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To: epicure who wrote (12728)	9/30/2004 12:45:14 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

I love that word Schmuck and it suits GW. Bush to a T.. He is full of dreck too. Probably mispelled that... So much bull and no rodeo...

To: epicure who wrote (12728)	10/1/2004 12:21:25 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

My husband told me about that. Amazing, if it's true. They want us to elect the schmuck, and THEN they'll expose him? Gee, THANKS CBS. An open mind, eh? You already know that the program "exposes" the schmuck without having seen it? May not be a terrific use of your critical faculties but it surely shows a good deal of ESP and clairvoyance. Quite obviously, CBS's reasons for not running the report are related to its recent and obvious ethical lapse in using documents which it knew were fakes. Like you, Rather and 60 Minutes simply cannot countenance Bush. On the other hand, CBS has suffered horribly as a result of its unfettered zeal and hubris, which is fair, proper, as it should be, and poetically just. Because it has been exposed as less than ethical, CBS cannot afford another fiasco. Its ratings and therefore its corporate parent's share price have suffered because the market ultimately imposed its own discipline. The real reason, of course, was that because of CBS's sloppy reporting on the Bush National Guard story, the network's news executives believed they could no longer report credibly on the heart of the Iraq nuclear issue, involving another set of completely forged documents: those purporting to show that Iraq had purchased yellowcake uranium from the African country Niger. That is only part of the reason. I'm certain that another reason the story did not air is that CBS management is imposing a much tighter fact-checking standard on 60 Minutes. Remember that 60 Minutes, despite a stellar beginning, was the program which "outed" Alar, slammed Audi for "unintended acceleration" when it was dummies who couldn't tell the difference between a brake and an accelerator that caused the "phenomenon," and faked truck explosions. In short, 60 Minutes has been a laughing stock for some time now because it was allowed to roam as free as it wished. Given its current predilections, it would not have surprised me if it hired Geraldo! and continued the search for Al Capone's treasure. In short, it was turning into a senile parody of itself. More importantly, it is hurting Viacom's bottom line. Its management wisely chose to can another controversial project which, if fact-checking standards are what they have been, had the potential for giving Viacom another body blow. That the program was timed for playing weeks before the Election is simply another indicator of CBS's anti-Bush bias. You can hoot and holler all you want, but it is clear to me that the adults have finally taken over at the 60 Minutes playpen for senile journalists.