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CBS News on defensive as fresh revelations emerge on Bush report
Yahoo News ^ | 9/21/04 | AFP

Posted on 09/21/2004 5:37:42 PM PDT by kattracks

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1 posted on 09/21/2004 5:37:42 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
The only reason for him to talk to Burkett is to get info on the forged memos. Lockhart's defense won't hold up.
2 posted on 09/21/2004 5:42:22 PM PDT by IrishGOP (John "Peace in Our Time" Kerry NO THANKS!)
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"The Kerry campaign had nothing to do with these documents. There's nothing to this story," Lockhart said.


OK MSM. There's nothing to this story. Time to move on. I've got a feeling that even the MSM is going to persue this. The sKerry campaign is startting to derail now and the MSM is on "standby" to go with the flow and bash their own candidate. All the alphabet channels will be trying desperately to show that their not biased toward sKerry. Mr Botox better get the vaseline out.


3 posted on 09/21/2004 5:44:43 PM PDT by conshack
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Kerry campaign aide Joe Lockhart said Mapes put him in touch with Bill Burkett -- a key source used by CBS in its report which cast doubts on Bush's National Guard service -- but that they did not discuss documents Burkett gave CBS.

"She (Mapes) gave me his (Burkett's) number ... he gave me some advice on how to respond to the swift boat smears against John Kerry," Lockhart said, refering to attacks on Kerry's own military record, in a report aired by CBS Tuesday.

Lockhart said he and Burkett did not discuss the documents which have put CBS on the defensive over its news gathering amid claims they were faked.

Joe Lockhart ... 'I just call anyone that may just happen to have "advice on how to respond to the swift boat smears". I don't have anything better to do anyway.'

4 posted on 09/21/2004 5:46:00 PM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: conshack

I agree they will want to try to not show bias. That should help President Bush in the debate questions.


5 posted on 09/21/2004 5:46:16 PM PDT by JLS
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To: kattracks

Maybe Burkett and Lockhart were trading cookie recipes. . .


6 posted on 09/21/2004 5:47:11 PM PDT by Tempest (Don't blame me, I'm voting for Bush.)
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It's time for Dan Rather to honor his personal guarantee that the memos were real and the source unimpeachable.

Resignation would be expected
Full disclosire of all facts within his knowledge would be the minimun.
But simply saying "I'm sorry" isn't honoring a gurantee. A true Texan or real man honors his guarantees. A weasel says too bad I'm sorry.

7 posted on 09/21/2004 5:47:15 PM PDT by bayourod (Dan Rather should honor his persoanl guarantee that the memos are real and the source unimpeachable.)
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"amid claims they were faked".

Claims?! Claims?! Are the clowns at the AFP really that lost. Yes that was a rhetorical question. I wonder how many DUer's write for them.

8 posted on 09/21/2004 5:49:30 PM PDT by Tempest (Don't blame me, I'm voting for Bush.)
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NBC and ABC could bury CBS......if they wanted to.


9 posted on 09/21/2004 5:50:34 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: bayourod
It's time for Dan Rather to honor his personal guarantee that the memos were real and the source unimpeachable.

He still thinks they ARE real.

10 posted on 09/21/2004 5:51:20 PM PDT by Wissa
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To: kattracks
There's nothing to this story...

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11 posted on 09/21/2004 5:52:16 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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WHO is the 'unimpeachable source'?? That's what puzzles me. It's obviously not Burkett (or Conn or Luci Ramirez since CBS never talked to them). I keep coming back to Cleland...


12 posted on 09/21/2004 5:52:34 PM PDT by exDem from Miami
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Joe Lockhart ... 'I just call anyone that may just happen to have "advice on how to respond to the swift boat smears". I don't have anything better to do anyway.'


Really? How can I get you my number..I can give you advice on how to respond!


:O)

P


13 posted on 09/21/2004 5:57:00 PM PDT by papasmurf (Gimme' big ears, for 4 more years!!!)
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To: kattracks

Mapes will be fired.

Rather will resign.

Said it two weeks ago. I'm pracically physic (sic).


14 posted on 09/21/2004 5:58:29 PM PDT by PokeyJoe (The plural for RAT, is RATS, not RATICS)
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To: conshack
I e-mailed all of the charmen and the President at the FCC.

Here you go everyone ........

Chairman Michael K. Powell: Michael.Powell@fcc.gov

Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy: Kathleen.Abernathy@fcc.gov

Commissioner Michael J. Copps: Michael.Copps@fcc.gov

Commissioner Kevin J. Martin: KJMWEB@fcc.gov

Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: Jonathan.Adelstein@fcc.gov

Elections & political candidate matters: campaignlaw@fcc.gov

Will you make your comments known...???

15 posted on 09/21/2004 6:00:30 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (We're preaching to the choir. Get out and correctly persuade people to vote for Bush !!)
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To: exDem from Miami

Terry McAuliffe.


16 posted on 09/21/2004 6:00:43 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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Joe Lockhart ... 'I just call anyone that may just happen to have "advice on how to respond to the swift boat smears". I don't have anything better to do anyway.'

LOL. Oh, I'm sure he's been calling every Texas democrat just to touch base with him or her since it's such a key battleground state...Another routine day for the "nothin' special" demeanor of the one who spent mildly, boring routine days in the Clinton White House.

17 posted on 09/21/2004 6:02:57 PM PDT by Colofornian
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Ol' Bug Eyes comes across as such a sincere, truthful guy -- not!

Why would anyone in their right mind put any stock in any thing that Lockhart says?

18 posted on 09/21/2004 6:02:59 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: kattracks

Goldberg: It's too bad about you, Dan.
Dan: Why's that?
G: Because your time is past, and you don't know it.
D: What about you, gunfighter? Is your time past?
G: Yes. But the difference is . . .
. . . I know it.

(With apologies to >Shane<).


19 posted on 09/21/2004 6:03:45 PM PDT by alcuin
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20 posted on 09/21/2004 6:04:14 PM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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