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Zac's Mom · Ensign Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 53 Location: Texas

CBS actually hasn't acknowledge the documents were forged nor that they are untrue

The statements issued yesterday by CBS's Andrew Heyward and Dan Rather are quintessentially Clintoniques ~

CBS News President Andrew Heyward:
"Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report."

CBS News Anchor/Managing Editor Dan Rather:
"We can no longer vouch for their authenticity."

Essentially, CBS acknowledges that they are unable to "prove that the documents are authentic" so they cannot " vouch for their authenticity" and, because of this, should not have aired them.

One thing I learned from the Impeachment of Clinton is that, when it comes to public mea culpas, it is very, very important to pay very, very close attention to exact wording ~ ("Well, that all depends upon what is IS")

Take a closer look at the CBS statements from yesterday ~
CBS is still a very, very long way from acknowledging that the "questionable" documents they eagerly disseminated and vehemently defended are forgeries and are untrue.
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DenisC · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:35 pm Post subject:

The FORGED Documents are still up on the CBSNews website, as of this morning! Waiting for proof of "authenticity."
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coldwarvet · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject:

Fake But Accurate - CBS
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drjohn · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject:

Rather says that even though the documents are fake, we should believe the content.

They say that Burkett has a history of mental illness, but I have my suspicions about Rather too.

What's the Kenneth, frequency? Wink

cipher · Vice Admiral Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 902

That is a legal prevarication. To call them forgeries is to invite criminal prosecution.

They are trying to weasel out of having to turn over their source, and still keep the fiction of the content front page material.

There are a LOT of people out there that STILL think the forged documents have "valid content", regardless of the source or whether or not the documents have any basis in fact.

It's a said commentary that these people will go out and vote to turn our country over to the Taliban, the Mullahs, and kowtow to terrorists.

And the blame rests squarely on the broad shoulders of that traitor, Dan Rather.
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Jerry M · Ensign Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 57

Rather tried to portray himself as a victim who was misled. The only victims are the American people who have been misled by Rather and CBS for the better part of this year. Rather has been part of a conspiracy at CBS to smear President Bush and get him defeated in November. It is self evident that he was the misleader by ignoring the warnings from some of his own experts that the documents were forged, by not allowing the Killians or anyone else who could cast doubt on his story to be interviewed and by misleading those who originally supported his story until they realized they had been duped by Blather. This man is a journalistic disgrace who ought to be run right off television.

sevry · Commander Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 326

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drjohn · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:32 pm Post subject:

It would appear that Dan Rather learned nothing from Nixon.

Somewhere, Dick is laughing his ass off......

Navy_Navy_Navy · Admin Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777

RAthER claimed for a long time to have been a "two-tour Marine," until B. G. Burkett exposed his military record for what it was in "Stolen Valor."

He enlisted in the NG while in college, then when the Korean war was over, he went into the Marines, but couldn't handle the physical stuff.

RAthER counted his time in the NG as one tour and his failed attempt at boot camp as another to come up with "two-tour Marine."

Like Kerry's "two tours in Vietnam," which has recently become simply a "Tour of Duty."
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drjohn · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:45 pm Post subject:

So the next question is "Who forged the documents?"

Burkett looks like the primary suspect.

Love to know who. It'll explain a lot.