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***Media Research Center CyberAlert Flash Alert*** 8pm EDT, Wednesday September 15, 2004 CBS Sinks to Exploiting Elderly Woman Who Says Memos Fake, "But Accurately Reflect Killian's View of Lieutenant Bush," as Dan Rather Interviews Marian Knox for Tonight's 60 Minutes; CBS News Chief Promises to Answer Questions About Story The Secretary to the late Lt. Colonel Jerry Killian, George W. Bush's commander in the Texas Air National Guard, the now 86- year-old Marian Knox, told the Dallas Morning News Tuesday, for a story which ran Wednesday, that the Killian memos CBS insists were written by Killian "are not real," but...

CBS finds somebody to back them up!

Here's a transcript of the CBS taken from my recorded version of SeeBS News tonight. Rather: CBS News, “60 Minutes”, and this reporter drew fire today over our reports that raised questions about President Bush's service record, including whether he followed orders, and whether he fulfilled his obligations to the National Guard. CBS news correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports on the latest attack on the “60 Minutes” story and the latest CBS response. Andrews: Congressional Republicans turned the high heat on CBS News, charging that last week’s revelations about Lieutenant George Bush, which aired on “60 Minutes”, were based on fake...

SECRETARY TO BUSH'S NATIONAL GUARD COMMANDER SAYS SHE DIDN'T TYPE THE MEMOS BUT THAT THEIR CONTENT IS TRUE IN AN INTERVIEW ON THE CBS EVENING NEWS AND ON 60 MINUTES Wed Sep 15 2004 18:57:00 ET September 15, 2004 Marian Knox, the secretary to President Bush's National Guard commander, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, says the content in controversial memos is true but that she did not type them. Knox, who said she was Killian's "right hand," appears in an interview with Dan Rather on the CBS EVENING NEWS and on tonight's edition of 60 MINUTES. A transcript of Evening News...

Mrs. Knox said signs of forgery abound in the four memos. She said the typeface on the documents did not match either of the two typewriters that she used during her time with the Guard. She identified those machines as a mechanical Olympia typewriter and the IBM Selectric that replaced it in the early 1970s. She spoke fondly of the Olympia, which she said had a key with the "th" superscript character that has been the focus of much debate in the CBS memos. Beyond that issue, experts have said that the Selectric and mechanical typewriters such as the Olympia...

UPDATE: I have now heard from more than one source that CBS is going to talk to 86-year-old Marian Carr Knox, former secretary to Lt. Col. Jerry Killian. Hey, I think it's great to hear CBS might quote someone who says the memo is fake (other than Marcel Matley, their first expert, who said he could not authenticate it).

The memos are fake, but the facts in them are real. That was the word yesterday from the secretary of a now-deceased colonel who supposedly authored memos - disclosed by CBS' "60 Minutes" The secretary, Marian Carr Knox, said the memos that CBS showed on the air are forgeries. But the claims in those fake memos are true, she said. "The information in here was correct," she said of the CBS documents. "But it was picked up from the real ones." Her boss, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, really was being pressured to "sugarcoat" Bush's review even though he was a...

The latest chapter in the saga of "Rathergate" is that Lt. Col. Killian's 87 year old secretary, Marion Carr, has come out and proclaimed the documents as forgeries. In making that claim she gives very specific reasons, such as the typewriter used at the time, terminology, and date discrepancies. The left and the mainstream media however, have ignored this and highlighted Mrs. Carr's claim that while the CBS documents are phony, their substance- that Lt. Col. Killian was under pressure to "sugarcoat" then Lt. Bush's records and cover-up his missing a physical - is nonetheless true. As we will show...

We have now seen a slew of interviews with Marian Carr Knox, 86, former secretary to Lt. Col. Jerry Killian. Her story seems to shift with each new interview - and becoming increasingly negative towards Bush. What's the deal with this lady? I have an answer, and it is quite simple. It was told to us in the Houston Chronicle today, but it was buried in disjointed paragraphs. To start out with, Knox contacted the Houston Chronicle herself. They did not find her - she found them. What did she have to tell them last week? --------------------------------

Former secretary says she didn't type memos 04:10 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 By PETE SLOVER / The Dallas Morning News HOUSTON – The former secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel who supposedly authored memos critical of President Bush’s Guard service said Tuesday that the documents are fake, but that they reflect real documents that once existed. Marian Carr Knox, who worked from 1956 to 1979 at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, said she prided herself on meticulous typing, and the memos first disclosed by CBS News last week were not her work. “These are...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE SEP 14, 2004 17:48:35 ET XXXXX TEXAS GUARD SECRETARY SURFACES: SAYS CBS DOCS 'FORGERIES', BUT STANDS BY ACCUSATIONS AGAINST BUSH The DRUDGE REPORT has found Lt. Col. Jerry Killian's former secretary who claims that the Texas Air National Guard documents offered by CBS in its 60 MINUTES II report filed by Dan Rather last week are indeed 'forgeries'. "I did not type these particular memos. I typed memos like these," Knox told the DRUDGE REPORT from her home in Houston. "I typed memos that had this information in them, but I did not type these...

Lt Col Killian's secretary says she didn't type the docs. From the Dallas Morning News (registration required): "The former secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel who supposedly authored memos critical of President Bush’s Guard service said Tuesday that the documents are fake, but that they reflect real documents that once existed. Marian Carr Knox, who worked from 1956 to 1979 at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, said she prided herself on meticulous typing, and the memos first disclosed by CBS News last week were not her work. “These are not real,” she told The Dallas Morning News...

Secretary: Memos are forgeries

September 15, 2004 Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate, Typist Says By THE NEW YORK TIMES OUSTON, Sept. 14 - The secretary for the squadron commander purported to be the author of now-disputed memorandums questioning President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard said Tuesday that she never typed the documents and believed they are fakes. But she also said they accurately reflect the thoughts of the commander, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, and other memorandums she typed for him about Mr. Bush. "The information in them is correct," the woman, Marian Carr Knox, now 86, said in...

Isn't Knox's story just what CBS needed? Here comes forward someone who is 87 years old who does not support Bush as president, deeming him "unfit for office" and "selected, not elected." This is right out of a left wing playbook. Why Knox is good for CBS is because she diverts attention away from CBS's proven forged documents and places the emphasis on the contents -- just what CBS been desperately been trying and failing to do. "The information in here [memos] was correct, but it was picked up from the real ones," she said. "I probably typed the information...

Sept. 15, 2004, 12:24AM Ex-staffer: Bush records are fake Secretary to military officer says she never typed the memos By ROBERT CROWE and JULIE MASON Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle A former secretary at Ellington Air Force Base is challenging the legitimacy of documents used to discredit President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, saying the records are probably fake because she never typed them. Marian Carr Knox, 86, former secretary to Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, worked at the Houston air base from 1956 to 1979. She is now retired. "They're forgeries as far as I'm concerned because I...

Ex-Guard Typist Recalls Memos Criticizing Bush But the commander's secretary says she thinks the ones that surfaced last week are fakes. By James Rainey Times Staff Writer September 15, 2004 George W. Bush's commanding officer in the Texas Air National Guard wrote memos more than 30 years ago objecting to efforts to gloss over the young lieutenant's shortcomings and failure to take a flight physical, the officer's former secretary said Tuesday night. But Marian Carr Knox of Houston said she thought four memos unveiled by CBS News last week were forgeries — not copies of the ones she typed at...