Posted on 09/14/2004 10:16:05 PM PDT by kattracks
I'd like to think there are still a few straight-shooters around. Even at CBS. But not in Rather's circle.
Lots of those threads have been posted.
Our very own JBlain has set up a site specifically for that purpose -- Take Action Against CBS!.
Bill Wood has been posting quite a few threads dealing with CBS sponsors and putting pressure on them. Go here and scroll down to post 18. Bill has laid out a nice, neat table with links to those sponsors.
You can also go here and scroll through more of Bill's threads. You'll find lots more useful links and info to help you attack CBS and its sponsors.
I hope that helps.
It's really up to us. Rather's attempt to throw the election to kerry has been blunted, but there's still a firewall protecting the democrats from the fallout. To remove that firewall, we have to cause so much pain for CBS sponsors that CBS will either have to reveal who gave them those forgeries or go under. There is nobody else who can accomplished this except us. The ball is in our court. If the democrats get away with this, we have nobody but ourselves to blame. Be sure to tell the sponsors that when CBS admits these memos are forgeries and names who their source/s is/are, then and only then, will the boycott be lifted.
One more thing -- if they have a toll-free number, use that too. It costs them money, which is what we want. We are making economic war on them.
But there's a problem, TM. It's one thing to impugn somebody's reputation. It's another thing entirely to strip them of their income. That's what we have to do to CBS. There is no other way that might force them to admit to the forgeries and reveal who their source or sources were for these "memos."
I don't want the democrats to get off scot-free while CBS takes a black eye which will eventually heal. That's not good enough for me. I want the democrats who gave them these memos exposed and pilloried well before the election OR CBS to crash and burn because we've made them radioactive to sponsorship.
One or the other. And use the sponsors' (costly) toll-free numbers, not just email.
If we don't strike while the iron is hot, we may not get another chance like this. Rather has given us a huge opening here. Some will be content to wait for Congress or the FCC or the FEC to act. That will happen about 40 years after we're all under the sod.
Here's a couple of quotes:
The brouhaha all but managed to place Bush's Vietnam-era service off-limits as a campaign issue, after weeks in which John F. Kerry's impressive record has been under savage attack. Bush gave a smirky speech Tuesday to the National Guard Assn., waxing on about the patriotic sacrifices of the Guard's men and women over the years. All of that is true, but not about him.
The secretary's story, though disputed by Killian's family, now becomes a part of the uneven and ugly tit-for-tat about who did what when. But who fed a seeming ringer to CBS, and why did the network fall for it?
IMO, a move this audacious could only have been done with Redstone's approval or on his order. I don't care who or how many at CBS or Viacom are involved in this conspiracy. I want the people who handed off those memos to them and CBS/Rather/Viacom will not expose them unless we threaten their economic survival. I can't see any other way. Unless we attack the sponsors, CBS will stonewall forever.
I don't care about Rather. Everybody who isn't mentally retarded knows Rather's a liar. He has no credibility as a "journalist" anymore. I only care about the democrats who set this up and got CBS and Rather aboard. I want them. I want their names. And I want them yesterday.
well, it takes a little while for those democrat hormones to flush out of the system
perhaps they had best put danny-boy on Premarin for a couple weeks to help lessen his stress and shock
a month or two of hormone therapy and he'll be a perfect compliment for any organ grinder in search of simian companionship
LOL to you, good sir! Your pic is priceless-"watch out girlie-don't get too close-Danny may bite if provoked"
(now where is that thread about the kid that was attacked by a monkey in a grocery store...?)
We want hearings...With hefty fines and censure and ridicule and abject "humiliation" of the guilty parties, dagnabit!
I remember that one. Some kind of malingering welfare fraud forgot to stay low-profile, LOL! He's probably working as a bagger in that same market -- without the monkey.
Agreed. Leave Congress out of it. They won't get far going up against the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate. The media still owns all the ink.
Besides, you can bet if there are any hearings, it will become a witchhunt against Fox News Channel after the Dems are done with it.
This could be the incentive for CBS to get out of the news business altogether (ABC as well).
20 - 25 years ago, the talent in the computer business was not going to IBM and DEC: it was going to companies that most of us had not heard of: Microsoft, Compaq, Apple.
It's entirely possible that Mr. Rather's support staff just isn't good enough to support real journalism, and how will CBS attract talent in the future? "Hey, come to CBS and help us re-build!"
I left NBC off the list about getting out of news because they have MSNBC and CNBC, so there are cable farm teams there.
Do you think they'd sell the network to a conservative bidder?
great info!! Thanks much.....I have saved JBlain's website on favorites for usage later today after work and am bookmarking this thread, as well, for handy reference to your post.....thanks again.
Their impenitence at the patent abuse of their journalistic credentials at this point mandates that other press organizations start withholding recognition of CBS News as a legitimate participant in journalism.
Pleasure's all mine, nicmarlo. And thanks for the time and energy you're devoting to put paid to this outrage.
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