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To: LindyBill who wrote (70631)	9/15/2004 8:36:58 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794221

Captain Ed - As Instapundit and Kerryspot have both noted, Heyward not only misspelled "corroborated" (and they sat on this for six-and-a-half hours?), but they pronounce the memos "accurate" and not "authentic". The message: We presented America with fraudulent materials, for which Dan Rather personally vouched. Having spent the past four days desperately seeking anyone to back us up, we've now given up, but you should still believe us when we tell you that these forgeries accurately support our smear on George Bush. The search for better forgeries will continue. If it took Heyward six extra hours to come up with this, Viacom needs to find someone who has a clue and a dictionary to run its news division. Here's a question: if CBS really has all of this "coroborating" evidence on hand, why not show it? Why was Dan Rather out chatting up Marian Knox this afternoon if their story was as well-sourced as Heyward claims? If the memos are "accurate", why does one of them describe pressure being applied on Killian and Hodges by a general who had retired 18 months before the date of the memo? How did the memos get created if all Knox had in the TANG office was a manual Olympia and a standard Selectric, neither of which could do the proportional spacing and kerning evident in the memos? Who gave the memos to CBS News? Until Heyward and CBS News answers these questions, they haven't "coroborated" anything. They're also no longer a news organization; they're the Nixon White House, defending the 18-minute gap on the tapes. They're toast.

To: LindyBill who wrote (70631)	9/15/2004 8:38:20 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794221

oh dear oh dear... don't look behind the curtain i am the great and powerful oz... Andrew Heyward, the President of CBS, issued a statement today on the RatherGate story. "We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television."