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.
Ya right a 'coincidence'.
Well, it is also a coincidence that it got light about the same time that the sun came up this morning.
Wolfson was just doing Hitlery's bidding. It was all an act.
Call for a full accounting... It is a serious crime to use forged government documents in an attempt to swing an election. Somebody needs to go to jail... Let the indictments begin and we will see who will go on the record in defense of the Kerry campaign... You see when faced with possible perjury and jail time... even die hard partisans will become rational people and may just tell the truth...
It's surprising that Lisa Meyer is even asking this question.
Yeah, and it was just a coincidence that Lou Gehrig's disease was named for the great ballplayer. It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he died of it.
I am willing to believe anything at least once..it was just a coincidence..that and lockhart and burkett talked on the phone before it broke..I am sure they discussed differences between the movie and book versions of "The Lord of The Rings" trilogy..we should give them the benefit of the doubt..I must go now..tereza is coming to town to berate us..wish us luck..
I would bet that there waw careful coordination. In fact, if the document had been forged as carefully as the timing was arranged, they would have gotten away with it.
Too late.
Sheesh, you think the peeples are stoopid??
These idiots must think they are dealing with children. Do they really believe that we will buy this load of tripe? Let the investigations begin! (Starting with the FBI's investigation of WHO FORGED the memos!)
Now we can settle an age-old mystery once and for all; were their pants actually on fire as they said this?
Right. And I'm a pink snow bunny.
Sadly, she is but a single-billionaire, the poor dear.
Keyword: PLANETOFTHEMAPES
LOL!!
Yeah, and I was born yesterday...
It was just a coincidence that Hitler and Stalin decided to attack Poland at the same time, too.
Just this week, I heard a Bush campaign consultant explain how technology has changed in recent years.
The media guys have loads of digital video in inventory. They can create an ad, buy the airtime, send the ad to the TV station electronically and confirm the airtime all within 24 hrs.
I KNOW I'd be insulted if I were smart enough to have any idea what a myrmidon was.
;>)
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