Bob Dole caught on Video .....

If you go to this link, you can watch the short video footage. At the very end, listen very closely, and turn up the volume....
http://www.slate.com/id/2105781/

For Shame
A leaked video reveals what Bob Dole really thinks about Bush's tactics.
By Chris Suellentrop
Posted Friday, Aug. 27, 2004, at 4:26 PM PT


For pretty much the duration of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth controversy, the Kerry campaign has been trying to demonstrate that the smear campaign being conducted against the Democratic presidential nominee is all the more loathsome because it is part of a pattern of behavior by George W. Bush: the use of front groups to damage his campaign opponents by putting false statements into the political bloodstream. Particularly salient, Democrats believe, is the 2000 campaign conducted against John McCain during the South Carolina primary.

Democrats now have an unlikely ally in their quest to prove that Bush has a history of these kinds of dirty tricks: Bob Dole. No one has done more to lend establishment respectability to the falsehoods being peddled against Kerry than Dole. The former Senate majority leader and 1996 presidential nominee of the Republican Party made several demonstrably false statements about John Kerry's war record this past Sunday on CNN's Late Edition before saying that "not every one of these people can be Republican liars. There's got to be some truth to the charges."

But Dole also made another statement that day, one that hasn't been aired until now. Of McCain's charge to President Bush during a 2000 debate—"You should be ashamed"—Dole told Wolf Blitzer, "He was right." Dole made the remark off-air, while CNN broadcast the Kerry ad called "Old Tricks," the one featuring McCain's 2000 debate remarks. The campaign stopped airing it recently at McCain's request.

Although the remark was made off-air, it wasn't made off-camera. A CNN employee who asked not to be named made a digital file of the raw camera feed from the Late Edition studio. The footage does not include the graphics or other video, such as the McCain ad, that was shown during the live broadcast. "Once the control room punches the ad, it automatically kills the mics in the studio," the CNN employee told me. "He knows he can speak to Wolf and no one will hear him." Slate has posted the video, so you can see Dole's remark for yourself. Question for Bob Dole: If President Bush should be ashamed of his behavior four years ago, why aren't you ashamed now?

That way they can vindicate them selves and still play along the corporate line.

that's good journalism...NOT

point out to his audience that his guest is misrepresenting his own views on his show.

:kick:

yet sits on TV every damn night smearing Jon Kerry? The man is a piece of SHIT! Wolf Blitzer is a piece of SHIT for covering it up!

At least ONE employee of CNN has a conscience and and made a digital file for the world to hear. I wonder if Chris Matthews would play it? Since it's from a rival network? Maybe, just maybe it will make it on his show?

I sent this post in the form of an email to D. Brazile, Campaign Desk, Fact-check, The Prospect, Media Matters, Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman and NBC World News Tonight.

I will send it to Matthews as well. Didn't think of him. I think he loves Bob Dole too.

He's tops FOX in bias.