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CBS Says Probe Results Unlikely Until After Election
Yahoo! News ^ | 10 minutes ago | Martha Graybow

Posted on 10/05/2004 1:47:53 PM PDT by NewMediaFan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An external review of how CBS News came to use disputed documents in a report on President Bush (news - web sites)'s military record will probably not be concluded until after the November election so as not to interfere with the presidential race, a top executive said on Tuesday.

Les Moonves, the co-president of CBS parent company Viacom, told an analyst meeting that the review of the CBS "60 Minutes II" report being done by former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and retired Associated Press chief Louis Boccardi had no timetable for completion. But he said he did not want it to interfere with the Nov. 2 election.

"Obviously, it should be done probably after the election is over so that it doesn't affect what's going on," he told a Goldman Sachs media conference in New York.

A CBS spokeswoman had no immediate comment on the statement. But she pointed out that when CBS News President Andrew Heyward named Boccardi and Thornburgh to conduct the investigation of the Sept. 8 report, he said he hoped it would be completed in weeks rather than months.

The CBS report alleged that Bush had received special treatment while serving in he Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.

The report also produced documents purportedly written by Bush's Guard commander complaining that he was pressured to "sugar coat" Bush's record -- but the man who gave the documents to CBS later admitted that he lied about its origins and serious questions have been raised over their authenticity.

(Excerpt) Read more at story.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; probe; rathergate
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1 posted on 10/05/2004 1:47:54 PM PDT by NewMediaFan
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To: NewMediaFan

How convenient.

Bush wins by a hair, then it comes out that the Kerry Kamp was all over the doc thing.


2 posted on 10/05/2004 1:48:56 PM PDT by Crazieman (Hanoi John Effin Kerry. War Criminal. Traitor. Democrat.)
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To: Crazieman

doodley dooo. (flanders)


3 posted on 10/05/2004 1:50:13 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: NewMediaFan

But CBS will air the phony docs as true to influence the election!


4 posted on 10/05/2004 1:51:02 PM PDT by SolidSupplySide
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To: Crazieman

I want to hear GWB or Cheney bring up the issue during a debate of Kerry's 2001 Naval discharge or Edward's lack of military service.


5 posted on 10/05/2004 1:51:22 PM PDT by Post Toasties
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To: Crazieman

I see, I see. A very principled stand. CBS only issues things that could impact the election of the President prior to November 2 if it is likely to hurt President Bush. If it is likely to hurt John F Kerry, well that is a whole different matter.


6 posted on 10/05/2004 1:51:33 PM PDT by coramdeo
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To: NewMediaFan

Figures!

They know that this has the potential to impact Kerry's campaign so they hold it close to the chest till after the election. Wonder what there recorse is if it is found that Kerry was involved and he got elected. This has implications that need to be cleared up prior to the election. Unfortunatly I don't think that the FCC will have the Cajones to investigate this like the should be doing already.


7 posted on 10/05/2004 1:52:23 PM PDT by Americanwolf ("Be vwey vwey quite! I am hunting DU Twolls! ---Elwer Fuwd Fwee wepubwic member and cawtoon icon)
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To: NewMediaFan
I shall quote Joe Pesci in the movie My Cousin Vinny:

"Well, there's a f*ckin' surprise."

8 posted on 10/05/2004 1:52:37 PM PDT by mattdono ("Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" -Big Arnie)
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To: coramdeo

What a shocker!!!! Silly to a fault.


9 posted on 10/05/2004 1:52:57 PM PDT by shankbear
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To: SolidSupplySide

Sounds like an admission that Kerry's camp was involved to me. How else could it have an impact on the election? If Kerry's camp wasn't involved and it was just C BS, being C BS than that wouldn't have any influence on the election per se.


10 posted on 10/05/2004 1:53:06 PM PDT by marlon
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To: NewMediaFan

They wouldn't want to set the record straight, would they?


11 posted on 10/05/2004 1:53:26 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: coramdeo

Dan Rather would rather eat vulture vomit, slander and libel than look into whether Kerry was lying when he claimed he committed atrocities in Vietnam.


12 posted on 10/05/2004 1:53:30 PM PDT by Post Toasties
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To: mattdono

I was thinking the same thing. That is one of the best Pesci lines there is.


13 posted on 10/05/2004 1:53:46 PM PDT by RockinRight (John Kerry is the wrong candidate, for the wrong country, at the wrong time)
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To: NewMediaFan

yeah, they know they would blow any chance kerry has!
they have to be involved!
jail for kerry!


14 posted on 10/05/2004 1:53:55 PM PDT by Edgerunner (Might doesn't make right, RIGHT MAKES MIGHT)
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To: NewMediaFan
..will probably not be concluded until after the November election so as not to interfere with the presidential race

LOL..the bridge sales force is at it again.

Of course there WILL be leaks before the election about how the results are proving that the story was true, there actually are legitimate documents, yada yada yada...and along with everything else, Bush was a cross dresser.

Bull shiite artistry at it's maximum.

15 posted on 10/05/2004 1:54:08 PM PDT by evad (If it's in America's interests, it won't pass JF'nK's global test)
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To: NewMediaFan

Translation:

"We Screwed the pooch and it will make Kerry look bad, so we won't release it until after the election"


16 posted on 10/05/2004 1:54:20 PM PDT by msp2004
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To: NewMediaFan
"Obviously, it should be done probably after the election is over so that it doesn't affect what's going on," he told a Goldman Sachs media conference in New York.

I think he thinks the investigation is going bad for CBS.

17 posted on 10/05/2004 1:54:47 PM PDT by WildTurkey
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To: NewMediaFan

Great. The original lie was obviously intended to influence the election, but they don't want the correction to influence the election. No bias here.


18 posted on 10/05/2004 1:54:50 PM PDT by somemoreequalthanothers
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To: Crazieman
so as not to interfere with the presidential race

I think the ONLY reason for the story WAS to influence the election.

These bums should be dragged out on the street and stoned!!

19 posted on 10/05/2004 1:55:59 PM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (Anybody but Kerry!!)
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To: NewMediaFan

They never had a problem with affecting an election before. Why now? Unless he knows the result will hurt his candidate for the election.
I bet someone starts leaking this information to Drudge.


20 posted on 10/05/2004 1:57:14 PM PDT by mabelkitty (Do not indulge the Negative Nervous Nellies with reassurances.)
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