Yes, we wear silk pajamas.
Or nothing at all.
>>According to Dan Rather we are the "powerful and extremely well-financed forces". LOL!<<
Jim! You got some 'splainin' to do. :^D
a true gentlman would never wear anything else.
I cannot understand why the republicans are not having an all out attack on the media responding by saying CBS has used forged documents in order to hurt Bush and distract the attention from the Facts that from KERRY'S OWM MOUTH HE COMMITED TREASON.What they are doing is working you hear nothing of KERRY's service anymore.I heard noting on the news about the rally or the charges of Kerry's meetings in France or his picture in Vietnam museum,What they are doing IS working,nothing will happen to Rather or CBS,this will hurt Bush because it is taking too long
I don't even own pajamas.
I prefer to be noted with silk pajamas....and lacy tops....with bunny shoes...so no one gets the idea that i'm really dangerous or anything....
Mr. Rather asserted that the lack of denial was itself evidence of the essential truth of his findings. The questions raised by his reporting, he said, have remained unanswered by the Bush administration: Did Mr. Bush get preferential treatment for the Texas Air National Guard? Was then-Lieutenant Bush suspended for failing to perform up to Texas and Air Guard standards? Did then-Lieutenant Bush refuse a direct order from his military superior to take a required examination?
"It’s never been fully, completely denied by the Bush-Cheney campaign or even the White House that he was suspended for meeting the standards of the Air Force or that he didn’t show up for a physical," he said. "The longer we go without a denial of such things—this story is true."
"This is your basic fogging machine, which is set up to cloud the issue, to obscure the truth," he said.
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But despite a number of experts calling the memos forgeries, he said that "the truth of these documents lies in the signatures and in the content, not just the typeface and the font-style. Let me emphasize once again, these are not exact sciences. Not like DNA or fingerprints."
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Mr. Rather said that he and Ms. Mapes had heard about the National Guard memos as long ago as 1999.
"We eventually came in contact with somebody who said he knew about the documents, and it took a while to get in contact with the man who was supposed to have had the documents," he said. "It took a long time for us to create a reportorial relationship with him in which he trusted us, and at the same time we were checking him out to see if he was a trustworthy person."
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"Within the last few months," he said, "we got a look at the documents, and we said we’d like to have a copy of the documents."
He said they met the source in a "remote location." "[The source] said they were copies of the documents, and he told us some of the history of where they came from and how they came to him," Mr. Rather said.
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But inside the West 57th Street offices of CBS News, some staffers felt the organization had acted like a ponderous sloth batting away a swarm of flies. They think the network had already lost.
"I think it’s too late to make a difference," said one angry CBS News staffer. "These guys lost the debate last week by taking a beating for 48 hours on Web and cable before making feeble attempts to defend themselves." The 60 Minutes defense, said the staffer, "should have been on last week and should have been much better illustrated."
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"I think over the long haul, this will be consistent with our history and our traditions and reputation," he said. "We took heat during the McCarthy time, during Vietnam, during civil rights, during Watergate. We haven’t always been right, but our record is damn good."
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