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2004-09-20 Home Front: Politix
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Posted by BigEd 2004-09-20 12:12:24 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 CBS News says it was 'deliberately misled' on the Bush Guard documents - MSNBC

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-20 12:24:29 PM||   2004-09-20 12:24:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Rather late
rather slow
rather little
rather must go!
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2004-09-20 12:24:37 PM||   2004-09-20 12:24:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder whether this will be enough to save his neck. It's rather a lukewarm apology, as they go, and it will be interesting to see if anyone calls him on everything he fails to mention . . .
Posted by The Doctor 2004-09-20 12:27:46 PM||   2004-09-20 12:27:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Notice no anger toward the source of the forgeries. He's sorry only in that he got caught.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-09-20 12:37:31 PM||   2004-09-20 12:37:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "...It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism."

BS - it was an error made in the spirit of being part of the Kerry campaign
Posted by mhw 2004-09-20 12:52:02 PM||   2004-09-20 12:52:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Well Dan, now since we all know now that you aren't playing favorites when will you do a piece on the Swift Boat Vets? tic tic tic tic.

Ooops I forgot they are the "Bad" Vietnam Vets. Nevermind.
Posted by Bill Nelson  2004-09-20 12:56:00 PM||   2004-09-20 12:56:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey CBS...what's the status of the 60 Minutes report on Sandy Berger?
Posted by Mark Z.  2004-09-20 12:59:36 PM||   2004-09-20 12:59:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 So CBS will run a story based on forged documents given to them by someone who has a long history of having it in for Bush.

But refuses to interview or do a story on the Swifties (who are themselves eye witnesses) about Kerry??

And you call it a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism?

Sorry Rather but I think you are a farking liar. I think you deliberately and knowingly lied then, and you are lying now.
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-09-20 12:59:51 PM||   2004-09-20 12:59:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, I'm glad to know that the memos which said that Dan Rather likes to sleep with English sheepdogs have been shown to be frauds. Still, I think he ought to at least address the fundamental questions raised by these memos.
Posted by BH 2004-09-20 1:19:31 PM||   2004-09-20 1:19:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Ya and one more thing Rather, where is Dubya's apology for trashing him, huh? You Fu-kin jerkoff asswipe....
Posted by Bill Nelson  2004-09-20 1:20:10 PM||   2004-09-20 1:20:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Remember Dan-o: you can't cheat an honest man. Hit the road.
Posted by Spot  2004-09-20 1:31:25 PM||   2004-09-20 1:31:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Dan Rather, fake and inaccurate.
Posted by 2B 2004-09-20 1:53:24 PM||   2004-09-20 1:53:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Reminds me of an old movie . . . .

". . . Ahh, but the memos, that's . . . that's where I had him. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with . . . geometric logic . . . that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled George W. Bush out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers . . ."

"Quick, go to a commercial! Dan's finally gone bonkers! Where the hell is Cronkite?"
Posted by Mike  2004-09-20 1:57:35 PM||   2004-09-20 1:57:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 "...carry on a CBS News tradition..."

You got that part right. Audi 5000, San Diego air crash, ...

"...of investigative reporting without fear..."

That's about as intelligent as those "no fear" window decals.

"...or favoritism."

We'll take anyone's story that smear's Republicans.
Posted by jackal  2004-09-20 1:59:01 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2004-09-20 1:59:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Mistakes were made in the passive voice.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-20 2:14:41 PM||   2004-09-20 2:14:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Rather's apology: fake, but accurate...
Posted by MrO 2004-09-20 3:02:37 PM||   2004-09-20 3:02:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 That ticking noise in your head, Dan? It ain't "60 Minutes"...
Posted by tu3031 2004-09-20 4:09:07 PM||   2004-09-20 4:09:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 With a little work, Sarge, you could turn that into a nice little haiku.....
Posted by Anonymous6569 2004-09-20 4:56:43 PM||   2004-09-20 4:56:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 "Duh"

We still want to know who the ultimate, "unimpeachable" (now impeached, I guess) source was, Dan. I bet it's a good one, or you wouldn't have been such an ass about the docs being obvious forgeries.
Posted by mojo  2004-09-20 5:19:36 PM||   2004-09-20 5:19:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Heh heh, ho ho, scumbal Rather has got to go!
Heh heh, ho ho, scumbal Rather has got to go!
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-20 5:24:26 PM||   2004-09-20 5:24:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 #6 Well Dan, now since we all know now that you aren't playing favorites when will you do a piece on the Swift Boat Vets? tic tic tic tic.

Ooops I forgot they are the "Bad" Vietnam Vets. Nevermind.

Actually, CBS may end up doing some stuff negatively on Kerry in order to demonstrate that they are not pushing him and axing W. It would of course be even more determining of their original partisanship sinking to that level of real deceit. If I was them, I would just pony up to the bar and admit the partisanship that exists at CBS and in all of big media. Thinking about it, CBS could get back at ABC and WAPO by exposing the partisanship of those two outlets. I mean this could be one of those skin devouring bacteria type events except its the media that is eaten alive.
Posted by Jack is Back  2004-09-20 5:25:14 PM||   2004-09-20 5:25:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Courage.
Posted by Rafael 2004-09-20 6:14:39 PM||   2004-09-20 6:14:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 "The Most Trusted Man In America". Looks like that one's safe for awhile.
Young punk!
Posted by Walter Cronkite 2004-09-20 7:42:31 PM||   2004-09-20 7:42:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 What's the font, Kenneth?
Posted by lex 2004-09-20 7:45:35 PM||   2004-09-20 7:45:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 The scene I want to save in me mind is the one OldSpook described with Kerry campaigning and people on the street corners waving Microsoft Word software boxes. Cracks me up! Always someone in the good olde USA can take a story like Rathergate and make it into a source of innocent merriment.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-20 9:41:21 PM||   2004-09-20 9:41:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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