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Now, get this next two paragraphs. This is on the CBSNews.com website: “According to the Washington Post, the network plans to say it was misled about the authenticity of the documents. The New York Times reports that CBS News officials met Sunday evening with anchor Dan Rather, the reporter of the contested story to discuss the network\u2019s next steps.” For crying out loud, how do you explain — I don\u2019t know that I have the vocabulary to explain this. Here is CBS News, the Tiffany network, quoting the Washington Post and the New York Times as to what they, the network, are going to do! The network knows what they\u2019re going to do. They ought to be announcing this themselves, not leaving it up to the New York Times and Washington Post to run speculation the night before. “According to the Washington Post, the network plans to say it was misled about the authenticity of the documents…”<\/line> This is like me putting out a statement, folks, “According to the New York Times, I will be hosting the program tomorrow.” I mean, this is just… I\u2019ll tell you what it does. It underscores what actually is going on here. CBS News\u2019 own website reports about Rathergate and quotes other sources and its own website speculates about what it might do. CBS\u2019 own website speculating on what CBS might do and relying on other sources to confirm the speculation as if it\u2019s an outside party looking in on all this. Now, if this organization were really interested in its calling, it could just quit playing games here by talking about this in third party and teasing with news announcements. They\u2019re issuing press releases on this. This is all obviously a calculation to minimize damage to itself. Well, the follow-up, if CBS just cannot report the news about this instead of holding back for CYA reasons, then it has too great a conflict of interest to continue reporting on the matter at all, and that\u2019s really what they\u2019re making themselves look as though has befallen them. They\u2019ve got a conflict of interest.<\/line>Now, here\u2019s the CBS story, or statement: “Bill Burkett, in a weekend interview with CBS News anchor and correspondent Dan Rather has acknowledged that he provided the now disputed documents used in the September 8th 60 Minutes website report on President Bush\u2019s service in the Texas National Guard. Burkett, the retired National Guard lieutenant colonel, also admits that he deliberately misled the CBS News producer working on the report, giving her a false account of the document\u2019s origins to protect a promise of confidentiality to the actual source.” A-ha! It is as I suspected. There is another source here, and CBS doesn\u2019t know who that is. A-hem, wink, wink. Here\u2019s the next paragraph: “Burkett originally said he obtained the documents from another former guardsman. Now he says he got them from a different source whose connection to the documents and identity CBS News has been unable to verify to this point. Burkett\u2019s interview will be featured in a full report on…”<\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019re still drumming for audience: So watch what Burkett says! We\u2019ll tell you a part of it here in our statement! So Burkett says he made all this up to protect another source. He got them from a different source whose connection to the documents and identity CBS News have been unable to verify. Don\u2019t you think they would be angry? I mean, I keep asking this. I\u2019m sorry, folks, this is my own human nature putting myself in the place of CBS News. If there\u2019s another source that\u2019s, you know, misled Burkett and now Burkett\u2019s misled CBS, don\u2019t you think there would be some anger here? I mean, not in a press release. Wouldn\u2019t you think Dan Rather would be hell-bent to break this story to find out who this other source is? They\u2019ve only subjected the reputation of CBS to ruin, and I\u2019m just going to say it again: the reason that there doesn\u2019t appear to be any anger is because it\u2019s highly likely, it seems very, very, very probable, likely, that the source is somebody they do <\/emphasize>know, and that the identification of that source would bring down everything, bring down CBS, bring down Rather, and bring down what\u2019s left of the Kerry campaign.<\/line>Now, the American Spectator online had a recent interview with the lawyer for Bill Burkett. His name is David Van Os. Let me read this to you. He\u2019s a Texas Supreme Court candidate, by the way, and he\u2019s a very high ranking Democrat, Mr. Os. You can look at his bio. He\u2019s been to every Democrat convention since \u201974. He\u2019s been big in the party organizations for all these years, very, very loyal Democrat, very big contributor, and here is what he said to the American Spectator: “Based upon my personal knowledge of Bill Burkett\u2019s character from knowing him and knowing his reputation among his peers, I will state unequivocally that Bill Burkett did not falsify or create the CBS documents. I do not assume that anyone falsified or created those documents until more is known, but if anyone did, it was not Bill Burkett. I will stake my reputation and good name on this certainty. Further, from my knowledge of Bill Burkett\u2019s character and integrity I will state unequivocally that if, hypothetically speaking, Bill Burkett handled documents that were recent creations rather than true copies of originals he would have done so only because he had reason to believe they were true copies rather than recent creations.”<\/line>So the stage is being set here. This guy\u2019s lawyer, Burkett\u2019s lawyer, is pretty much telling us what happened by saying Burkett didn\u2019t falsify anything. “I\u2019ll stake my reputation on that. He wouldn\u2019t create or falsify, and I don\u2019t assume anybody did, but if hypothetically speaking Bill Burkett did handle documents that were recent creations rather than true copies of originals, he would have done so only because he had reason to believe they were true copies rather than recent creation.” So a source apparently has misled Burkett but what we\u2019re hearing is this guy\u2019s lawyer is pretty much admitting Burkett handled them and that Burkett didn\u2019t know what they were, and had he known, he wouldn\u2019t have, da-da-da-da-da-da-da. So the CYA is in full force. Everybody\u2019s rear end is being covered with as much cloth as they can find out there, probably more like iron — everybody, CBS, Burkett, Van Os. By the way, it does appear that some people are even going to great lengths to protect the identity of The Source.<\/line> Because there is another source here. Somebody gave these things to Bill Burkett. That\u2019s the story, anyway. That\u2019s the story. Bill Burkett just a harmless, lovable old Democrat that hates Bush and wants to see Kerry win, got caught up in his emotion. We understand how these things happen, we\u2019re to believe. But again, let me run through a list of things that CBS had to overlook if they want to maintain they were misled. They had to overlook the widow and son of Jerry Killian. They were ignored. They spoke out. They denied this could happen. CBS ignored them. CBS went out and got some document experts that said, “You can\u2019t run with these. These are fakes. These are forgeries.” CBS ignored them. Bobby Hodges was read some of the documents on the phone, said (paraphrasing), “Yeah, it sounds fine to me.” Later when he found out that they were forged documents, he said, “Ah, they didn\u2019t tell me that.” So they misled Bobby Hodges. <\/line><\/p>\n

The old secretary was not interviewed until afterward when she could be led by Dan Rather as a witness, which she was. Mr. Stott, who had his character attacked in one memo was never contacted. The opinions of the experts were misrepresented after they were ignored. The swift boat veterans have been maligned rather than covered, and George Bush\u2019s roommate during his Guard years who agreed to speak to them, CBS, was turned down by a producer because after they talked to him, he just decided he “was too pro-Bush.” So all of those things CBS had to overlook if they want to maintain they were misled. They were not misled, folks. This was a hit piece on the president, and in this statement, the only really glaring thing missing is an apology to President Bush. There is no such apology, which tells me that CBS is still struggling trying to put this story together in a way that they can say is believable.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>I always love using Mr. Snerdley as sort of a trial balloon to see what the rest of the audience is thinking. So I\u2019m going to ask this question because Snerdley, he didn\u2019t blow it, but he didn\u2019t zero in on it, and that\u2019s important. So I\u2019m going to keep pounding this. Thanks for being a sounding board. The question was: “What is the real scandal underlying the whole CBS story?” The real scandal, what is the real scandal? No, go back to the beginning. Not that they\u2019re standing by it and not that they reported it. I mean, those are scandals. The real scandal of this story, I keep pounding, because, folks, it is important. The real scandal in this story is this. If these documents were forged and we know now they are, who did it and why? That\u2019s the scandal. Who forged the documents and why? Now, we also know the “why.” CBS is not even talking about the “why.” The purpose for the forgery was to destroy the Bush campaign. CBS was a willing participant in this. <\/line> So the real scandal is: Who forged the documents? CBS has expressed no interest in anything it said to date of finding out the answer to that question. They have not expressed any anger over the fact that they were duped with forged documents. They have said they were deceived. The real scandal here is something they are not vigorously pursuing, and the fact that they are not vigorously pursuing the central scandal of this. The documents are forged and who did it is an indication that they may already know who is implicated here. I maintain that they do. I\u2019m speculating, I will admit, but the fact this they do not seem interested, the fact that there is no anger, that the real scandal of this is still untouched, that the real scandal of this is still not being dealt with or approached, means the answer to the question is just too devastating to CBS and other interested parties. Again, let me do this with no histrionics. We are talking about CBS, by reputation the Tiffany news network, and I know they\u2019ve lost that and the mainstream press does not have the reputation that it once did when they were a monopoly, but in their minds they do.<\/line>In their minds they\u2019re still all that matters. I\u2019ll guarantee you in Dan Rather and Andrew Heyward\u2019s mind they are the cat\u2019s meow, same thing at ABC and NBC. Those people, they\u2019re not sitting there saying they don\u2019t matter anymore. They\u2019re not sitting there saying that what they do doesn\u2019t count. They\u2019re not sitting there saying their reputations aren\u2019t important to them. Their legacies are all important to them, just as everyone\u2019s legacy is important, and yet for a major news network to actually have accepted forged — you can substitute any word you want: recreated, remanufactured, whatever — forged documents, and for this network to have willingly overlooked expert advice and evidence that that\u2019s exactly what they had, sets a new standard and a new low, and to me it\u2019s quite indicative of the utter desperation they feel over the loss of their monopolistic power, that they would go so far as to accept and use and then try to defend for over one full week the use of forged documents.<\/line><\/p>\n

To then, after that, go so far as to say, “Well, yeah, they may be forged but we think they\u2019re still true.” Forged! Think “forged check”! Think “forged painting.” Think of any time in history when you\u2019ve heard of something being forged. I mean, this is preposterous, and yet there\u2019s no accompanying desiring to find out who did this. There\u2019s no anger apparent. Sort of like Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles. Remember how the case was solved? The dog didn\u2019t bark. There was a crime that was committed, all hell broke loose. Dog didn\u2019t bark. It was a hound. It always went crazy at the slightest rustling of a leaf. The dog didn\u2019t bark. CBS is the dog that isn\u2019t barking. CBS is the dog that\u2019s spinning. CBS is the dog circling the earth looking for a place to relieve itself. CBS is the dog that didn\u2019t bark. There\u2019s something still smarmy about this. <\/line>Forged documents! I can\u2019t emphasize this enough. Forget the partisanship here. Forget what it\u2019s even about. Well, it\u2019s hard to do that because I think that\u2019s what led them to get away. I think they tried to get away with this. They had the advice they were forged. Don\u2019t tell me they didn\u2019t. They had plenty of experts saying these are forgeries; these are no good. You\u2019re gonna have all kinds of trouble. They ignored that. They wanted this story. They weren\u2019t misled, and the fact that they were willing to take the risk of using what experts were telling them were forged documents, forged? They may as well have made it up themselves. Who cares who the source is when you get right down to it. CBS may as well have written these documents themselves, on their own computers. What difference does it make? They willingly used them so who cares where it really came from other than the damage it could do to whoever is on the other end of that question.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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