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  • lucky wilbury

    60 Mins Planned Bush Missing Explosives Story For Election Eve

    XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE OCT 26 2004 11:02:38 ET XXXXX

    60 MINS PLANNED BUSH MISSING EXPLOSIVES STORY FOR ELECTION EVE

    News of missing explosives in Iraq -- first reported in April 2003 -- was being resurrected for a 60 MINUTES election eve broadcast designed to knock the Bush administration into a crises mode.

    Jeff Fager, executive producer of the Sunday edition of 60 MINUTES, said in a statement that "our plan was to run the story on October 31."

    Elizabeth Jensen at the LOS ANGELES TIMES details on Tuesday how CBS NEWS and 60 MINUTES lost the story [which repackaged previously reported information on a large cache of explosives missing in Iraq, first published and broadcast in 2003].

    The story instead debuted in the NYT. The paper slugged the story about missing explosives from April 2003 as "exclusive."

    An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.

    According to NBCNEWS, the explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.

    It is not clear who exactly shopped an election eve repackaging of the missing explosives story.

    The LA TIMES claims: The source on the story first went to 60 MINUTES but also expressed interest in working with the NY TIMES... "The tip was received last Wednesday."

    CBSNEWS' plan to unleash the story just 24 hours before election day had one senior Bush official outraged.

    "Darn, I wanted to see the forged documents to show how this was somehow covered up," the Bush source, who asked not to be named, mocked, recalling last months CBS airing of fraudulent Bush national guard letters.

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  • lucky wilbury

    #2
    no liberal media huh

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    • Big Train
      Full Member Status

      • Apr 2004
      • 4013

      #3
      They have "No Comment at this time"...

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      • Guitar Shark
        ROTH ARMY SUPREME
        • Jan 2004
        • 7579

        #4
        The real story here is not who is covering it and when, but how we managed to lose track of those explosives. Hundreds of TONS of explosives.
        ROTH ARMY MILITIA


        Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
        Sharky sometimes needs things spelled out for him in explicit, specific detail. I used to think it was a lawyer thing, but over time it became more and more evident that he's merely someone's idiot twin.

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        • lucky wilbury

          #5
          it turns out though gs that they were gone before we got there. check the nbc news thread on it

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          • McCarrens
            Foot Soldier
            • May 2004
            • 705

            #6
            Just more proof of CBS trying to disort the public's opinion.

            And after they get couaght for it they wonder why their ratings are down.
            "The security around the hotel was ridiculous. This chick was pounding and screaming at my door until four or five in the morning....finally I said fuck it, and let her out of the room"

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            • BigBadBrian
              TOASTMASTER GENERAL
              • Jan 2004
              • 10625

              #7
              Originally posted by lucky wilbury
              it turns out though gs that they were gone before we got there. check the nbc news thread on it
              Reality....what a bitch.
              “If bullshit was currency, Joe Biden would be a billionaire.” - George W. Bush

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              • Guitar Shark
                ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                • Jan 2004
                • 7579

                #8
                Originally posted by lucky wilbury
                it turns out though gs that they were gone before we got there. check the nbc news thread on it
                Yes, but your source for that was the Drudge Report, which doesn't exactly convince me.

                I went to MSNBC and their report is not consistent with what Drudge is saying. At best, it remains UNCLEAR when these explosives disappeared.



                Either way, it's a tragedy.
                Last edited by Guitar Shark; 10-26-2004, 04:19 PM.
                ROTH ARMY MILITIA


                Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
                Sharky sometimes needs things spelled out for him in explicit, specific detail. I used to think it was a lawyer thing, but over time it became more and more evident that he's merely someone's idiot twin.

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                • steve
                  Sniper
                  • Feb 2004
                  • 841

                  #9
                  60 Minutes has been broadcast on Sunday evening at 7 PM for 30 years. If you beleive it's some sort of "conspiracy" to throw the election, I have no idea what planet you're living on, "FORD conservative version".

                  Drudge needs to actually use a "source" one of these days.

                  The election is going to totally surprise folks - Kerry is going to win by 5 or 6 % and 60 or 70 electoral votes - the polls are off.

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                  • Big Train
                    Full Member Status

                    • Apr 2004
                    • 4013

                    #10
                    So because it's been on for thirty years, not without incident mind you, it is somehow more credible?

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                    • ODShowtime
                      ROCKSTAR

                      • Jun 2004
                      • 5812

                      #11
                      Originally posted by steve
                      60 Minutes has been broadcast on Sunday evening at 7 PM for 30 years. If you beleive it's some sort of "conspiracy" to throw the election, I have no idea what planet you're living on, "FORD conservative version".

                      Drudge needs to actually use a "source" one of these days.

                      The election is going to totally surprise folks - Kerry is going to win by 5 or 6 % and 60 or 70 electoral votes - the polls are off.
                      I was gonna vote for you for three good points in a row but... I already did. Not like voting matters...
                      gnaw on it

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                      • Nickdfresh
                        SUPER MODERATOR

                        • Oct 2004
                        • 49565

                        #12
                        I guess it was an "October Surprise."

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                        • JimmytheWurm
                          Full On Cocktard
                          • Oct 2004
                          • 43

                          #13
                          If truth = beauty, and beauty = truth.

                          I think it follows that:

                          America = An ill-tempered lying monkeyman with the power to back up his ridiculousness.

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                          • ODShowtime
                            ROCKSTAR

                            • Jun 2004
                            • 5812

                            #14
                            uh oh, Jimmy found the peeing monkey
                            gnaw on it

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                            • Warham
                              DIAMOND STATUS
                              • Mar 2004
                              • 14589

                              #15
                              You can thank Kerry's buddies in the U.N. for those missing tons of explosives. They had a chance to destroy them back in '95, but Hans Blix turned down the request.

                              I thought Iraq had no WMDs according to Kerry. If that's true, why is everyone in the Democratic party so hot 'n heavy by this new report?

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