Here we go!
"ANSWER THE QUESTIONS YOU REACIONARY REPUBLICAN CHAIN DOG". -- or some variation of this.
Bet it gets delayed and delayed again until the Evening News with Dan "Lying" Rather. It is their only hope of a decent rating night.
Rather is still going to make excuses and try to vouch for the authenticity of the story, not realizing that what America wants is a bonafide apology for using FORGED DOCUMENTS as the basis of a report, as well as an apology to the president.
And that would be on what frequency?
Dan is bringing Mrs. Knox back for a reprise.
DAN RATHER STATEMENT SET FOR RELEASE
Dan Rather Forget The Whole Thing
Okay, CBS. Release it already.
Or not. Who cares what CBS says, anyway.
Maybe, just maybe that "Liberal Feminist Activist Producer"(her father's words, not mine)will be the one to take the heat and the fall!!
Not Dan, that's for sure!
Drudge is also saying the have an interview with "the source" of the memos that they're going to air. We know Rather was in Texas and Bill Burkett is all but confirmed as the source.
It will be quite interesting to see this interview. Will he make a full confession and explain his motives, or will he press the case that he was only "reassembling" documentation he was aware of but had gone missing.
I suspect the latter. And if CBS lends any credence to that explanation, they might as well gut the newsroom and turn it into a Starbucks franchise.
I thought Dan wanted to make this announcement himself...???
Here it is from Drudge
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.
Another one?
"Pay no attention to the little blogger behind the curtain..."
"A third-rate forgery."
"I am not a kook."
"I will be resigning the anchorship..... "
Is it possible to get the mod to add a line to the title when the announcement is made?
FEDERAL WIRE FRAUD STATUTE
Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.
Summary - If you are found guilty of using Radio, Television or phone lines (including fax machines) to commit Fraud you can get up to 20 years in prison.
No wonder CBS may now claim they are the victims.