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Political Bias? What Political Bias?
The Weekly Standard ^ | 01/24/05 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 01/15/2005 8:32:57 AM PST by izzatzo

AFTER SPENDING THREE MONTHS ON an investigation that must have rung up hundreds of thousands of dollars in billable hours, the team of lawyers hired by CBS to investigate its scandalously spurious report about George W. Bush's long-ago National Guard service finally concluded last week that CBS shouldn't have aired the September 8 broadcast at all. Former attorney general Dick Thornburgh and former Associated Press chief Louis D. Boccardi, who led the investigative panel, declared that there had simply been too many questions about the veracity of the supposedly bombshell documents on which it relied. (Cont.)

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; boccardi; cbs; ccrm; mapes; political; thornburgh
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To: sgtbono2002; JohnHuang2
Simply put, there was no reason for Moonves to spend half a million dollars of the network's money on a report that could have been written for free by an intern with a dial-up Internet connection and a decent knowledge of how to use Google effectively.

Yowch.

Dan

21 posted on 01/18/2005 6:56:26 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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Yowch.

Ain't it the truth! Smoke and mirrors have worked for so long, they figgered they'd give it another try. Yo cbs; when yer in a hole, yer supposed to stop digging!

No one does BS like CBS!

FGS

22 posted on 01/18/2005 10:51:57 AM PST by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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