CBS Says Was Misled About Bush Documents

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer


NEW YORK - CBS apologized Monday and said it was misled about the authenticity of documents used to support a "60 Minutes" story that questioned President Bush (news - web sites)'s Vietnam War-era National Guard service, after several experts denounced them as fakes.

"We should not have used them," CBS News President Andrew Heyward said. "That was a mistake, which we deeply regret."

CBS also said it was commissioning an independent panel to review the incident, and would announce the name of the participants shortly...

This should get pretty interesting.

 

It's just more useless cannon fodder. I wouldn't be surprised if this all originated from within the Kerry campaign, which is what is being said at the moment.

All this petty fighting between parties over what happened 30+ years ago is just ridiculous. I don't see how intelligent people can actively follow such crap.

Maybe Dan Rather will be fired. That is the one good thing that could come from all this nonsense.

 

Who knows what their "Panel" will recommend. I don't think it matters as much as any decline in ratings. Should any ratings drop be attributable to Dan Rather's involvment with the story, then nothing can save his job.

 

Awww c'mon the only misleading is about who the source is. They know that the bush administration would probably have them jailed or secretly whacked for leaking that shit. If you pay attention they said the memos were still accurate only the source was bogus. I wouldn't put my name on that either. CBS is just covering ass now , pressure from bushies to recant. Fidel does the same in Cuba, pressures the news to only report what he wants.

 

Waiting for Gabino to come running in here chanting 'oogy boogy'.