posted October 03, 2004 11:53 AM            

Now, a Fox reporter is in the dock for writing spoof material that was posted on the Internet.

Well OK, let's compare the relative seriousness of that to Dan Rather/60 Minutes devoting a segment to a story about Bush based on forged government documents. A story in which Dan Rather, a Democrat fundraiser triangulated with the perpertrators, Bill Burkette and the Kerry campaign to bring the President down.

Of course, we already know Democrats assign the same relative value to putting women's panties on terrorists heads and beheadings of
civilians by terrorists. Absolutely...the very same thing...right!

The road to Washington
Eye on Edwards
The road to Washington

Published: Jul 7, 2004
Modified: Jul 7, 2004 7:16 PM

Kerry, Edwards make first appearance
By ROB CHRISTENSEN, STAFF WRITER

CLEVELAND -- Declaring that they had formed a new "dream ticket," John Kerry and John Edwards made their first joint campaign appearances today, hoping to generate new electricity for Democrats' White House hopes.
The two former presidential rivals sought quickly to build chemistry, clapping each other on the shoulders and sharing family stories. Kerry even hoisted Edwards' 4-year-old son, Jack, and carried him.

posted October 03, 2004 12:17 PM              

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fox News apologized Friday for posting phony quotes from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on its Web site.
Carl Cameron, a Fox reporter who covers the Kerry campaign, wrote an item that looked like a news story with made-up Kerry quotes, said Paul Schur, a Fox spokesman.

i liked the response......

"Asked about the incident, Kerry spokesman David Wade said: "America would be stronger if only George Bush could admit his mistakes as easily."

it also wasnt just "some reporter" he's the foxnews CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

Carl Cameron
Friday, August 06, 2004
As chief political correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC), Carl Cameron is responsible for covering a broad range of stories, including presidential, congressional and gubernatorial elections. Cameron also covers all the breaking political news on Capitol Hill and in the courts.

i DO agree with you about looking at the relative seriousness of situations though....

Q On February 5th, Colin Powell did not have enough confidence in that statement to include it in his presentation to the U.N. There was some vetting that was done between the President's speech and Mr. Powell's presentation to the U.N. Why then, if that -- if at that point we knew, you knew, or the administration knew that the information was not good, why then was that very scary accusation allowed to stand through the through the war? I mean, we didn't get this corrected until after the war.

posted October 03, 2004 12:44 PM            

For your further information, 500 tons of yellow cake were found in Iraq and for your further edification, about 2000 pounds of more highly refined uranium were removed from Iraq rather recently by the United States.

posted October 03, 2004 02:37 PM              

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said she feels "personal responsibility" for the flap over President Bush's State of the Union address, which included a discredited claim that Iraq had sought to buy uranium from Africa.

********The White House has since said intelligence was too weak to support the assertion. ********* http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/31/rice/

Q Dr. Rice, there are a lot of reports, apparently overnight, that CIA people had informed the NSC well before the State of the Union that they had trouble the reference in the speech. Can you tell us specifically what your office had heard, what you had passed along to the President on that?

DR. RICE:
Now, I can tell you, if the CIA, the Director of Central Intelligence, had said, take this out of the speech, it would have been gone, without question. What we've said subsequently is, knowing what we now know, that some of the Niger documents were apparently forged, we wouldn't have put this in the President's speech -- but that's knowing what we know now.
The President of the United States, we have a higher standard for what we put in presidential speeches
We wouldn't put anything knowingly in the speech that was false; I'm sure they wouldn't put anything knowingly in the speech that was false. In this case, this particular line shouldn't have gotten in because it was not of the quality that we would put into presidential speeches"

Q Dr. Rice, it sounds as if you're blaming the CIA here

lol http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030711-7.html

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For your further information, 500 tons of yellow cake were found in Iraq and for your further edification, about 2000 pounds of more highly refined uranium were removed from Iraq rather recently by the United States.--jwhop

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posted October 03, 2004 03:07 PM              

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For your information Petron and everyone else's too, the statement Bush made was the British had said Saddam was trying to buy yellow cake from Niger-jwhop

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jwhop dont you mean bush dubya said-

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The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from AFRICA"bush dubya ........?????

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posted October 03, 2004 04:28 PM            

Or are you disputing that? You attempting to split hairs here Petron. You attempting to suggest that just because I didn't use the exact same language the President used that what I said is invalid in some way?

The fact remains...the information about Saddam attempting to buy yellow cake from Africa came from the British. Bush did not in any way lie...neither did I.

Niger is the source of uranium in Africa Petron. The mine is in Niger.

Your nitpicking expedition is not appreciated.

posted October 04, 2004 04:32 PM            

So, what was your point in saying "jwhop dont you mean bush dubya said............?
What I did say was not word for word but conveyed exactly the same information.

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jwhop dont you mean bush dubya said-"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from AFRICA"........?????

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Who or what is THE SCHNITT SHOW?

posted October 04, 2004 07:51 PM              

jwhop perhaps you werent aware of the contraversy concerning the 16 word lie(not the new 13 word lie you quoted)
and that bush dubyas speech had been edited specifically to remove any reference to niger....

the british source on africa is still an unidentified third country whom the british wont disclose....

and so the cia reported later they also had "foreign intelligence" sources that implicated the REPUBLIC of congo and somalia as sources of uranium.....

White House reveals report to bolster uranium claim
Document tells of Iraq, Africa tie; includes State Department's misgivings
From Dana Bash
CNN
Thursday, December 25, 2003

The newly released report, however, also included a dissenting view from the State Department's intelligence arm, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, known as the INR.
"The claims of Iraqi pursuit of natural uranium in Africa are, in INR's assessment, highly dubious," read the dissent,
Another U.S. official said the intelligence on uranium in the NIE never rose to the level that it could be "stated flatly" by the United States.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/19/sprj.irq.intel/