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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject: WaPo: Krauthammer: "No bias at CBS?..." |
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Krauthammer's latest on a story Kerry and SeeBS hope will go away...via Evansville, IN, Courier and Press...
(emphasis mine)
| Quote: | Politically motivated
No bias at CBS? Let's take another look at the story
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
Washington Post
January 16, 2005
First comes the crime: Dan Rather's late hit on President Bush's Air National Guard service, featuring what were almost immediately revealed to be forged documents.
Then comes the cover-up: 12 days of CBS stonewalling with Rather using his evening news platform to (a) call his critics "partisan political operatives," (b) claim falsely that the documents were authenticated by experts, (c) claim that he had "solid sources," which turned out to be a rabid anti-Bush partisan.
Now comes the twist: The independent investigation pretends that this fiasco was in no way politically motivated.
The investigation does note that the show's producer called Joe Lockhart of the Kerry campaign to alert him and to urge him to contact the purveyor of the incriminating documents. It concludes that this constitutes an "appearance of political bias." What would producer Mary Mapes have to do to go beyond appearance? Show up at Kerry headquarters?
CBS had been pursuing the story for five years. Five years for a minor episode in a 30-year-old byway in the life of the president? This story had been vetted not only in two Texas gubernatorial races, but twice by the national media, once in 2000 and again earlier in 2004 when Michael Moore's "deserter" charge and Terry McAuliffe's "AWOL" charge touched off a media frenzy.
To what then does the report attribute Mapes' great white whale obsession with the story? Her Texas roots. I kid you not. Did Mapes and Rather devote a fraction of the resources they gave this story to a real scandal, such as the oil-for-food scandal at the United Nations, or contrary partisan political charges, such as those brought by the Swift boat veterans against Kerry? On the United Nations, no interest. On Kerry, what CBS did do was ad hominem investigative stories on the Swift boat veterans themselves. Do you perceive a direction to these inclinations?
Courier and Press - cont'd
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coldwarvet
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you Me#1 You#10 for yet another great post
Thank you Mr. Krauthammer, for your objective critical thought. Your type of objective critical thought is becoming a rarer & rarer within the journalistic community. You are truly a great American.
CWV
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Beatrice1000
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Excellent article!
CBS: Bias? What bias?
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army72
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That cartoon says it all. Yet CBS expects us to believe that the king is wearing a nice suit!
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