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To: DMaA who wrote (70336)	9/15/2004 8:50:06 AM
From: Neil H	Respond to of 793999

Likely Bedfellows If it's good enough for 60 Minutes, it's good enough for the DNC. by Stephen F. Hayes 09/14/2004 3:30:00 PM Update 6:05 p.m.: Late Thursday afternoon, NBC News and CBS News requested that that the Democratic National Committee pull the campaign video in question. The DNC, through a spokesman, says that the matter is under consideration. NBC released a statement Tuesday afternoon. "The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has included an edited excerpt from a Meet the Press interview with President Bush that was broadcast on February 8, 2004 as part of their promotional campaign to be used as a web video and shown in battleground states. NBC News does not authorize its copyrighted footage to be used for partisan political purposes. NBC News did not, and does not, license use of our material for these purposes and we have asked the DNC to cease and desist immediately from using the excerpt." CBS spokeswoman Sandy Genelius told THE WEEKLY STANDARD late Tuesday afternoon that CBS, like NBC, will demand that the Democratic National Committee stop using CBS News footage in the new ad. "We do not want them to use the video and we are taking it up with them," said Genelius. Jano Cabrera, a spokesman for the DNC, says the matter is under consideration. "We are aware of the request[s] and we are looking at it. Our current understanding is that we have the right to use the limited excerpts in the video. But we are looking at it." weeklystandard.com

To: DMaA who wrote (70336)	9/15/2004 8:58:12 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793999

Can you think of any other reason? Sure. Getting from cognitive dissonance to recognition takes time. And then fact finding takes time. And then figuring out what to do about it in a large bureaucracy takes even longer. Not everything operates at the speed of the internet where shooting from the hip makes you a day late and a dollar short.

To: DMaA who wrote (70336)	9/15/2004 12:15:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793999

The only reason I can see that they are dragging this out is that they desperately want to protect the source. Can you think of any other reason? I see kholt already offered cognitive dissonance. I have another thought (not original): they are protected the DNC campaign, which was all planned out & ready to go, and depended on these memos as a springboard.