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To: LindyBill who wrote (69721)9/13/2004 3:05:12 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 793822
 
"We're having a hard time tracking how we got the documents," says the CBS News producer. "There are at least two people in this building who have insisted we got copies of these memos from the Kerry campaign by way of an additional source. We do not have the originals, and our sources have indicated to us that we will not be getting the originals. How that is possible I don't know."

Well of course they don't have the originals. If they had the originals, even the professional journalists at CBS News would be able to tell that they had come off a laserwriter and not a typewriter.

"We pulled the trick of only calling some sources at the last minute to reconfirm," says the CBS producer. "Someone called Hodges, I think, on Monday night and read him parts of the document. The late contacts are a standard practice so we don't tip off the competition or our sources."

So are you telling me that it is standard practice at CBS News to take your sources' word on their bare say-so? except for a last minute "sound good to you?" phone call? I wonder you don't get hoodwinked more often. Or maybe you do.

Burkett gained some national attention earlier in the campaign when he claimed he was at National Guard headquarters in Austin 1997, when he overheard Guard officials and a representative of then Governor Bush discuss how to sanitize Bush's files. That story was fully discredited. Nonetheless, Burkett sat down for at least three different interviews with CBS News for the story now at the center of the controversy.

Let me amend my last remark. You didn't take the bare say-so of just any source; you took the bare say-so of a proven liar. A proven liar who by some vague coincidence happens to be one of Kerry's largest fund-raisers. And this was your entire basis - the entire basis - for a major attack on President Bush, 7 weeks before the Election.

The Emperor is very, very naked. And now he is going to have to admit it.
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