"You're traveling through another dimension,
a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind;
a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are
that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead-
- your next stop . . .
The Twilight Zone!"
Posted on 09/18/2004 7:27:43 PM PDT by jhouston
In the early-morning hours of Sept. 8, Dan Rather was preparing to fly to Washington for a crucial interview in the Old Executive Office Building, but torrential rain kept him in New York.
White House communications director Dan Bartlett had agreed to talk to "60 Minutes," but only on condition that the CBS program provide copies of what were being billed as newly unearthed memos indicating that President Bush had received preferential treatment in the National Guard. The papers were hand-delivered at 7:45 a.m. CBS correspondent John Roberts, filling in for Rather, sat down with Bartlett at 11:15.
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Dan Rather and Ben Barnes go back a long ways. They just didn't suddenly meet each other on the phone 3 weeks ago.
It's no coincidence every key player on the higher escheleon on the left had the same talking points at the same time.
Yeah, this whole CBS thing has been very "Clintonesque."
O'Reilly: If you forge documents are you a forger?
Rather: Well, no I wouldn't go that far Bill.
O'Reilly: (incredously) If you forge documents your not a forger?!? Really?
Rather: Some people might make a mistake and forge them once or twice, but I wouldn't give them that label, no.
O'Reilly: But these documents were forged with the intent to bring down a sitting President in a time of war.
Rather: I'd like to break that story if it's true.
O'Reilly: If they turn out to be forged you wouldn't label the person who forged them a forger? Or at least a criminal?
Rather: No, Bill I wouldn't. I mean, you have to look at the seriousness of these allegations. There are questions that need to be answered. The criminal here may turn out to be Bush.
O'Reilly: (punches Rather)
This was a political issue and if our President had used government resources to comment on it he would have been guilty of converting government money for his own personal use.
During the Watergate scandal and Clinton administration, the use of government resources for political aims was exactly what happened. The MSM has been conditioned to expect that "everyone does it". However, that's a false assumption.
Ask a silly question--get a silly answer...
With reference to your "Of course Howie had to get in a dig in the last couple of sentences. Has to repeat the "but the story is true"
line." That is standard Washington Post policy, closing a story in such a fashion as to let the writer tell his/her customary liberal reader that the writer doesn't support any conservative position on any matter being written about.
Agreed, partially: Burkett seems implicated but may not be exclusively responsible for the forgeries. However, as an Army, not an Air Force, officer, he'd miss exactly the same abbreviation-differences that appear in the memos.
Barnes saw or KNEW of the documents' existence. If this was all part of a master plan (60 Mins. covering Barnes and documents, Kitty Kelly's Book, Dems' new ad on Bush cop-out, attacks by Senate & House Dems all as prelude to MSM-debates), why would Barnes doubt his instructions from Kerry Camp or DNC?
I agree with you. The net has become the national "Town Hall", as well as "Truth Squad" of sorts. It's what the Founding Fathers meant by the 1st. Amendment, not the constriction of information as practiced by the MSM.
The MSM is dead. Long live the MSM.
Even based on the Post's rather generous treatment of 60 Minutes staff's incompetency, the complicity of CBS in a fraud appears even MORE LIKELY. They raced to this conclusion eyeswideshut for no reason other than that they trusted the "vetting" process to the countless "HEADS" running Kerry's campaign. How else could a journalist defend a forgery by defending the "truth" it meant to convey? By appealing to the public to PROVE US WRONG on this rumor about Bush's truncated service? We passed Wonderland about four exits back.
And possibly the same source who recommended ignoring the family of the dead memo-writer who kept his personal files in a safety deposit box to which only Democrats had the key.
Honesty's awfully underrated.
Would YOU trust Cleland with ANY job--much less a "secret" job?
I'm sure the word "forgery" has some obscure legal meaning that doesn't apply to fake documents cited in news stories. So Burkett may not be guilty of forgery.
Now all he needs is a few certified document experts that agree with him.
English Translation: Barnes said that the Kerry campaign was frantic over Kerry's plumeting poll numbers and had decided that they could not wait until October for CBS to release their October Surprise.
Okay, I can accept that; but I am almost positive that in a very early thread someone made the comment that CBS showed up in the header because they (CBS) faxed them to the WH. My point was, I guess, that this was the first time I had heard they were hand-delivered.
"You're traveling through another dimension,
a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind;
a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are
that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead-
- your next stop . . .
The Twilight Zone!"
******
"This race is tight like a too-small bathing suit on a too-long ride home from the beach."
"This race is as tight as the rusted lug nuts on a '55 Ford."
What a strango, Dan is.
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