It's time for the Party leaders to stand behind CBS

[unfrigginreal]

In a rare show of courage, CBS and Dan Rather bucked the establishment tonight. The time is NOW for the Party to use it's clout to embarrass the other networks into investigating the real questions raised by the 60 Minutes report. I just saw on CNN, Aaron Brown's show, the same bullshit reporting about "some" experts questioning the authenticity of the documents. Not one bit of investigation into the charges of Bush's derelict of duty.

Democratic leaders, grow a pair. This is likely to be the best opportunity to come down the pike to push back against an anti-Democratic media. You know that it is the Republican Party that's pushing the questions over the documents, so do your friggin' job and become loud in your opposition.

I've already written a thank-you to CBS and will start now to write to our spokespeople insisting that they stand up to the onslaught. I hope most of you will do the same.

[librechik]

1. probably they don't want to imply a relationship

But I'm sure they will express their gratitude behind the scenes.

[unfrigginreal]

3. They need to imply a relationship with the truth

if they don't take this opportunity to reinforce the fact that there has been NO evidence to refute the CBS claims, then they're useless. There's nothing wrong with them qualifying any statements with "unless evidence to the contrary surfaces", but they should definitely put some heat on the other networks to investigate the charges raised by CBS and to stop parroting GOP efforts to change the issue.

[kikiek]

2. I wrote one. I think part of the problem is jealousy. They want to tear

down another network's big story. Have people question the veracity of the competition. The rest is just plain old chicken shit drunk on kool-aid.

[A_Possum]

4. How about you support the DNC in this

and sign their petition Questions George Bush Must Answer About His Service

Also read Irrefutable Facts about Bush's National Guard Record

[unfrigginreal]

5. I do support them and have signed it

but that is not the point of my post. The Democratic Party has been consistently outmaneuvered when it comes to using the media to make our case. Well, CBS has presented them with an opportunity to shame the other networks into actually investigating a real story, or force them to explain why they won't. This is a golden opportunity that should not be missed.

[TheWebHead]

6. completely disagree

Look, nobody in the Democratic leadership knows where these documents came from. Unless they were obtained from the military, which we know they weren't, there are serious issues to know definitively they are authentic. I think what Edwards said that Bush should address the claims in the documents are as far as we can go without getting burned. It would have been more beneficial had these documents never come out, because it made the Boston Globe's officially obtained docs get lost in the mix. I know it's not a popular view here, but that's how I see it.

[unfrigginreal]

8. Pure baloney

Pushing the media to investigate the facts does not insinuate knowledge that the documents are genuine.

[Junkdrawer]

9. What TheWebHead said...

goes for me. I think Rove knows they're fake because he planted them - that's why he will use his PR firm to press this to the mat.

Now what I'd love to know is how the tiny superscripted "th" got in the "official" documents.

[unfrigginreal]

11. I give up

my last post in this thread. As usual, let's let the other guys drive the media.

[BurtWorm]

7. NOOOOO!

It's time for the party leaders to turn the attention away from these documents and back toward the events they purport to describe.

[unfrigginreal]

10. Um, so you agree with me

[BurtWorm]

12. No I don't. I think the party ought to keep the stink of CBS

off of them. Sorry to put it that way. I like CBS News; as far as network news goes they're not quite as awful as ABC and nowhere near as awful as NBC. But it would be a grave mistake for Democrats to rally round these documents. The documents are beside the point. What they're about is the point.

[robbedvoter]

13. Surprisingly, they did - McAuliffe no less - used the "L" word:

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe accused President George W. Bush (news - web sites) oflying about his military record during the Vietnam war, saying this raised questions about Bush's integrity to act as US leader.
"It has become crystal clear that the president has lied to the American public regarding his military record," McAuliffe told a press conference about documents which indicate that Bush may have been punished for having refused to attend a medical visit in 1972.
The documents were shown by the CBS television channel on Wednesday but doubts about their authenticity have been raised by some US media. CBS has said it is sticking by its story however.



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