Republican Lawmakers Ask CBS to Retract Bush Story

[UpInArms]

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a6qu0SnoWpno&refer=us

Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A group of 40 House Republican lawmakers asked CBS News to retract a story alleging that President George W. Bush received preferential treatment while serving in the Texas Air National Guard.

The lawmakers, in a letter to CBS News President Andrew Heyward, said documents cited in the report may be forgeries and that CBS had become ``part of a campaign to deceive the public and to defame'' Bush.

``We urge CBS to retract its story, and to disclose the identities of the people who have used your network to deceive your viewers in the final weeks of a presidential election,'' wrote the lawmakers, including House Republican Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri.

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The secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel whose memos were cited by CBS told ``60 Minutes'' she didn't believe the memos were genuine but that their content was accurate. ``I know I didn't type them; however, the information in them is correct,'' Marion Carr Knox, 86, said in an interview aired tonight. ``Bush didn't think he had had to obey the rules that others did,'' she said.

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[w4rma]

1. And CBS said, "No". (nt)

[Disturbed]

3. CBS should've said.

Go fuck yourselves!

[donheld]

7. to be polite

how about "go cheney yourselves"

:evilgrin: :bounce: :evilgrin:

[Warpy]

11. What they need to say is

"Sure! We'll reveal our source right after Robert Novak reveals his"

Then watch all the puffed up GOP jerks crumple...

[dennis4868]

2. after the WH....

tells us who forged the niger documents and outed valerie plame? Do the repubs not care about that....you know, national security issues.....how pathetic can these repibs be....they are a complete waste of DNA!

[2Design]

5. they really aren't interested in facts -

the story is true and they can't stand it.

[Vincardog]

4. The FACT is ``Bush doesn't think he had had to obey the rules that others

DO

[shrub chipper]

14. He still doesn't think he has to obey them!

Nothing has changed !

[benfranklin1776]

6. Anyone have a list of those 40?

So we can write and tell them our opinions of their low regard for freedom of the press and request that they write Bob Novak to ask him to reveal his source on Valerie Plame.

[belle]

22. You know, I'd like that as well. Except when i write...

I was thinking more of relentless mockery for being a bunch of WHINY LITTLE BITCHES.

[saigon68]

25. Who are

These mental giants?

[fearnobush]

8. Fuck You GOP. You did Clinton, We'll do George.

Even if this precious idiot wins, We'll get him Impeached. So don't worry - one way or an other, he is TOAST. Deal with it.

[eaprez]

9. was this before or after they asked the....

...Swift Boat morons to retract theirs?

[flordehinojos]

10. that letter should be dubbed "40 House Republicans Against Free Speech"!

[lanparty]

12. CBS' response ...

... go suck on Janet's left tit!!!!

[TahitiNut]

17. You mean the boob CBS hasn't exposed yet?

:evilgrin:

[riverwalker]

13. "defame" bush bwwwaaa!!

"Lawmakers" oughta retract their heads from their ass

[skooooo]

15. Hey Republican "law makers"..

FUCK YOU!

[moondust]

16. These cons would have tried to save Nixon.

Even knowing it was all true. Dangerous as hell to democracy.

[jdj]

18. "in the final weeks of a presidential election"???!!! (not campaign?)

oops, was that a freudian slip?

Looks like another month long debacle is in the works for this one too, if not more...

[young_at_heart]

19. Freedom of speech is not allowed in Republican circles

It reminds me of how vicious they were with Clinton....it was non-stop from the moment he was sworn in. With their candidates, of course, no one is allowed to ask ANY controversial questions. I think it has something to do with the fact that God is on their side!

[bagnana]

20. truth is a defense, assholes

He was awol. The documents may have been pulled out of a chimp's butt, but that don't change the truth: he was an awol ahole.

[mitchum]

21. What, are they gonna stamp their jackboots and hold their breath...

until they turn blue in the face? Fuck them.

[PeaceProgProsp]

23. About 135 House Republicans aren't full of shit then.

It's funny that they could only get 40 of them to do this. It shows that some of them have a sense of shame.

[flewellyn]

24. "The information in them is correct" HMmm.....

A thought. What if the memos WERE forged...by the GOP?

It would make a perfect "poison plum" for Rove to insert into the discourse, causing all future talk of Bush's miserable service to be discounted as "unverifiable" and "oh, you know that's fake, right?"

This would fit in with Rove's modus operandi quite well.

[fishface]

26. "Fuck yourself"...

and I mean that in the most positive way you fucking pathological swordswallowing repukes.

[livinginphotographs]

27. Why do I get the sneaking suspicion

that my rep, Eric Fascist Cantor, is one of those 40?

[livinginphotographs]

28. Notice what's buried at the bottom.

"The secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel whose memos were cited by CBS told ``60 Minutes'' she didn't believe the memos were genuine but that their content was accurate. ``I know I didn't type them; however, the information in them is correct,'' Marion Carr Knox, 86, said in an interview aired tonight. ``Bush didn't think he had had to obey the rules that others did,'' she said. "

Damn librul media.

[Streetdoc270]

32. Yahoo story the same

"The secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel whose memos were cited by CBS told ``60 Minutes'' she didn't believe the memos were genuine but that their content was accurate. ``I know I didn't type them; however, the information in them is correct,'' Marion Carr Knox, 86, said in an interview aired tonight. ``Bush didn't think he had had to obey the rules that others did,'' she said. "

She also said that he kept more memos in his desk that were worse than those to 'Cover his ass'
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=6&u=/nm/campaign_cbs_dc
"Knox also said that Killian kept personal files on Bush in a desk drawer as "a way of covering his back" in anticipation of later questioning "

[Cocoa]

29. don't they have better things to do?

isn't there some food that needs renaming?

[Catfight]

30. Same Repug lawmakers that voted a pay raise yesterday too!

I think I smell the ol' bait and switch! AWOL is AWOL, this is the NEW Amerika, guilty until proven innocent! Suck it up Repugs! Bush's AWOL is fair game.

[shaolinmonkey]

31. Rational citizens ask Republican Lawmakers to kindly

fuck off.

[LeftHander]

33. BWAHAHAHA!

They ASKED to stop deceiving the PUBLIC!

You gotta be fucking kidding me!!!

WHAT A BUNCH OF RABID HYPOCRITES!

[robbedvoter]

34. Democracy's last gasps - will it make it? Developing....

[noamnety]

35. So 395 are against the retraction, 40 are for it?

There's a total of 435 representatives, and only 40 are asking for a retraction.

Out of 229 republicans, only 40 are calling for a retraction.

That's a stunning number of republicans that did not decide to sign the letter. Interesting.

[LunaC]

36. NOW they're concerned about "deceiving the public"?

where's their damn outrage over the deceipts for going to war?

Fucking hypocrites!

[nolabels]

37. Does this mean the typewriter red herring isn't working?

The first thing one of my coworkers asked yesterday is what the deal was Dan Rather (he is not a big reader). He likes to listen one of them Reich wing radio stations. I told them they were trying to change the subject, they didn't want to rest of world to know about who AWOL really was.

A couple of refreshers about the few things and then he understood the game they were trying to play with his head. He started dissing the radio station he had spent hours listening to. People don't like it when find out they have been lied to after you tell them you are informing them for hours on end