Posted on 09/20/2004 11:54:38 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
'There are a number of serious questions that remain unanswered and they need to be answered,' says White House spokesman Scott McClellan.
'Bill Burkett, who CBS says now was their source, is not an unimpeachable source, as CBS has claimed.'
'There are news reports of Burkett having senior level contact with the Kerry campaign. That raises questions.'
'What were those contacts and what was discussed? Who is the original source of the documents?'
'Who is responsible for forging these documents?
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I've heard Cleland is now a short story palm reader.....
More hell points again!
You got it! He must be wringing his...ummm...
RNC response:
Washington, DC--Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie issued the following statement on CBS’s admission today that memos regarding the President’s National Guard service are not real.
“We accept CBS's apology for a breach of the journalistic standards that provide the American people confidence in news organizations, but some disturbing questions remain unanswered.
“CBS has now answered questions about the authenticity of the documents but questions remain surrounding who created the documents, who provided them to CBS and if Senator Kerry's supporters, Party committee, or campaign played any role.
“Did Bill Burkett, Democrat activist and Kerry campaign supporter, who passed information to the DNC, work with Kerry campaign surrogate Max Cleland? Did Bill Burkett's talks with ‘senior’ Kerry campaign officials include discussions of the now discredited documents? Was the launch of the Democrat National Committee's Operation Fortunate Son designed with knowledge of the faked forged memos? Terry McAuliffe said yesterday that no one at the DNC or Kerry campaign, ‘had anything to do with the preparations of the documents,’ but what about the distribution or dissemination?
“In an effort to regain the trust of the American people CBS should not only investigate the process that led to the use of these documents but they should identify immediately those engaged in possible criminal activity who attempted to use a news organization to affect the outcome of a Presidential election in its closing days.”
In a rarely seen defensive manuever dating to western colonial expansion, the Kerry Campaign recognizing the dangers of this attack regarding memos, the Kerry campaign has set up a circling of Cleland.
Yes, and he'd better be able to back up his claim, or within minutes fifty people who know better will be all over him like white on rice.
That explains the red marks.
I thought it was from 12' poles.
Well, at least he can't step on his own.........uhmmmmmm?
Me too. He's such a horse's ass. Now, though, he's finally going to finish blowing himself up.
He is dandy in that there's no better anchor out there who knows how to sugarcoat documents alleging sugarcoating than the one who commits cereal (as in serial) forgery.
How 'bout one of you creative FREEPERS provide a cereal box w/Dandy Dan's pix on it with the words: "Texas Toast: The Best Sugarcoated Serial Imitation on the mass market (artificial intelligence & ingredients only). Where the brand name appears, just put: "CBS: Forging Ahead!"
Wheel see.
And I helped!
Brian Williams just had one of those buggy whip epiphany's.
When your backs' against the wall, prevail upon the Clinton spinner mantra that got him off the hook.
No TiVo here, but it is seared, seared in my mind. :)
Well, at least he can't step on his own.........uhmmmmmm?
I give...you win...Let's all give him a hand!
Journalistically speaking, investigative teams only work in offices where there's not a royal monarchy in place.
It ain't all that hard. It's a matter of effort and desire once you have mastered the five minutes of the basics.
Stop, my stomach is starting to hurt from too much laughing.
Williams fancies himself a journalist? He's just another blow-dried teleprompter reader.
UNFIT FOR COMMAND stayed # 1 for a month, and it's still listed at # 9.
I've gotta stop. I've brought more bad Karma on me than Boy George in the 80's.
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