[woodb01]

Fact is, there are a LOT of VERY serious issues that should be pushed HARD OTHER than the documets. The other issues expose HOW THE MEDIA WING OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY ACTUALLY WORKS! CBS' "gold standard" included:

1. The widow and son were IGNORED
2. Document experts were IGNORED
3. Hodges was MISLED
4. The old secretary was NOT INTERVIEWED until afterward
5. Staudt, who had his character attacked in one memo, was never contacted
6. The opinions of the experts were MISREPRESENTED
7. The swift boat veterans were MALIGNED
8. George Bush's roomate DURING HIS GUARD YEARS, who AGREED TO SPEAK TO THEM WAS TURNED DOWN BECAUSE HE WAS TOO "PRO BUSH"...

And the list goes on. Fact is, this was a HIT PIECE ON BUSH. And just because dnCBS owns up to fake documents does NOT CLEAR THEIR PROPAGANDA / DNC REPORTING!!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Worse, Staudt, in an Oct 10, 2000 George Magazine issue which went through these same charges, denied them explicitly. (The George Magazine article repeats the charge that Barnes was influenced the TANG for Bush.)

However, the DNC, in a Kerry-Edwards archived press release on April 27, 2004, repeats (word-for-word the same AFM35-13 references and the same charges of disobeying an order that Burkett says he wrote. But the DNC press release claims Staudt, not Barnes, was influencing the TANG on Bush's behalf.

So, not only is Dan Rather recycling old stories against Pres Bush, he can't even get the old stories straight.