It's official, CBS is a tool of partisan Democrat nutters. CBS revealed that its "unimpeachable" source was none other than Bill Burkett -- the Democratic hit man who has made it his life's work to defeat the President. Thus, the false memos are no less a hatchet job than the revelation of Bush's drunk driving arrest three days before the 2000 election by a Maine Democrat who had sat on that information for seven months.
The proof? CBS' unquestioning acceptance of the SIX fake memos from Burkett (of which they only used FOUR, remember) after PERSISTENT HOUNDING by Mary Mapes, Rather's producer for the memogate story. See this USA Today interview with Burkett to obtain a good feel for his pathological behavior.
As White House spokesman Scott McClellan noted:
Bill Burkett, who CBS now says is their source, in fact is not an unimpeachable source as was previously claimed. Bill Burkett is a source who has been discredited, and so this raises a lot of questions. There were media reports about Mr. Burkett having senior level contacts with the Kerry campaign. That raises questions. What were those contacts and what was discussed with Bill Burkett? Who was the original source of these documents and who was responsible for forging these documents?
Here's the proof of the senior level contacts with the Kerry Campaign McClellan mentioned. [Hat-tip].
But as the Media Research Center notes, CBS isn't asking those questions. Instead, its apology really smacks of the second-grader apology -- I'm sorry only because I got caught. That's why Andrew Heyward doesn't admit the memos were forged, he only admits that CBS cannot verify their authenticity. Nor does it admit that the whole story was wrong, it just says the memos should not have been used. But the only probative proof is that Bush was a qualified pilot who did NOT get preferential treatment in joining the Texas Air National Guard.
Footnote: Captain Ed analyzes the USA Today report on Burkett.
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