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To: tejek who wrote (201575)	9/12/2004 6:10:35 AM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574106

TheJerk, Re: "Time to consider Iraq withdrawal" Why don't you post it a couple more time ... Maybe then it will come true. What a "maroon". <ggg> Make It So, Yousef

To: tejek who wrote (201575)	9/12/2004 6:24:39 AM
From: Yousef	Respond to of 1574106

TheJerk, Re: "The Hoaxing of CBS" The Hoaxing of CBS "Here's a revealing anecdote reported by Michael Dobbs and Mike Allen in this morning's Washington Post: A senior CBS official . . . named one of the network's sources as retired Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, the immediate superior of the documents' alleged author, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. He said that a CBS reporter read the documents to Hodges over the phone, and that Hodges replied that "these are the things that Killian had expressed to me at the time." "These documents represent what Killian not only was putting in memoranda, but was telling other people," the CBS News official said. "Journalistically, we've gone several extra miles." Obviously, you can't authenticate a document by reading it to someone over the phone. (CBS claims to have had other "experts" examine the documents but has been unwilling to name them.) What this reporting should have suggested to CBS is that whoever forged the documents was someone who knew what CBS's sources would be saying--someone well informed on the anti-Bush scuttlebutt about his National Guard service. The "documents" neatly reflect the reigning anti-Bush theories of the events of 1972 and 1973 and perfectly buttress the anti-Bush narrative because they were produced by someone who was obsessing over that narrative and understood that reporters would need "documentation" to advance the story. Make It So, Yousef

To: tejek who wrote (201575)	9/12/2004 6:30:05 AM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574106

Thejerk, Re: "The Hoaxing of CBS (continued)" "Just as obviously, the journalists who went into overdrive for the National Guard story when the phony memos were released, with few exceptions, want to see Kerry win and Bush lose. This makes them suckers for a good anti-Bush story. It's conventional to call this media bias and be shocked by it. But really it's just human nature. That's why we have to be especially skeptical of the stories we fall in love with. And that's why CBS screwed up." Make It So, Yousef