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Home Front: Politix
CBS IN NEW 'FAKE' ACHE
2004-09-26
In the latest fallout from the Dan Rather fiasco over using forged documents to attack President Bush's National Guard service, CBS has killed a "60 Minutes" report that accused Bush of using forged documents to justify the Iraq war.
I just squirted coffee out my nose...
Insiders said the report was killed because it would make the network a laughingstock by criticizing anyone else over dubious documents after insisting for 12 days that Rather's forgeries were real.
Gee. Golly. Y'think?
The official reason from "60 Minutes" spokeswoman Kelli Edwards was: "We now believe it would be inappropriate to air the report so close to the presidential election."
"Instead we'll just go on-screen and chant in unison "Bush lied! People died!" for the full 60 Minutes..."
The report, by veteran journalist Ed Bradley, was supposed to air Sept. 8 but got bumped for Rather's forgery fiasco. The shelved CBS report accused the White House of relying on obviously fake documents that purportedly showed Iraq sought "yellowcake" uranium from the African nation of Niger to use in a nuclear-weapons program.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Upon reading the headline I thought 'CBS has fake ACNE? (pimples?)'

Its been a long day.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-09-26 7:16:45 PM  

#7  TGA, it all has to do with the translation from French to English. Whenever something is written in French it looks and sounds real enough. But under scrutiny the truth is not in the words. EXAMPLE: Prior to WWII the Maginot Line was said to be impregnable by French officials. Of course the Germans didn’t bother reading the French reports and just rolled over France in a couple of weeks. My conclusion is we have to stop reading French too and just KICK ASS!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2004-09-26 6:36:32 PM  

#6  And once again, twirling his moustache as he flings his black cape, Karl Rove disappears into the night, with a menacing "BWAHAHAHAHAHA!" Which leaves a solitary maintenance worker the unpleasant task of cleaning up those railroad tracks.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2004-09-26 2:44:11 PM  

#5  You mean the French didn't use MS Word?
Quelle perfidie!
Posted by: True German Ally   2004-09-26 2:40:54 PM  

#4  Again - Sorry -

I heard these Niger docs were forged by the French Intel service, and were much more accurate forgeries than those cooked up by Lockhart & Burkett's mystery woman.


Ahhhhh the FRENCH!
Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-26 2:32:10 PM  

#3  Also - CF

They need to be on monitored doses of Paxil. Dementia is causing them to do many odd things...
Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-26 2:29:59 PM  

#2  Criminal
Business
System

"What's a few forgeries amongst friends?"
Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-26 2:28:58 PM  

#1  I think its time 60 minutes (along with all of its hosts) be put out to pasture.

The thing is -- Iraq really did seek yellowcake in Nigeria....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-09-26 1:07:53 PM  

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