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Posted on 09/20/2004 2:26:17 PM PDT by swilhelm73
From MSNBC.com:
CBS said Burkett, a retired National Guard lieutenant colonel, had provided the documents. In a press release accompanying Heyward's statement, CBS said that Burkett "also admits that he deliberately misled the CBS News producer working on the report, giving her a false account of the documents' origins to protect a promise of confidentiality to the actual source." What an unbelievable journalistic scandal. Is it even imagineable that "60 Minutes" would have taken documents from a "Clinton hater" with a similar background and then, in a rush to smear him, short-circuit all of the normal rules to get to air?
Basically this story was based on the words of Ben Barnes and Burkett, two known partisans with a Big League gripes against Bush and -- in Barnes' case -- monumental ties to the Kerry campaign. CBS not only served as a transmission belt for this stuff but they willfully cut journalistic corners in the process. Then, when caught, they stonewalled. Rather said his source was "unimpeachable." Unimpeachable!!!! If Burkett is unimpeachable in Dan Rather's eyes. Someone needs to re-open his stories from the very first hurricane.
This is flatly outrageous. Rather should be fired. Mapes should be fired. Period.
Burkett wasn't the unimpeachable source, before he was ( or is it the other way around ? )
Bump. Fire Dan Rather.
Time to crank up the pressure on Burkett to reveal *his* "source," whoever it is.
Burkett's falling on his sword to protect Cleland, Kerry and Dan.
Obvious follow-up: Who is the "actual source"?
Meet Bill Burkett, patsy, stooge, courier, and general all around good fall guy. Hope he's being paid well.
and Heyward should be fired. They all defended this to the end.
Danno will be on LKL tonight. I bet the SOB still claims that Bush was a NG shirker and tries to shift the emphasis to that.
I wonder who Burkett's source was (if it wasn't his own computer.) He tried to shop this stuff to the Kerry campaign - did they send him to CBS? Or was his source the Kerry campaign? I hope we all stay on this story until the whole truth comes out.
I'd be more inclined to say that Burkett's the fall guy. The DNC machine is the source. He's but one spoke in that big spinning wheel.
Unless Burkett typed 'em, he's NOT the source.
I'd like to see his bank records. Someone must be paying him off.
I just love that! I particularly like the little "CYA" letters on the face.
"Fake But Who Cares"?
George Bush the Elder finally got his answer. Dan Rather doesn't want his career to be judged on seven minutes. He wants it to be judged on forged documents.
this is outrageous. we need to make sure this is not the end of it.
We have a right to know who forged those documents and all people involved in this scandal. Where's the establishment media? Oh that's right, they work for the DNC, so no help there.
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