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  • CBS Legitimizes Draft Fear, Driving Mom from Bush to Howdy Doody

    09/29/2004 9:27:21 AM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 73 replies · 4,730+ views
    MRC ^ | Wednesday September 29, 2004 | BrentBaker
    Five weeks before the election, CBS decided to give legitimacy to Internet rumors by devoting a "What Does It Mean to You?" segment to "fears" of a supposedly Bush-supporting mother that President Bush will impose a military draft. Dan Rather intoned: "A mother worries her son will be drafted. Does she have good reason?" Richard Schlesinger focused his piece around how the mother "is petrified about a military draft, and she's not alone. Mass e-mails are circulating among worried parents." Schlesinger pointed out how both Bush and Kerry deny that they'd institute a draft, but the mother is "not buying...