9.15.2004
Latest CBS 'Rathergate' Statement
Drudgereport:
Statement by the President of CBS News, Andrew Heyward:
"We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television. There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know. Having said that, given all the questions about them, we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing."
Nothing newsworthy in that statement (it's already been re-posted at least a thousand times less than an hour after it first appeared). But for the archive...CBS feels the heat, but they are still ARROGANT. Joe Hagan reported on Dan Rather's 9-14 on air rejoinder:
"I think the public, even decent people who may be well-disposed toward President Bush, understand that powerful and extremely well-financed forces are concentrating on questions about the documents because they can’t deny the fundamental truth of the story," [Rather] said. "If you can’t deny the information, then attack and seek to destroy the credibility of the messenger, the bearer of the information. And in this case, it’s change the subject from the truth of the information to the truth of the documents.
"This is your basic fogging machine, which is set up to cloud the issue, to obscure the truth," [Rather] said.
Excuse me? 20,000 people dressed in pajamas with fat butts impressed to a coffee-stained chair, and weak eyes and bony fingers glued to a screen and keyboard are "powerful and extremely well-financed forces"? Jah Wohl, mein ubersturmfuhrer! Oh no, sir. The power resides with the thrust of the truth! It's the old saying "There is power in numbers." At least for the time being.
UPDATE: Translation: CBS has played its cards; it holds none. CBS now undertakes efforts to discover evidence bolstering a story that has blown up in its face. Its efforts should be redirected to facing reality and acknowledging culpability. It is now at the least complicit in a fraud of monumental proportions. (Courtesy of NRO's Kerry Spot.) See Powerline.
Statement by the President of CBS News, Andrew Heyward:
"We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television. There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know. Having said that, given all the questions about them, we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing."
Nothing newsworthy in that statement (it's already been re-posted at least a thousand times less than an hour after it first appeared). But for the archive...CBS feels the heat, but they are still ARROGANT. Joe Hagan reported on Dan Rather's 9-14 on air rejoinder:
"I think the public, even decent people who may be well-disposed toward President Bush, understand that powerful and extremely well-financed forces are concentrating on questions about the documents because they can’t deny the fundamental truth of the story," [Rather] said. "If you can’t deny the information, then attack and seek to destroy the credibility of the messenger, the bearer of the information. And in this case, it’s change the subject from the truth of the information to the truth of the documents.
"This is your basic fogging machine, which is set up to cloud the issue, to obscure the truth," [Rather] said.
Excuse me? 20,000 people dressed in pajamas with fat butts impressed to a coffee-stained chair, and weak eyes and bony fingers glued to a screen and keyboard are "powerful and extremely well-financed forces"? Jah Wohl, mein ubersturmfuhrer! Oh no, sir. The power resides with the thrust of the truth! It's the old saying "There is power in numbers." At least for the time being.
UPDATE: Translation: CBS has played its cards; it holds none. CBS now undertakes efforts to discover evidence bolstering a story that has blown up in its face. Its efforts should be redirected to facing reality and acknowledging culpability. It is now at the least complicit in a fraud of monumental proportions. (Courtesy of NRO's Kerry Spot.) See Powerline.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 3:24 PM 
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