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How Biased is CBS and the Mainstream Press? Written by JB Williams ©2004-09-23 CBS has committed five years of effort and resources by senior producer (Mary Mapes) and her staff, to digging through 30 year old service records of George W. Bush in search of any evidence that would help them remove him from the oval office. When CBS failed to unearth any damning evidence concerning Bush’s Guard service after five years of in depth research, they became party to disseminating forged evidence needed to pursue their agenda. CBS claims that it was a BIG story worthy of pursuit, having...

Americans are on the verge of witnessing a political scandal not seen since the likes of Watergate. It is oh so ironic how history repeats itself, is it not. Because of his work on the House Un-America Activities Committee (HUAC) and for exposing communist Alger Hiss, liberals were determined from that day forward to destroy Richard Nixon. It took almost 30 years, but eventually he was destroyed by the Watergate scandal. Now, Dan Rather--who was a major force in bringing down Nixon--finds himself at the center of a political scandal intended to change the outcome of a Presidential election. In...

Something to Yak About - Gillespie on Phony Docs: 'Was a Crime Committed? I Think So' Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie laid it on the line Wednesday, telling reporters he thinks criminal activity is behind the bogus documents used as the peg for a Sept. 8 CBS News report smearing the president. "Was a crime committed? I believe so," said Gillespie. "Obviously, forgery is involved. But the Texas Legal Code also says it is a third degree felony if one 'makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with knowledge of its falsity and with intent that...

John Kerry's letter of transfer to the Standby Reserves is conspicuously missing a page. The first page posted on his campaign website has a final line that ends in a colon. After the colon was supposed to follow a list of Kerry's obligations while in the Standby Reserves. What were those obligations, and did Kerry fulfill them? Much political hay was harvested over the now discredited Bush documents, but here's an unchallengeable directive from the Chief of Naval Personnel that Kerry acknowledged is valid by posting it on his web site. Why is a page missing? Presumably the Navy provided...

Now we know what Bill Burkett (aka Lucy Ramirez) used to create his obvious forgeries for Dan Rather's "sugar coat" smear campaign. Hint: it wasn't a typewriter. But it wasn't Microsoft Word either! See the truth revealed . . .

MIDI - I LOVE LUCY We love Lucy Ramirez here...she has fake docs that Dan will clear The truth she won't be be confessing...she is part of the C-BS-ing Mental patients she likes to use...they are so easy to confuse She'll drop him at the Kinkos...and say...listen to me Get busy...Dan is waiting for these phony docs at his facsimile

Who is Lucy Ramirez?? What does she know, and when did she know it??? The plot thickens......... To answer the above questions, check out the link to "Lucy Ramirez" at CrushKerry.com. It appears that Lucy Ramirez ACTUALLY exists. She is a democRat activist and fundraiser in Texas. Just a coincidence??? I don't think so. Check this out, and start connecting the dots. My guess is that it will eventually lead to the DNC and the Kerry campaign. If anyone saw pathetic Joe Lockhart on Fox News this morning, he looked like a deer caught in headlights. His body language had...

The Real Concern About Rathergate September 19, 2004 by Thomas D. Segel Everyone who can take pen to paper, fingers to keyboard or voice to the airways has something to say about the docu-drama surrounding President George W. Bush and his service in the Air National Guard. It is also interesting that CBS News and its left of center anchorman should be the subject of a story rapidly being known as Rathergate. Dan Rather and CBS News were in the forefront of those media organizations that trumpeted the Watergate scandle, which ultimately brought about the demise of an American president....

In a interview with reporter Marcia Kramer from WCBS that he should not have used the documents but he believes in the story

BYLINE: By C. BRYSON HULL, Associated Press Writer DATELINE: JASPER, Texas BODY: Hawthorn pulled the chain out, showing it to jurors during cross examination of a police detective just a few hours into testimony Wednesday. In doing so, he stole a moment used to great dramatic effect by the prosecution in closing stages of the King and Brewer trials. Berry's trial began as two pre-trial distractions came to an end. First, State District Judge Joe Bob Golden denied a last-minute defense motion to move the trial from Jasper, about 125 miles northeast of Houston, because of intense media coverage and...

Column: Rathergate: Bursting the Liberal bubble By Gary Livacari Published: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 Article Tools: Page 1 of 2 September 8, 2004: A day that will forevermore be remembered as Rathergate, or more precisely, "Blathergate." It is the day that marks Dan Rather's scurrilous, vindictive attempt to undermine the surging presidency of George W. Bush and save the ill-fated Kerry campaign. Dan Rather is, yet again, going down and going down fast. This blind, unabashed partisan is certainly familiar with disgrace and embarrassment, but this time he is taking CBS and the "mainstream" media down with him. "Blathergate" has...

Much has been made in this election year of the bias demonstrated by the mainstream media for the Liberal ideals of the Democratic party. Finally, the Liberal attack dog they've created has turned back to bite it's owner. In the rush to out-"Bush"Whack the rest, CBS has, at the least, failed to properly investigate a story that has now cast a hurricane cloudbank over there journalistic credibility. At most, many think Dan Rather knew these documents were forgeries and committed fraud by reporting them as genuine. It was bad enough that they didn't back down and apologize when Dan Rather's...

Now that Bill Clinton has officially taken over the Kerry campaign (Carville, et al), can anyone still doubt there is no coordination amongst the Kerry campaign, the DNC, Main Stream Media (MSM) and left-leaning 527's (i.e. MoveOn.org)? Even all of them as a group, as politically astute as they are, could not have imagined how much damage their first planned bombshell would cause and they certainly didn't expect the damage would be to their own candidate and party. But these are the same people who successfully changed the serious charge of lying before a federal grand jury to "it's just...

On September 15th, CBS News issued a three-page news release. CBS was still standing by its National Guard story in the wake of an article by ABC News about previously unknown document examiners hired by CBS, having doubts about the Killian documents they had been hired to review. I wrote an article in follow-up to that ABC News story exposing CBS for deliberately withholding the fact that they had more than four documents. It was entitled “Evidence that CBS News 60 Minutes II is guilty of malice and intent to defraud” and posted it here the night before the CBS...

<p>September 19, 2004 -- President Bush yesterday defended his National Guard record, saying his military supervisors gave him permission to work on a political campaign while he served in the Air National Guard.</p> <p>Bush questioned the authenticity of documents used by CBS News anchor Dan Rather that accuse him of getting special treatment during his service in the Guard. "There are a lot of questions about the documents and they need to be answered," Bush said."I think what needs to Ÿhappen is people need to take a look at the documents, how they were created and let the truth come out."</p>

The CBS quotations of Pierce come from a 'Professional Opinion' memo Pierce sent to "60 Minutes" staff on Sept. 14, which was then posted as a PDF document on the CBS News Web site (along with Pierce's home address in the letterhead). But to hear James Pierce tell it, his experience seems to parallel that of James and Will. This columnist contacted Pierce by telephone Sept. 16. He said he was unable to talk specifically about the work he has been doing for CBS, because - contrary to how CBS News portrays it - he says he has not yet...

..............In the years that CBS producer Mary Mapes has been pursuing this story, she never contacted Lt. Col. Jerry Killian's secretary, Marian Carr Knox, until after her existence was revealed by the Drudge Report. On 60 Minutes on Wednesday, Knox said that the documents were forgeries, but the content was accurate. Mapes interviewed Killian's widow Marjorie Connell and his son Gary. Both expressed doubt to the CBS producer that the documents were real. Neither of them have appeared on the network nor even been mentioned in CBS's reporting. CBS' own experts have moved away from the authenticity of the documents....

AUSTIN, Texas - A retired Texas National Guard official mentioned as a possible source for disputed documents about President Bush (news - web sites)'s service in the Guard said he passed along information to a former senator working with John Kerry (news - web sites)'s campaign. Also Saturday, a White House official said Bush has reviewed disputed documents that purport to show he refused orders to take a physical examination in 1972 and did not recall having seen them previously. The long-running story on Bush's Texas Air National Guard service took an unusual twist when CBS broadcast a report on...

CBS News Claims Documents Disprove Christ's Resurrection Authenticity of Purported Memoirs of Thomas the Disciple Under Fierce Attack NEW YORK – In yet another bold display of investigative journalism, CBS News has used anchorman Dan Rather and its 60 Minutes program to break a story about a document discovery they say disproves the Biblical account of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.