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GeorgiaBoy
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 Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:11 pm Post subject: CBS News planned missing explosives story for election eve |
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New on Drudge...
CBSNEWS 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... |
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Son of a VET
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Another Rather Gate. 
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Jack Mclaughlin
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Of course because of Rathergate and other 60 Minutes hit pieces on Bush they had no cridibility left so they passed it on to their print equivalent, the NY Times. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Is this Mapes at it again? She isn't fired yet? |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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I hope this blows up in their face and makes people mad at what they are trying to do and they go vote BUSH!
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Cazador
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
Once again, had these so called reporters done their homework and perhaps even done a simple google search on the weapons site, they would have found the April 2003 AP report about the weapons not being there.
The journalistic integrity of the NYT and CBS is truly gone now.
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gleanerl
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Cazador wrote: | Hi,
Once again, had these so called reporters done their homework and perhaps even done a simple google search on the weapons site, they would have found the April 2003 AP report about the weapons not being there.
The journalistic integrity of the NYT and CBS is truly gone now.
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personally, i believe they knew full well that the explosives had gone missing before the troops arrived.
and they conveniently left that out of the story.
it is a conscious decision on cbs' part.
i just wonder when and if their license will be jerked.
and when one of the other networks will finally step up and report what is actually going on, with the war as well as the media bias/setups....?
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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They knew, just like they knew the doc's they tried to use were fakes.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Cazador wrote: | Hi,
Once again, had these so called reporters done their homework and perhaps even done a simple google search on the weapons site, they would have found the April 2003 AP report about the weapons not being there.
The journalistic integrity of the NYT and CBS is truly gone now.
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The ironic thing is that the AP itself is still reporting this story as if it's a "breaking news" piece. Disgusting!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1963&e=9&u=/afp/20041026/pl_afp/us_vote |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| We need to blow this out of the water before it airs. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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Fox has reported that the explosives where gone several times already today. When kerry was speaking and started using this, they voiced over the TRUTH. 
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i don't think it is going to air now.
drudge said "planned"...
surely they wouldn't be that stupid...??
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| gleanerl wrote: | i don't think it is going to air now.
drudge said "planned"...
surely they wouldn't be that stupid...?? |
Ha!! Yeah, 60 Minutes could not be that stupid.  |
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Son of a VET
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 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...
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http://www.drudgereport.com/nbcw6.htm
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