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Mr. Heyward Goes to Washington (CBS Prez in Damage Control Mission to White House)
Broadcasting & Cable, ^ | January 3, 2005

Posted on 01/02/2005 10:00:58 PM PST by RWR8189

Let the fence-mending begin. According to a Broadcasting & Cable source in Washington, D.C., CBS News president Andrew Heyward, along with Washington bureau chief Janet Leissner, recently met with White House communications director Dan Bartlett, in part to repair chilly relations with the Bush administration.

CBS News’ popularity at the White House—never high to begin with—plunged further in the wake of Dan Rather’s discredited 60 Minutes story on George Bush’s National Guard service.

An incentive for making nice is the impending report from the two-member panel investigating CBS's use of now-infamous documents for the 60 Minutes piece.

Heyward was “working overtime to convince Bartlett that neither CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,” our source says, “and from here on out would do everything it could to be fair and balanced.” CBS declined to comment.

 


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; bartlett; bias; cbs; cbsnews; danbartlett; forgeries; heyward; leissner; mediabias; rather; ratherbiased; seebs; whitehouse
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1 posted on 01/02/2005 10:00:58 PM PST by RWR8189
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To: RWR8189

There isn't enough rope in Washington D.C. to pull this dinosaur from the tarpit it gleefully ran into. Who do they think they're fooling?


2 posted on 01/02/2005 10:05:45 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: RWR8189

Ooh ha ha ha ha ha ha! That last paragraph is a real side-splitter! Can't...stop...ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!


3 posted on 01/02/2005 10:06:29 PM PST by Theresawithanh
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To: Billthedrill

What the heck could possibly be taking so long with that report?

They are either fake or not; they know where they got them.

What's the deal here?


4 posted on 01/02/2005 10:07:35 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Theresawithanh
“and from here on out would do everything it could to be fair and balanced.”

So they are admitting they weren't before?

5 posted on 01/02/2005 10:08:13 PM PST by Howlin
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To: RWR8189

Check out http://FreedomKeys.com/w-tangfacts.htm
6 posted on 01/02/2005 10:09:01 PM PST by FreeKeys (Obviously, SeeBS thinks it's OK to plant "evidence" if you think, or at least hope, someone's guilty)
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To: RWR8189
Heyward was “working overtime to convince Bartlett that neither CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,”

Of course not. Collaborating with the DNC/Kerry camp to put forth fraudulent documents isn't a vendetta. It's carelessness. Mapes spending years of her life on the non story isn't an obsession, only indicates she is a dedicated servant. Rather carrying animosity towards the Bush family since a 41 interview should be celebrated, despite his age he still remembers the incident.

Interesting they are ripping of Fox's slogan there at the end.

7 posted on 01/02/2005 10:11:36 PM PST by Soul Seeker
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To: RWR8189

They will have a TV movie attacking Bush sometime this year


8 posted on 01/02/2005 10:14:14 PM PST by GeronL (I am NOT the real bin Laden)
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To: Howlin

Yeh, what gives? Is PAul Volker involved somehow? lol


9 posted on 01/02/2005 10:14:28 PM PST by Jazzman1
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To: RWR8189

Heyward was “working overtime to convince Bartlett that neither CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,” our source says, “and from here on out would do everything it could to be fair and balanced.” CBS declined to comment.


Well ACTION speaks louder than words, but Dan the man and some others should go to JAIL!


10 posted on 01/02/2005 10:15:27 PM PST by 26lemoncharlie (Defending America)
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To: Howlin
What's the deal here?

I honestly think - stop laughing - that they expect us to have forgotten about the whole thing by now. And I suspect that the reason we haven't heard anything about it is that a certain name - Mapes - figures a bit more prominently than is comfortable for someone trying to sell the rubes that they're "fair and balanced."

Yes, I know that's Fox's catchphrase. Dang it, I said stop laughing!

11 posted on 01/02/2005 10:15:55 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Jazzman1

No, but I'm hoping Dick Thornburg doesn't make me eat my words of defense for him.

Am I missing something here? What can be so involved it's taken five months?


12 posted on 01/02/2005 10:15:56 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin

"So they are admitting they weren't before?"

Why yes, so they are! Thanks for pointing that out! I missed that in my gales of laughter about CBS not being out to get the guy in the WH!


13 posted on 01/02/2005 10:17:06 PM PST by Theresawithanh
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To: Howlin
What the heck could possibly be taking so long with that report?

I think it's been scheduled to be made public via the same news conference when O.J. Simpson reveals that he has finally tracked down the real murderer!

14 posted on 01/02/2005 10:17:12 PM PST by MarineBrat (The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools!)
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To: Billthedrill

She knows where she got them; she knows when she got them; she knows who gave them to her; she knows what she did with them.

It seems to me that the whole thing could have been wrapped up within 24 hours at the most.

But, then, I don't have anything to coverup.


15 posted on 01/02/2005 10:17:43 PM PST by Howlin
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To: MarineBrat

Oh, right. The one where Scott Peterson tells us all how he did it and where Jimmy Hoffa is buried? I had forgotten that.


16 posted on 01/02/2005 10:18:44 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin

Um, didn't they steal that line from someone else? How about "Fair, balanced, and honest"?


17 posted on 01/02/2005 10:19:24 PM PST by Goodgirlinred ( GoodGirlInRed Four More Years!!!!!)
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To: Goodgirlinred

Now, now, "honest" would be really stretching the envelope.


18 posted on 01/02/2005 10:20:16 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin
"Am I missing something here? What can be so involved it's taken five months?"

CBS is still trying to save whoever it was in the Kerry Campaign that pointed Mapes and Rather to the forged docs.

There must be at least one big name that hasn't yet been named for them to stall so long...

19 posted on 01/02/2005 10:20:41 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: FreeKeys

Well, now that I have had my best laugh for the day, I think I will go to bed. LOL! ROFLMAO!!!!!


20 posted on 01/02/2005 10:21:43 PM PST by Goodgirlinred ( GoodGirlInRed Four More Years!!!!!)
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