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Skriven 2004-09-11 11:04:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av VERN HUMPHREY
Ärende: Documents
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-=> Quoting Vern Humphrey to Jeff Binkley <=-

 JB>The CBS producer said that some alarms bells went off last week when the
 JB>signatures and initials of Killian on the documents in hand did not match
up
 JB>with other documents available on the public record, but producers chose to
 JB>move ahead with the story. "This was too hot not to push. If there were
doub
 JB>those people didn't show it," says the producer, who works on a rival CBS
Ne
 JB>program.

 VH> In other words, their standard of proof was how closely the documents
 VH> conformed to their prejudices.

So?  After all, that's *plenty* close enough for the liberal 
"news"media ...
 
 JB>Now, the producer says, there is growing concern inside the building on
57th
 JB>Street that they may have been suckered by the Kerry campaign. "There is a
 JB>school of thought here that the Kerry people dumped this in our laps,
figuri
 JB>we'd do the heavy lifting on the story. That maybe they had doubts about
the
 JB>documents but hoped we'd get more information," says the producer. "If
that'
 JB>the case, then we're bigger fools than we already appear to be judging by
al
 JB>the chatter about how these documents could be forgeries."

 VH> NAW!  The Kerry Campaign wouldn't do THAT . . . would they? :-)
 
Let's *hope* not ... Hmmmmmm, maybe I'm being too hopeful ...

 JB>ABC News' political unit held a conference call at 7:00 p.m. Thursday
evenin
 JB>to discuss the memo and its potential ramifications should the documents
tur
 JB>out to be a forgery. That meeting took place around the time that the
deceas
 JB>Killian's son made public statements questioning the documents'
authenticity
 
 JB>According to one ABC News employee, some reporters believe that the Kerry
 JB>campaign as well as the DNC were parties in duping CBS, but a smaller
segmen
 JB>believe that both the DNC and the Kerry campaign were duped by Karl Rove,
wh
 JB>would have engineered the flap to embarrass the opposition.

 VH> Riiiight -- it's all a Republican plot.  Just like the Twin Towers was
 VH> a Jewish plot. :-)

I *love* that "duped by Karl Rove" claim -- it was inevitable.  
Certainly neither the Kerry campaign nor CBS news could be at 
fault.  Who's left?  Only Karl Rove ... maybe Bill Clinton, but 
he's currently recovering from his heart operation.

Hillary!  It's either Hillary or Karl Rove behind it!

... If a liberal says it, it's misstated, misleading, or just plain wrong

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