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"Do I need to
be concerned that I’m going to go live with a church family, are they
going to proselytize me, are they going to say, ‘You better come to
church with me or else, I’m, you know, you’re not going to get your
breakfast this morning’?"
— Co-host Harry Smith asking author/pastor Rick Warren about church
families taking in those displaced by Hurricane Katrina, on CBS’s
Early Show, September 6.
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Brian Ross: "Mary Mapes was the woman behind the scenes, the
producer who researched, wrote and put together Dan Rather’s 60
Minutes report on President Bush’s National Guard service, a report
which Rather and CBS would later apologize for airing...."
Ross to Mapes: "Do you still think that story was true?"
Ex-CBS producer Mary Mapes: "The story? Absolutely."
Ross: "This seems remarkable to me that you would sit here now
and say you still find that story to be up to your standards."
Mapes: "I’m perfectly willing to believe those documents are
forgeries if there’s proof that I haven’t seen."
Ross: "But isn’t it the other way around? Don’t you have to prove
they’re authentic?"
Mapes: "Well, I think that’s what critics of the story would say.
I know more now than I did then and I think, I think they have not been
proved to be false, yet."
Ross: "Have they proved to be authentic though? Isn’t that really
what journalists do?"
Mapes: "No, I don’t think that’s the standard."
— ABC’s Good Morning America, November 9.
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Ted Turner:
"I am absolutely convinced that the North Koreans are absolutely
sincere. There’s really no reason for them to cheat [on nukes]....I
looked them right in the eyes. And they looked like they meant the
truth. I mean, you know, just because somebody’s done something wrong in
the past doesn’t mean they can’t do right in the future or the present.
That happens all the, all the time."
Wolf Blitzer: "But this is one of the most despotic regimes and
Kim Jong-Il is one of the worst men on Earth. Isn’t that a fair
assessment?"
Turner: "Well, I didn’t get to meet him, but he didn’t look — in
the pictures that I’ve seen of him on CNN, he didn’t look too much
different than most other people I’ve met."
Blitzer: "But, look at the way, look at the way he’s, look at the
way he’s treating his own people."
Turner: "Well, hey, listen. I saw a lot of people over there.
They were thin and they were riding bicycles instead of driving in cars,
but–"
Blitzer: "A lot of those people are starving."
Turner: "I didn’t see any, I didn’t see any brutality...."
— Exchange on CNN’s The Situation Room, September 19.
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