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9/21 CBS Arranged Meeting (For Burkett) With Lockhart.
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So the Kerry campaign was in on the fraud as well.
\_ CBS News called Bush's camp, too. Obviously they were in on it, too.
\_ What you have is the NYT, LAT, Boston Globe and Kerry campaign
colluding with 60 minutes to launch fraudulent anti-Bush
campaigns in an attempt to influence the pres. election.
\_ Tinfoil hats anyone?
\_ Yeah, I think it's just CBS News that really screwed the pooch
\_ Oh Jesus, go away TalkingPointsTroll. Or are you SwiftBoatGuy
again?
\_ You have a major media outlet perpetrating fraud in an attempt
to influence Pres. election and your response is to castigate
those upset. You're a petulant disgraceful twit.
\_ Or you have a greatly respected journalist who didn't check
his source well enough. The president's military record
questions have hung around because they are valid,
unanswered, and continually dodged.
\_ But when our president misled us into an unwinnable war in
Iraq, you told me to shut up when I complained. Don't
get upset when the same happens to you. Oh, and did I mention
that you're drawing conclusions based on paranoid conspiracy
theories? I bet you're one of those folks that think Clinton
pinned the Oklahoma Federal Building bombings on those law
abiding citizens from Michigan to avoid having to go to war
with the Muslims that really did it.
\_ No Straw Men please. -Bush basher
\_ No, that's not what that story says. It says that Lockhart
called Burkett at CBS's request, but that they did not talk
about the memos at all. Did you fail English 101?
\_ Initially Lockhart and the Kerry campaign maintained they
knew nothing about the memos or who created them. Now this
revelation. Why should I believe them or CBS now?
\_ What part of "did not talk about the memos at all" did you
not understand?
\_ Why would Lockhart randomly call Burkett at the
request of Mapes, a producer at CBS. It's your
contention that CBS, ABC, and NBC news producers
broker calls between campaign chairs and their
sources on a regular basis? Bizarre.
\_ You bet your sweet patootie that if a CBS news
director told a campaign manager (from any
campaign anytime) to call a certain person
that they would do it. Wouldn't you? |
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| csua.org/u/953 -> usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=USATODAY.com+-+CBS+arranged+for+meeting+with+Lockhart&expire=&urlID=11703685&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fnews%2Fpoliticselections%2Fnation%2Fpresident%2F2004-09-20-cbs-documen CBS arranged for meeting with Lockhart By Kevin Johnson, Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY WASHINGTON -- CBS arranged for a confidential source to talk with Joe Lockhart, a top aide to John Kerry, after the source provided the network with the now-disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard. AP Lockhart, the former press secretary to President Clinton, said a producer talked to him about the 60 Minutes program a few days before it aired on Sept. But CBS said Monday night that it would examine the role of producer Mary Mapes in passing the name to Lockhart. Burkett told USA TODAY that he had agreed to turn over the documents to CBS if the network would arrange a conversation with the Kerry campaign. The network's effort to place Burkett in contact with a top Democratic official raises ethical questions about CBS' handling of material potentially damaging to the Republican president in the midst of an election. This "poses a real danger to the potential credibility ... of a news organization," said Aly Coln, a news ethicist at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. "At Burkett's request, we gave his (telephone) number to the campaign," said Betsy West, senior CBS News vice president. CBS would not discuss the propriety of the network serving as a conduit between Burkett and the Kerry campaign. "It was not part of any deal" to obtain the documents, West said, declining to elaborate. But Burkett said Monday that his contact with Lockhart was indeed part of an "understanding" with CBS. Burkett said his interest in contacting the campaign was to offer advice in responding to Republican criticisms about Kerry's Vietnam service. "My interest was to get the attention of the national (campaign) to defend against the ... attacks," Burkett said, adding that he also talked to former Georgia senator Max Cleland and Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean during the past 45 days. "Neither the Democratic Party or the Kerry campaign had anything to do with the documents," he said. Lockhart said he phoned Burkett at the number provided by CBS. Lockhart also said that the documents never came up in his conversation with Burkett. Lockhart said the conversation lasted just a few minutes. "It's possible that the producer said they had documents" before his conversation with Burkett, he said. At the end of the conversation, Lockhart said he thanked Burkett for his interest, and there was no further contact with him. Asked why he called Burkett, Lockhart said he talks to "a lot of people." The White House said CBS' contact with Lockhart was inappropriate. "The fact that CBS News would coordinate with the most senior levels of Sen. Kerry's campaign to attack the president is a stunning and deeply troubling revelation," said Dan Bartlett, White House communications director. |