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."
Andrew Heyward
Sumner Redstone
Les Moonves
bias outrage!
They think if they just lay low for a few weeks people will forget and they can get out of this
Unbelievable!
Well lets see here are my questions:
1. Who is the source for the fraudulant documents?
2. Who are the experts who vouched for the documents?
3. Has CBS instructed them not to talk to reporters?
"We plead absolutely, 100%, NOT GUILTY."
That's it? This is a stop gap effort to hold off any explanation. The next few hours or days (whichever) should be fun.
My guess, there's a battle going on within CBS.
"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."
Well, if that's the standard, I can write up a pretty damning set of "accurate" documents impeaching CBS's integrity.
I expected him to say that they "misled" by bad information just like 'Bush' took us into war based on misled information on WMD. You know, blame someone else.
They are on the golf course looking for the real memos.
"IT IS NOT THE VALIDITY OF THE EVIDENCE, IT IS RATHER THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE CHARGES!" - Baghdad Dan, 9/25/04
No matter what, Dan Rather will not be fired, forced to step aside, or in any way suffer any official sanction from CBS. Underlings will be the scapegoats. Mark my words.
And find her a nice old Olympia typewriter.
Evidentally unaware of the existence of the scholarly legal expert Hugh Hewitt, who does a fine talk show in his pajamas.
I can see this poor old 86 year old secretary typing away furiously on her Olympic, as Rather stands over her yelling..NO!!!! THAT DOESN'T MATCH!!! DO IT AGAIN!!!
But Mr. Rather, my fingers are starting to cram...I SAID DO IT AGAIN!!!
We all know that Haywood is a Rather placement and therefore sycophant.
Translation: "Our standards are pretty damned low and we will put anything on television that fits our political agenda."
There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know.
Translation: "We listened to those individuals who said what we wanted to hear and totally ignored all others including Colonel Killian's family."
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: "We were caught red-handed in a fraud but we have decided to stall for time to see if there is any possible way we can weasel out of this."
Twice nothing is still nothing.
It's saying something when a news organization is so easily satisfied with what were obvious forgeries.
There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know.
And there was a great deal of conflicting evidence from people in a position to know, e.g. document experts, Killian's family, Killian's co-workers, which you failed to mention. How do you explain that?
i'd RATher fight than switch!!!
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