Posted on 01/10/2005 8:57:57 AM PST by FreeTheHostages
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BTT
araunan did that.
I am not impressed.
CBS was caught trying to fix a Presidential election by using forged military memos to support a one-sided, Bush-bashing hit-piece interview with a Kerry fundraiser. Now CBS and Moonves claim that CBS's attempt to fix the election for Kerry had no political agenda behind it? And the investigative panel agrees? Gimme a break. That claim is so utterly bizarre that it calls into question not only Moonves competence and integrity, but the integrity of the investigative panel as well.
My conclusion is that the whole thing is a brazen, if carefully crafted, whitewash.
It's simply amazing.
I constantly hear the MSM refer to a Republican with the label conservative. I don't think I've ever heard, oh, say, Kennedy referred to as a liberal. Not outside FR.
Ping.
A refreshing sample of accuracy from See-B.S.
Now if only they could keep it up for one day in a row...
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However, they seriously underestimated the ferocity of the assaults on the documents and CBS News’ alleged motives in
airing the Segment.
The attacks on the September 8 Segment began virtually immediately. One of the first came on freerepublic.com, a website:
[E]very single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman. In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts. The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90’s. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn’t used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80’s used monospaced fonts. I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
This was followed on the morning of September 9 by further attacks, mostly by bloggers with a conservative agenda, challenging the authenticity of the documents.
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Oh my--that is precious!
LOL. Good posting.
Reminds me, in a completely different context, of when a bunch of chess enthusiasts on the Internet Chess Club noticed the Kasparov had a perpetual draw against Deep Blue in game 2. Lots of chess players said, "That can't be true! Who are we, any of us, to question Kasparaov."
Then Kasparov admitted it: he had blow it.
If the World Chess Champion is sometimes wrong, it just amazes me that anyone would think anyone could bat 100%.
As the panel correctly said, one of the worst things here was the post-error cover-up. It just AMAZES me that they ran around like rats trying to find a document expert that agreed with them. How ANYONE could have any self-respect while doing that . . . . it's just beyond me.
You know this was not the first time CBS did this, we need to parlay this into getting a true confessions committee started to reveal their past curruption.
It would be better news if Dan the man would have been asked to walk the plank.
It's just another coverup.......and CBS never suggested that the documents were frauds.
Baloney...
Heyward went to the White House ....... he should have been an adult!
Point well taken. And that bias is still around, everywhere you look.
I'm not quite as keen about editing posters' comments. I think the report issued today had something to say about context. :)
Lol, the arrogance on the part of these people is astounding:
1. Freepers don't have the education of us libs, no, of course not...after all, Freepers could never survive courses such as Social Problems of the Minority Gay Underclass...
(no, we Freepers majored in such subjects as Chemistry, Math, and Physics)
2. Freepers don't know *anything* about printing or typography (not that we DUmmies ever held a real job at printing companies or ever worked with Quark or Fontographer, or know anything about kerning, ligatures, or the intricacies of RIPs).
(actually there appear to be plenty of typography Freepers)
3. Freepers aren't *professionals*! I've been a proessional DUmmie college student for twelve years!
(Freepers define "professional" a bit differently...)
Does that mean I'm off the team because I broke the rules?
WHY did I encourage my mother to Freep?
This panel was supposedly formed to clear the air, to really get down to the nut of the matter. And IMHO the members of the panel were seated on the panel as de facto experts. And since experts are routinely called upon to interpret and draw conclusions from the facts at hand, I still think they pulled up short on an obvious issue.
As a whole, however, I have to say that it went further than I expected. I think it's crystal clear to anyone with a brain that there were actually five oustings, not four. Paint it however they like, but I suspect Rather's resignation was either asked for directly, or strongly recommended to him. Follow this up with Heyward's recent statements to the White House, and I think we have the very first admitted chink in the MSM armor.
And we're at a crucial time with regard to the battle against the MSM as it currently exists. The LOG (Liberal Old Guard) of the MSM are right now preparing the grandest propaganda campaign in the history of human communication: the selling of Hillary for 2008. This woman will magically morph her surface into the most perfect candidate ever known, and the LOG will do everything within their power to convince the masses that she is the most stupendous thing to ever happen, the ultimate leader, she who can usher in a new world era.
If the LOG can be rendered ineffective enough to counter the propaganda, we'll be spared. If not, she'll be president.
Sorry for going off on a tangent...
MM
WHY did I encourage my mother to Freep?
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