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2004-09-20 Home Front: Politix

CBS Can't Vouch for Bush Guard Documents

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Posted by Steve White 2004-09-20 12:50:19 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ah, come on guys. Its like a police sting for johns. If you weren't looking for it, you wouldn't have been caught. You were caught and you certainly prostituted your trade. I think now we know it is not a 'profession'.

Posted by Don 2004-09-20 1:42:41 PM|| 2004-09-20 1:42:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Furhter on from today's AP story:

The documents were said to be written by Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, indicating he was being pressured to "sugarcoat" the performance ratings of a young Bush, then the son of a Texas congressman, and that Bush failed to follow orders to take a physical. Killian died in 1984.

Again piss poor partisan reporting. Bush 41 was not a Texas Congressman when the Killian forgeries were dated. The press keeps digging themselves a mass murder grave. Is there a word for MSM-acide?

Posted by Jack is Back 2004-09-20 1:51:03 PM|| 2004-09-20 1:51:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Any investigation of this should be done by the FBI or CID because we're talking about Federal level felonies here. Whoever did this passed them off as official US Military documents.

Posted by Anonymous6565 2004-09-20 2:23:21 PM|| 2004-09-20 2:23:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Don that is about the best analogy I have ever heard concerning this subject. Ms. Mapes wanted to believe the memos because she needed to believe them. Otherwise her preconceived notion (and DNC talking point) was not true. For those that still think Bush got a pass into the guard, you canât possibly understand what happens. He still had to fly jet fighters, no small feat in an F-102. Why would a commander allow someone who was not qualified to operate a complicated piece of machinery? Especially when they had to fly right next to him. Maybe if Bush had been given a position that was overstaffed, or made him morale officer (as a primary duty), I would believe this fairy tale. But by all (not forged) accounts Lt Bush did a great job while in the guard, this must drive the LLL press and the DNC crazy.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-09-20 2:49:33 PM|| 2004-09-20 2:49:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Agreed, Don; CBS wasn't duped, they were caught

Posted by Mercutio 2004-09-20 4:54:14 PM|| 2004-09-20 4:54:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 After much thought I sent the following complaint to CBS:
"You call that an apology? Where is the apology for President Bush (both of them)? How about the Killian Family? The Texas ANG? Gee you think that maybe (just maybe) the reason you had trouble supporting this story is because the whole thing is a fabrication? Some wet dream of first Ann Richards and then carried forward by the DNC. Everything that has EVER been presented showed that President Bush joined, served, and was honorably discharged from the Texas ANG. How about saving a little bit of journalistic dignity and put out a retraction to the entire story. Five years and you have hearsay and forged documents. You also have several people that just happen to think that Lt Bush was a good pilot and officer. Why is it that you donât look at the facts and conclude what the story is not a story but an urban legend? How about facing the fact that the story just is not true, was never true, and move on?"

I encourage you all to send your comments to them as well.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-09-20 7:29:36 PM|| 2004-09-20 7:29:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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