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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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To: Lancey Howard
I wonder if maybe the Justice Department is mulling whether it should go full bore after Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, and CBS for attempting to fix a national election...

Wondering the same thing. Somebody, ANYBODY should be going after these perps with a vengeance. A pillar of the MSM gets caught red-handed making nasty with the Pubbies, and it seems like nobody's home in LE. I don't think Pubbies will ever have a better opportunity to exact their pound of flesh than this fiasco represents. And what have we heard from Attorney(s) General(s) in the DOJ, New York, or Texas? Right; crickets.

Public floggings and hard time would be too good for 'em.

FGS

41 posted on 01/03/2005 12:20:05 AM PST by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: weegee
Thanks for the ping, weegee. I missed this last night before I went to bed.

This is very interesting. I wonder if this report has some interesting names attached. I am still waiting to read it. Gee, it's taking a long time to come out, isn't it? LOL!

42 posted on 01/03/2005 2:18:54 AM PST by Miss Marple
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To: bert; Landru; Peacerose
FYI...

FGS

43 posted on 01/03/2005 7:51:16 AM PST by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: RWR8189; Alouette
Find 3 pages of Dan Rather/SeeBS spoofs and cartoons HERE.
44 posted on 01/03/2005 8:11:59 AM 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: ForGod'sSake

....I don't think Pubbies will ever have a better opportunity to exact their pound of flesh than this fiasco represents.....

Out of the settling dust the CBS honcho crawled to plead for his soul. This action was motivated by fear.

Let us watch with relish as the saga unfolds.


45 posted on 01/03/2005 9:52:59 AM PST by bert (Don't Panic.....)
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To: Howlin; Pride in the USA
What the heck could possibly be taking so long with that report?

I think they had the report completed, but they chose Sandy Berger as its editor. Somehow the report has disappeared but the are trying to find it.

46 posted on 01/03/2005 9:56:52 AM PST by lonevoice (Vast Right Wing Pajama Party)
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To: RWR8189

SeeBS....what a bunch of FOCKERS!


47 posted on 01/03/2005 12:33:05 PM PST by DCPatriot (I don't do politically correct very well either.)
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To: RWR8189

My response: Go pound sand, Heyward. Too little, too late and I, for one, am not interested.


48 posted on 01/03/2005 12:35:12 PM PST by Wolfstar (Where are you, Miss Beazley?)
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To: Howlin
What the heck could possibly be taking so long with that report?

Blah...these things always turn into a make-work program for the commissioners. As a result, they always take at least twice as long as originally promised. I suppose we should at least be grateful this particular commission didn't run around hogging every camera and microphone they could find, as did the 9/11 commission.

49 posted on 01/03/2005 12:37:34 PM PST by Wolfstar (Where are you, Miss Beazley?)
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To: RWR8189
"CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,”

What a beeping lie ~ that gang (led my Rather) of liberal spin machine artists did everything in their power to see that GWB was defeated!

We know that and they know, we know it!

50 posted on 01/03/2005 12:38:39 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: blackie

beeping=bleeping.

Beeper needs some repair. :)


51 posted on 01/03/2005 12:39:39 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Howlin
What can be so involved it's taken five months?

They're busy trying to get their "facts" straight, dontcha know. Much the same way that Dems, these days, will "count every vote" until they get the result they want.

52 posted on 01/03/2005 12:41:01 PM PST by Wolfstar (Where are you, Miss Beazley?)
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To: Howlin
What the heck could possibly be taking so long with that report?

The investigation almost certainly uncovered the obvious: CBS KNEW very soon after the broadcast that the document was bogus, and tried to cover up what they knew was a fraud. It's the Howie Baker question all over again: What did Dan Rather know, and when did he know it? The irony is so delicious.

The report is taking forever because CBS wants to prolong their existence as long as possible. When the facts come out, they will be a dead organization.

53 posted on 01/03/2005 12:43:20 PM PST by You Dirty Rats
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To: IncPen

That animation is fabulous, IncPen. Just terrific!


54 posted on 01/03/2005 12:44:01 PM PST by Wolfstar (Where are you, Miss Beazley?)
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To: Lancey Howard
Heyward is escorted from the White House grounds....

ROFLMAO!!!!

55 posted on 01/03/2005 12:44:56 PM PST by Wolfstar (Where are you, Miss Beazley?)
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To: RWR8189
the impending report from the two-member panel

In our lifetime, hopefully? The suspense is killing me.

56 posted on 01/03/2005 12:45:52 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: Billthedrill

"There isn't enough rope in Washington D.C. to pull this dinosaur from the tarpit it gleefully ran into."

You have a real gift for turning a phrase.

I agree, and it's not just wishful thinking. Dubya and his team 1) have been waiting a long time for this moment; and 2) know how to handle people like this.


57 posted on 01/04/2005 2:57:29 AM PST by CaliGirlGodHelpMe
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To: RWR8189

bump


58 posted on 01/04/2005 2:59:33 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (.)
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To: CaliGirlGodHelpMe
I just hope Dubya and the White House don't let these Clowns and the folks at C.MORE B.S ( C.B.S. ) RAILROAD them in this ( FAKE BEGGING FOR MERCY ) episode.
59 posted on 01/04/2005 3:07:44 AM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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