CBS 'Statement' at 3:30 PM est (Update: 5 PM EDT, according to Hannity) (placing bets)

MSNBC

[blogblogginaway]

so MSNBC just reported

[dinasour]

Gulp

[Soul Seeker]

This isn't bad luck for him at all, this woman has already ruined her credibility by parroting Moore & the DNC talking points.

I'm pleased, CBS took my suggestion to put this woman on. This will keep it the forgeries in another news cycle. Perhaps Rather has been taking tips from Kerry.

[glock rocks]

HAHAHAHAHA. Excellent.

[Mike Fieschko]

We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television.

No details about what they did. No specifics.

There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know.

They've been saying that for a week without identifying the corroborating evidence.

No ID of 'people in a position to know' or what their expertise or familiaritywas.

given all the questions about them, we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing."

Trans: we can't prove these are authentic, so we're still digging. A story they've been working for four years.

[JIM O]

Good job Sumner Redstone, you are clearly a wimp.

[Pukin Dog]

A hell of a difference between the words "Accurate" and the word they did NOT use: "AUTHENTIC".

My guess is that the lawyers spent the entire day massaging this blurb until anything incriminating had been removed.

[Samwise]

Martini-drinking-pajama-freepers chasin' down ol' Dan....

puhleeeeeeeeze make mine a margarita.

[mwl1]

We have to be very careful however... it's a trap for the GOP to attack seniors... they vote in record percentages.

[Mike Fieschko]

And, they still haven't shown the actual copies to anyone except the experts they were shopping for, right?

[dep]

... ho ho, to the happy home
with trees and flowers and chirping birds
and basket weavers who sit and smile
and twiddle their thumbs and toes
they're coming to take me away, ha ha.

[AZamericonnie]

But the issue of forgery will not go away. CBS tried to pass off forged documents on the population and someone should have to pay.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

This is kind of a modified hang out. They are implicitly admitting that they were wrong, but can't state that they were negligent.

[snarkytart]

>Well, the secretary WAS willing to talk to the media, and the fact she flew to New York to be with Dan Rather suggests that she is going to finger Bush. It doesn't look good.<


Finger him for what??

Heck, has she ever even met him?

Her first statement to the press she stated that she could not remember anything that Killian said about Bush refusing to take a physical then she changed her story and added more, then she changed it again and added more.

What we have here is a partisan anti-Bush 86 year old who has changed her story THREE times in the last couple of days.
If CBS presents her as a solid credible witness , they are making a bigger joke out their network.

[dinasour]

The Truth is blogging on!

Bravo! The Pajamahadeen now have an anthem.

[NonValueAdded]

I prefer Maryanne Faithful's Ballad Of Lucy Jordan

[dep]

that's right. and not just white coats but nice young men in their clean white coats.

[Congressman Billybob]

Rather is missing? Remember the night that Howard Beale (Finch) was put up on the sofa at William Holden's apartment. The next morning he was gone. Beale showed up at UBN minutes before airtime, with wet matted hair, in a raincoat over his pajamas, and went straight on the air.

That's when he went crazy on the air, walked up to the camera, and urged America to "Go to your windows now. Open them. Yell, "I'm mad as Hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore."

Congressman Billybob

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[AmericanInTokyo]

Re-double their efforts? But...what quantifiable amount does THAT represent??

How could THAT be??? That is a mathematical impossibility...

NE (for New Effort) OE (for Original Effort):

NE = OE x (2) = < 0

[snooker]

And it only took cBS an extra 6 hours to type up this paragraph. I guess their manual typewriters don't do email without help from tech support.

If you ask me the blood on the floor in that conference room is about knee deep right now.

[UncleSamUSA]

I think that now the CBS strategy has degenerated into a kind of ROPE-A-DOPE...

they are just going to hang on to their wretched lie and hope that all the rest of the "partisans" just get tired and give up on attacking them.

Unfortunately, in this Rope-a-Dope, the attackers are getting STRONGER not weaker, the longer it goes on.