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CBS and Rather Admit Mistakes in Bush Documents
Vexler writes "The word this afternoon from CBS regarding the authenticity of the national guard memos of President Bush is that they cannot be trusted, confirming what several document experts had already suggested. In Dan Rather apologized for a 'mistake in judgment.' I have to wonder though: What would be the price CBS (or CNN, during the 2000 presidential election in which the final tally from Florida was changed several times before they realized that a recount may be needed) would pay for 'mistakes' of this type? What are some of your thoughts regarding 'moderating' (think /.) a news agency when it admits that more than just an honest mistake has been committed in its reporting?" There is still one big question remaining unanswered, too: who forged the memos? Where did they come from? Burkett, the man who provided them to CBS, won't say where he got them.
If every shit-for-brains dickhead who threatened to move to Canada actually would, this country would be a much nicer place.
I think we should establish a "Get The Fuck Out" fund, a non-profit charitable organization whose purpose is to help liberal crapweasels and libertarian freaks secure the funding they need to pay for a one-way ticket to wherethefuckever.
Who's with me?
I write in my journal
KARL: George, now that we finally pulled ahead of Kerry in the polls, and your re-election is all but guaranteed, I have a plan that will guarantee your win.
GEORGE: Interesting. Normally, the front-runner tries to keep a low profile and a tame campaign. But since I am a stupid idiot and you are the great master mind of my entire political career, I'll hear you out.
KARL: See these documents I wrote in Word? They make the claims that the crazy crackpot democrats, including John Kerry, have been making for the past five years. Even though it is blatantly obvious to even untrained eyes that they are forgeries, I am going to contact Dan Rather and his team and get them to run it on 60 minutes.
GEORGE: Okay....
KARL: And after they run the story, I am going to have your surrogates on all the internet blogs post about how fake the document is and how Dan Rather should quit. That's how we'll win this election.
GEORGE: But we are already winning...
KARL: But that's not the point!
GEORGE: I'm not sure I'm following you, Karl. But since I am a stupid idiot and you are the smart guy, I'm going to give you the go-ahead on this.
MEANWHILE, AT 60 MINUTES HEADQUARTERS
DAN: Hello?
KARL: Ummm... Hello? This is... err (covers telephone with rag) (gruffy voice) This is a key informant who is unimpeachable. I have the documents you have been looking for. It shows how George Bush missed his physical and how he really didn't deserve to be in the Texas Air National Guard.
DAN: Wow! That's great. Fax them over.
DAN: Hey, these don't look right. It looks like it is written in Microsoft Word and the signature looks forged.
KARL: Ummm, yeah, he used one of those fancy IBM typewriters that were used to typeset important documents and cost $20,000.
DAN: I don't believe that the ANG would have such a device, and if I recall, they aren't easy to use at all.
KARL: Nevermind that. Just run this and you'll be famous for breaking this story.
DAN: Oh, alright. Now who are you?
KARL: That's not important. Good bye.
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Man, I would love to put together a film with all the stupid conspiracy theories that people claim the Bush administration has come up with. It could be good for several hours of constant laughter.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
But the yellowcake in question was pre-91!
I don't care if it dated back to Hammurabi, it was expressly prohibited under the 1991 cease-fire. And yet somehow, somehow it ended up being shipped to Rotterdam in 2003.
Still, "in this context" is just your definition for WMD.
Um. No. It's the definition put forth in the Safwan Accords, reinforced by the United Nations Security Council, and used as the standard to which Iraq was held accountable.
If, by challenging this definition, I become a "radical leftist," we have just ceased to have any grounds for a meaningful dialogue.
We never had any such grounds. You started out with "Only working nuclear bombs are prohibited," which is nothing more or less than the insane ramblings of a crazy man.
Feel free to call me other names you feel like, but I'll have been forced to stop taking you seriously.
I'm all broke up.
I'm concerned about the redefinition of language used in a bunch of those justifications.
Then stop doing it.
But it seems to me that it's not the "radical leftists" who have tried to redefine what the Administration was talking about when they raised the spectre of WMDs.
See? That's my point. You're all about "oooh, they raised a specter!" When in truth, it was simply a matter of a cease-fire violation. You like the idea of hopping up and down on the "raised a specter" thing, though, because it (1) makes it sound like the Bush administration was trying to persuade somebody of something --they weren't --and (2) it makes it easier for you to deny that prohibited materials have been found in vast quantities in Iraq.
Whatever you say, man. No war, all a big lie, no moon landing, fluoride in the water is a form of mind control. Whatever.
I write in my journal