It’s been Two Weeks, Now. (Victimhood, My Butt)

Hard to believe but it’s already been two weeks since CBS pushed fake docs off on us in an attempt to slight President Bush.

If you’ll recall, almost before the echo had died from the broadcast, a vast majority of those who saw the documents CBS aired, called them fake, phony,a sham. CBS seems ready to admit that they were exactly so. Dan Rather, meanwhile, is still sticking to this story. The stated reason for all of this? CBS goes with the documents because the White House didn’t call them fake. Can you beat it?

So, now, CBS will claim victimhood, and that’s supposed to make everything OK? As the swift public reaction to the documents proved, even the most cursory examination of the documents in question would have revealed that they were, in fact, fakes.  CBS couldn’t do this?

Sorry, Gang. Here’s my call and some of you are not going to like it. CBS knew what they were saying was a lie. But they were willing to lie to the public to advance the cause of getting John Kerry into the White House. Rather hatred of anything Republican and particularly anything Bush, is nothing shy of legendary.

And I’d like you to think about something; Why wouldn’t CBS have coughed up this admission earlier? Simple; they had to cook up this ‘victimhood’ story. There is, you see, only one thing more problematic to CBS than simply having to admit they lied. That being, that the cause they lied for should also be exposed as being a party to that lie. Can you imagine the situation should it be shown that the documents came from a DNC source?

And when this story is really is investigated… if any other news org has the stones for it… which I doubt…  we will find that these documents originated within the DNC, and that CBS willingly participated in a DNC dirty trick… tricks the supposed source, Bill Burkett, was publicly encouraging others to perform.

The story now becomes, (As it has been since the beginning, to my mind) how CBS came by these documents. If CBS is going to claim victimhood, there’s no way around exposing who ‘victimized’ CBS. who fed them these documents. And I’ll say it again, so there is no mistake… these documents were produced with the full knowledge of someone high up within the DNC, and or the Kerry Campaign. There is no other reason at this point for CBS to be protecting it’s source, than this scenario.

Here it is; CBS will tell us who “victimized” them, else the only possible conclusion was that the ‘victimhood’ is another ruse, and CBS intentionally lied to us the whole time, and are now trying to wiggle out of the consequences of being caught in that lie and minimize the damage tot he Kerry Campaign.

We must not let them, if truth is at all on the agenda.

Courage, you know.

PS: If he’s going to do a crow eating session, shouldn’t Dan Rather appear in his PJ’s on national TV?

Hard to believe but it’s already been two weeks since CBS pushed fake docs off on us in an attempt to slight President Bush.

If you’ll recall, almost before the echo had died from the broadcast, a vast majority of those who saw the documents CBS aired, called them fake, phony,a sham. CBS seems ready to admit that they were exactly so. Dan Rather, meanwhile, is still sticking to this story. The stated reason for all of this? CBS goes with the documents because the White House didn’t call them fake. Can you beat it?

So, now, CBS will claim victimhood, and that’s supposed to make everything OK? As the swift public reaction to the documents proved, even the most cursory examination of the documents in question would have revealed that they were, in fact, fakes.  CBS couldn’t do this?

Sorry, Gang. Here’s my call and some of you are not going to like it. CBS knew what they were saying was a lie. But they were willing to lie to the public to advance the cause of getting John Kerry into the White House. Rather hatred of anything Republican and particularly anything Bush, is nothing shy of legendary.

And I’d like you to think about something; Why wouldn’t CBS have coughed up this admission earlier? Simple; they had to cook up this ‘victimhood’ story. There is, you see, only one thing more problematic to CBS than simply having to admit they lied. That being, that the cause they lied for should also be exposed as being a party to that lie. Can you imagine the situation should it be shown that the documents came from a DNC source?

And when this story is really is investigated… if any other news org has the stones for it… which I doubt…  we will find that these documents originated within the DNC, and that CBS willingly participated in a DNC dirty trick… tricks the supposed source, Bill Burkett, was publicly encouraging others to perform.

The story now becomes, (As it has been since the beginning, to my mind) how CBS came by these documents. If CBS is going to claim victimhood, there’s no way around exposing who ‘victimized’ CBS. who fed them these documents. And I’ll say it again, so there is no mistake… these documents were produced with the full knowledge of someone high up within the DNC, and or the Kerry Campaign. There is no other reason at this point for CBS to be protecting it’s source, than this scenario.

Here it is; CBS will tell us who “victimized” them, else the only possible conclusion was that the ‘victimhood’ is another ruse, and CBS intentionally lied to us the whole time, and are now trying to wiggle out of the consequences of being caught in that lie and minimize the damage tot he Kerry Campaign.

We must not let them, if truth is at all on the agenda.

Courage, you know.

PS: If he’s going to do a crow eating session, shouldn’t Dan Rather appear in his PJ’s on national TV?

Hard to believe but it’s already been two weeks since CBS pushed fake docs off on us in an attempt to slight President Bush.

If you’ll recall, almost before the echo had died from the broadcast, a vast majority of those who saw the documents CBS aired, called them fake, phony,a sham. CBS seems ready to admit that they were exactly so. Dan Rather, meanwhile, is still sticking to this story. The stated reason for all of this? CBS goes with the documents because the White House didn’t call them fake. Can you beat it?

So, now, CBS will claim victimhood, and that’s supposed to make everything OK? As the swift public reaction to the documents proved, even the most cursory examination of the documents in question would have revealed that they were, in fact, fakes.  CBS couldn’t do this?

Sorry, Gang. Here’s my call and some of you are not going to like it. CBS knew what they were saying was a lie. But they were willing to lie to the public to advance the cause of getting John Kerry into the White House. Rather hatred of anything Republican and particularly anything Bush, is nothing shy of legendary.

And I’d like you to think about something; Why wouldn’t CBS have coughed up this admission earlier? Simple; they had to cook up this ‘victimhood’ story. There is, you see, only one thing more problematic to CBS than simply having to admit they lied. That being, that the cause they lied for should also be exposed as being a party to that lie. Can you imagine the situation should it be shown that the documents came from a DNC source?

And when this story is really is investigated… if any other news org has the stones for it… which I doubt…  we will find that these documents originated within the DNC, and that CBS willingly participated in a DNC dirty trick… tricks the supposed source, Bill Burkett, was publicly encouraging others to perform.

The story now becomes, (As it has been since the beginning, to my mind) how CBS came by these documents. If CBS is going to claim victimhood, there’s no way around exposing who ‘victimized’ CBS. who fed them these documents. And I’ll say it again, so there is no mistake… these documents were produced with the full knowledge of someone high up within the DNC, and or the Kerry Campaign. There is no other reason at this point for CBS to be protecting it’s source, than this scenario.

Here it is; CBS will tell us who “victimized” them, else the only possible conclusion was that the ‘victimhood’ is another ruse, and CBS intentionally lied to us the whole time, and are now trying to wiggle out of the consequences of being caught in that lie and minimize the damage tot he Kerry Campaign.

We must not let them, if truth is at all on the agenda.

Courage, you know.

PS: If he’s going to do a crow eating session, shouldn’t Dan Rather appear in his PJ’s on national TV?

Hard to believe but it’s already been two weeks since CBS pushed fake docs off on us in an attempt to slight President Bush.

If you’ll recall, almost before the echo had died from the broadcast, a vast majority of those who saw the documents CBS aired, called them fake, phony,a sham. CBS seems ready to admit that they were exactly so. Dan Rather, meanwhile, is still sticking to this story. The stated reason for all of this? CBS goes with the documents because the White House didn’t call them fake. Can you beat it?

So, now, CBS will claim victimhood, and that’s supposed to make everything OK? As the swift public reaction to the documents proved, even the most cursory examination of the documents in question would have revealed that they were, in fact, fakes.  CBS couldn’t do this?

Sorry, Gang. Here’s my call and some of you are not going to like it. CBS knew what they were saying was a lie. But they were willing to lie to the public to advance the cause of getting John Kerry into the White House. Rather hatred of anything Republican and particularly anything Bush, is nothing shy of legendary.

And I’d like you to think about something; Why wouldn’t CBS have coughed up this admission earlier? Simple; they had to cook up this ‘victimhood’ story. There is, you see, only one thing more problematic to CBS than simply having to admit they lied. That being, that the cause they lied for should also be exposed as being a party to that lie. Can you imagine the situation should it be shown that the documents came from a DNC source?

And when this story is really is investigated… if any other news org has the stones for it… which I doubt…  we will find that these documents originated within the DNC, and that CBS willingly participated in a DNC dirty trick… tricks the supposed source, Bill Burkett, was publicly encouraging others to perform.

The story now becomes, (As it has been since the beginning, to my mind) how CBS came by these documents. If CBS is going to claim victimhood, there’s no way around exposing who ‘victimized’ CBS. who fed them these documents. And I’ll say it again, so there is no mistake… these documents were produced with the full knowledge of someone high up within the DNC, and or the Kerry Campaign. There is no other reason at this point for CBS to be protecting it’s source, than this scenario.

Here it is; CBS will tell us who “victimized” them, else the only possible conclusion was that the ‘victimhood’ is another ruse, and CBS intentionally lied to us the whole time, and are now trying to wiggle out of the consequences of being caught in that lie and minimize the damage tot he Kerry Campaign.

We must not let them, if truth is at all on the agenda.

Courage, you know.

PS: If he’s going to do a crow eating session, shouldn’t Dan Rather appear in his PJ’s on national TV?

Hard to believe but it’s already been two weeks since CBS pushed fake docs off on us in an attempt to slight President Bush.

If you’ll recall, almost before the echo had died from the broadcast, a vast majority of those who saw the documents CBS aired, called them fake, phony,a sham. CBS seems ready to admit that they were exactly so. Dan Rather, meanwhile, is still sticking to this story. The stated reason for all of this? CBS goes with the documents because the White House didn’t call them fake. Can you beat it?

So, now, CBS will claim victimhood, and that’s supposed to make everything OK? As the swift public reaction to the documents proved, even the most cursory examination of the documents in question would have revealed that they were, in fact, fakes.  CBS couldn’t do this?

Sorry, Gang. Here’s my call and some of you are not going to like it. CBS knew what they were saying was a lie. But they were willing to lie to the public to advance the cause of getting John Kerry into the White House. Rather hatred of anything Republican and particularly anything Bush, is nothing shy of legendary.

And I’d like you to think about something; Why wouldn’t CBS have coughed up this admission earlier? Simple; they had to cook up this ‘victimhood’ story. There is, you see, only one thing more problematic to CBS than simply having to admit they lied. That being, that the cause they lied for should also be exposed as being a party to that lie. Can you imagine the situation should it be shown that the documents came from a DNC source?

And when this story is really is investigated… if any other news org has the stones for it… which I doubt…  we will find that these documents originated within the DNC, and that CBS willingly participated in a DNC dirty trick… tricks the supposed source, Bill Burkett, was publicly encouraging others to perform.

The story now becomes, (As it has been since the beginning, to my mind) how CBS came by these documents. If CBS is going to claim victimhood, there’s no way around exposing who ‘victimized’ CBS. who fed them these documents. And I’ll say it again, so there is no mistake… these documents were produced with the full knowledge of someone high up within the DNC, and or the Kerry Campaign. There is no other reason at this point for CBS to be protecting it’s source, than this scenario.

Here it is; CBS will tell us who “victimized” them, else the only possible conclusion was that the ‘victimhood’ is another ruse, and CBS intentionally lied to us the whole time, and are now trying to wiggle out of the consequences of being caught in that lie and minimize the damage tot he Kerry Campaign.

We must not let them, if truth is at all on the agenda.

Courage, you know.

PS: If he’s going to do a crow eating session, shouldn’t Dan Rather appear in his PJ’s on national TV?

Hard to believe but it’s already been two weeks since CBS pushed fake docs off on us in an attempt to slight President Bush.

If you’ll recall, almost before the echo had died from the broadcast, a vast majority of those who saw the documents CBS aired, called them fake, phony,a sham. CBS seems ready to admit that they were exactly so. Dan Rather, meanwhile, is still sticking to this story. The stated reason for all of this? CBS goes with the documents because the White House didn’t call them fake. Can you beat it?

So, now, CBS will claim victimhood, and that’s supposed to make everything OK? As the swift public reaction to the documents proved, even the most cursory examination of the documents in question would have revealed that they were, in fact, fakes.  CBS couldn’t do this?

Sorry, Gang. Here’s my call and some of you are not going to like it. CBS knew what they were saying was a lie. But they were willing to lie to the public to advance the cause of getting John Kerry into the White House. Rather hatred of anything Republican and particularly anything Bush, is nothing shy of legendary.

And I’d like you to think about something; Why wouldn’t CBS have coughed up this admission earlier? Simple; they had to cook up this ‘victimhood’ story. There is, you see, only one thing more problematic to CBS than simply having to admit they lied. That being, that the cause they lied for should also be exposed as being a party to that lie. Can you imagine the situation should it be shown that the documents came from a DNC source?

And when this story is really is investigated… if any other news org has the stones for it… which I doubt…  we will find that these documents originated within the DNC, and that CBS willingly participated in a DNC dirty trick… tricks the supposed source, Bill Burkett, was publicly encouraging others to perform.

The story now becomes, (As it has been since the beginning, to my mind) how CBS came by these documents. If CBS is going to claim victimhood, there’s no way around exposing who ‘victimized’ CBS. who fed them these documents. And I’ll say it again, so there is no mistake… these documents were produced with the full knowledge of someone high up within the DNC, and or the Kerry Campaign. There is no other reason at this point for CBS to be protecting it’s source, than this scenario.

Here it is; CBS will tell us who “victimized” them, else the only possible conclusion was that the ‘victimhood’ is another ruse, and CBS intentionally lied to us the whole time, and are now trying to wiggle out of the consequences of being caught in that lie and minimize the damage tot he Kerry Campaign.

We must not let them, if truth is at all on the agenda.

Courage, you know.

PS: If he’s going to do a crow eating session, shouldn’t Dan Rather appear in his PJ’s on national TV?

Today’s BitsBit is now up, titled “A little too convenient”. It’s a somewhat longer examination of this CBS- forged- document business…  A whole lot of questions, a few answers, and the only conclusions possible.

Captain’s Quarters points out this morning another page in the saga of Bill Burkett… the man who fed CBS those fake National Guard Documents… and his connections to the DNC. Captain Ed notes the guy’s lawyer is one David Van Os, who has a serious resume with the Democrats at the County and State levels, as well as, as the Captain puts it, an…

“…interesting item on Van Os’ CV is the final entry, where he notes his assistance in Palm Beach County, Florida, in Democratic efforts for the recounts in the 2000 Presidential election. No doubt that Van Os is well-known for his 30-year party-building work, and as he has now run for the Texas Supreme Court twice (including his current campaign), he has built a strong level of support within Democratic Party leadership.

So how does such a well-connected man within Democratic circles wind up as Burkett’s mouthpiece? “

How, indeed….

It gets better. Captain Ed also points up more connections
Read the whole thing. It’s starting to sound like my original thought about why CBS has been stonewalling this investigation is they knew this was at the upper levels of the DNC. Work the implications of THAT out yourself.

OK, Today, I re-did the background graphics a bit so that people running bigger than 1024*768 don’t get those darned choppy repeating graphics. I also eliminated the speciifc color callouts for the profile box and the sidebar… they now have the background design instead, which I think looks much nicer.

Now if I can do something with that Page Header Graphic area…. I’m working on it. This weekend, perhaps.

‘Nuff said.
Courtesy of A Discerning Texan… a fellow RAS member.

By the time you read this, the Howard Kurtz story in WaPo about how Dan Rather is now backpeddling faster than Lance Armstrong peddles forward, has already crossed your desk.

Some logical questions come from this event. First of all, as I asked last week; Why were these forged documents documents sent to CBS alone? Think: If one wants to get news out to a maximum number of people, does one usually choose what has been for the last several years, the lowest-rated network news on the planet? Why would you not send it to the ratings leader, instead? Clearly, the person sending those fake documents figured there was some advantage to sending the fake documents to CBS. Now, why would that be true, I wonder?

Let’s extend this question just a little.  Mary Mapes, the CBS producer responsible for the story, had been working on this investigation for over five years…. since the 2000 election cycle. Now, usually, if a news org can’t come up with something within, say, two years, they generally give up. Oh, but not CBS, particularly where there’s a Republican under investigation. Now, if you think that an unfair statement, ask yourself…. Can you imagine CBS seriously tracking a story on the Clintons at all much less over five years?

In any event, after five long years of investigation, these documents just happen to fall into the lap of Mary Mapes alone… and what do you know… these documents support the meme that CBS has spent five years trying to support. What do you suppose the chances are on that one? And as if to extend the realm of chance… What do you know… all these miracles this happens just a few weeks before an election, in which the Democrat is in trouble and the republican… the target of the false report is taking a commanding lead for the first time. I wouldn’t have been betting on such an event happening. Even knowing, as we do, that the documents are forged, it stretches the law of chance that this set of documents should show up at CBS after five years… Sorta like the chances of winning the lottery. Far more likely, that there’s something that isn’t above board here.

The obvious questions that come up, include

That does seem the most likely reason for sending such documents to the ratings bottom feeder.

That does seem the most likely set of events.

Yes, even sources CBS was proven to have misquoted, and misled.

Yes. Rather suggested a senior officer was to be leaning on Killian. Rather identifies this officer as Col. Buck Staudt. Problem is, Staudt had retired nearly two years previous to the date the memo was supposed to have been written.

Yes. CBS only told us about four documents. Thing is, CBS got six of such documents in the same transmittal, all from the same source, indeed, from the same fax phone call. And CBS declared two of them to be fakes before the pages were cool from the printing process, but somehow never got around to questioning the other documents.

Can you think of any other way this story would have developed like this?

Good question. I must tell you I come from a radio background, and I’ll tell you point blank; I know of no journalistic ethics that require a news org to protect the identity of a fraudulent source. I should think that doing that would only harm journalism, not help it, since the defrauder would be free to use other journalists as conduits for misleading the public.

There’s only one reason for CBS NOT to reveal the source; They were not taken in, but were in fact a willing party to these fakes. It also seems likely that the point of co-ordination was someone high up in the DNC.

Now, we know from the investigation so far that the person who sent the documents along to CBS is one Bill Burkett. Captain Ed noted the other day that the guy’s lawyer is one David Van Os, who has a serious resume with the Democrats at the County and State levels, as well as, as the Captain puts it, an…

“…interesting item on Van Os’ CV is the final entry, where he notes his assistance in Palm Beach County, Florida, in Democratic efforts for the recounts in the 2000 Presidential election. No doubt that Van Os is well-known for his 30-year party-building work, and as he has now run for the Texas Supreme Court twice (including his current campaign), he has built a strong level of support within Democratic Party leadership.
So how does such a well-connected man within Democratic circles wind up as Burkett’s mouthpiece? “

Now, we find out through a Newsweek report, that

“Three days before the broadcast, Burkett e-mailed a friend that there was “a real heavy situation regarding Bush’s records” about to break. “He was having a lot of fun with this,” said the friend, Dennis Adams. Burkett told a visitor that after the story ran, Rather phoned him and expressed his and the network’s “full support.”

Now, like I say….perhaps it’s just random chance, right?

You’re going to have to work out the implications of THAT one for yourself.

“CBS curmudgeon Andy Rooney indicated yesterday he believes the controversial documents on President Bush’s National Guard service are fake and said it could cost Dan Rather down the road.
“I’m surprised at their reluctance to concede they’re wrong,” Rooney said, referring to CBS brass.”

so says the New York Daily News.

See, now that’s the difference, The rest of humanity knows why. Rooney’s still holding out hope that CBS is being above board, and holds Rather in high regard, in spite of the obvious. Yeah, I know… he’s gotta work with Rather, but still…. When what is arguably among the most partisan leftists at what is arguably the most leftist network on the planet despite claims of being unbiased, says the docs being used against the President are fake….

Random thought; Has anyone raised the question of why these forged documents documents were sent to CBS alone?

Could it be that the sender knew they’d get by without being properly checked?
Is it possible that there was some cooperation between the source and the DNC and CBS?

Just sayin’….

T Rodgers over at Broken Masterpieces notes that Ted Kennedy has decided to get involved in the Kerry fiasco errr Campaign. Says he:

“This should help…… Bush. Can’t wait to see the ads to be run in the swing states with the Kerry/Kennedy ticket.”

True. And, I hasten to point out graphicly, courtesy of the SwiftVets that this kind of thing isn’t new for Kennedy.

I figure a little differently…. This looks to me to be a bow to the inevitable loss for Kerry. Look at it this way; if the Kerry campaign drives off of a bridge en’ masse, (as looks likely, even without Kennedy’s involvement) at least now they’ll have an excuse.

OK, I’m going to start something new today. After today, this will be a serious blogger of the week. This will be one that catches my eye for some reason during the week… no other qualifications than this.

But for the first week, I can’t help but stick a knife into the defenders of the fraud known as CBS… and I will thus present Bithead’s First “Blogger Of The Week” The appropriately dressed “Bananas In Pajamas”

Update:/passing thought; I wonder if CBS will prefer Pajamas to what they’re currently wearing. I thnk they’ve begun to notice a breeze….