"I want you all to get up....go to your windows....throw them open....and yell...."
Posted on 09/20/2004 8:54:24 AM PDT by TheGeezer
Edited on 09/20/2004 9:07:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Update by moderator:
EXCLUSIVE
STATEMENT FROM DAN RATHER:
Last week, amid increasing questions about the authenticity of documents used in support of a 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY story about President Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard, CBS News vowed to re-examine the documents in question—and their source—vigorously. And we promised that we would let the American public know what this examination turned up, whatever the outcome.
Now, after extensive additional interviews, I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically. I find we have been misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers. That, combined with some of the questions that have been raised in public and in the press, leads me to a point where—if I knew then what I know now—I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question.
But we did use the documents. We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry. It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism.
Please know that nothing is more important to us than people's trust in our ability and our commitment to report fairly and truthfully.
When did C-BS get a new tradition. Must have been within the last 24 hours.
C'mon Danny-Boy, you can eat more crow than THAT!!!
Lie.
Amen! and Well Said!
"I want you all to get up....go to your windows....throw them open....and yell...."
Already been cancelled.
"OK, I know the bones were fake but dang it, I still believe in Piltdown Man." Give it up, Danno.
"I find we have been misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers. "
So, they were misled on how the source came into possession of the documents? That it the key question? I thought the key question was whether the documents were forged or not. They make no mention of that issue.
CNN reading Burkett statement. He has indeed been assigned to fall on his sword. He says he deliberately misled the producer (Mary Mapes, but not named, I don't believe).
I'd like to see the Burkett statement in full.
Wolf Blitzer talking to Jeff Greenfield about the CBS claim that the documents may be fake but substance in them true. Greenfield says that's hard to sustain (how pitiful that I am grateful for this commonsense concession).
Jeff Greenfield on CNN said the documents may be fakes doesn't mean the facts are wrong!!
Call your local CBS affiliates and continue to raise Hell.
My kids wanted to watch CSI last night. Told em, NOPE.
They worked on this for FIVE years and delivered this garbage from an "unimpeachable source"!
Personalizing the news with glamorous people and high-speed assaults on the clock will lead to an ugly and cacophonous heap of stinking rubble.
Ready! :-) 
This is only tangentially related to Burkett. Start digging for evidence on Cleland, Kerry, and the DNC.
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