November 22, 2004

60 DAYS

It took only hours for alert bloggers to gather evidence that CBS's 60 Minutes Bush memos were bogus. But a subsequent investigation is taking considerably longer, as Glenn Reynolds writes:

It has now been two months since CBS President Andrew Heyward promised that the investigation would be over and public in "weeks, not months."

CBS lie like dogs. Or Space Unicorns.

Posted by Tim Blair at November 22, 2004 01:56 PM
Comments

Sounds like CBS wants the ruckus to die down before announcing the results, which will probably be minor in scope. Either that or the investigation team is being stone walled.

The cynic in me goes for the former.

Posted by: The Real JeffS at November 22, 2004 at 02:48 PM

We already know the results of CBS’s investigation. It will be something like: “Karl Rove was able to penetrate our incredibly complex security and integrity defenses and deliberately planted a false, but entirely believable, story about George Bush’s appalling conduct during the Vietnam War. We find Mr. Rove’s and President Bush’s behavior regarding this matter to be shocking and it is our sincerest hope that they would finally, at this late date, clear the air of this matter.”

Posted by: perfectsense at November 22, 2004 at 03:27 PM

Well, of course! Karl Rove, The Dark Lord of the Republicans. How could I forget His Lordship? Silly me!

Posted by: The Real JeffS at November 22, 2004 at 03:31 PM

JeffS,

No doubt Transnational King of the Earth Kofi has put the kibosh on all fact-finding efforts to expose lying leftist institutions everywhere, since principled anti-American obstructionists and dissenters should not be held to bourgeois standards of truth and integrity. The UN is doing its utmost to frustrate its Congressional investigators, and CBS definitely got the cheat and stall memo, too. Must have been appended to El Baradei's election spoiler letter to the network about the maybe missing munitions in Iraq from ancient times.

Oh, and is there any investigation being conducted about how parties within the UN, CBS, and NYT colluded at some level to affect a Presidential election? Perhaps "60 Minutes" should look into it

Posted by: Damn Rather at November 22, 2004 at 04:00 PM

I'm sure CBS will have the report finished any day now. They're probably just having problems working the 'shift' keys on the typewritter...

Posted by: John at November 22, 2004 at 05:12 PM

JeffS -

Lord Volderove will be displeased to hear of your "forgetfulness." Where are those few who remained faithful even at his lowest point? They alone shall be rewarded for this victory. Even now CBS employees under the Imperius Curse are labouring away to bring the truth to light. Soon...soon...

Posted by: Sonetka at November 22, 2004 at 05:20 PM

Investigation? What investigation? They're hiding, hoping everyone will get bored and just go away. Like when the encyclopedia salesman comes around:

Shhh! Don't answer the bell... then he'll think there's nobody home.

Posted by: Spiny Norman at November 22, 2004 at 05:38 PM

CBS has been working out the details in the event things don't just blow over.

CBS execs created a list of people to 'take the fall'. They gave the list to their lawyers who updated the list based on who, on the list, was most likely to sue and win. Updated list was further revised by omitting those who couldn't be paid off to keep quiet (tell-all book, talk shows).

CBS has the list of people they can safely blame. They have finished the back story on what happened. They are making sure everyone who is likely to be asked memorizes the details of the back story.

With all the details taken care of, if CBS decides it can't stall any longer they'll wait until some huge news event occupies the public's attention and will announce their findings.

/sarcasm off

If I were a CBS stock holder I'd be livid. I grew up watching their '60 Minutes' show. I watched it when I became an adult, and most everyone I knew watched it. If there was a good segment on, it would be discussed at work. It was a trusted 'name brand' in news. Granted, it has been slipping in ratings, but it was never the punch line to jokes like it is now.

I still can't figure out why their news execs haven't moved heaven and earth to resolve 'Rathergate' and try to regain some of the public's trust. Whatever happened to the greedy capitalists at CBS? They don't want to earn back viewers and increase their stock value?

All I can think is someone must be blackmailing someone else. What other explanation is there for them to allow their news organization's reputation to get flushed down the toilet, along with ratings and ad revenue?

Posted by: Chris Josephson at November 22, 2004 at 07:36 PM

GO watch the 'truth' on Foz - :)

Posted by: poivoise at November 22, 2004 at 08:51 PM

GO watch the 'truth' on Fox - :)

Posted by: poivoise at November 22, 2004 at 08:52 PM

YOu guys are pathetic. Take a look at 60 minutes reporting this evening of the Bush administration claiming that Iraqi veterans with psychological combat injuries, or those injued in Iraqi 'non-combat' operations are not "casualties of war".

Get real, and stop gossiping like little old men and women.

GO out and volunteer to help someone more unfortunate than yourselves, if that's possible.

Posted by: poivoise at November 22, 2004 at 08:57 PM

"GO out and volunteer to help someone more unfortunate than yourselves, if that's possible."

How do you know many of us don't do this already?

As for the piece that was aired this weekend, I've heard about it. It's being talked about on some of the blogs.

Nice to know CBS is still beating their drum about how horrible this war is. I'm sure it convinced their 6 remaining viewers that we should get out of Iraq as soon as we can.

Posted by: Chris Josephson at November 22, 2004 at 09:11 PM

"Take a look at 60 minutes reporting this evening..."

If you read through the above comments, I think you'll find that none of us would watch 60 minutes. Except for a laugh and all.

Posted by: lexine at November 22, 2004 at 09:36 PM

Iraqi veterans

Well, I suppose you meant Iraq War veterans. I guess you were so excited about the latest smear story coming out of C-BS that you couldn't engage your brain before you started typing.

Posted by: PW at November 22, 2004 at 10:10 PM

I was trying to be charitable. :)

Posted by: PW at November 22, 2004 at 10:50 PM

Andrea:

You Rang?

Posted by: Alan E Brain at November 23, 2004 at 12:24 AM

I'm sure it convinced their 6 remaining viewers that we should get out of Iraq as soon as we can.

Chris, that would include poivoise, his/her three cats, 2 dogs, and a Myna bird.

Posted by: The Real JeffS at November 23, 2004 at 12:33 AM

Oh, and Lord Volderove? My humblest apologies for that moment of weakness. I've been distracted by things, as I am sure You already know.

:-)

Posted by: The Real JeffS at November 23, 2004 at 12:35 AM

I heard that the delay in the investigation is due to CBS reassigning it's crack investigative team to look into the Sandy Berger stuffing secret documents into his pants affair.

Posted by: nobody important at November 23, 2004 at 12:59 AM

Alan: heh. ;)

Posted by: Andrea Harris at November 23, 2004 at 03:07 AM

poivoise:

Take a look at 60 minutes reporting this evening of the Bush administration claiming that Iraqi veterans with psychological combat injuries, or those injued in Iraqi 'non-combat' operations are not "casualties of war"

And this is different from all previous military conflicts how?

CBS is spinning anything they get their hands on to paint Bush in as an unfavorable light as possible.

Posted by: Spiny Norman at November 23, 2004 at 04:19 AM

The CrushBushStation is still at it? What a network of looser loonies.

Posted by: Damn Rather at November 23, 2004 at 04:26 AM

OK, that's it. A post mentioning Sandy Berger's pants and "crack investigative team" in the same sentence has overloaded my pun-o-meter.

(sizzle, crack, snap...)

Posted by: mojo at November 23, 2004 at 08:47 AM

Why is cBS taking so long? Perhaps because the creator of the fraudulent documents works for cBS?

See Andy Rooney's freudian slip:

"That's what happened to this thing of Dan Rather's that got out."

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20041122.asp#3

"this thing of Dan Rather's"???? Sounds like Andy Rooney thinks the memos are Dan's.

Posted by: max at November 23, 2004 at 12:25 PM

It's Goomba Doom for Dan Rather.

Posted by: Jim Whyte at November 24, 2004 at 03:37 AM