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To: LindyBill who wrote (70433)	9/15/2004 12:33:44 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 794027

Thirty minutes past the "zero hour" and still no word from CBS. Everybody is speculating. Q&O blog. What would Rather do? Posted by Dale Franks Bases on the coverage of the memo's story at the CBS Website, I suspect they;ll be following a line of, "The documwents aren't important. It's the deeper truths behind them that are important. Forget the documents. It's the story you need to understand. CBS News says the original report used several different techniques to make sure the memos were genuine, including talking to handwriting and document analysts and other experts who strongly insist that the documents could have been created on a typewriter in the 1970s – as opposed to a modern-day word-processing software program. And aliens could have produced them at their sector administrative outpost at Alpha Centauri, then beamed them to earth. Lt Col Killian could have run them off at PIP (the Kinko's of that era), because they were 'specially important. A lot of things could have happened. But, how likely is it that they happened? That's the question that CBS still doesn't seem keen to address. CBS has also said its story about Mr. Bush's guard service relied on much more than documents. Featured in the segment was former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, a Democrat who claims he pulled strings to get Mr. Bush into the Guard in 1968. «So, please, ignore the document forgeries. Not important. It's the story that's the important part. Trust us on this. » Uh huh. CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said CBS did not believe Knox was a documents expert and that the network believes the documents are genuine. "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. So, essentially, their saying that, even though Killian's secretary, Ms. Knox, thinks the documents are forgeries, the whole forgery deal is unimportant because the content of the memos are what they wanted to believe at CBS comport with the story CBS reported. So, the CBS argument is that the documents were fake, but their content was authentic. And that's supposed to make it all better? Huh. Well, don't expect any big mea culpa from CBS in half an hour. I think their position is pretty clear. If the documents were forgeries, then we should just forget about that and concentrate on the rest of the story CBS is trying to tell us. But, if CBS' journalistic standards were so shoddy that they were perfectly willing to pass these memos off as reliably authenticated, why should we give any credence to the rest of CBS's story? How do we know that it wasn't also infected by similarly sloppy standards? CBS is silent on that point.