Good. That’s what we need - another investigation that will ultimately lead us to a foregone conclusion:

MSM can say whatever they want to say as long as it gets said.

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at September 15, 2004 01:48 PM

It is quite interesting at how slow moving this story is out in the general public. However, slowly but surely it will get there. I have called several of the CBS advertisers from 60 minutes, and the ‘young’ people answering from customer service were very polite and quite interested in hearing the story. Some of them I’m sure are very defensive about their ‘IMAGE’….among them is KIA, PEPCID, and KLEENEX…..and I was told my heads up to them would be forwarded. My small part in this to show Dan Rather as a biased liberal who would go to any extent to slime a liberal; even to illegally taking down a president. He needs to be in prison for his final years.

Posted by: dickmr at September 15, 2004 02:16 PM

‘slime’ a conservative of course….Dan would never SLIME a liberal….he are one!

Posted by: dickmr at September 15, 2004 02:17 PM

I wish Cox had waited on his press release until after CBS released their statement today. I suspect their delay is to change the content of what they were going to say.

Posted by: TexasGal at September 15, 2004 02:50 PM

CNN just reported that Rep. Roy Blunt and 89? Congressmen sent a letter to the Chairman of CBS demanding retraction of the letters. Here’s a portion:

“The evidence suggests strongly that their story was false. We urge CBS to retract their story, and to disclose the identities o the people who have used your network to deceive your viewers in the final weeks of a presidential election.”

Posted by: ter0 at September 15, 2004 03:53 PM

This is self-righteous idiocy. CBS was doing a fine job cutting its own throat and having that fact trumpeted before the world and the Bush-TANG story is irrelevent old news that was being dismissed on its own. Now, CBS can claim, however emptily, a role as a victim of a Republican-controlled government seeking to crush a dissenting voice, and the focus will shift from where it should be, all because a bunch of politicos can’t exercise a little restraint and let things play out.

Dumb!

Posted by: TL at September 15, 2004 04:41 PM

This is all really great.

During the GOP Convention that Demo-punks pulled stunts like demonstrating in the nude, stopping traffic, and beating up cops. All it did was make obvious what jerks they were. The major media wouldn’t cover it because it impuned their party. The story did get out somewhat.

Well, the major networks have too openly tipped their hands. Better yet they are going to fall onto the first to falter (CBS?) just to protect the few shreds of integrity they still have.

Sun Tzu must have written something about the delight of watching your foes fighting among themselves and then imploding.

Heck, no tiremarks.

Posted by: Limpet at September 15, 2004 10:27 PM