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C-BS Admits Kerry Footage Fake, But Story True…
Own Fevered Imagination | 10/18/04 | PsyOp

Posted on 09/18/2004 9:58:35 AM PDT by PsyOp

C-BS Admits Kerry Footage Fake, But Story True…

UPI (Unseemly Press Int’l).

A new Swift Boat veteran’s television ad has created more controversy for C-BS News. C-BS, recently discovered to be an unregistered 527 PAC operating in lock-step with the DNC, says it did not give the Swift Boat Vets permission to use their news footage of Kerry throwing his medals over the fence at the White House in 1972.

The ad is a series of audio and video clips of Presidential Candidate John Kerry throwing ribbons and medals over the White House fence while explaining in various interviews why he did it and that he was proud that he did. C-BS has insisted that the Swift Boat vets ad be pulled, not just because they did not give their permission for them to be used in the ad, but, in a stunning admission, “because the footage is faked, and we know the swifties wouldn’t want to use fake footage to hurt Kerry—that would be wrong.”

In what appears to be an attempt to get ahead of another brewing crisis, a C-BS spokesman stated, “our investigation of Dan Rather shows he has faked numerous stories in the past. It now appears that the footage of Kerry throwing his medals over the fence was staged by Dan, John and other members of the VVAW.” Recovered footage shows Dan handing a young John Kerry a handful of medals and coaching him on what to do with them.

According to a spokesman for the swifties, “this would appear to explain why John Kerry could not remember the number, or types of medals and ribbons he threw over the fence. This theory is supported by those who have seen this lost footage, and say that it took Kerry several attempts to get them over the fence. “He throws like a ‘girly man’” said one C-BS insider. “Receipts show that we had to make several trips to the Army/Navy store to buy more medals until he got it right.”

Coming to his own defense, Rather said, “Look, we’ve been faking the news for years. I mean, who has time to go out and fact-check when you have deadlines to meet. We know what’s true and what’s not. So what if we engineered a few facts to support our version of things? In the news business the end justifies the means. I just wish these stupid bloggers would get with the program. I mean what kind of loser has nothing better to do than compare fonts on memos?”

Asked about C-BS’s sudden admission that the Kerry footage was faked, Rather said, “They’ve known all along. They just didn’t care so long as my faked news stories only hurt Republicans. But thanks to these ‘pajama people’ exercising their first amendment rights, this one backfired on our man Kerry. We can’t have that. And if it means admitting we faked a news story to keep the swifties from telling the truth about Kerry, then so be it.”


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: ad; boat; cbs; cbsnews; john; kerry; memo; swift
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1 posted on 09/18/2004 9:58:36 AM PDT by PsyOp
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To: PsyOp

The patient died.....but the operation was a success!!!


2 posted on 09/18/2004 9:59:12 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: PsyOp

bump


3 posted on 09/18/2004 9:59:47 AM PDT by VOA
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To: Puppage

LOL at your tagline.


4 posted on 09/18/2004 10:00:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: PsyOp

Even if it was "staged" Kerry still threw his medals over the fence. The fact that he re-enacted it for Dan Rather makes it even more sinister. The film actually shows Kerry throwing medals over the fence. So in fact, he did it twice.


5 posted on 09/18/2004 10:02:25 AM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: Puppage

It cracks me up that C-BS, who fronted fake memos and defended Rather for doing it, is having a hissy fit over the swifties using their own news footage to slam Kerry.


6 posted on 09/18/2004 10:05:39 AM PDT by PsyOp (Cry “Havoc”, and let slip the weasels of politics! – archy.)
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To: PsyOp

BTTT


7 posted on 09/18/2004 10:10:27 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl; snippy_about_it; Cannoneer No. 4; MistyCA; SAMWolf

ping for a chuckle...


8 posted on 09/18/2004 10:12:43 AM PDT by PsyOp (Cry “Havoc”, and let slip the weasels of politics! – archy.)
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To: PsyOp
You have to be kidding!

Bump

10 posted on 09/18/2004 10:16:36 AM PDT by Robert357 (Dan Rather's evening newscast finished dead last Tuesday night, finished behind a Simpson's rerun!)
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..But thanks to these ‘pajama people’ exercising their first amendment rights, this one backfired on our man Kerry. We can’t have that. And if it means admitting we faked a news story to keep the swifties from telling the truth about Kerry, then so be it.”

It's obvious that the First Amendment has been abused. There is nothing for Congress to do but to declare that the 1st. Amendment's "freedom of the press" clause is to be considered collective and not individual. The Dan Rather vs Internet Bloggers has shown that free speech, in the untrained hands of individuals, can cause harm to the Democrat Party and to CBS in particular. Therefore, only licensed news organizations such as CBS, NBC, ABC, NYT, BG, and LAT, are afforded the collective right of the 1st. Amendment.

(/sarcasm)

11 posted on 09/18/2004 10:17:25 AM PDT by elbucko (A Feral Republican)
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To: QwertyKPH

THAT would cause a car accident!


12 posted on 09/18/2004 10:20:16 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">Hatriotism)
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To: Robert357
You have to be kidding!

Just becaue I faked this story doesn't mean it's not true!

13 posted on 09/18/2004 10:24:30 AM PDT by PsyOp (Cry “Havoc”, and let slip the weasels of politics! – archy.)
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To: QwertyKPH

You mean those aren't real?


14 posted on 09/18/2004 10:24:55 AM PDT by PsyOp (Cry “Havoc”, and let slip the weasels of politics! – archy.)
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To: PsyOp

They are real in your "Own Fevered Imagination"!!!


15 posted on 09/18/2004 10:30:38 AM PDT by QwertyKPH
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"Pajama People." LOL.


16 posted on 09/18/2004 10:30:39 AM PDT by Tax Government (Wage unrelenting economic war on the illiterate, stupid lying bastards at CBS.)
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To: QwertyKPH

They must be Mamarex.


17 posted on 09/18/2004 10:32:23 AM PDT by PsyOp (Cry “Havoc”, and let slip the weasels of politics! – archy.)
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To: PsyOp
remember that now infamous interview he did with O'Reilly in 2001 where Dan Rather said that a honest person can tell a long string of lies and still be an honest person.

Situational Ethics as per the politically correctness age imho, or lying as Clinton did.
It depends on what your meaning of IS is.

18 posted on 09/18/2004 10:46:08 AM PDT by prophetic (Dems investigate for pre 9/11intel - but now we've LOTS of Intel and they claim politics)
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To: PsyOp

Ripley: "Believe it or Not!"

CBS: "Fake but True"


19 posted on 09/18/2004 11:08:44 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: PsyOp
“He throws like a ‘girly man’” said one C-BS insider. “Receipts show that we had to make several trips to the Army/Navy store to buy more medals until he got it right.”

Lol, thank you. More mockery and less angst is welcome.

What does Juanita Broderick think about Pres. Bush's National Guard service, I wonder? Goofy press isn't living in "9-10," that's a real place and time.

20 posted on 09/18/2004 11:33:54 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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