Posted on 09/15/2004 3:14:07 PM PDT by RWR8189
Edited on 09/15/2004 3:16:05 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Statement by the President of CBS News, Andrew Heyward:
"We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television. There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know. Having said that, given all the questions about them, we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing."
So, lets just move on and be happy.
Like we're idiots or something lower.
First, the folks at CBS are total partisans and could care less about the truth. For purposes of the more intelligent discussion that takes place here: There is a huge difference between a couple of questionable characters saying inflammatory things about a president (which is all CBS really had) and a story claiming to be presenting documentary evidence proving those otherwise questionable characters are telling the God's honest truth.
This has now gone from the "dog ate my homework" to "I stand by my plagiarized book report."
Boycott CBS News and CBS.com and all sponsors now !! It's circle-the-wagons time for them !!!
This is actually a good strategy on the part of CBS. Just hold out until Ivan can knock Memogate onto the back burner.
What a nothing-burger. Why did it take all day to produce this drivel? The law of unintended consequences will continue to apply...CBS will continue to injure the Kerry campaign.
I was hoping you would weigh in on this since I value your opinion on this as much as anyone I know! CBS is going to wish they had fired Rather and not continued to go down this path IMHO unless like you said admitting a little is actually worse.
Now I have to wonder how much on-air reporting that Rather has done over the years is based on lies and falsehoods as he projected what the news "should" be according to Rather and ignored facts all along his career path.
1) we thought the docs were authentic -- duh. They can't admit anything else.
2) "we should redouble our efforts" -- meaningless. What does this mean? Nothing. It's not an internal CBS investigation. CBS is not promising to release information. Working twice as hard at the coverup as they've been doing previously is not an improvement!
This statement is EMPTY, it's WORTHLESS.
I think you are exactly right. That's why there were so many delays today. Heyward's statment was the only thing they could agree on. It is going to be very interesting.
Where's Dan?
Rush used to speak of putting a sign up on the bottom of your TV when Clinton was on TV as a friendly reminder of his trouble with the truth. Perhaps we all now need to put a sign on our TV's when the CBS news is on that says "Possible work of fiction."
CBS To The Truth: "Go To Hell!"
Ahhh, so *now* you see the light...after first claiming that Senator Kerry would have to *invent* people like me to keep this story on the front burners...
Lets see, your old theory was that the Kerry Campaign itself actually *wanted* this story to somehow magically "distract" the public from his Senate record, yes?!
Oh please...
The AWB Has Expired - Gun Owners Have Won Again For All Americans!
This is a joke right?
Where's Dan? He's that dead duck in the foreground...
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