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To: Sully- who wrote (75122)	10/5/2004 10:30:04 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793966

Powerline - CBS Defers Investigation Until After Election CBS has announced that its investigation into the 60 Minutes fake document scandal won't be completed until after the election: Les Moonves, the co-president of CBS parent company Viacom, told an analyst meeting that the review of the CBS "60 Minutes II" report being done by former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and retired Associated Press chief Louis Boccardi had no timetable for completion. But he said he did not want it to interfere with the Nov. 2 election. "Obviously, it should be done probably after the election is over so that it doesn't affect what's going on," he told a Goldman Sachs media conference in New York. A CBS spokeswoman had no immediate comment on the statement. But she pointed out that when CBS News President Andrew Heyward named Boccardi and Thornburgh to conduct the investigation of the Sept. 8 report, he said he hoped it would be completed in weeks rather than months. Well, CBS certainly wouldn't want to influence the election by revealing how its news department conspired with the Democratic National Committee to slander the President and his commanding officers in the Texas Air National Guard in hopes of influencing the election.

To: Sully- who wrote (75122)	10/5/2004 11:38:45 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793966

Most interesting that John Fund would write that story about Mary Mapes and CBS....The Wall Street Journal obviously did some digging into the story, as some of what he commented on is exactly what Carlson has said... If Mary's father thinks Mary is an liberal from Seattle, you can just imagine why there are folks here that think Patty Murray and Jim McDermott are "just folks"....The comments from Lou Guzzo are probably the closest to the mark... Lou Guzzo, a former KIRO news commentator who served as counselor to the late Gov. Dixy Lee Ray, a Democrat, says advocates in journalism are fine, "but if you're as liberal and activist as Mary and work on the news rather than the opinion side, it creates problems."