Best Howard Cosell voice : DOWN GOES KERRY DOWN GOES KERRY!
I've got a question...been listening and reading all morning. Remember Hillery had all those files brought over to the WH from the FBI. I remember hearing that all top GOP were in the heist. What was the name of the guy who was in charge of security at that time? He has kind of disappeared since then. Could this be a connection?
Paging one Mad Max Cleland.
OUCH! That's gonna leave a scar.
Chris Lehane is more than likely behind this. He was Gore's dirty tricks guy and now works for Kerry. Lehane was the one who leaked the DWI the last week of the campaign.
I don't know if they are just pathetically funny or just pathetic...
I called CBS News at 212-975-3691 and asked "Why Dan Rather's statement did not include an apology to the American People and the President"
Answer: "I don't believe the President wants an apology"
CLICK !
Hunter Thompson once said that Nixon's idea of a good joke was a paraplegic who couldn't reach high enough to vote Democratic. But Max just made himself the joke and ensured many folks won’t be reaching for that demo-lever on 11/2. The post-op on this will be fascinating. It’s going to look a lot like an old “Fugitive” rerun. Who was that one-armed man?
***'There are news reports of Burkett having senior level contact with the Kerry campaign. That raises questions.'***
EXCELLENT!
CLINTON'S people [i.e. Lockhart] come on board Kerry's campaign & this all happens. I wonder...
CBS arranged for meeting with Lockhart
By Kevin Johnson, Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — CBS arranged for a confidential source to talk with Joe Lockhart, a top aide to John Kerry, after the source provided the network with the now-disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard.
John Kerry aide Joe Lockhart, shown here in 1998, chatted with a former Texas National Guard officer, whose number CBS provided.
AP
Lockhart, the former press secretary to President Clinton, said a producer talked to him about the 60 Minutes program a few days before it aired on Sept. 8. She gave Lockhart a telephone number and asked him to call Bill Burkett, a former Texas National Guard officer who gave CBS the documents. Lockhart couldn't recall the producer's name. But CBS said Monday night that it would examine the role of producer Mary Mapes in passing the name to Lockhart.
Burkett told USA TODAY that he had agreed to turn over the documents to CBS if the network would arrange a conversation with the Kerry campaign.
The network's effort to place Burkett in contact with a top Democratic official raises ethical questions about CBS' handling of material potentially damaging to the Republican president in the midst of an election. This "poses a real danger to the potential credibility ... of a news organization," said Aly Colón, a news ethicist at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
"At Burkett's request, we gave his (telephone) number to the campaign," said Betsy West, senior CBS News vice president.
CBS would not discuss the propriety of the network serving as a conduit between Burkett and the Kerry campaign. "It was not part of any deal" to obtain the documents, West said, declining to elaborate.
But Burkett said Monday that his contact with Lockhart was indeed part of an "understanding" with CBS. Burkett said his interest in contacting the campaign was to offer advice in responding to Republican criticisms about Kerry's Vietnam service. It had nothing to do with the documents, he said.