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September 14, 2004

And Now Florida: Up By 6

And I don't think the CBS News scandal -- about to go thermonuclear -- is going to help.

I haven't read much about Rathergate in the actual (print) Wall Street Journal. I can only assume that means they are 1) not only ultra-liberal, despite their conservative editorial page, but incompetent and without ambition and all, or 2) are working on a story.

I think WSJ reporters are as liberal as anyone else's, but I don't think they're incompetent or without ambition.

This is going to be a two to three week story, unless the mainstream media is so monolithically liberal and corrupt as to bury it by Friday. I don't know if they are that monolithically liberal and corrupt; it doesn't cause hope that the Washington Post, even while reporting the documents are forgeries, did so on an inner page (Page A8, if I recall correctly).

Assuming the mainstream media cannot bury the story, that means we're going to have three weeks of coverage of this story, during which time it's going to be that much harder for Kerry to get his message out to the public.

Which, come to think of it, may not be such a bad thing for him.

Forget I said anything.

posted by Ace at 08:11 PM

Comments

Exactly. Watch Kerry inch back in the polls, as people gradually begin to forget him, and just pick the non-Bush guy out of habit.

But not to worry, this story can't last more than three weeks. Then Kerry will get noticed again.

Posted by: Phil on September 14, 2004 08:27 PM

Not so fast Ace!.

Alan Murray did have some interesting thoughts on the subject in his column today.

Could have been easily overlooked since it was a piece about the increasing parisanship between news organizations.. However, most of the article is about Dan's fraud, with a few interesting tidbits about the fued between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.

Did you know that they wrote viscious editorials about each other in competing newspapers under the pseudonyms: 'Publius' and 'Civis'?.. Now thats partisan media..

Posted by: Arvin on September 14, 2004 08:27 PM

Hopefully one of 3 possibilities:

1. They are trying to properly vet the story
2. They are waiting for more organizations to weigh in
3. They are giving CBS a chance to come clean

Brit Hume had a serious look at the scandal tonight. Hopefully they are confident enough that this is becoming less of a story about fakes and more of a cover-up.

Posted by: Blacknimbus on September 14, 2004 08:30 PM

When is Bush going to start campaigning in NJ and CA? Screw winning. I want the Left humiliated.

Posted by: Mark on September 14, 2004 08:33 PM

I just went out for some fresh air for the first time in days! My young friends working at Starbucks have no clue of any of this! Haven't even heard of the scandal! And here I thought all the young ones were net devotees. So much for me taking a break: I found myself trying to say it ALL in a nutshell. So I referred them to the Smoking Gun picture and the "hot thread" here. (Wish Ace could somehow mark it "HOT THREAD" - it now has 88 posts and growing.)

Radio is picking it up well - and that might get through to the masses more widely than the MSM. Just heard Tim interviewed on radio. He was introduced as a blogger and expert typographer involved with the early expose of the forgeries. He came across very well and even took a shot at Dan Rather's "internet partisan' smear.

Someone needs to write a "CBSgate/Kerrygate for Beginners" or does it exist somewhere? Watergate had its own jargon and jokes which evolved over many years. This scandal has spawned a whole new language in less than a week! Soon we'll also need a "Dictionary of Terms for Kerrygate". Ace, you're right, this thing is huge and it's going to get centipede legs.

DRUDGE WAS OUR BOLD, LONE PATHFINDER with Monicagate... Now there's an army of truthfinders with him.

I love that quote from Henry Vth (see belmontclub.blogspot.com for "The Shot Heard Round the World" article and the posts thereafter with the quote).

"And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

Full text at http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/henryv/henryv.4.3.html.

We're actually looking at a Shakespearean drama in real life.

This is the stuff legends are made of.

Posted by: BR on September 14, 2004 09:17 PM

Hugh Hewitt had Rep. Chris Cox on his radio show to discuss RatherGate and specifically whether Congress should hold hearings on the forged documents.

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has oversight authority over the operation of broadcasting, specifically the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, chaired by Fred Upton, Republican of Michigan, with Ed Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts as ranking minority member.

Link.

Rep. Cox suggested that the subcommittee might call a hearing based on testimony given by Network CEOs after the 2000 election -- as you may recall the networks caused problems by calling the election before the polls had closed and during those hearings the networks committed to changes in election coverage to avoid interfering with future elections.

Cox later faxed Hewitt just before the show ended to confirm that he had written Fred Upton requesting Congressional Hearings.

Cue Dragnet theme.

Posted by: ter0 on September 14, 2004 09:27 PM

Hugh Hewitt has posted Rep. Chris Cox letter HERE.

It concludes

Despite the growing abundance of the evidence that CBS News has aided and abetted fraud, the network has declined to reveal the source of the disputed documents. USA Today possesses the same documents, obtained independently from a person representing them to be authentic, and likewise is refusing to disclose his identity.

Given the shortness of time between now and the election which the apparent fraud is meant to influence, and the even shorter time before Congress is scheduled to adjourn, I strongly urge that the Subcommittee move with all deliberate speed to uncover the facts.

Posted by: ter0 on September 14, 2004 10:10 PM

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