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CBS News Concludes It Was Misled on National Guard Memos, Network Officials Say
New York Times ^ | 9/20/04 | Jim Rutenberg

Posted on 09/19/2004 9:40:13 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker; Travis McGee; Squantos; sneakypete; Chapita

"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
"To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
"What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
"I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said.
For they're hangin' Danny Rather, you can hear the Dead March play,
The Regiment's in 'ollow square -- they're hangin' him to-day;
They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away,
An' they're hangin' Danny Rather in the mornin'.


261 posted on 09/19/2004 10:53:48 PM PDT by razorback-bert
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To: Enchante

Don't be too sure about Burkett holding info back after they burn him, he's a well documented, A-1, whack job who holds a big grudge. So in that regard we still got hope.


262 posted on 09/19/2004 10:54:26 PM PDT by Stonedog (Mr. Blather... tear down this STONEWALL!!)
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To: LibWhacker

Dan's going to "break" the forgery story!!!


WELCOME TO THE PARTY PAL!!!


263 posted on 09/19/2004 10:54:27 PM PDT by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (The UN did such a great job with the Oil for Food program, let's let them run the whole country!)
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To: LibWhacker

The NYTimes. Now Rather/CBS. The big lib wall is made of rotting paper mache.


264 posted on 09/19/2004 10:54:27 PM PDT by HTuttle
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To: razorback-bert

And that's the way it was...


265 posted on 09/19/2004 10:54:33 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Spanaway Lori
Ms. Mapes, one of their most respected producers, who was riding particularly high this year after breaking news about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal for the network.

Remember the graphic Rather sat in front of for his stonewall statement?

produced by
Mary Mapes

was prominently above his head.

Now some have thought this was a signal that she was to blame and she would have to go as scapegoat.

But I wonder about something else.

Mary knows where a lot of DNC bodies are buried. Was this a signal that if Rather and Mapes were not vigorously defended by the rest of the media that the Democrats and the liberal cause would pay?

My husband thinks Abu Ghraib was a set-up, that soldiers were persuaded or paid to get them incrimating photos for a big Bush attack story.

Wonder what other bodies Mary Mapes knows about.

266 posted on 09/19/2004 10:54:40 PM PDT by patriciaruth (Proud member of this bastion of right wing lunacy)
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To: patriciaruth
From what I've read it may be that Burkett has brain damage and mental illness as a result of an attack of meningitis in 1998.

The perfect foil. I guarantee you, his DNC-appointed lawyer is NOT working for HIM.
Burkett is about to be fed to the wolves.

267 posted on 09/19/2004 10:54:41 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Spanaway Lori

Awwwwww and she did such great work tearing down our miliary over the Abu Graib abuses. I mean, that was great liberal-media, classic spin-n-bias ... pity she let herself get caught trying to smear President Bush.


268 posted on 09/19/2004 10:55:18 PM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Courage


269 posted on 09/19/2004 10:55:36 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Spanaway Lori
Ah, but you see, if the Feds go after little Mary for committing a felony, then the press can claim the Bush admin is only doing it for "revenge" because of her no doubt "unimpeachable" reporting of the Abu Ghraib flap and not because of the felony.

Then they can dredge up Abu Ghraib again. (Not that it'll help them.)

270 posted on 09/19/2004 10:55:59 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: JoJo Gunn

I just hope they don't destroy the 'out-takes.' The complete 'interview' may have to be subpoenaed at some point.


271 posted on 09/19/2004 10:56:02 PM PDT by Eastbound ("Neither a Scrooge nor a Patsy be.")
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To: PhilDragoo

good graphic


272 posted on 09/19/2004 10:56:04 PM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: Howlin; Buckhead

Ahem...

:-)


273 posted on 09/19/2004 10:56:36 PM PDT by Tamzee (Ted Koppel --- "....the media will need a stepstool to rise to the level of used car salesmen.")
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To: rolling_stone

Hey, we've beat their arses so bad, we might as well take their catchlines...


274 posted on 09/19/2004 10:57:02 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: section9

*I* am BuckHead.


275 posted on 09/19/2004 10:57:10 PM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: AF68

Oh, Rove is a god to the DUmmies. He's everywhere and omnipotent. He sees all and is control of every thing that happens. You would not believe their tiny minds.


276 posted on 09/19/2004 10:58:09 PM PDT by KingKongCobra
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To: LibWhacker
In examining where the network went wrong, officials at CBS News were turning their attention to Ms. Mapes, one of their most respected producers, who was riding particularly high this year after breaking news about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal for the network.

Meet the fall girl. She's probably as venomously anti-conservative as anyone else, but I'd bet everything I own that it was Dan Rather who led the charge to take this story to air. They're gonna protect the old fossil and trash her as the one responsible.

MM

277 posted on 09/19/2004 10:58:45 PM PDT by MississippiMan (Americans should not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.)
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To: kellynla

My read is that Rather and Mapes have lost control of this matter at CBS. Network (the $$ folks) are stepping in to cut their losses and salvage what they can. Ms. Mapes will get her 'golden parachute" for "decades of flawless reporting" and announce she wants to spend more time reconciling with her dad in Seattle. Rather will limp on as a very discredited newsreader until after the election. The public will laugh about "forgeries" everywhere, and that's positive for GW. What remains to be seen if any tie to the DNC and the Kerry campaign will be dug up. That's Pulitizer material.


278 posted on 09/19/2004 10:59:04 PM PDT by Swampmarine
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To: All

Pajama Party!

another shot a President Bush's Records
( I guess no rats have ever been in the military and tried to type with govt typewriters on govt forms!)


http://www.rawstory.com/


279 posted on 09/19/2004 10:59:15 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Enterprise
"Don't listen to 'em captain Dan. That great white whale is right there in front of you. Throw the harpoon now captain Dan, throw it"

Ooops! Missed!

280 posted on 09/19/2004 11:00:49 PM PDT by Eastbound ("Neither a Scrooge nor a Patsy be.")
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