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Edwards Parrots New York Times' Fiction; '60 Minutes' Busted

The novice legislator who wants to be one heartbeat from the presidency either is too stupid to understand the phoniness of the New York Times' latest fiction about Iraq or thinks the American people are too stupid to understand.

Or perhaps Democrat airhead apparent John Edwards is just doing his handlers' bidding: the old Democrat trick of repeating a lie often enough until people believe it.

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Edwards claimed today in Wilmington, Ohio: "These are exactly the kind of explosives terrorists want. They're the dangerous weapons we wanted to keep from falling in the hands of terrorists. And now these explosives are out there, and we have no idea who's got them. Dick Cheney calls that a remarkable success."

He failed to mention that the pro-Democrat Times, whose recent endorsement of the Kerry-Edwards ticket was the nation's most obvious redundancy since the coining of the term "liberal media bias," refused to report reality, which even NBC reported: that the explosives were already missing from Al-Qaqaa when GIs got there a mere one day after Saddam Hussein's fall.

Nor did the one-term senator or the Times note that that "news" dated from April 2003.

More Democrat Sleaze at '60 Minutes'

Now the media scandal is growing with the revelation that pro-Democrat Viacom's pro-Democrat CBS's pro-Democrat "60 Minutes" had planned to report the old "news," in the guise of new revelations, as an attack on the president Sunday, right before the election.

The Los Angeles Times reported today that "CBS was relegated to airing a report Monday evening, and '60 Minutes' merely got credit in the newspaper, which ran an unusual box noting that the article 'was reported in cooperation with the CBS News program 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes first obtained information on the missing explosives.'"

"60 Minutes" executive producer Jeff Fager issued a statement saying that "our plan was to run the story on [Oct.] 31, but it became clear that it wouldn't hold, so the decision was made for the Times to run it."

Sen. John Kerry stepped up the Democrat-Times-CBS collusion Tuesday in Wisconsin, where he claimed, "Yesterday we learned that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives vanished from one of Iraq's most sensitive military installations after the invasion."

The Washington Dispatch noted today:

This story is in dispute and has been presented in a completely biased manner. It is easy to argue that this story was highlighted to assist John Kerry. It was at the center of his accusatory campaign rallies all day on Monday. But the missing elements of the story are astonishing. And again, just as with the fraudulent document story Dan Rather tries to heave at the president, the story is falling apart in record time.

By Monday night it was learned that NBC News had imbedded reporters with the 101st Airborne as they took over the facility on April 10, 2003. The conclusion of NBC, "the troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing.” The Pentagon makes the same claim.

The New York Times story failed to mention that. John Kerry has yet to mention that. In fact, they are still using the story on Tuesday afternoon as if the NBC revelation never happened. ...

CBS and The New York Times can now climb in bed together as discredited Old Media that many will never believe again, even in their news departments. In the minds of the American news consumer, one election season has destroyed Old Media’s fading credibility beyond repair.

A headline this afternoon on the Times' Web site: "Iraq Explosives Become Issue in Campaign." An accurate headline would state: "Pro-Kerry Media Do Anything to Try to Damage Bush."

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