Posted on 09/23/2004 2:31:31 PM PDT by ambrose
September 23, 2004 at 12:13PM MST
NBC's Lisa Myers Reports
Kerry campaign says timing of 'Fortunate Son' ad campaign, 60 Minutes story a 'coincidence'
Having acknowledged that its own standards were violated, CBS News named an independent panel to investigate what went wrong: Former Republican Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and retired chief of the Associated Press Louis Boccardi.
The investigation focuses on the process that led to airing possibly fraudulent documents challenging the President's military service and why the CBS Producer put the source of those documents, longtime Bush critic Bill Burkett, in touch with the Kerry Campaign before the story aired.
Journalism expert Robert Steele says, "The producer in this case was already operating in an ethical minefield. She squirted gasoline on the explosives when she made that connection."
Republicans launched a frontal attack on CBS, accusing the network of "a serious lapse in judgment" beyond the initial report in not suspending producer Mary Mapes and apologizing only for the documents rather than retracting the story itself.
Republicans said the Kerry Campaign clearly knew something about the CBS Report before it aired.
Terry Holt of the Republican National Committee says, "We think they should come clean and answer the question, 'what information did you obtain and what did you intend to do with it?'"
The day before the CBS report, Democrats began a concerted attack on the President's National Guard record.
However, the Kerry Campaign insists it knew nothing about the CBS documents, claiming the timing was a coincidence.
They committed a mortal sin against George W. Bush.
However, the Kerry Campaign insists it knew nothing about the CBS documents, claiming the timing was a coincidence.It was too bad that JFK just happened to be in front of that assassin's bullet. And what about President Clinton's penis that, coincidently, found itself in the same space occupied by that young intern's oral cavity?
Has anyone noticed what this says about the AP?
One would presume this is a “balanced and fair” committee. Since Thornberg is clearly the Republican, that makes Louis Boccardi the Democrat.
What does that say about the AP? The former head of the AP is so biased he’s picked as the Democratic counterweight to a former Republican Attorney General.
Doesn’t this just scream “AP is biased” to you?
Or perhaps M&M's with the nuts inside.
It's going to take a lot of sugar to coat this coincidence. I expect shortages to arise in the stores soon.
"Wish some talented freeper would have some morning cereal graphics fun with sugar coatings..."
Yeah, "SugarCoat Twins Cereal."
Socialist Surprise Toy Inside.
I think the Kerry Campaign needs its own independent investigation. CBS is leading the way.
Kerry is a congenital liar.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/639dyfsa.asp?pg=1
Wolfson's operation is well-oiled. His first day at the helm of OFS was Monday, September 6. On September 14, McAuliffe held a press conference and used the "Operation Fortunate Son" slogan for the first time. However, OFS was planned much earlier. Look back at the month before the operation began, and aspects of the Democrats' strategy come into focus, like the outline of a figure emerging from the mist.
On August 11, for example, Bob Tuke, the Tennessee state chair of Veterans for Kerry, told a Nashville radio station that, soon, "We may also know why Bush failed to show up for his medical exam that caused him to lose his flight status." A few weeks later, on September 1, liberal blogger Joshua Micah Marshall reported that Dan Rather was working on a 60 Minutes story about Bush and the Guard. On September 2, the day Bush accepted his party's nomination in New York, the online magazine Salon published an exhaustive investigation into the "unanswered questions" surrounding the president's service. On September 6, Terry McAuliffe issued a press release detailing "what we don't know" about Bush's Guard years. Another DNC release on the same topic followed on September 7. Three more followed on September 8, the day 60 Minutes aired its story featuring the now-discredited Guard memos. One of the DNC releases that day relied heavily on the 60 Minutes report.
Also on September 8, an independent group called Texans for Truth, whose founder has ties to the anti-Bush group MoveOn.org, announced it would run ads on Bush and the Guard in several swing states. A new batch of National Guard documents were released that day, too, and the Boston Globe and the Associated Press both featured stories on the new finds. The Globe story concluded that "Bush fell well short of meeting his military obligation." Then, on September 9, the DNC issued two more press releases that again quoted extensively from the 60 Minutes report, including from the discredited memos.
The DNC continued to issue press releases on Bush and the Guard, but, after September 9, the releases no longer mentioned the memos. The absence was noticeable.
Okay....so they got lucky with a coincidence?
See BS....no way Jose....Jeese Louise....How dumb do they think Americans are?
Lisa knows a story when she sees and smells one..she will pursue with all vigor...until..her phone rings from upstairs..
Pray for W and The Truth
It was just another strange case of Mental Telepathy. Kind of like the time President Nixon sent John Kerry to Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968. Nixon was signaling him even before he became President. MT is powerful stuff.
But the timing of the Sandy Berger investigation was a deliberate White House plot.....riiiiight.....
Wolfson was on Kudloe & Cramer this afternoon....they ripped him to pieces on this so called coincidence....
His response was ....."we got lucky."
He looked like he was about to cry!
CBS report: Sept. 8 evening
Kerry fortunate son ad: Sept. 9 day
so less than 24 hours...and I can guarantee you it takes far longer to produce an ad and distribute it.
I'd rather be a fortunate son than an unfortunate gigolo...
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