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Posted on 09/15/2004 3:14:07 PM PDT by RWR8189
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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."
CBS is institutionally flawed, and needs to die. Arthur Anderson did.
Yeah, what a leap of logic. The documents are the CONCRETE PROOF that the conclusions are correct. But wait, the documents are forged. Oh, well, the CONCLUSIONS are the CONCRETE PROOF that the content of the memos is "accurrate".
From Powerline
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
Statement and translation
Andrew Heyward is the president of CBS News. Here's his statement today:
"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."
Translation: CBS has played its cards; it holds none. CBS now undertakes efforts to discover evidence bolstering a story that has blown up in its face. Its efforts should be redirected to facing reality and acknowledging culpability. It is now at the least complicit in a fraud of monumental proportions. (Courtesy of NRO's Kerry Spot.)
HINDROCKET adds: Here is my theory. The documents are forged; we know it, CBS knows it, everyone knows it. So that is the context in which CBS is trying to figure out its next move. The general direction seems clear--they want to say that the documents may not be authentic, but the sentiments they reflect are true. So what they have "redoubled," in Heyward's words, is their longstanding effort to get the goods on President Bush's National Guard service. In short, they are going to retroactively try to create the story that they wanted, but couldn't get, and therefore settled for the forgeries.
Will it work? Yes, in the sense that they will be able to do something other than admit guilt, apologize, and fire Dan Rather. No, in that everyone will know that CBS prostituted itself to try to help John Kerry, and on one--that is, no one who is not already a virulent Bush hater--cares about Bush's National Guard service, especially given that 1) he flew fighter aircraft, which everyone admires, and 2) he completed his service and was honorably discharged.
URGENT UPDATE: Drudge is reporting--with the rotating red light--that the forged documents have been traced to a Kinko's in Texas. CBS may have run out of time.
FURTHER UPDATE: The Washington Post says that "there is only one Kinko's in Abilene, and it is 21 miles from the Baird, Tex., home of retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett, who has been named by several news outlets as a possible source for the documents." And it seems that Burkett has an account at the Kinko's in Abilene.
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This nut from abeline is their "unimpeachable source"???
remember guinness, its not the facts, but the seriousness of the charge.
Thought Dan declared: NO Investigation why should there be? LOLOL Accurate? Authentic? Fraudulent? Felonius? Such nice words to play with...
-> "There was a great deal of coroborating"
The 3 laws of corobotics:
1. Broadcaste corobots must never harm a leftwinger
2. Everyone else is fair game
3. Corobots are always right
Similar to what some earlier posters have done, let’s take a look- a very close look- at the Andrew Heyward’s first two sentences. The passage looks curiously clintonesque, like highly lawyered, finely parsed sophistry.
The first sentence,
…”We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television…”
could actually mean that CBS is “satisfied” with the forgery. Also, note the past tense. It might also mean that at one point in time, CBS established the accuracy of the memos; that is, before they realized they were forgeries and ran the story anyway. Or, even that their standards for “satisfaction” are so low, that forgeries are just fine.
The second sentence,
…”There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know…”
can be totally different from stating that the evidence was completely (or even adequately) corroborated. The corroborating evidence could have been long-since discredited, and still qualify for this particularly vague CBS sentence.
Also, I’m no Sherlock Holmes, but I do think that the misspelling of the word “corroborate” is significant. When I have a misspelling in a document, it’s probably the last word I was playing with before saving the piece, and thus the most likely to be left out of a spell check. Following this line of logic, they were most worried about this one word. Perhaps, if we examine the synonyms of “corroborate” we find some clues. While corroborate can mean confirm, it can also mean the highly squishy terms “strengthen” or “support”.
And the subsequent phrase, “…people in a position to know.” is substantively different from writing “people who know.” Perhaps a two-dollar call to Madam Cleo might even meet Mssrs . Rather and Heyward’s vague evidence standards as described in this passage.
All are welcome to take these deliberations and musings farther. (Apologies to anyone who may have already posted any of these analyses. I haven’t read all of the related posts.)
Then where are the resignations? I hold EVERY CBS employee accountable who continues to support this farce by working for these liars. Honest people would be leaving CBS in droves.
I think Vinomori is right. The CBS legal department is in control now. They are buying more time to sort out their options.
They don't have very many good choices.
Then where are the resignations? I hold EVERY CBS employee accountable who continues to support this farce by working for these liars. Honest people would be leaving CBS in droves.
You don't have to have principles to squirm.
I was in the service in 1971-1972, and all branches of the military were frantically trying to offload people at the time. I got a 7 month "early out", and it doesn't bother me a bit if President Bush got one too.
Neither does it bother me if he "pulled some strings" to get into the Guard in the first place. That's the way it was done back then - you had to know somebody to get into the Guard.
If you didn't know anybody, you got drafted like I did. That's just the way it was. I'm not saying Bush used family influence to get into the Guard, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did. I just don't care one way or the other.
LOL!
"We've reached our political conclusions and we'll be damned if some pajama wearing yahoos on Free Republic are going to make us admit the forgeries are forgeries!"
To anyone interested in putting heat on CBS send an email to the following address. It's for the station manager at WFVR in Green Bay Wi. He is bundling them up to send on to CBS in New York. The station manager was very receptive, seemed frustrated that they are not having any impact on the CBS Politburo, but that "complaints from viewers help".
kidderp@wfvr.cbs.com
By the way I bet if we analyze the address we can guess Gunga Dans email address too.
Kerry Spot is reporting someone called the Kinko's and confirmed Burkett has an account there and used them last week. Thats a "shack" as we used to say in the Air force.
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