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To: redfish who wrote (55354)	9/10/2004 6:07:17 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Liberal Media Group Defends Authenticity of CBS News Documents ________________________ By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer September 10, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - The liberal media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) has defended the authenticity of the CBS News "60 Minutes 2" documents that were at the center of a news segment questioning President George Bush's service with the Texas Air National Guard in the early 1970s. "The arguments I have seen for these documents being fake seem pretty thin," Jim Naureckas, editor of FAIR's bimonthly magazine "Extra," told CNSNews.com. "The argument that you didn't have proportional spacing in typewriters in that era is clearly false," Naureckas said, citing ads promoting the feature in the 1940s. "It's not a recent technology," he added. Naureckas took apart the assertions that the documents might be false. "The idea that you did not have typewriters capable of producing sub-script or super-scripts (in the 1970s), that is clearly not true," he said. Naureckas also warned that the news organizations questioning the authenticity of the documents should be the ones that are nervous. "As far as I can tell, there have been no compelling reasons advanced to think these are fake. I actually think that news outlets more at risk are the ones that have gone out on a limb on some fairly flimsy grounds to say [the documents] are not true," Naureckas said. "I think that in this case, the whole pack has veered off on a new scent rather than looking at the legitimate questions raised by the original CBS story," he added. CNSNews.com on Thursday was the first news organization to report the possible flaws with the CBS News documents, following on the heels of extensive discussions about the subject on Internet blogs. By Friday morning, major newspapers and other television networks, which had earlier reported on the CBS allegations but had chosen not to aggressively question the authenticity of the documents, picked up the new angle to the story. CBS News and anchorman Dan Rather, who reported the "60 Minutes 2" segment, also refused to back down and insisted the documents were properly vetted. According to Naureckas, individuals and organizations may be pursuing a political agenda in trying to discredit the documents. "If these things are authentic, there are not a lot of great answers to explain them away. So the idea that they are phony is a lot more attractive to people arguing from that side," he explained. "I think these documents are quite damaging if they are authentic. These are documents that talk about sugar coating and back-dating the records as a result [of] pressure from upstairs," Naureckas said. Michael Medved, host of a nationally syndicated radio program and a media critic, believes that if the documents are proven false, it may mean the end of Dan Rather's career. "I honestly believe that if this continues to go the way it's going, it could mean the end of Dan Rather's illustrious career," Medved told CNSNews.com. Medved called the potential that the documents were forged "absolutely shocking." "What is most shocking about it is [CBS News] didn't have ready at hand -- some kind of immediate memo that said this is how we authenticated, this is how we documented," Medved said. "The fact that they haven't issued anything like that just is a stunning admission of journalistic malfeasance," he added. cnsnews.com\Politics\archive\200409\POL20040910d.html

To: redfish who wrote (55354)	9/10/2004 7:38:30 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Just about everybody I know who was bush's age thirty-five years ago was drinking and acting goofy with their buddies, instead of attending training sessions at some weekenders camp. Those that were supposed to attend the camps, got lame excuses to duck out every chance they got. We all know bush was behaving like this and that as soon as he could he got an early discharge to go on to a more interesting life. So here comes this document with the 'th'. No body cares if bush was acting irresponsibly but we care whether or not the document was a forgery designed to defraud him. So here come all the experts. CBS has theirs and their critics have theirs. The expert critics are convinced the 'th' is a fraud, CBS stands behind their experts who say it is an authentic 'th'. It could result as a backlash on kerry or as a besmirchment on bush. The person elected to lead the greatest superpower the world has ever known may be chosen on the basis of what we believe about this 'th', which says nothing abou kerry and doesn't contribute any thing new about bush. Welcome to lilliput.