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Home Front: Politix
CBSNEWS PLANNED BUSH MISSING EXPLOSIVES STORY FOR ELECTION EVE
2004-10-26
F*&KERS
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE OCT 26 2004 11:02:38 ET XXXXX

60 MINS PLANNED BUSH MISSING EXPLOSIVES STORY FOR ELECTION EVE

News of missing explosives in Iraq -- first reported in April 2003 -- was being resurrected for a 60 MINUTES election eve broadcast designed to knock the Bush administration into a crises mode.

Jeff Fager, executive producer of the Sunday edition of 60 MINUTES, said in a statement that "our plan was to run the story on October 31."

Elizabeth Jensen at the LOS ANGELES TIMES details on Tuesday how CBS NEWS and 60 MINUTES lost the story [which repackaged previously reported information on a large cache of explosives missing in Iraq, first published and broadcast in 2003].

The story instead debuted in the NYT. The paper slugged the story about missing explosives from April 2003 as "exclusive."

An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.

According to NBCNEWS, the explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.

It is not clear who exactly shopped an election eve repackaging of the missing explosives story.

The LA TIMES claims: The source on the story first went to 60 MINUTES but also expressed interest in working with the NY TIMES... "The tip was received last Wednesday."

CBSNEWS' plan to unleash the story just 24 hours before election day had one senior Bush official outraged.

"Darn, I wanted to see the forged documents to show how this was somehow covered up," the Bush source, who asked not to be named, mocked, recalling last months CBS airing of fraudulent Bush national guard letters.

Developing...
Posted by:Frank G

#12  Can anybody now doubt that the institutional media are the true enemy in this war, and the international terrorists merely their proxies?
Extreme?
Not if you have read what I regard as the most significant book of the last 10 years, The Conquest of Cool by Thomas Frank.
Frank himself is a card-carrying lefty, which only makes his indictment of big media that much more damning.
In this landmark cultural history, Frank goes back to the late 1950s to document the origin and real nature of the media industry's characteristic internal culture. This specific internal culture remains dominant to this day, and its values are the primary basis for the obvious set of biases we see in most mainstream media.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-10-26 10:41:29 PM  

#11  OK - Let's look at "highly skilled" Islamofacists and renegade Ba'athists trying to not trip over their beards, and long white smocks, and try to move highly expliosive materials from a bunker, out of sight of US troops, and not sending themselves to the 72 virgins in the process...

All these assumption having been met, the Captain's Quarters Blog had a operations engineering approach to labor required to transport the super secret special stuff out of the way, and out of sight of our guys...

Imagine supervising 100 of borderline psychotics screaming "Allah Akhbar" at the sound of a backfiring truck which is confused for gunfire...

If they moved all this miraculously it would take 100 men two weeks...

Labor Needed To Move Boom-Boom S--- from Al Ka-Ka


Posted by: BigEd   2004-10-26 5:42:33 PM  

#10  Apologies for the previous screwed up comment. One missing quote can do a lot of damage!

Here is a list of CBS Affiliates.

Here is the FCC webpage with the information on objecting to the renewal of a TV license. The key parts are:

Procedure for Filing Informal Objections. In the alternative, a person or entity opposing the grant of a television station's license renewal application may file an informal objection against the license renewal application at any time prior to staff action on the license renewal application. The informal objection (a signed original and two copies) must be mailed or delivered to one of the FCC addresses above; electronic or facsimile transmission (including e-mail) is not acceptable.

The address referenced is:

Video Division, Media Bureau
Federal Communications Commission   
445 12th Street SW
Washington, D.C. 20554


The page linked for the FCC has a table that shows the File Date and Expiration Date for each state.

I encourage you to send out polite objections each quarter for the next four years.

Licensees in the folowing states are to submit for renewal in 2005:

Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Florida, Puerto  Rico, Virgin Islands, Alabama, Georgia.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-10-26 3:15:51 PM  

#9  Here is a list of CBS Affiliates.

Here is the FCC webpage with the information on objecting to the renewal of a TV license. The key parts are:

Procedure for Filing Informal Objections. In the alternative, a person or entity opposing the grant of a television station's license renewal application may file an informal objection against the license renewal application at any time prior to staff action on the license renewal application. The informal objection (a signed original and two copies) must be mailed or delivered to one of the FCC addresses above; electronic or facsimile transmission (including e-mail) is not acceptable.

The address referenced is:

Video Division, Media Bureau
Federal Communications Commission   
445 12th Street SW
Washington, D.C. 20554


The page linked for the FCC has a table that shows the File Date and Expiration Date for each state.

I encourage you to send out polite objections each quarter for the next four years.

Licensees in the folowing states are to submit for renewal in 2005:

Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Florida, Puerto  Rico, Virgin Islands, Alabama, Georgia.

[Comment fixed. -Fred]
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-10-26 3:09:07 PM  

#8  How do we file a complaint with the FCC?

When the local affiliate's license comes up for renewal, protest to the FCC. Point out that the station's blatant disregard for the truth put our soldiers and ourselves at risk, and for that reason the station deserves to have its license revoked.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-10-26 1:49:03 PM  

#7  Bush is still president for at least two and a half months after the election, Mrs. D. ;)

The RNC needs to file a CBS complaint at the FCC and Bush needs to personally and publicly rebuke the NYT, mocking them as a "so-called newspaper".
Posted by: Tom   2004-10-26 1:48:20 PM  

#6  This story just shows that John Kerry really does have a New York Time Machine, he knew about the theft of these explosives before anyone else. He told us in the second debate:
Kerry: "A president's job is to win the peace. The president did not do what was necessary. Didn't bring in enough nation. Didn't deliver the help. Didn't close off the borders. Didn't even guard the ammo dumps. And now our kids are being killed with ammos right out of that dump."
Posted by: Steve   2004-10-26 1:39:40 PM  

#5  They better make sure Kerry wins, because this is getting to the point where Bush might actually do something after the election.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-10-26 12:41:06 PM  

#4  Good job, CBS.

See? And I know I'm preaching to the choir, but this is what happens when there are no consequences for people's dishonest actions, ref: Dan Rather. They just keep doing it until someone final stops them. Hopefully this will be the last time people accept it.
Posted by: nada   2004-10-26 12:31:36 PM  

#3  How do we file a complaint with the FCC?

General information, inquiries & complaints: fccinfo@fcc.gov
Posted by: RN   2004-10-26 12:16:23 PM  

#2  How pathetic these schills are. They have lost all semblance of honesty whatsoever.
Posted by: Bill Nelson   2004-10-26 12:11:14 PM  

#1  This is bullshit. I think the CBS network should have its broadcast license revoked for this.

How do we file a complaint with the FCC?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-10-26 12:08:36 PM  

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