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« Tapped, Truth to Power and On Deck (UPDATED) | Main | Busted (RETRACTED - NOT Busted) » September 23, 2004
Today's Rathergate Round-up
Posted by Bill Though I'm sure that 95% of you have already been there, I feel obligated to shoo all of you over to Allah's latest link-dump. It seems that a torch-bearing crowd of MSM op-ed villagers is beginning to form up and chant Rather's name. Also, all due credit: his ET photoshop has me giggling like a shackled loon. One item I'll excerpt directly is the third installment in Pinkerton's "smack-down" series, where among other demands, he throws down the following gauntlets: Third, for Mary Mapes, the CBS producer who honchoed the Guard story: the Associated Press described Mapes as "a dogged and talented journalist who made no secret of her liberal political beliefs." If so, in the interests of transparency and full disclosure, shouldn't she detail all her contacts with the John Kerry presidential campaign, as well as the Democratic National Committee? Also, come to think of it, Mapes wasn't the only CBS employee working on the story - let's all 'fess up. Fourth, for Kerry operative Joe Lockhart, who says that he didn't know why he was supposed to call Bill Burkett, the apparent source for the phony documents - only that he did because Mapes asked him to: Hey, Joe, doesn't the idea that a busy muckety-muck like you would call a stranger flunk the laugh test, unless it was part of a deal with Mapes and CBS? So let's get all phone and e-mail records, please, so that the voters can assess any possible improper Kerry-CBS collusion. Amen, brother. It's nice to see these concepts gain traction outside the blogosphere. Posted by Bill at September 23, 2004 03:03 PM | TrackBack (0) CommentsRather and Mapes should both be fired. Out of a cannon. Into the Sun. Posted by: TallDave at September 23, 2004 03:22 PM Thought you were going haiku on me there, but your syllables were off. Posted by: Bill from INDC Journal at September 23, 2004 03:23 PM Dan, Mapes, West, Heyward Posted by: Al at September 23, 2004 03:53 PM Al, it needs an ' mark after shocked, so it will be pronounced shock-ed not shockt. (Think Shakespeare!) Other than that little nitpick, beauty! I still would like to see the word get out wider about the Thornburgh/Rove feud. I'm very afraid of that biting us in the butt. Posted by: ubu at September 23, 2004 05:40 PM I read on another blog this a.m. that Thornburgh who was chosen by CBS to investigate has a link to Rove. Through a lawsuit. Seems Thornburgh still owed Rove some $170,000 from a failed campaign. Posted by: mshyde at September 23, 2004 05:41 PM BummerDietz has a good example of CBS Burning a Source...If He Looks Republican http://scyllacharybdis.blogspot.com/ Posted by: Winemaker at September 23, 2004 07:04 PM This certanly not the first time the news media has been cuaght lying back in 1993 NBC was cuaght lying about GM pick-ups it seems that on NBCs program DATELINE they faked a truck exposion by over filling the gas tank putting on the wrong gas cap and riging it with a inciterery deivice to get the deseired effect and shortly there after ABC was cuaght in a loe against FOOD LION and CBS has been sued more then once for fruadulent news programs when they got cuaght at a contoversialantihunting program GUNS OF AUTUIM and not to mention a few more and that CNN(Communst News Network)has also been sued over such fruads Posted by: Phoenix at September 25, 2004 09:29 AM |
