CBS...."WE WERE DUPED"......Report coming soon

[in_cog_ni_to]

IMUS just reported that CBS will announce that they were DUPED by whomever faxed the memos. Just reported.

I HOPE they read the DU information before they do.

[T Town Jake]

1. That is just plain...

...fuckin' depressing, if true (not what you say, but what IMUS is claiming).
Just DAMN.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. I know. Dan Rather just interviewd

Burkett over the weekend. He must have gotten some more information from him. :(

[bluestateguy]

2. Looks like Bush will get off the hook again

Once again, powerful people pull at the strings of the establishment to protect George W. Bush. It's been that way for almost 40 years now.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Now the AWOL,

drugs/no physical and no Alabama NG will all be swept under the damn rug for another 40 years. :grr: When will he ever have to pay for anything he has done? This really is depressing.

[mopaul]

4. kkkarl rove

nuff said

[Panda1]

10. Exactly! Rover's prints all over this.

I don't buy it.....not with all the new evidence just produced by the NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/politics/campaign/20bama.html?pagewanted=all&position=

MILITARY SERVICE
Portrait of George Bush in '72: Unanchored in Turbulent Time
By SARA RIMER

Published: September 20, 2004


This article was reported by Sara Rimer, Ralph Blumenthal and Raymond Bonner and written by Ms. Rimer.

MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 17 - Nineteen seventy-two was the year George W. Bush dropped off the radar screen.

He abandoned his once-prized status as a National Guard pilot by failing to appear for a required physical. He sought temporary reassignment from the Texas Air National Guard to an Alabama unit but for six months did not show up for training. He signed on as an official in the losing campaign of a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, and even there he left few impressions other than as an amiable bachelor with a good tennis game and a famous father.
"To say he brought in a bunch of initiatives and bright ideas," said a fellow campaign worker, Devere McLennan, "no he didn't."

This year of inconsequence has grown increasingly consequential for President Bush because of persistent, unanswered questions about his National Guard service - why he failed to take his pilot's physical and whether he fulfilled his commitment to the Guard. If anything, those issues became still murkier this past week, with the controversy over the authenticity of four documents disclosed by CBS News and its program "60 Minutes" purporting to shed light on that Guard record.
......

[MirrorAshes]

6. Its on Drudge too, NYT source.

apparently CBS is still standing by the claims in the memos, just are not sure about the authenticity.

[mopaul]

8. repub rules: 1 lie means you are utterly unbelievable

like they did to Big Bad Bill, catch him in a tiny little lie and he becomes the king of all liars and every word thereafter out of his mouth is a lie.

but the ape gets a pass, on his thousands of lies

[MirrorAshes]

9. what "lie"?

there is significant evidence here on DU that the memos are authentic, and its just common fucking sense to know that everything they say about Bush is true.

but yes, our corporate media does give him an unexcusable free pass on most everything.

[RivetJoint]

16. I don't think anyone

really believes those docs are authentic, anymore. The story in yesterday's Washington Post proved they were frauds.

[TomClash]

7. Who cares?

No one deciding to vote one way or another because of this issue.

Kerry gets 3 debates to shine. If he does no one will care about this.

Bush is agreeing to 3 debates - the Bush camp is confident Kerry can't beat Shrub.

[saracat]

11. Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter!

Look at the supposed eggheads that voted for Nader in 2000. This kind of thing is what they decide to vote on! The best things we have to get there attention are the guard story and Kitty Kelly! And the public believes that Bush won the debates in 2000 ! The debates won't convince anyone of anything. The average voter doesn't even know what a debate is. The average voter just voted in Sports illustrated for Bush, who can't stay on a bike and fell off both a sofa and a scooter as the most athletic of the candidates.So much for Kerry's windsurfing, skiing and football! Yeah, they will decide an election on this.The issues don't mean squat!

[Mad_Dem_X]

17. Agreed - the debates will be the real test

I cannot wait - Kerry is going to mop the floor with W. The articulate vs. the non-articulate, the empathetic vs. the pathetic.:bounce:

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. I'm taking all these reports with a grain of salt

until we hear it from the horse's, or actually, Dan Rather's mouth.

It ain't over, till it's over.

[luaneryder]

15. No, it ain't

They may have been duped on the authenticity of the papers, but the content is truth. Dan isn't going to let this go easily.

[Killarney]

13. It's in the New York Times

[mmonk]

14. Damaging to the cause

because other networks will make out that they are unbiased and the one network that took on the administration is biased and linked to the democratic party.