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Works for me.

I think this is an excellent item for Rather to back. Not only will it IMO help Bush, it should also help any Congressional races...

"two bills in Congress...are sponsored exclusively by Democrats"

Might be a good debate question: "Senator Kerry, your party has introduced legislation to reinstate the draft. If elected President, would you support such legislation and would you work to reinstate the draft?"

CBS News.

They've given up.

New business plan is to become the premier provider of Propaganda to america.

It's too hard to do the real work of journalism.

Propaganda is so much easier. Rumor and inuendo with straw men and good visuals. No balance.

Lot's easier.

Propaganda.

Viacom's family friend Rock The Vote is pushing this hoax hard on rockthevote.com/draft

To bite on this story at all you have to ignore the administration's lack of interest in increasing the force with volunteers. We had 8-10(?) more divisions in 1990, and that was with no draft in sight. I can imagine Bush turning this back on Kerry, who's party has sponsored legislation to start a draft. Hey, maybe the draft is Kerry's secret plan.

IMHO, Rather and CBS are engaging in a pattern of shameless fabrication... beyond forgery and propaganda; a reckless production culture and systemic internal corruption that results in FABRICATED news product. This is the real story of CBS News in the dying Rather era.

Fabrication. IMHO, that is the crime of Rather and CBS News. "Fabricate" is the word that seems to best describe what they have done.

Let's use that term for a change. Let's paint them yellow with what they've done.

No doubt Rather will be running this story tomorrow, from yet another unimpeachable source. At least it will show he's learned to read the blogs.

Is this propaganda or stupidity? I gotta go with stupidity since the draft bills are all sponsored by Dems. Rangel's been on this trip a long time.

CBS has drunk the Kool-aid, folks. They believe the left's craziness. Its not a lie if you believe it. Its not propaganda if you believe it. But it is pretty damn sad.

How dumb can CBS be? Before this broadcast it would have been a bit obscure for Bush to bring up the two Democrat-sponsored draft bills during the debates.

CBS has just given many more people a context, and established that a prospective draft is an object of dread. Now, when a debating Bush says something like "The only ones advocating a draft are the Democrats" it will link the Dem's to something they themselves have - with CBS's help - just established as an ugly negative.

With friends like CBS, who needs Karl Rove?

Aha! The truth comes out Karl Rove runs CBS! Brilliant! The media is so far biased left that it comes full circle and is in fact biased to the right just like "Screw them" Kos says. Diabolical Genius!

Kerry used to WANT a draft, see this link at Captains Quarters.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040210043828/www.johnkerry.com/issues/natservice/

Just when you think CBS couldn't go any lower...

I've already contacted my local affiliate (again) to complain about CBS News...

I say let's raise hell once again, especially with the CBS affiliates and advertisers...we already know the drill...

Good idea, Another Thought. I followed up my original short, precise, non-partisan e-mail to my local affiliate about Rathergate with another one pointing to the RatherBiased report, emphasizing that the report's information can be verified by following the embedded links and that CBS's fact-free reporting continues to tarnish not only CBS but the local affiliates.

Here's a list of the people in government supporting the draft (hr163 and s89). After voting each of them out of office, we should find out who THEY are voting for for president and vote against him. That should end the draft discussion quickly...

Sponsors of HR189 (House of Representatives)

Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-15]
Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] - 1/7/2003
Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] - 1/28/2003
Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 5/19/2004
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 1/28/2003
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 1/7/2003
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 1/28/2003
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 1/28/2003
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 7/21/2004
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/28/2003
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 1/7/2003
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 1/7/2003
Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 1/28/2003
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 1/7/2003
Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] - 1/28/2003

Sponsor of S89 (Senate)

Ernest Hollings, SC

(I have heard that these pro-draft democrats will be voting for Kerry...)

More on Kerry's Service Plan can be found here on Kerry's forum:

http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showtopic=18702

On it. thanks, roddy boyd

Looks like the Kerry Serivce plan was moved (not really "pulled" unless you consider that it looks much revised from the original plan shown in the Web archives via Ed).

here:
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/national_service/

and here:
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/national_service/plan.html

More here:
http://www.thepenn.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/09/22/4151bcc64f39d

I've got a full summary of the story, including of "TranscriptGate" at:

http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2004/09/kerry-tales-part-xlvii-cbs-bias-take-2.html

So, if I send emails to lots of people saying how concerned I am that John Kerry is an alien reptilian wearing a Lurch mask and how much all my friends are worried about it then CBS News would need to do a story on it.

Damn! You go boy!

(and, to the comment above...Corrine Brown? Yeah, big surprise there)