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Why, that\u2019s quite an honor for some guy that hangs around the Whistle Stop Cafe ordering bacon cheeseburgers and stops in on local elected officials to “introduce himself,” meaning they don\u2019t know him, yet he gets invited to give all these rabble-rousing speeches. “The authenticity of the 60 Minutes documents has been hotly disputed since the report bringing them to light was aired. After Burkett was named as a possible source of the papers, The Washington Post reported on Thursday that the documents faxed to CBS bore markings indicating that they had been faxed from a Kinko\u2019s in Abilene, 21 miles east of here. The day after, no one who knew Burkett here would comment about whether he could have been the source. ‘I have no idea; I have no individual knowledge about that,\u2019 said David Haigler, chairman of the Taylor County Democratic Party. ‘All I know is that I trust Bill Burkett. He\u2019s been a citizen soldier who decided to stand up and say what is on his mind, and he\u2019s got nothing but grief for it.\u2019 Haigler said Burkett had received several death threats since his name surfaced as a possible source for 60 Minutes. <\/line>“‘There\u2019s just a lot of crazies out here, but Bill Burkett is not one of them,\u2019 said Haigler. ‘I describe Colonel Burkett as a person I would trust with my life or my wife,'” in a Motel 6. Who said this? They didn\u2019t say “the Motel 6.” I threw that in there. But does that not sound strangely familiar to what I assure people on this program? (Laughing.) Who said this? This is this Kerr fellow. Kerr, who was Kerr? How did I miss the name Kerr in this? It doesn\u2019t matter. “The people that know him would pretty much agree with that assessment. He\u2019s a very devout Christian; he\u2019s a preacher\u2019s son.” “Many of us have risked everything in this election,” Burkett said in a message posted on August 31st. “The disappointment is deep and difficult to manage. We fight on in spite of the incompetence of the president.” That\u2019s the Washington Post piece. Just a down home guy, eats cheeseburgers at the Whistle Stop Caf?; stops in the local political office. Introduces himself to the local politicos, gets invited to make some speeches; posts some rather innocuous we-hate-Bush signs around town, but that\u2019s pretty much it. <\/line> Now, we go to Houston Chronicle today, a &lt;a target=new href=”http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/page1\/2799919″>story&lt;\/a> by Michael Hedges: “Texan Has a History of Attacks on Bush.” It\u2019s an entirely different story on Bill Burkett. “Bill Burkett, who is emerged as a possible CBS source for disputed memos about President Bush\u2019s Guard service has a long history of making charges against Bush and the Texas National Guard, but Burkett\u2019s allegations have changed over the years and have been dismissed as baseless by former Guard colleagues, state legislators, and others, even Burkett has admitted some of his allegations are false.” So here in the first three paragraphs of the Houston Chronicle story, we have an entirely different portrayal of this man than what we got in the Washington Post.<\/line><\/p>\n

How can this be? Well, we know how it could be but I mean I ask the question rhetorically. “Burkett wrote a long indictment against Bush for a website in 2003 in which he said that he personally was ordered to ‘alter personnel records of George W. Bush.\u2019 In that article, Burkett said that when he refused, he was sent to Panama as punishment where he contracted a disabling disease. When asked about that charge by the Houston Chronicle in February, Burkett said, ‘That statement was not accurate. That\u2019s overstated,'” Meaning his own statement. I didn\u2019t mean that! “He has refused to return calls since the CBS report on Bush\u2019s Guard service ran last week. He has also on occasion referred to George Bush as Hitler.” <\/line>You don\u2019t see this in the Washington Post story. So it goes on to describe some of the quirks and characteristics. It also mentions his lawyer, David Van Os, who is a huge, big Democrat politico in that big county down there where Burkett and Ben Barnes are members, where Dan Rather has gone to make fund-raisers for a Democratic county in Texas. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>One more little thing here from this Houston Chronicle piece on Bill Burkett, because it is just in such stark contrast to the Washington Post piece. Where is this paragraph? Da-da-da-da-da-da. You know, I\u2019m sorry, folks. I should have circled it right when I saw it. It\u2019s got to be on this page. Basically just the… Yeah, here it is. “If Burkett does prove to be the source of the documents, CBS got them from a man with a well-established history of Bush loathing. In an article Burkett wrote for the Internet last year he compared Bush to Hitler and Napoleon as one of ‘the three small men\u2019 who sought to rule through tyranny. ‘Three small men who wanted to conquer and vanquish,\u2019 Burkett wrote. Burkett confirmed authorship of that article in the February Chronicle interview. Some of Burkett\u2019s friends and associates say they don\u2019t know whether he is the CBS source.” <\/line>Well, if he is, then Bernard Goldberg\u2019s theory has been established. What you have here is a partisan, a huge Democrat participants, with huge partisan ties to this big Democrat county down in Texas which will have ties to the DNC. No wonder Rather cannot do anything to ID in any way, shape, manner, or form the source, because Rather is out there saying that partisan political sources are hassling him over the story when the fact is that partisan political sources appear to be the sources of the forged memos. We\u2019re still talking forged memos here! We are talking forged documents. We have a major American news organization attempting to defend the details of a story found in forged memos. Has this sunk in just how low this has gotten for the mainstream media, CBS? They are now trying to massage forged memos! <\/line> In the meantime, hell\u2019s a-popping in places that you will not see. CBS TV affiliate network stations around the country, CBS radio affiliates, they are being bombarded with people who listen and watch who are saying, “We can\u2019t trust you. We can\u2019t watch this anymore.” WCBS-TV in New York earlier this week on Tuesday night, the lowest ratings of all stations on the air in New York at 6:30, behind reruns of The Simpsons! The Simpsons! They\u2019re probably in the 15th version of reruns by this time on that station in New York, WB — or whatever it is, and then you\u2019ve got King of Queens in reruns, and that\u2019s beating the CBS Evening News, and the people over at WCBS Channel 2, I\u2019m sure they\u2019re getting phone calls from people who think that Dan Rather works there. You know, WCBS, CBS, who knows the difference? It\u2019s all in New York. They think Rather is over there and they\u2019re not going to watch it anymore, and then you\u2019ve got people inside CBS people who work there who — I bet you right now that there are people who work at CBS calling their buddies at other networks, “Hey, it ain\u2019t us. It ain\u2019t me. I don\u2019t want this to impact me. It\u2019s not our division. It\u2019s not us.” You know this is all going on. So that\u2019s why I put out a call for a fall guy for Dan Rather. He needs somebody to fall on the sword for him real fast because they have to stop the bleeding. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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