[Guillermo]

Statement by the President of CBS News, Andrew Heyward:

"We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television. There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know. Having said that, given all the questions about them, we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing."

Ie, they're fake, but we believe what they say.

[68skylark]

That's it?? That's a pretty weak statement.

[ThreeYearLurker]

we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions

No S@@@ Sherlock!

[Cagey]

That large blank section under their message is very appropriate. Perhaps their typewriter ribbon ran out of ink?

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Everything will be just fine, there is no reason to stare, just go on about your business.....

[Right Wing Professor]

This is the beginning of the retraction.

[Plutarch]

Geez, coroborating? MS Word has spell check, and we know that CBS News has access to MS Word.

[So Cal Rocket]

Geez... you almost expect to see someone in a black and white striped shirt come out and say "Upon further review, the play stands as called".

[tje]

Well that was a waste of a good wait....

[xkaydet65]

I think that Heyward's point is being missed. The questions he says CBS will pursue are not about the authenticity of the documents. CBS will pursue the President and demand he answer the questions raised by the documents. this fits with Rather's interview in the Observer. When he says all the questions about them he's talking about did Lt Bush disobet a direct order.

[orchid]

Bernie Goldberg was on Sean Hannity's program. he reiterated his book titles - "Bias" and "Arrogance."

[steve-b]

We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television.

A flying-saucer cultist would be "satisfied" by fake UFO pictures that make the ships in Plan Nine From Outer Space look like NASA file photos. That doesn't make either forgery any more credible to sensible people.

There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know.

This neatly sidesteps the distinction between quantity of evidence and quality of evidence. For instance, in my example a dozen flying-saucer cultists vouching for the photos would be an example of the former, but not the latter.

Having said that, given all the questions about them, we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing.

Yes, I'm sure that SeeBS will henceforth exert twice as much effort to get to the bottom of this. This will not require any increase in effort, however; double nothing is still nothing.

[longtermmemmory]

Further review is about as valid as a taliban request for surrender negotiations.

CBS is delaying to give the DNC time to act.

More lies from CBS.

[JoJo Gunn]

Such irony, that a multi-billion company couldn't get someone to use a spellchecker for this.