Ep 6 | Media Manipulation: How the Left Came to Rule Journalism | The Beck Story
The Glenn Beck Program
Mercury Radio Arts
4.6 • 25.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bill Birkut was a West Texas rancher and retired lieutenant colonel at the Texas National Guard. |
| 0:12.0 | According to a report in Texas monthly magazine, Birkett said he received a phone call in 2004 from a mysterious woman who said her name was Lucy Ramirez. |
| 0:22.0 | The woman told Birkett she was calling from a hub. who said her name was Lucy Ramirez. |
| 0:23.0 | The woman told Birkett she was calling from a holiday inn |
| 0:25.7 | and that she had some information that might interest him. |
| 0:29.2 | A few days later, Bill Birkett made his way to a cattle show in Houston, Texas. He was approached by a man in a cowboy hat who handed him a Manila envelope. |
| 0:39.0 | Inside the envelope were four memos with national ramifications. |
| 0:44.0 | The instructions inside told Birkett to make photocopies of the memos, |
| 0:48.0 | then burn the originals and erase any DNA evidence that could identify their true source. |
| 0:54.0 | Burke had followed the instructions, then gave one copy of the memos |
| 0:57.6 | to a CBS news producer named Mary Maipse, |
| 1:00.6 | and another copy to USA Today. |
| 1:03.0 | Six days later, on September 8, 2004, |
| 1:07.0 | the four memos were the subject of a Dan Rather report on 60 minutes Wednesday. |
| 1:12.0 | Last week on this broadcast, we heard report on 60 minutes Wednesday. |
| 1:13.4 | Last week on this broadcast we heard for the first time the pull story from a Texas politician |
| 1:18.3 | who says he helped George Bush avoid military service in Vietnam. Former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes said he helped Bush get a highly coveted place in the National Guard. |
| 1:28.0 | We also presented documents for the first time which indicated that once Mr Bush was accepted into the guard he |
| 1:35.0 | failed to live up to the requirements of his service including following an order. |
| 1:40.0 | The 2004 presidential election between the incumbent George W Bush and his challenger John |
| 1:44.8 | Carey was just two months away. |
| 1:48.0 | One month before the 60 Minutes report aired and the Carey campaign was extremely nervous and furious. |
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