire thats burning your opponent.

[AMDG&BVMH]

"and break up the monopoly that is known as Viacom"

wish I had a list of Viacom board members in front of me. I'm sure it is out there somewhere.

Yes, they are subject to rules regarding fair use of the airways, as well as election rules.

[conservativemusician]

Thanks for the ping, Misty.

[AMDG&BVMH]

http://flyunderthebridge.blogspot.com/

for future reference

[captmar-vell]

Thanks!

[Madame Dufarge]

Thanks!

[jammer]

Torie, you are so correct. This is one more time when the population has done, and is doing, a very nice job. Good points you make.

[runningbear]

thanks Misty... Hope they get somewhere on this...but who knows who would have some back bones to kick butt!!!

[roaddog727]

Ganz Net!

Und Richdich auch!

[HangFire]

[clyde260]

Thurs. & Fri. National FReep CBS Days! A Call To ARMS! FRee Republic ^ | 9/14/04 | Clyde260

[OXENinFLA]

Letter I just FAXED to my congresscritter................

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TO: Congressman Cliff Stearns
RE: CBS Memo Fraud (Rathergate)

Congressman Stearns,

I write to you today to ask you to join in with Rep. Cox & Rep. Upton in their investigation into the memos CBS put forth to smear President Bush. It is obvious that the memos are FORGERIES and CBS is still (as of 8am est today) standing behind their authenticity.

I think Congress needs to step in and FIND OUT THE FACTS and investigate why this fraud was perpetrated on the American people and BY WHOM.

This is EXPONENTIALLY LARGER than the superbowl half-time show!

[thingumbob]

Thanks for the ping!

A senior House Republican has formally requested a congressional investigation into an apparent criminal conspiracy to rig the 2004 presidential election by forging records

YES!!!! I've been saying all day that this isn't about Bush's record anymore it's about the effort to throw this election using Forged documents.....If Rather and CO. won't self police then we need to pursue this through legal means!!!!!

[thingumbob]

You are so right.....String'um up in public as an example so others won't follow. I wonder if any lawyers will be losing their licenses over all of this? Hmmmmmm.....

[WilliamWallace1999]

This information needs to be included in the investigation into CBS. Dan Rather and Ben Barnes were friends back when this occured...

From: http://www.petrifiedtruth.com/archives/001916.html

Barnes discounted
Former Texas lieutenant governor Ben Barnes (and major league John Kerry supporter) tells Dan Rather that he pulled strings to unfairly help a draft-age George W. Bush get in the Texas Air National Guard. Well, on Fox News tonight, veteran Texas politico Dick Armey, when he could get in a word over a hyped-up Geraldine Ferraro, said Barnes was well known in the state as an untrustworthy character.

Was Armey just being partisan? Hardly. An alert reader in Houston e-mails this:

I was in high school at the time but I remember every night on TV the Sharpstown scandal was the top of the news in 1971 & 1972.
I used to drive by the Shapstown Mall and see the building, renamed, renovated but it was a landmark, the Sharpstown Bank, a monument to greed and bribery
that brought down the careers of many Texas politicians.

When I heard the name Ben Barnes in relation to President Bush, I kept thinking...the Sharpstown crook? Must be someone else...nope, same guy. He has been submerged for 30 years and he pops up with this? Sad, very very sad.


For more information, inquiring minds can consult the authoritative Handbook of Texas concerning the "Sharpstown Stock Fraud Scandal," and read about the corruption involving "Lieutenant Governor Barnes, whose seemingly inexorable rise to political prominence was ended when his reputation was tainted by the scandal."

Texas went through one of its traditional and periodic governmental scandals in 1971-72, when federal accusations and then a series of state charges were leveled against nearly two dozen state officials and former state officials.... [T]he incumbent governor was labeled an unindicted coconspirator in a bribery case and lost his bid for reelection; the incumbent speaker of the House of Representatives and two associates were convicted felons; a popular three-term attorney general lost his job; an aggressive lieutenant governor's career was shattered; and half of the legislature was either intimidated out or voted out of office.
Ben Barnes's own daughter told WBAP radio in Dallas that her dad is not being truthful. You can listen to the audio (Windows Media).

Not the strong foundation on which smart politicians would build their attack strategy, is it?