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2004-09-10 Home Front: Politix
CBS News stands by Rather
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Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-10 2:17:55 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Standby your Dan

I will leave the rest for the students.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-10 2:45:22 PM||   2004-09-10 2:45:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, they stand "behind" him. That way it's easier to push him off the cliff if this thing doesn't "go away".
Posted by tu3031 2004-09-10 2:49:13 PM||   2004-09-10 2:49:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Is there a way to drop CBS from your cable service? I don't want them on my TV anymore.
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2004-09-10 2:52:35 PM||   2004-09-10 2:52:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Mr Barnes is lying SOB. He was not Lt Gov when Bush entered service - therefore he couldn't have given any politcal favors....and that's just what he said before congress. So either he lied then (perjury) or he's lying now
Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-09-10 2:58:15 PM||   2004-09-10 2:58:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Guys,

The chairman of Viacom, SUMNER M. REDSTONE
is supposedly a Military Intelligence vet from WWII:

"Mr. Redstone served in the Military Intelligence Division during World War II. While a student at Harvard, he was selected by Japanese history professor Edwin Reischauer (later Ambassador to Japan) to join a special intelligence group whose mission was to break Japan's high-level military and diplomatic codes. In connection with these activities, Mr. Redstone received, among other honors, two commendations from the Military Intelligence Division in recognition of his service, contribution and devotion to duty. He is also a recipient of the Army Commendation Award."

And this is an excerpt from his address to shareholders of Viacom on June 29, 2000. His last recorded speech was in early 2001...

"CBS, in particular, offers programming that reflects the wide variety of interests and lifestyles of our audience. From 60 Minutes to Letterman, from Survivor to City of Angels, from soap operas to cartoons, CBS has something for everyone. Indeed, this is the very definition of a "broadcast" network.

This is why having a broadcast license is such an important public trust. And this is why all of us at Viacom are so serious about preserving and protecting this trust … be it through preserving the integrity of the CBS News organization, or by increasing the diversity of our on-air and behind-the-scenes crews, or by serving the public with millions of dollars worth of public service announcements."

(emphasis mine)

As a vet shouldn't he know the seriousness of falsifying Military documents?

As a businessman shouldn't he be more concerned about the 'public trust' he mentioned in his speech?

The world wonders...
And the clock is ticking...
Posted by DanNY 2004-09-10 3:01:03 PM||   2004-09-10 3:01:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 
In a separate revelation, the Boston Globe this week reported that Mr. Bush promised to sign up with a Boston-area unit when he left his Texas unit in 1973 to attend Harvard Business School. Mr. Bush never signed up with a Boston unit.

This would be the same Boston Glob that printed pornography with the caption that they were prisoner abuse photos? The same Boston Glob that is still sticking by Dan Rather's cheap forgeries? The same Boston Glob that published a false story about one of the Swiftvets rescinding his claims? The same Boston Glob that continues to employ a Kerry hack as a "reporter"?

Does the Glob bother to explain why someone who had been discharged/released from duty would need to "sign-up" with another unit?
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-09-10 3:02:58 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-09-10 3:02:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 DanNY. Great find.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-10 3:04:04 PM||   2004-09-10 3:04:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The FCC's coddling of the networks and the baby Bells is a disgrace. Screw big media. Let a thousand blogs contend.
Posted by lex 2004-09-10 3:05:29 PM||   2004-09-10 3:05:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 CBS's approach -- continuing to dig despite being in a hole -- reminds me of the line from the Billy Joel song (which is about Vietnam I believe): "And we will all go down together."
Posted by Tibor 2004-09-10 3:18:26 PM||   2004-09-10 3:18:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Uh oh, more bad news for the good guys original Bush documents from the same era.

via milty at LGF
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-10 3:34:44 PM||   2004-09-10 3:34:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Not to Beat a dead horse but...

The United States Postal Service Zip Code lookup online engine shows the following for 34567:

"The following errors were found:

ZIP Code 34567

The ZIP Code you entered could not be found in our database. Please confirm the ZIP Code and try again.

If you are certain the ZIP Code you entered is valid, please send an email to incsc@email.usps.gov describing the problem. "

Hmmm, maybe I should fire off a note to them?
After all, Dan Rather is telling us these documents are authentic...
Hehehe
Posted by DanNY 2004-09-10 4:01:55 PM||   2004-09-10 4:01:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Fewer things are more clear than the fact that these papers are forgeries. I'm starting to understand how Hitler managed to do what he did.

This is probably one of the more shocking revelations in my life regarding how simple it is to fool people. Just tell a lie and repeat it. It's that simple. If people want to believe it, they will.

Stalin, Hitler, Goebbles, would be impressed. Someday these people will be ashamed of how foolish they are, but I bet, even then, they won't admit it.

Unbeeleeevable.
Posted by B 2004-09-10 4:02:43 PM||   2004-09-10 4:02:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Danny, good catch. But sometimes zips from military bases don't show on those databases.
Posted by B 2004-09-10 4:03:53 PM||   2004-09-10 4:03:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Usually they do show on the USPS website. The USPS knows that it is a APO. Unless it was retired for some base that was closed and has not yet been returned to service elsewhere.
Posted by Jame Retief  2004-09-10 4:08:46 PM||   2004-09-10 4:08:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Also people make typos. I should know.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-10 4:09:52 PM||   2004-09-10 4:09:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Rex. Apparently Barnes' daughter agrees with you. I read an article this am where she says that in 2000 he told her he absolutely did not get Bush in, but just recently told her he was changing his story. She thought it had something to do with the book he was going to publish.
Posted by Mercutio 2004-09-10 4:38:25 PM||   2004-09-10 4:38:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 DanNY: wasn't 34567 a PO Box, not a ZIP code? Houston-area ZIP codes start with 7.

Also, it's possible that ZIP codes have changed since the '70s. They may include slightly different territory, or disappear altogether. In theory, I mean: I don't know this for sure.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-09-10 4:41:51 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]  2004-09-10 4:41:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Re #17

Angie, good point. But it raises another . . . Why would the Guard be using a regular P.O. box instead of an APO? Also, anything seem strange about 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 ?
Posted by cingold 2004-09-10 6:03:14 PM||   2004-09-10 6:03:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 The number of primes exceeds the number of non-primes?
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-10 6:13:55 PM||   2004-09-10 6:13:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Ummmm. . . . Correct Mrs. D but not quite what we were looking for. :)
Posted by Doc8404 2004-09-10 6:51:23 PM||   2004-09-10 6:51:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Dan Rather Tonight

"You gotta believe meeee. Pleez - Pretty pleeez"

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-10 7:45:52 PM||   2004-09-10 7:45:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 This is the bottom line. . .

Dan Rather says that there are three places you can find typewriters and printers with the type of font exhibited in the memos in 1972/3. . .

1) Major printing houses
2) Major newspapers
3) An Obsure National Guard Office in Houston, TX
Posted by BigEd 2004-09-10 7:59:01 PM||   2004-09-10 7:59:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Ooops!

My bad, I glanced quick and grabbed the wrong number! :(

Sorry
Posted by DanNY 2004-09-10 10:46:50 PM||   2004-09-10 10:46:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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