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Lockhart said Mapes asked him the weekend before the story broke to call Burkett. "She basically said there's a guy who is being helpful on the story who wants to talk to you," Lockhart said, adding that it was common knowledge that CBS was working on a story raising questions about Bush's Guard service. Mapes told him there were some records "that might move the story forward. She didn't tell me what they said."

Why is the producer for the hit piece on the President, calling the Kerry camp and having them talk to the person they say is the source? Something is really wrong with this!

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"Why is the producer for the hit piece on the President, calling the Kerry camp and having them talk to the person they say is the source? Something is really wrong with this!"


LOL can someone get the date on when CBS contacted Dan Bartlett (who they tried to blame for not denying them)? They give the Kerry camp (what - a week, 2 weeks, days?) advance notice so they can make videos, already get the issue in the press, smear Bush campaign and coordinate their attack with 'talking points'. That way people would see the dems making these accusations and then.... Lo and behold, something comes out on CBS cooberating what the people just heard on the news from the DNC the night before! Then they think, 'we can trust the Dems, it wasn't just a smear'. What a sham!

OR perhaps the Kerry camp already knew about them much longer in advance...

[Colofornian]

Why is the producer for the hit piece on the President, calling the Kerry camp and having them talk to the person they say is the source?

Since our softball media has forgotten the art of hardball questions when it comes to the big corporate media or the Democrats, I suggest you personally e-mail this question as a prompter to all key mainstream media.

Part of the FR School of Bloggerism's new responsibilities is to retrain mainstream media's poor peripheral vision brought on by wearing blinders for too long.