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

To: NonValueAdded

Bush called the governors of the impacted states

Hurricane Jeanne up next

Lou Miliano with Martha Stewart wants to serve time now

NHL lockout story

Down day on Wall Street

commercial break

621 posted on 09/15/2004 2:03:16 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (hey, hey, ho, ho ... Kerry, sign the one-eight-oh!)

To: ~Vor~; Calpernia

There is a real letter:

___________________________________________________________

Letter to Chairman Fred Upton
By Rep. Christopher Cox (R-California)
CNSNews.com Information Services
September 15, 2004

(Editor's note: What follows is the text of a letter requesting that the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications investigate CBS News's use of apparently forged documents in a "60 Minutes II" report critical of President Bush's National Guard service.)

September 14, 2004

The Honorable Fred Upton
Chairman
Subcommittee on Telecommunications

HAND-DELIVERED

Dear Chairman Upton:

This is a request that you commence a Subcommittee investigation into the continued use by CBS News of apparently forged of documents concerning the service record of President George W. Bush intended to unfairly damage his reputation and influence the outcome of the 2004 presidential election.

In February 2001, the Energy & Commerce Committee held hearings calling the television networks to account for irresponsibly (and inaccurately) calling the outcome of the presidential election in Florida before the polls had closed. At those hearings, CBS News vowed that the competitive drive to get the story first would be subordinated to "making sure we are correct," given that the stakes -- the outcome of the presidential election -- were so high.

On September 14, 2004, the Dallas Morning News reported that the secretary who purportedly typed the documents used by CBS News to criticize the President's service in the National Guard stated, "These are not real." The Washington Post of the same day reported that contrary to representations by CBS News, the expert retained by the network to examine the disputed memos "made no attempt to authenticate the documents" -- and, according to the expert, "there is no way that I, as a document expert, can authenticate them." The Post's own examination of the documents found "dozens of inconsistencies" indicating forgery or tampering. "I am personally 100 percent sure that they are fake," the Post quoted a computer document expert as saying.

Despite the growing abundance of evidence that CBS News has aided and abetted fraud, the network has declined to reveal the source of the disputed documents. USA Today possesses the same documents, obtained independently from a person representing them to be authentic, and likewise is refusing to disclose his identity.

Given the shortness of time between now and the election which the apparent fraud is meant to influence, and the even shorter time before Congress is scheduled to adjourn, 1 strongly urge that the Subcommittee move with all deliberate speed to uncover the facts. Thank you for your attention to this important matter within the Subcommittee's jurisdiction.

Christopher Cox
U.S.Representative

622 posted on 09/15/2004 2:03:26 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)

To: NonValueAdded

Let's go, CBS, I can't stay in my jammies all day. Listening to 5 PM CBS Radio news (for the last time). Leading off with Ivan. No sign of Dan yet.

Interesting, I listen to CBS radio news and Dan usually does the 5pm radio news. Is he still in the meeting with the suits and lawyers?
Or still chained to the anchor desk?

623 posted on 09/15/2004 2:03:44 PM PDT by GeorgiaYankee (Now Playing: Dan Rather in "Attack of the Pajama People")

CBS is late....just like Kerry is to all his campaign stops. Hmm.

624 posted on 09/15/2004 2:04:04 PM PDT by Loopy Picklefink (All your votes are belong to us! Bush/Cheney '04)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

626 posted on 09/15/2004 2:04:52 PM PDT by ~Vor~ (Four More Years!)

To: hispanarepublicana

I wonder if Sorros and the MoveOn boys went short on Viacom stock a day or two ago.

627 posted on 09/15/2004 2:04:59 PM PDT by San Jacinto ("This is Dan Rather---'forging' ahead'")

c bs is not welcome in my home. So I will depend on you guys for a report.

628 posted on 09/15/2004 2:05:49 PM PDT by JFC

To: GeorgiaYankee

Dan is curled up in a fetal position under his anchor desk! Shchiefer's been brought in to kick him in the ribs!

629 posted on 09/15/2004 2:05:52 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (Miss Free Republic High School-1986)

To: GeorgiaYankee

CBS radio news continues

Tire story ... consumers aren't smart enough to check their own air ... proposed federal rule

Nat'l zoo ... panda not pregnant

Bill Whitney signs off ...

C^{^BS} Bull$hat at the speed of light^{^™}

630 posted on 09/15/2004 2:05:57 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (hey, hey, ho, ho ... Kerry, sign the one-eight-oh!)

To: dixiechick2000

I think we will hear breaking news that Dan RATher has been rushed to Medical Center due to severe chest pains. He is unable to comment on the memo story due to his medical condition..... time passes (SeeBS hopes story dies) and Dan takes retirement due to 'health concerns'.

631 posted on 09/15/2004 2:06:00 PM PDT by antceecee (MSM...time after time after time after time they tell lie after lie after lie after lie.)

Future headline:

Soviet health care comes to US; strikes down S(l)ick Willie and Dan Blather. Hitlery claims no knowledge

632 posted on 09/15/2004 2:08:04 PM PDT by steveegg (C-BS, w/Dan Blather - the official network and anchor of the Clintonistas and Ketchup/Breck)

To: dubyaismypresident

Call me crazy but the "source" is one of Hillary's goons, the palace coup against John Kerry has been completed and poor Captain Dan is collateral damage.

I agree. That's the only possiblity that makes sense to me. The forgery is just TOO damn OBVIOUS -- whoever created/submitted them HAD to know they would be questioned/debunked. Rove/RNC would never have risked that; DNC (Kerry camp) would have seen that it would backfire. It's just too far fetched that none of the conspirotors suspected this would be challenged.

633 posted on 09/15/2004 2:08:12 PM PDT by Murph

To: GeorgiaYankee; TankerKC; Buckhead; Howlin

Here's to TankerKC and Buckhead, the Woodward and Bernstein of the Blogosphere!

Amen to that....what a happening!

634 posted on 09/15/2004 2:08:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)

THEY WILL BLAME US RIGHT WINGERS. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS. WE GET THE BLAME.

635 posted on 09/15/2004 2:09:00 PM PDT by JFC

That's better than anything I have
been able to come up with. ;o)

636 posted on 09/15/2004 2:09:08 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (President Bush is a mensch in cowboy boots.)

I fell asleep waiting what did I miss? yawwwwwn.

637 posted on 09/15/2004 2:09:13 PM PDT by hope (Let no man deceive you!)

A watched crack-pot never boils...

638 posted on 09/15/2004 2:09:52 PM PDT by P H Lewis ("I wish somebody would tell me what diddy-wah-diddy means." - Blind Arthur Blake)

Right, but if the forgeries are too obvious, how did they think they'd get them past CBS? unless cbs is in cahoots with Hillary!

639 posted on 09/15/2004 2:10:29 PM PDT by freakboy

Me thinks Dan the man has been smokin too much crack.

640 posted on 09/15/2004 2:10:57 PM PDT by hope (Let no man deceive you!)

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