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To: Truth Table
..And if the memo was a plant by conservatives, why is CBS hiding the source?

My guess is that the more plausible conspiracy angle will be this: that the White House came in possession of the documents (my understanding is that they had been given them by CBS so that the WH would grant permission for their release) and after examining the documents the WH realized there were significant problems with them and that they were likely fakes. But they didn't bother saying anything about it. Why should they? Instead, as the conspiracy theory would go, they decided to wait and let doubts be raised via the internet once the 60 Minutes show aired (in this case through a certain Freeper going by the name Buckhead).

Plausible? To be honest, i think it is. And if it did happen this way, i say good for the WH and i also say that CBS got what was coming to them. CBS were the ones with the responsibility to check out the documents and verify them. Not the WH. And by not checking them out in a thorough manner (or more to the point by ignoring doubts raised by their own experts) they deserve to be humiliated and exposed as the Republican hating organization that they are.

311 posted on 09/17/2004 5:02:51 PM PDT by Humbug (please don't read this tag yet...it's not quite ready)
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To: Humbug
My guess is that the more plausible conspiracy angle... But this does not define a conspiracy on the part of the WH or RNC or conservative 527s. It just shows that the WH is smarter than liberals in the media, recoginized that the docs were forged, and decided to let the libs hang themselves with it. This would presuppose that the WH would take a gamble that someone else would find out and expose it. In any event, I would say that this new DU angle will get about zero news coverage, because even danny said that political partisans were out to discredit him. I would only be worried about Buckhead's saftey.
406 posted on 09/17/2004 5:31:17 PM PDT by Truth Table
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