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]
While I agree that there does seem to be an internal struggle as demonstrated by the delay, I suspect that the language given means that the folks at CBS News are part of the problem and ViaCOM & CBS Corporate execs are the ones trying to resolve this without any more damage to the company.
The real interesting question was what kind of threats of "whistle blowing" were made to get this compormise language to be agreed to? Will Drudge get a juicy leak from a home computer tonight from a disgruntaled CBS employee? Inquiring minds want to know!
I'm looking for e-mail addresses for CBS News too.
Pajamarazzi!
Well, if you're an NR reader I'm inclined to overlook it. Of course Geraghty should be more careful...
Dan just stumbled over the words about the " memo controversy" going into commercial break. He couldnn't say "Republicans in Congress". He's shaky!
Bookmarking your letter, will send similar to my local tomorrow.
Im sure they dump the emails but its worth the try . They got off the phone with me in 10 seconds just now once i began to state my case with them..EVERYONE needs to call and write . The girl who answered the phone sounded pretty worn out. I 'm loving this
I wouldn't be surprised if he had a complete nervous breakdown.
Perfect.
No one can translate liberal doublespeak like FReepers can.
You forgot oil and Osama's family....
I want a new pair of pajamas and a corner office with a view..
E-mail dumps? Hmm. They've been responding to the favorable ones, I'm betting they're at least counting the negative ones.
BTW, why doesn't Charles Krauthammer pull out his MD/psychiatry degree and psychoanalyze what's going on inside CBS?
More good stuff via Tim Blair -
When things get mysterious, turn to a mystery writer. Here’s Roger L. Simon:
The question at the top of my list right now, given this latest report from ABC that the producers at CBS were not very interested in the warnings of their own experts, is the obvious ... Was CBS working alone?
Nathan Moore might be able to help with that, via his alert Tennessee radio-monitoring friend Bob Krumm:
Veteran Nashville broadcaster, Teddy Bart on his daily radio show, “Teddy Bart’s Roundtable” may have given us a clue about who knew about the documents nearly a month ago. It appears that Bob Tuke, who was a guest on the show on August 11th knew that something was about to happen with regard to President Bush’s alleged failure to show up for a physical examination.
Teddy referenced the episode yesterday (September 9th) when 42:13 seconds into the show he said, “Listeners to the Roundtable will note that something was going to come because Bob Tuke, who is a Nashville attorney and significant in the Kerry campaign in Tennessee, told us about three weeks ago that um there was going to be some document, or implied that there will be a document about Bush’s missing time in the Alabama National Guard, in the National Guard, and that somebody was going to come forward with a document. So it did happen, and uh 60 Minutes had it.”
Nathan, who has an audio link to the Teddy Bart episode in question, writes:
What was obvious to Teddy Bart even a month ago was that Bob Tuke was aware of a pending document that would shed a damaging light on President Bush’s time in the National Guard. But how would Bob Tuke know? Sure, he’s well-known in Tennessee Democrat circles, but he’s not that high up in the Kerry organization. If I were a budding journalist wanting to make a name for myself, I’d sure like to ask Bob Tuke, what did you know and when did you know it?
And then there’s this, from John Ellis:
If you traveled in certain circles on the East Coast this past summer, the one story you heard over and over again was that Ben Barnes had the goods on George W. Bush's National Guard record and that CBS News was going to break the story on "60 Minutes." I must have heard this story four or five times, including once from an investment banker who claimed to have heard it from Barnes himself.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports:
An opposition research staffer for the Democratic National Committee is said to have received the documents from a retired military officer six weeks ago. Senior DNC and Kerry staff members are said to have reviewed them, the latter supposedly passing them on to "60 Minutes."
Should these memos prove to be the forgeries some think they are, John Kerry will have dug his political grave. So, too, the Democratic Party.
The "retired military officer" mention ties neatly with Bill Burkett, whose connection to the memos was overnight firmed up by the New York Times:
One person at CBS, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed a report in Newsweek that Bill Burkett, a retired National Guard officer who has charged that senior aides to then-Gov. Bush had ordered Guard officials to remove damaging information from Mr. Bush's military personnel files, had been a source of the report. This person did not know the exact role he played.
Nothing confirmed at present, but this is all creeping closer and closer to the DNC. Or, if you believe Dan Rather -- and nobody will, ever again, about anything -- it’s the devious work of those amazing Bush geniuses:
According to a CBS News producer operating out of the network's 57th Street facilities, Rather and his supporters now believe the controversy surrounding the four discredited Texas National Guard memos has been engineered by the Bush campaign.
"In the end, it probably doesn't matter," says the CBS News producer. "We're sunk. Our reputations have been impugned, and if we didn't look like we were shilling for Kerry a week ago, we look like we're trying to at least protect a source who gave us these documents who
gave us these documents who might be supportive of Kerry or at least the Democratic Party."
http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/007485.php
It seems a little incestuous for Dan to cover a story when HE IS ths story.
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