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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug R who wrote (631423)	9/23/2004 2:43:33 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Maybe Shrub and Cheney should spend some time working over at the Abu Grahib prison in Iraq...They need to spend some time out "in the trenches".

To: Doug R who wrote (631423)	9/23/2004 2:44:19 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

KERRYGATE CBS Affiliates Bail as Rather's Ratings Hit the Skids It looks like even that anti-Bush bastion New York City has a limit to what it will tolerate when it comes to political attacks on the president, with Dan Rather's latest Big Apple ratings showing his forged documents smear crossed the line. On Monday, a mere 135,000 viewers tuned into to Rather's broadcast on WCBS, the network's New York City affiliate. That's just half the number - 266,000 - who were watching Rather before a week before he acknowledged his Sept. 8 report was based on faked evidence. Tuesday's performance wasn't much better, with Rather's home-turf audience off by 37,000 from a week earlier, according to numbers gathered by the New York Post - a 14 percent decline. In more bad news for CBS execs and shareholders, affiliates in other markets are bailing out on the network altogether. Bob Lee, general manager of WBDJ-TV in Roanoke, Virginia, who also serves as president of the CBS Affiliates Association, told the Washington Post that he has heard from many stations and "we're all being battered." WNIS-AM in Norfolk has announced that it is dropping its agreement to carry CBS News reports after 12 years, the Post added. Station spokesman Dave Morgan said his station was switching to ABC because CBS's credibility has been "seriously damaged by the ongoing scandal" and "our listeners have clamored for a change." CBS spokesman Dana McClintock expressed "regret" that WNIS "made this decision based on this one issue alone," but he acknowledged to the Post that CBS affiliates and viewers "deserve a better explanation of how this came to pass." newsmax.com