[rwilliam]

Both the White House and the RNC are quickly turning up the heat on the DNC and the Kerry campaign now that CBS has issued its "mistake" and "misled" statements.

[guitfiddlist]

“In an effort to regain the trust of the American people CBS should not only investigate the process that led to the use of these documents but they should identify immediately those engaged in possible criminal activity who attempted to use a news organization to affect the outcome of a Presidential election in its closing days.”

About FRIKKIN' time. I was beginning to think that no Democrat would ever be held to any legal standard whatsoever. Talk is a good start, but we wanna see grand juries and indictments.

[Condor51]

I understand Kerry gave some kind of 'major speech' today. Anyone hear it??

/sarcasm

[Mo1]

“We accept CBS's apology for a breach of the journalistic standards that provide the American people confidence in news organizations, but some disturbing questions remain unanswered.

Something tell me that Dan/CBS wasn't apologizing to the President and the RNC

Ya know, this is gonna bug Danny .. hehehe

[PISANO]

Terry McAuliffe said yesterday that no one at the DNC or Kerry campaign, ‘had anything to do with the preparations of the documents

Thank goodness, that settles that. Knowing the Democrat Party had nothing to do with this is a load off my mind.

[Salty Cobra]

It's past time for the RNC to get into action. A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to release ALL of President Bush's military records under the "Freedom of Information Act", why hasn't the same action been taken for Kerry's complete military record release. Why hasn't the RNC pushed this?
Salty Cobra

[counterpunch]

Max Cleland's schedule on August 25 in Texas needs to be fully examined. Cleland tried to deliver a letter to President Bush around 1pm in Crawford, followed immediately by a short press conference. When did he leave Texas, where did he leave from, and what did he do in the time in between?

Only days prior to Cleland's impromptu visit to Texas, he began discussions with Bill Burkett, who is now known to be CBS's source for the forged documents.

Then later the same day of Cleland's Texas trip, Burkett announced in a rant to President Bush on the progressive onlinejournal that, "I know from your files that we have now reassembled, the fact that you did not fulfill your oath, taken when you were commissioned to "obey the orders of the officers appointed over you".

What time was this rant posted?
Did Cleland help him write it?
Who is the "we" Burkett is referring to concerned the documents being "reassembled"?

Crawford, Texas, where Cleland was at 1pm on August 25, is only 162 miles from Baird, Bill Burkett's home.

Did Cleland make a visit there that day?

Did someone in the Kerry campaign act as a middleman in passing along the information to CBS that Burkett had these documents?

CBS must answer the question of how they learned that Burkett now had these memos. Did the discovery of these new documents play a part in Ben Barnes decision that he was now ready to talk to 60 Minutes on air, after Mary Mapes had long been urging him to do so? Is there a connection between this sudden change of heart by Barnes just

[counterpunch]

Max Cleland's schedule on August 25 in Texas needs to be fully examined. Cleland tried to deliver a letter to President Bush around 1pm in Crawford, followed immediately by a short press conference. When did he leave Texas, where did he leave from, and what did he do in the time in between?

Only days prior to Cleland's impromptu visit to Texas, he began discussions with Bill Burkett, who is now known to be CBS's source for the forged documents.

Later the same day of Cleland's Texas trip, Burkett announced in a rant to President Bush on the progressive onlinejournal that, "I know from your files that we have now reassembled, the fact that you did not fulfill your oath, taken when you were commissioned to 'obey the orders of the officers appointed over you'."

What time was this rant posted?
Did Cleland help him write it?
Who is the "we" Burkett is referring to concerned the documents being "reassembled"?

Crawford, Texas, where Cleland was at 1pm on August 25, is only 162 miles from Baird, Bill Burkett's home.

Did Cleland make a visit there that day?

Did someone in the Kerry campaign act as a middleman in passing along the information to CBS that Burkett had these documents?

CBS must answer the question of how they learned that Burkett now had these memos. Did the discovery of these new documents play a part in Ben Barnes decision that he was now ready to talk to 60 Minutes on air, after Mary Mapes had long been urging him to do so? Is there a connection between this sudden change of heart by Barnes just two days before CBS hit "paydirt" with these forged documents.

[TN4Liberty]

I am glad that CBS has finally acknowledged that the documents were false.

Actually, I am not, because as long as they continued to assert their legitimacy, it was clear to everyone that CBS had an agenda. It still bothers me that they only indicated their regret at using the documents. They never indicated any regret at attempting to destroy President Bush's reputation, only at the manner in which they chose to do it.


Apologies are in order. Here is a list of things that, to my knowledge, CBS has not done, but should.

(1) CBS should apologize to the President of the United States for impugning his character with NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER.

(2) Since the only substantive evidence of the Bush/AWOL story was these now discredited document, CBS should publicly state that the AWOL story appears by all evidence TO BE WRONG, and that it appears, based on all available evidence, that George W. Bush served his country honorably in the TANG.

(3) CBS should investigate themselves to understand the bias in their reporting that would allow such a fraud to be perpetrated against them. There is a structural problem there that obviously has a strong bias, or this episode would never have happened. They clearly cannot be considered unbiased anymore.

(4) CBS should answer the question that all America should be asking; If you lied about this, what else have to lied about when we didn't catch you?

[VadeRetro]

Memorandum To File

20 Sep 2004
Mr. Ed Gillespie, Chairman RNC etc. etc. etc.

Dear Mr. Gillespie:

Love ya, Ed, but stop saying "faked forged memos." The redundancy is glaring and painful.

And try to give my mailbox a rest, will ya?

Vade the Blade

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[DakotaGator]

YEEE HAWWW!!

Ride that donkey, W! Rake those spurs!!!

[tdadams]

The idiots over at DU are implausibly trying to convince themselves that this is the work of Karl Rove.

Occam's Razor would tell you the trail most likely leads back to Kerry's staff (if not Kerry himself), Terry McAuliffe, and the DNC.

They need to be pounded and pursued about this and the public needs to get the point that these crooks tried to torpedo the democratic electoral process by fraud. This is every bit as big as Watergate if not bigger.

John Kerry and Terry McAuliffe must be made to answer for this.

[geros]

The State Department urged the White House to exercise restraint.

[cpforlife.org]

I believe this is what they call HUGH!

If they can link Kerry campaign operatives to the phony documents or the dissemination of the phony Word.docs, it would be extremely series and Kerry would be french toast.

I believe that all Freepers who have not already do so should set their beebers to stune ASAP.

[Christian4Bush]

Gillespie BTTT

[RayChuang88]

Terry McAuliffe said yesterday that no one at the DNC or Kerry campaign, ‘had anything to do with the preparations of the documents,’ but what about the distribution or dissemination?

Rough translation: the Democratic National Committee is guilty as sin over this fiasco.

[Tunehead54]

Did Bill Burkett, Democrat activist and Kerry campaign supporter, who passed information to the DNC, work with Kerry campaign surrogate Max Cleland? Did Bill Burkett's talks with ‘senior’ Kerry campaign officials include discussions of the now discredited documents? Was the launch of the Democrat National Committee's Operation Fortunate Son designed with knowledge of the faked forged memos? Terry McAuliffe said yesterday that no one at the DNC or Kerry campaign, ‘had anything to do with the preparations of the documents,’ but what about the distribution or dissemination?

“In an effort to regain the trust of the American people CBS should not only investigate the process that led to the use of these documents but they should identify immediately those engaged in possible criminal activity who attempted to use a news organization to affect the outcome of a Presidential election in its closing days.”

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Bears repeating! Answers please SeeBs? ;-)

Bump!

[King Prout]

finally, the gloves come off!