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Drudge now reporting Iraq depot story was shopped to CBS' 60 minutes before reported by NYT
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Posted on 10/25/2004 11:33:01 PM PDT by picturefan

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON OCT 25 2004 22:45:05 ET XXXXX

NBCNEWS: CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ BEFORE TROOPS ARRIVED...

The NYTIMES urgently reported on Monday in an apprent October Surprise: The Iraqi interim government and the U.N. nuclear agency have warned the United States that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are now missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.

[The source behind the NYT story first went to CBSNEWS' 60 MINUTES last Wednesday, but the beleaguered network wasn't able to get the piece on the air as fast as the newspaper could print. Executive producer Jeff Fager hoped to break the story during a high-impact election eve broadcast of 60 MINS on October 31.]


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To: picturefan

The NYSlimes now has Rather as it's editor, it would seem.


261 posted on 10/26/2004 8:22:58 AM PDT by OldFriend (It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
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To: L.N. Smithee

Don't need to back it up with facts, the damage is done to CBS and NYSlimes.


262 posted on 10/26/2004 8:24:37 AM PDT by OldFriend (It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
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To: unspun
Lockhart did not elaborate on how the Bush campaign was distorting the NBC report.

He's thinking of one

263 posted on 10/26/2004 8:24:58 AM PDT by Mo1 (This Sept 10th attitude is no way to protect our country)
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To: EdReform

BTTT


264 posted on 10/26/2004 8:25:33 AM PDT by EdReform (Have you seen FAHRENHYPE 9/11? - www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240926/posts)
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To: Mo1

If memory serves me correctly, our guys took over in Historical time. unless skerry has a plan to beam the troops around. This is nothing but BS. I remember our troops going from site to site and nothing. That is what skerry has been whining about, nothing there, nothing there. Now all of a sudden, Iraq is over run with weapons. I would get banned it I called him all the names that fit this worthless POS.


265 posted on 10/26/2004 8:30:32 AM PDT by marty60
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To: dfwgator
But...but...if John Kerry had his way, we wouldn't have been in Iraq in the first place.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh .... that's right

Looks like Kerry will have to come up with another reason to slam the President

266 posted on 10/26/2004 8:31:43 AM PDT by Mo1 (This Sept 10th attitude is no way to protect our country)
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To: marty60
If memory serves me correctly, our guys took over in Historical time. unless skerry has a plan to beam the troops around.

Won't surprise me if claims he could beam them in

Edwards claims Kerry will make people walk again

267 posted on 10/26/2004 8:34:18 AM PDT by Mo1 (This Sept 10th attitude is no way to protect our country)
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To: picturefan
QUESTION: If CBS News - 60 Minutes dumped the explosives story,
then what do they really  have planned for November 2nd?
 
Anyone?

268 posted on 10/26/2004 8:36:39 AM PDT by Rain-maker
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To: picturefan
Kerry's lies in the past helped to kill millions of innocents in SE Asia.


Kerry Lied


Millions Died


269 posted on 10/26/2004 8:38:02 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps stop Rathering to America? Answer: NEVER!)
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To: All

Drudge now reporting:

News of missing explosives in Iraq -- first reported in April 2003 -- was being resurrected for a 60 MINUTES election eve broadcast designed to knock the Bush administration into a crises mode...


270 posted on 10/26/2004 8:38:52 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: patriciamary
Where in the hell is the RNC October surprise!!!!!!!!!!! I think this is it.
271 posted on 10/26/2004 8:46:44 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: picturefan

My first thought was: WHO is shopping the networks with this crap? Does Drudge know? If so, he had better spill it. I want to know WHO is selling this crap to the morons of the OLD MEDIA.


272 posted on 10/26/2004 8:46:49 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: marty60

Okay, so now they're saying they WANTED us to go into Iraq.

I wonder if the general public will pick up on that.

Sheesh.


273 posted on 10/26/2004 8:50:17 AM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (The police never think it's as funny as you do.)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

I think people really have had enough of this BS. It has been going on since the Conventions. At some point people turn off all of the media, and vote for the one they TRUST. And unless americans have suddenly gone stupid, the polls have shown Bush with that Trust.


274 posted on 10/26/2004 8:53:12 AM PDT by marty60
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To: inottawa

Holy cow, 2 days into this story and TPM Josh Marshall has wrote a book on it...

THAT'S THE STORY. They had this lined up as their "aha" moment, but it's become an exploding cigar.
IAEA letter is now (via NRO) apparently fraudulent (we shall see). (mean what? that Iraq did not send them a notification letter but IAEA went ahead and publicized this fact anyway out of desperation to hurt Bush?)

MSNBC reported that on April 10th, soldiers went through 90 bunkers and found *no* weapons under any IAEA 'seal'.

No matter, TPM will cling to the nutty theory that the US military found the materials at the site and then somehow let it escape without their notice, even though several sources now say they did NOT find materials at the site.


275 posted on 10/26/2004 9:01:07 AM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: GeorgeBerryman

If one Internet is a good thing, many internets must be better! :-)


276 posted on 10/26/2004 9:02:04 AM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: Taquito

"well as the revelation that Iraq actually reported them moved before the vaunted U.N. inspectors returned in 2002. "

source for this? THe IAEA claims that they verified the explosives were still there in January 2003.

Like the CBS/fake-memo-scam, it will take a while to shake out the truth here.


277 posted on 10/26/2004 9:05:00 AM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: All

Does anyone have a list of CBS news' main advertisers or would they have changed since Rathergate I? What is the best way to torture them like they did Sullivan Broadcasting?


278 posted on 10/26/2004 9:08:04 AM PDT by RecallMoran (The left would RATHER lie)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Wow, the MSM minions are going to have stories stacked up like planes at O'Hare to turn this election.

Be strong - VOTE BUSH.


279 posted on 10/26/2004 9:08:34 AM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: JudyinCanada

That is right - there is a MSM-Kerry-UN-Euro-socialist alliance, and there is the alliance of those who believe in FREEDOM. They are mutually exclusive right now.


280 posted on 10/26/2004 9:10:13 AM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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