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will the CBS forgeries sink Kerry?
Writes John Fund in the email Political Diary: ********************************************** CBS isn't saying whether the Kerry campaign or prominent Democrats were the origin of the highly suspicious documents the network used to challenge George W. Bush's Vietnam-era Air National Guard record. Asked about a Kerry campaign link to the challenged memos, a senior CBS official told the New York Post: "I can't answer the question." The American Spectator quoted CBS sources as saying the memos originated with an opposition research staffer with the Democratic National Committee. A CBS producer told the Spectator: "There is a school of thought here that the Kerry people dumped this in our laps, figuring we'd do the heavy lifting on the story. That maybe they had doubts about these documents but hoped we'd get more information." If Democrats did indeed provide the documents, they have much to worry about. Pat Caddell, a Democratic strategist who served as President Carter's pollster, told Fox News on Friday "the race is over" if the documents are proven to be forgeries. "[Democratic officials] have gotten themselves so involved in this issue [in] the last 24 hours that somebody's going to, if they're not authentic, they're going to be blamed for it. It's incredible to me that they've gotten in this." He said that losing the presidential race would be the least of his party's problems if Democrats are tied to any forgery scandal: "The race is over -- and we've got bigger problems than that then." CBS already has "bigger problems." My sources inside CBS say that Dan Rather, who reported the "60 Minutes" story based on the memos, looked "quiet and scared" most of last Friday as the storm over their authenticity built. He complained that CBS News president Andrew Heyward couldn't be reached and wasn't being supportive enough of the story. Meanwhile, callers complaining to CBS were told by receptionists "we are getting just as many calls of support as those opposed," which is completely untrue. Almost no supportive calls have come in. The focus at CBS is on defending the story at all costs, not on evaluating its merits. ************************************************** ******** (And yes, this is on topic for r.a.m. Recall that it is Bush's Air National Guard service that is being slimed by these forgeries. For more, see my daily updates at www.vivabush.org ) all the best -- Dan Ford email: (put Cubdriver in subject line) The Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com Expedition sailboat charters www.expeditionsail.com |
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