Fox News to break forged document story

Fox News | 9/9/2004 | Fox News

[Semper Paratus]

Brit Hume announced story coming up now on National Guard docmunents

[Howlin]

Did ABC News actually talk about the documents maybe being fakes???

[IrishGOP]

ABCNEWS says their doc experts raised doubts too

uh oh, their friends are walking away from them too.

[JusPasenThru]

Don't set on stun.

Set on kill.


(A metaphor. No physical violence actually advocated.)

[aft_lizard]

Not to mention it is Military standard, at least army standard that you only print the first 3 letters of a month.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

and then lie, lie, lie, spin, spin, spin and then attack.

Is that sort of like, "Ho! Ha ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin!"......splash.

[EggsAckley]

Pure gold is RIGHT!

Hey Jim, maybe it's a good time to hold a (slightly-early) FR fundraiser.....!?! I'll bet the response would be outrageous.

[GailA]

The Medicare premiums that John Kerry is attacking are mandated by a formula that John Kerry voted for. This formula is set in law and based on the cost of healthcare. That is why the President is focused on reducing the underlying costs of our healthcare system. John Kerry is focused on transferring those costs to taxpayers.

· The formula increase announced last week for Medicare Part B is the product of a legislatively mandated formula passed by Congress and was supported by Sen. John Kerry in The Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

· Since the early 1980s, Congress regularly voted to set the Part B premium equal to 25% of program costs and The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 made the formula permanent.

· Based on this law, each year the Medicare Actuary makes a preliminary estimate of the following year’s monthly premium which is included in the Medicare Trustees report issued in March. The final number is statutorily required to be released in September, and this is the number that was released on September 3.

· The new premiums include enhanced Medicare benefits that are providing seniors and people with disabilities with strengthened access to physician services and new preventive benefits, such as the new 'Welcome to Medicare' physical and screening exams, as well as improved Medicare Advantage plan choices that reduce beneficiaries' health care costs.

· The new premiums reflect increased health care costs, and the best way to reduce the rate of increase in Medicare premiums is to reduce the cost of health care.

· The President is attacking the root causes of rising health care costs by proposing a broad health care technology initiative, common sense medical liability reform, and providing consumer-driven health care to put the patient and the doctor back in control of health care decisions through Health Savings Accounts. The President's proposals for Association Health Plans would also allow small businesses to pool their resources to receive the discounts normally available to large companies.

[Maria S]

Farrell Shiver website

http://www.documentlab.com/qualific.htm

Qualifications
The Shiver & Nelson Document Investigation Laboratory is owned by Farrell C. Shiver. His qualifications in the field of forensic document examination include:

[Howlin]

Yup, yup, that's us; idiots of the VRWC!

[sarasota]

DU'ers are verging on mass hysteria and don't want anyone to see them beat their breasts and howl at the moon!

[thingumbob]

Rather is still stinging from that interview he had with Bush 1 back in 88' (remember the comment about Rather walking off the set that GWH Bush made)

.....He thought he was gonna nail Dubya for payback .....now Oh danny boy looks like he's Rather-biased.

[CFC__VRWC]

Blather is to address the 60 Minutes story any moment now. Teased it as saying the Republicans are on the attack.

What's he gonna say, that the Freepers are on Karl Rove's payroll? If so, I'm making a pissed off phone call to the WH first thing tomorrow morning. I'm missing a few checks for services renedered.

[mcg1969]

Actually, I figured the other MSM networks would be torn about this. On one hand, they would love to pound on Bush. But on the OTHER hand, they would also like to be able to pound on one of their competitors for such an obvious fraud. Ratings are ratings you know.

[Joe Hadenuf]

CBS won't say. They also won't say who their 'expert' is.

Seems to me, if the docs become commonly known as being forgeries, CBS will be compelled to say who provided them with the documents. At least to save face and or to shift blame.

If the docs are indeed thought to be forgeries, then it needs to be determined who was behind it, who allegedly found them.

[Stentor]

Brit said they typed the memos in the newsroom on MS WORD and it matched! hahahahaha

That was done here hours ago.

[TomGuy]

Brit's panel to discuss the documents after current break.

[Hi Heels]

Wow. What a great day. And what a great job by the Freepers. Well done. Really. I'm in awe.....

*curtsies*

[mewzilla]

I'm beginning to wonder if the Kerry campaign was set up. And I DON'T mean by the Pubbies.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

That wouldn't explain the signatures.

The signatures are an obvious cut & paste.

[Dysart]

Ironic, isn't it, that CBS and the Dem's seemed to be caught having "rushed to (political) war based on faulty intelligence".

That is the most favorable scenario for them too-- I suspect something more sinister.