Wednesday, October 27, 2004
CBS, NY Times Was Planning "October Surprise"
WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Despite being highly criticized last month for running a story using forged memos regarding President George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, CBS's "60 Minutes," along with the New York Times, is again at the center of an election year scandal regarding missing explosives in Iraq.
According to CBS News executive producer Jeff Fager, an announcement by the interim Iraqi government to the International Atomic Energy Agency that a cache of 380 tons of explosives in a storage depot at Al Qaqaa have been missing... was going to be revealed on this Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes."
"[Ou]r plan was to run the story on October 31, but it became clear that it wouldn't hold," Fager said in a statement.
The New York Times beat CBS to the punch by releasing their story on Monday. Under the headline "Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq."
Many political observers believe CBS was planning to unveil this as an "October surprise" in an effort to defeat President Bush in the November 2 election by airing the segment on Sunday, October 31.
Rush
Surprise Attack on Democracy by New York Times, CBS
Yesterday the Democratic Party, with the help of the New York Times, and with CBS' 60 Minutes in close hot pursuit, launched an October Surprise, or an attempted October Surprise, a sneak attack on our democracy designed to turn the election, to throw a sitting president out of office, to remove a commander-in-chief in time of war with a totally misleading front-page story.
John Kerry in the process showed what he is made of, ladies and gentlemen, and continues to do so today. He shows what kind of leader he would or wouldn't be.
He bought the misleading story without checking; he ran with the misleading story and continues to do so even as we speak. He amplified the misleading story with images of deaths and destruction. He dramatized the misleading story as only a pompous orator can.
He eagerly seized on the opportunity to criticize the United States... He eagerly seized on the opportunity to criticize a sitting president in time of war. He eagerly seized on the opportunity to criticize our troops.
He tried to turn a false, old, misleading story into proof that President Bush is unfit to lead -- and guess what? In the process he proved that he, John Kerry, is unfit to lead.
WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Despite being highly criticized last month for running a story using forged memos regarding President George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, CBS's "60 Minutes," along with the New York Times, is again at the center of an election year scandal regarding missing explosives in Iraq.
According to CBS News executive producer Jeff Fager, an announcement by the interim Iraqi government to the International Atomic Energy Agency that a cache of 380 tons of explosives in a storage depot at Al Qaqaa have been missing... was going to be revealed on this Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes."
"[Ou]r plan was to run the story on October 31, but it became clear that it wouldn't hold," Fager said in a statement.
The New York Times beat CBS to the punch by releasing their story on Monday. Under the headline "Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq."
Many political observers believe CBS was planning to unveil this as an "October surprise" in an effort to defeat President Bush in the November 2 election by airing the segment on Sunday, October 31.
Rush
Surprise Attack on Democracy by New York Times, CBS
Yesterday the Democratic Party, with the help of the New York Times, and with CBS' 60 Minutes in close hot pursuit, launched an October Surprise, or an attempted October Surprise, a sneak attack on our democracy designed to turn the election, to throw a sitting president out of office, to remove a commander-in-chief in time of war with a totally misleading front-page story.
John Kerry in the process showed what he is made of, ladies and gentlemen, and continues to do so today. He shows what kind of leader he would or wouldn't be.
He bought the misleading story without checking; he ran with the misleading story and continues to do so even as we speak. He amplified the misleading story with images of deaths and destruction. He dramatized the misleading story as only a pompous orator can.
He eagerly seized on the opportunity to criticize the United States... He eagerly seized on the opportunity to criticize a sitting president in time of war. He eagerly seized on the opportunity to criticize our troops.
He tried to turn a false, old, misleading story into proof that President Bush is unfit to lead -- and guess what? In the process he proved that he, John Kerry, is unfit to lead.
