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Report: CBS Memo-Kerry Campaign Connection Deeper?
Washington Dispatch ^
| 9/24/04
| CK Rairden
Posted on 09/24/2004 1:46:05 AM PDT by kattracks
The Drudge Report is running a front page item early Friday morning claiming that Bill Burkett is now directly contradicting what Joe Lockhart has been saying the past few days about his contact with Burkett. Remember Lockharts story that he called Burkett at the request of CBS News and all they discussed were the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth? No mention of the documents according to Lockhart, just a harmless 3-4 minute conversation about the SwiftVets[snip]
It will be very difficult to tell who is actually telling the truth in this mess, but a simple check of phone records could easily establish how many times Burkett and Lockhart talked on the phone and for how long.
And while Lockhart will likely be reluctant to divulge his, Burkett may want his public to prove his case.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbskerry; rathergate; webofconnections
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posted on
09/24/2004 1:46:05 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
To: kattracks
It will be very difficult to tell who is actually telling the truth in this mess, but a simple check of phone records could easily establish how many times Burkett and Lockhart talked on the phone and for how long.Where's Lily Tomlin (from Laugh In) when we need her???
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posted on
09/24/2004 1:51:25 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza - let them run around naked, at least the kids)
To: Anti-Bubba182; kattracks
Time will tell if this one has legs of if Burkett will change his story.This is a daddy-long-legger..........unless there is a Fort Marcy Park in Burkett's near future.
Lockhart is such a creep. Remember him bobbing and weaving for BillyJeff.
By the way where is Deep Throat II, Lucy........ in Burkett's mind?
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posted on
09/24/2004 1:55:06 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza - let them run around naked, at least the kids)
To: kattracks
You have to love that picture of Thurston and Lovey on Drudge. Anyone skilled enough to get it posted here? I hate to see it disappear.
It would make a great caption this pic thread.
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posted on
09/24/2004 1:57:26 AM PDT
by
ProudVet77
(Upcoming new holiday - Vietnam Veterans Reconciliation Day - Nov 2.)
To: beyond the sea
One Ringy Dingy...Is this the party to whom I am speaking?
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:00:02 AM PDT
by
teletech
(Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
To: kattracks
Lockhart's story was simply unbelievable. Burkett wouldn't even casually mention these memos, after all he went through to talk to senior Kerry officials.
My six-year-old can come up with better excuses when she's been caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:03:33 AM PDT
by
NavVet
(“Benedeict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
To: teletech
LOL! I'm not good (real bad) with computers, but someone ought to get a picture of Lily up on a post at her tele. operator desk with Burkett and Lockhart on the phone! Lily could be over-hearing their conversation!
Lockhart is such a bum, and Burkett is nutzoid. What a crowd!
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:03:56 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza - let them run around naked, at least the kids)
To: kattracks
Wow, now we have leaks about what Drudge will report the next day.
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:04:14 AM PDT
by
BJungNan
(Stop Spam - Do NOT buy from junk email.)
To: kattracks
John kerry=CBS=The DNC=Dan Ratter=Communists Labeled DemocRATs
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:05:30 AM PDT
by
ApesForEvolution
(You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a veil for MASS MURDERS. Save your time...)
To: teletech
To: kattracks
It must be true, since according to Dan Rather, Burkett is a very reliable source.
Hardy har har.
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:10:08 AM PDT
by
NavVet
(“Benedeict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
To: kattracks
Remember Lockharts story that he called Burkett at the request of CBS News and all they discussed were the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?
Lockhart slipped up by admitting this. Why would Burkett, a former Texas Air National Guard member with Bush have any concern about the Swift Boat Veterans? The line is slipped in the story so casually that it comes across as providing an alibi for Lockhart.
It doesn't make sense that Lockhart and Burkett would have anything of substance to discuss for 3 - 4 minutes about the Swift Boat vets. What could Burkett (AIR National Guard) have to say about them (US Navy) that would materially impact their claims about Kerry? In a word - nada. Lockhart just gave the FEC a link between the Kerry campaign and the admitted source (to date) of the forged NG memos.
This story just keeps getting better.
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:18:42 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(Repeal CFR NOW!!)
To: kattracks
Or how many times cleland or howie dean talked to him.
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:27:11 AM PDT
by
GailA
( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
To: ProudVet77
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:29:36 AM PDT
by
GailA
( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
To: GailA
Thank you. That look on his face is priceless. So many possibilities for bubble above his head.
"Good thing she's worth $900 million"
"Wish she would spend Christmas in Cambodia"
"And I passed up Morgan Fairchild for that?"
etc....
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:35:08 AM PDT
by
ProudVet77
(Vietnam Veterans Reconciliation Day - 02NOV2004.)
To: ApesForEvolution
John kerry=CBS=The DNC=Dan Ratter=Communists Labeled DemocRATs You should add "= Kerry contributer Sumner Redstone = Viacom = MTV = "Rock The Vote" = Lies about Imminent Draft.
The Left in this country has a propaganda machine that Goebbles would envy.
"Propaganda has only one object - to conquer the masses. Every means that furthers this aim is good; every means that hinders it is bad." -- Joseph Goebbles
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:37:09 AM PDT
by
spodefly
(A bunny-slippered operative in the Vast Right-Wing Pajama Party.)
To: spodefly
From your lips to God's ears...
You should add...
That's why we're a team here spodefly! lol
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posted on
09/24/2004 2:41:06 AM PDT
by
ApesForEvolution
(You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a veil for MASS MURDERS. Save your time...)
To: spodefly
From Google, I found out just how long Lockhart has been a propaganda machine:
Joe Lockhart is a Partner with The Glover Park Group who specializes in media relations and political strategy. He served as chief spokesman for President Clinton and the Clinton administration from 1998-2000, where he conducted daily press conferences for White House journalists and briefed the president and senior members of his administration on all press matters. Before joining the White House in 1997, he was National Press secretary for the Clinton/Gore '96 re-election campaign. He was the Deputy Press Secretary for the Dukakis/Bentsen '88 presidential campaign, traveling with the nominee. In 1984, he was Assistant Press Secretary for the Mondale/Ferraro campaign and during the 1980 Carter/Mondale campaign he was a Regional Press Coordinator.
Regards . . . Penny
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posted on
09/24/2004 3:01:21 AM PDT
by
Penny
((Proud member of the FreeRepublic Negligee Brigade!))
To: kattracks
It looks to me like the whole story Burkett/Cleland/Mapes/Lockhart story has been constructed to provide a harmless explaination for the damning telephone records. Given the pattern of telephone calls, the far more obvious conclusion is that Burkett gave the docs to Cleland (or received the docs from Cleland... How far is it from Abeliene to Crawford), provided the Docs to Mapes, who provided them to Lockhart, who then verified the source with Burkett. If Burkett goes public, it blows the whole pasted together story out of the water, and people will have to accept the obvious conclusion that it was a DNC/CBS set-up from the git-go.
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posted on
09/24/2004 3:08:48 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(BARKEEP: Why the long face? HORSE: Ha ha, old joke. BARKEEP: Not you, I was talking to JF'n Kerry!)
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