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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (99103)	2/7/2005 12:48:37 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793640

Nobody seriously asserts that Rather forged the TANG documents. Only that CBS was grossly negligent in failing to authenticate the documents, and that they compounded the error by refusing to admit it once it became obvious that the documents had been forged. Presenting the truth in a truthful manner is the most important duty of the press. They failed to do their most important duty. From my perspective, Clinton's affairs were not failures to perform his most important duty. If Bush, in fact, failed to adhere strictly to National Guard requirements, the National Guard doesn't appear to have minded. If Kerry lied after the fact about his service in Vietnam, this is not a failure to perform his duty in Vietnam. The word for screwing around on your wife, slacking off during National Guard service, and telling lies about your war record is "peccadillo." The word for failing to perform your most important duty is "dereliction."

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (99103)	2/7/2005 1:11:36 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793640

Mary, the stuff that Kerry has lied about and refused to release is known. It's just lying there, and the MSM refused to investigate it. Almost entirely, and they certainly refused to dog Kerry with questions as they had done previously to Bush. When contrasted with their Javier-like fixation on the Bush/TANG story, their bias became obvious to most people. Not just partisan Republicans, but lots of people, began to say to themselves, "Now, if the shoe had been on the other foot, we would have seen a different story..."