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To: LindyBill who wrote (70359)	9/15/2004 9:40:54 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794089

"Give em the old, Razzle-Dazzle, Razzle-Dazzle em!" CBS News's next step Donald Sensing blog CBS News has released a story on the Memogate papers. Here is the lead: CBS News continued to defend the legitimacy of its recent story about President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard, even as two experts it hired to examine records CBS used told ABC they could not vouch for their veracity. Change of focus: CBS defends the legitimacy of the story while backing off defending the memos' legitimacy. The second graf cites Ms. Marion Carr Knox, secretary to the purported author of the forged memos, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian. Drudge reported late yesterday afternoon that Ms. Knox denounced the memos as forgeries, but affirmed that the information they contained was essentially correct. But CBS incredibly dismisses her expertise: CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said CBS did not believe Knox was a documents expert and that the network believes the documents are genuine. But then the other shoe drops, of course: "It is notable that she confirms the content of the documents, which was the primary focus of our story in the first place," Genelius said. The rest of the piece asserts that Bush didn't fulfill his Guard requirements. CBS cites criticism by other media, notably ABC, merely to dismiss them. Of Linda James and Emily Will, document experts who flatly contradict CBS, CBS News said that Will and James played only a "peripheral role" in assessing the documents, and had seen only one of the four used in the report. Ultimately they deferred to another expert who has seen all four documents, Marcel Matley, and who continues to back up CBS' account. However, Matley has told CNN, The Washington Post and other media organizations that his work was limited to verifying that the signatures on the memos came from the same source. He did not, he says, claim that the documents themselves were authentic. So what is CBS's position of the authenticity of the documents? The story cites experts who say they are frauds, including even its own main authority, Matley, then says it stands by the documents. But Houdini-like, the network is shifting away from the forgeries to Bush's Guard service. This news release proves the old adage, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance . . ."

To: LindyBill who wrote (70359)	9/15/2004 10:15:46 AM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 794089

<<" "We did discuss Bush's conduct and it was a problem Killian was concerned about," Mrs. Knox">> Being generous, the 'lady' wanted her 15 min of fame. Who in the hell discusses important or sensitive info with their coffemaker/typist/filer? She has visions of being important now....