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BURKETT INSISTED THAT CBS AUTHENTICATE DOCUMENTS
CBSNEWS.com ^ | Sept 20, 2004

Posted on 09/20/2004 8:33:37 PM PDT by mtnhomerazorback

Burkett: "I could understand that question. I can't. That's gonna have to be your judgment and anybody else's."

Burkett still insists the documents are real, but says he was in no position to verify them.

Burkett: "I also insisted when I sat down with your staff in the first face-to-face session, before I gave up any documents, I wanted to know what you were gonna do with them. And I insisted they be authenticated."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: burkett; cbs; cbsnews; rather; rathergate; stainedbluememo
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Why didn't CBS AUTHENTICATE?
1 posted on 09/20/2004 8:33:38 PM PDT by mtnhomerazorback
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To: mtnhomerazorback

Please only link to credible sources.


2 posted on 09/20/2004 8:34:50 PM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: mtnhomerazorback

CBS? Didn't realize they still had a news division.


3 posted on 09/20/2004 8:36:15 PM PDT by Bronzewound
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To: mtnhomerazorback

All CBS News articles are to be posted in the Humor section.


4 posted on 09/20/2004 8:37:19 PM PDT by Loyalist (This tagline uses IBM Selectric kerning!)
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To: Bronzewound

propaganda is news to the left


5 posted on 09/20/2004 8:41:53 PM PDT by Goldwater4ever (Vote early, vote often)
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To: mtnhomerazorback
Burkett: "I also insisted when I sat down with your staff in the first face-to-face session, before I gave up any documents, I wanted to know what you were gonna do with them. And I insisted they be authenticated."

"And that's why I told you a lie about how I got them."

Coming from a Democrat this might make sense.

6 posted on 09/20/2004 8:42:36 PM PDT by HoustonTech (Vote for Strength. Vote a straight Republican ticket.)
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To: mtnhomerazorback

Is Burkett willing to take a lie detector test?


7 posted on 09/20/2004 8:43:54 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: mtnhomerazorback
"Burkett still insists the documents are real, but says he was in no position to verify them."

Why not? No pajamas?

8 posted on 09/20/2004 8:44:13 PM PDT by Fabozz
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But now, I understand Burkett has now fessed up to the fact that he knew they were bogus, so how disengenuous is that to expect CBS to authenticate bogus documents.


9 posted on 09/20/2004 8:44:46 PM PDT by el_texicano (Liberals are the real Mind-Numbed Robots - No Brains, No Guts, No Character...Just hate)
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To: mtnhomerazorback

Since you are new here, I'll advise you that you need to use the correct title of the article in the title of your thread.

And it's better to find another thread to add these kind of comments to.

There's a SEARCH button right on the home page:

http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm

Left side, scroll down.


10 posted on 09/20/2004 8:46:18 PM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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But now, I understand Burkett has now fessed up to the fact that he knew they were bogus, so how disengenuous is that to expect CBS to authenticate bogus documents.

Well...CBS expected the president and his staff to authenticate them...

11 posted on 09/20/2004 8:48:06 PM PDT by An American In Dairyland (Have you forgotten?)
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To: mtnhomerazorback

Burkett also told a long story to a Boston Glober reporter, and mentioned another person's name, Conn, claiming that Conn could corraborate Burkett's story, because he was there too. Conn not only didn't corraborate Burkett's story, but flat out said none of it was true, as "zip, nada" (quoting Conn, I think was they guy's name)

The Boston Globe reporter was on Hannity & C. the other day.

He also said this was in February. ALL the news media knew that Burkett was totally unreliable and phony.

Yet CBS was "duped". Sure, they were. I think CBS is fully complicit, they KNEW the memos were phony, but figured, it won't come out at all or if it does, it will be after the elections, and with President Kerry, who is going to push the issue. Bush will be forgotten.

What they didn't count on is all those bloggers in their pajamas! LOL


12 posted on 09/20/2004 8:48:26 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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Burkett knew they were phony. He didn't really want CBS to use them , they were just bait to get CBS to get the Kerry campaign to listen to him. The DNC,Kerry campaign and Tex Vets for Truth already knew they were fakes. Burkett was probably the most shocked person of all when CBS actually used them.
13 posted on 09/20/2004 8:48:45 PM PDT by bayourod (Hagel's and Lugar's anti-war statements are unpatriotic and endanger the lives of our troops.)
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Why didn't CBS AUTHENTICATE?

That's easy. They did authenticate, they were told the docs were forgeries and then they promptly ignored it.

14 posted on 09/20/2004 8:52:04 PM PDT by BigWaveBetty (Kerry - Indecision married with a lack of vision, shapeshifting, magical thinker, throws like a girl)
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To: FairOpinion
>>>I think CBS is fully complicit, they KNEW the memos were phony, but figured, it won't come out at all or if it does, it will be after the elections<<<

You got it absolutely right!

There are far too many folks, here and elsewhere, willing to say that Burkett put one over on CBS. Or worse yet, willing to buy Burkett's story that he was duped and is protecting the original source.

The logic just isn't there to buy this "pass off of responsibility"!

1)Burkett had tried to shop the same story months ago to the Boston Globe - sans documents.

2) Mary Mapes, CBS producer has been working for 5 years on this story by her own admission. Does anyone think that she would let 5 yrs of effort slide by until after the election if she could find a chance of making it stick.

3) CBS staff was high-fiving each other in the studio after Rather ran the story - Mapes and Rather included.

4) CBS literally had to run roughshod over their "document authenticators" to get this on the air. The ones that they cited as verifying authenticity, were less positive, or did a less through job than CBS indicated they did. The ones they ignored were all highly skeptical of the document's authenticity and expressed reservations to CBS, prior to Rathers broadcast.

There are about 20 or 30 other reasons that I'm too lazy to type. The important thing is to not to let CBS off the hook.

CBS and Burkett are both protecting a source that will likely turn out to have ties to the Kerry campaign. That's why they are playing this so close to the vest.

15 posted on 09/20/2004 10:03:15 PM PDT by HardStarboard
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To: HardStarboard

Check out:

Bill Burkett: Perp or Patsy?
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/09/20/National/Bill-Burkett.Perp.Or.Patsy-724068.shtml

Quite a few facts and questions.


16 posted on 09/20/2004 10:09:06 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: mtnhomerazorback

when cbs' damn SOURCE tells you that something needs to be checked and they don't it seems to me that would be evidence that they were drinking the ole grape kool-aid. i believe that they knew the documents were forgeries but they didn't expect to get caught so fast. i believe that the fact they did put a fork in the REAL plan that would come out in october after the documents set it up.


18 posted on 09/20/2004 10:16:45 PM PDT by lonster
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At this point I would not believe ANYTHING that Burkett says about ANYTHING. He is as much of a liar as the LA Times.


19 posted on 09/20/2004 10:17:14 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon (Remember: Benedict Arnold was a "war hero," too.)
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USA Today, Boston Globe, NYT, CBS, NBC are all ? I can not believe anything they write or say. They have all lost creditability and are not to be believed.
20 posted on 09/20/2004 10:22:45 PM PDT by Brimack34
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