Less than a week after CBS's "Favorite Son" story, the DNC announces OPERATION FAVORITE SON with a "Favorite Son" ad buy and web site, this in the midst of the firestorm over the documents being fake and the entire CBS hierarchy having to pretend to not understand or even see the overwhelming and obvious nature of the evidence for fraud.
So let me guess at a connection or two. The DNC hooked CBS and probably USA Today up with Burkett and actively coordinated with CBS at least so that its ad campaign would be well-timed in the wake of CBS's big scoop.
OPERATION FAVORITE SON was too far along to just cancel, despite the story blowing up in CBS's face. It was past the final abort checkpoint.
Thus, CBS can never truly cooperate in investigating the real story here, the story of the fraud behind its memos. But the only way they can brazenly defy subpoenas, etc., with any sympathy at all is to stand on the confidentiality of their sources. The only way they can do THAT is to stay confused about whether the documents are actually fake, which means playing dumb for essentially the rest of their lives.
"Trust CBS. Get your news from people too dumb to pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the sole."
It's no surprise that all the key players from Dan Rather, to Tom Harkin, and even Head Stooge of the DNC, The Punk all were reading from the same talking points on the same day of the week.
Susan Estrich also had a screed on what was about to come, and oh how we'd pay (whatever).
PING!
We need your DNC talking points from April.
Let me see if I can add another dot or two. CBS probably gets a truckload of tin foil hat conspiracy thoeries faxed to them every day. So, without someone that CBS News knows intimately from past associations (or their being vouched for a trusted person) paving the way, this guy's rant ends up in the dumpster with the rest of the trash. The significance of the "unimpeachable source" comment Rather made now takes on real significance. Who paved the way for these forgeries -- there is the person to look for?
Dan Rather's daughter lives in Austin. That disgraced ex-Lt Gov (Barnes?) lives not too far from Abilene, Texas. This Burkette's lawyer is a Dem operative, a Gore chad counter, ex-labor lawyer for the AFL-CIO, and Dem candidate for Texas Supreme Court.
There are way too many conincidences here. Some rumblings a short while back about Bush's Guard service, the CBS forgeries based story, followed IMMEDIATELY by the DNC "Fortunate Son" ad campaign (they don't crank out those ads overnight on a laptop). Does anyone else smell an intricately planned smear assault that went horribly wrong?
That's the bad thing about being a "bomb factory" - sometimes one of them blows up in your face!