Posted on 11/21/2005 7:06:37 AM PST by AliVeritas
Buckhead is the Atlanta attorney who originally questioned the authenticity of the documents used to attack President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service in the September 8, 2004 60 Minutes II broadcast. He preferred anonymity for professional reasons, but a diligent reporter for the Los Angeles Times tracked him down and identified him in the immediate aftermath of Rathergate. A reader forwarded Buckhead's comments on the documents to us on September 9, and I included them in our original "Sixty-first Minute" post that morning. For the most part he has kept his silence.
Now Mary Mapes is out peddling the same fraud she was peddling on September 8 on 60 Minutes, only now it's called Truth and Duty and she's charging $24.95 for it. Whatever the state of her knowledge was on September 8, 2004, the fraud she is now peddling can only be described as deliberate and knowing. She is abetted in her fraud by a respectable publisher and its public relations arm, taking advantage of the ignorance of her interlocutors and reviewers regarding the most basic facts of the case. In some cases, such as Jonathan Alter in the review in yesterday's Times Book Review, the ignorance must be willful.
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I wonder what section her book is found in at Barnes&Noble, "Fiction" or "BushHating"?
Only right to ping a man you refer to in a post! ;)
I never got Danny Boy's 'Fake but Accurate' line. But then he said somebody could be truthful even if they lied. Courage!!
Another reason why Powerline is required reading!
This is really maybe the fundamental problem with Dims. They lie. They continue to lie. They will lie forever on the same topic. The press helps their lies be believed.
Thus president Bush or any second term GOP president has to spend time and energy refuting lies about them. Lying has become a strategy of delay on the part of the Dims.
Greatest non-Churchill quote ever.
I did. It's called being delusional.
Delusions: A firmly held belief with no basis in reality, that is, clinging to a belief even when the evidence shows that it's false.That pretty much says it all.
This is the true legacy of Bill Clinton.
Exactly right or at least that is my perception of when it became the Dim strategy. Everyone in politics and really in life spins and puts things in the best light for them. But Bill Clintion got elected claiming that a mild economic slowdown was the worst economy in 50 years, when it was not even the worst economy in the last decade, and the Dims decided that lying was their best chance for winning.
There is some irony. Bill Clinton was possibly the best mole the GOP ever hired, or did not hire. When he was elected in 1992, the Dims controlled everything. Eight years later they controlled nothing. Other than their suicidal inability to battle against segregating Dims in 90%+ African-American congressional districts, the rest of the decline of his party can be mostly laid at Clinton's feet. And it continues today as his unelectable wife will probably be nominated in 2008.
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