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"60 Minutes" a Glutton for Punishment? (Attacking Rove with Discredited evidence)
Federal Review ^ | Saturday, February 23, 2008

Posted on 02/23/2008 8:36:45 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

Less than four years after getting embroiled in a scandal over their use of forged military records, CBS' "60 Minutes" is attacking Karl Rove with a witness who has already been discredited:

On Thursday, the 60 Minutes web site began hawking a feature to run on its show. This Sunday, an already discredited Alabama attorney named Dana Jill Simpson will claim that Rove asked her to photograph Democratic former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman in a "compromising, sexual position with one of his aides."

Nothing about her story even begins to stand up to scrutiny; indeed all of it fails every basic test of common sense. A former Democratic Alabama Supreme Court justice (and sometime Siegelman adversary) who represented a co-defendant and close ally of Siegelman's in the trial that convicted Siegelman of federal bribery and obstruction charges, said that the previous versions of the woman's oft-changing allegations "must have been created by a drunk fiction writer."

[An] Associated Press report noted Thursday that Simpson "has never before said that Rove pressed her for evidence of marital infidelity -- in spite of testifying to congressional lawyers for hours last year, submitting a sworn affidavit and speaking extensively with reporters."

Numerous Alabama reporters, including a recent Pulitzer Prize winner, have noted a bevy of other changes or additions to Simpson's story over the past year as she has spun one strange tale after another of a supposed Republican conspiracy to destroy Siegelman's career, a conspiracy that she says was responsible for his eventual prosecution on what left-wing activists now charge were trumped-up charges.

Until recently, she had alleged that her knowledge of Rove's involvement (beginning in 2002 -- not, as she now says, in 2001) ... was limited to hearing top state Republicans refer to a "Karl" as the mastermind. Now, suddenly, she says that she met with Rove in person a full year before the later alleged skullduggery and that he "approached her" to ask her to take pictures of Siegelman cheating on his wife.

You'd think, after their shenanigans all but got Dan Rather fired, the producers would be a little more careful when they go "republican hunting" these days.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: cbs; rove; siegelman; simpson
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1 posted on 02/23/2008 8:36:49 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Ping to the newsbusters


2 posted on 02/23/2008 8:40:06 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Like Reagan used to say,”There they go again”.


3 posted on 02/23/2008 8:40:14 AM PST by shiva
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I do not believe this story for one moment. However, if Rove (that magnificent bastard as he is so lovingly called) were guilty of this charge...he would NEVER have someone else do it for him. What do they think he is...stupid? He didn’t get to where he is today by being out and out dumb.


4 posted on 02/23/2008 8:40:15 AM PST by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever fully realize.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Provide photos, please. otherwise, shut up.


5 posted on 02/23/2008 8:42:06 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

CBS: Stuck on stupid!


6 posted on 02/23/2008 8:43:28 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (I was officially Fredbacker1 but now officially Romney1 and still can't change my name)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I quit watching 60 minutes of wasted time when they phonied up the story on exploding gas tanks.


7 posted on 02/23/2008 8:43:31 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: Piquaboy

Actually, I’m pretty sure “Dateline” was the show that faked the exploding gas tanks.


8 posted on 02/23/2008 8:48:06 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Could be! I still don’t waste 60 minutes. As far as I am concerned, “Dateline” is on the same page.


9 posted on 02/23/2008 8:50:24 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: Piquaboy

At least “Dateline” is obsessed with framing sex criminals, not republican politicians.

Who knows? They might accidentally snare Bill Clinton some day.


10 posted on 02/23/2008 8:51:49 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Piquaboy

I believe that was NBC, but CBS has done plenty to support your opinion of them.


11 posted on 02/23/2008 8:52:34 AM PST by HawaiianGecko
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

It’s a lot easier to throw credibility away than to get it back. If they don’t “get” that, they should ask Dan Rather, the New York Times, or Mapes.


12 posted on 02/23/2008 8:53:02 AM PST by GOPJ (Do the editors of the L.A. Times realize that illegal immigration is, you know, illegal? Patterico)
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To: Piquaboy
I think that was NBC and, as I recall, Chevy trucks.

The only thing that keeps CBS going is that NBC has tanked worse overall. It's a race to hit the bottom.

13 posted on 02/23/2008 8:53:02 AM PST by purpleraine
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To: purpleraine

Could be. It has been a long time ago. The big three are all paddling the same sinking canoe.


14 posted on 02/23/2008 8:56:20 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: Piquaboy

Haven’t heard anything from ABC lately. Are they in hiatus?


15 posted on 02/23/2008 8:57:30 AM PST by purpleraine
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
OK, the article would read better if the following substitutions were made:

Larry Flint for Karl Rove

Switch party names in all instances: Republican for Democrat, etc.

There may need to be some additional tweaking from denials to admissions, but you get the idea....

16 posted on 02/23/2008 8:58:07 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: purpleraine

I have not checked on the All Bill Clinton network lately.


17 posted on 02/23/2008 8:58:56 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: Piquaboy
Speaking of CNN, did you see this thread with the dueling headlines?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974994/posts#comment?q=1

18 posted on 02/23/2008 9:00:55 AM PST by purpleraine
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
"60 minutes"

That show is about as fresh as potato salad left out in the sun for a week.

19 posted on 02/23/2008 9:05:40 AM PST by Popman (Gold Standard: Trying to squeeze a 50 lb economy back into a 5 lb bag)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Hi Mr. President, I’m Chris Hansen from Dateline. LOL


20 posted on 02/23/2008 9:11:50 AM PST by JZelle
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