Dear Dan-I think I may have found out who Buckhead is.
M. Mapes
Posted on 09/30/2004 11:15:42 AM PDT by presidio9
An alert Georgia blogger nicknamed "Buckhead," along with other Internet truth seekers who followed his lead, struck a telling blow at smug, unobjective anchor Dan Rather and his CBS TV "60 Minutes II" by quickly analyzing and questioning the proportionally spaced fonts used in the so-called National Guard records of George W. Bush. "Buckhead" - a brilliant Atlanta attorney who spends many a wee hour on his computer surfing the "blogosphere" - first challenged CBS in a posting on the FreeRepublic.com Web site.
"I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old," he wrote barely four hours after Rather's Sept. 8 show unveiled its "scoop." Within minutes, truth-seekers were using their Internet superhighway to further analyze the typefaces - not known to have been used in 1972 typewriters - to reinforce my friend's suspicions and to tweak aggressive news outlets into doing some investigative reporting.
A few days later, as establishment media experts were finally weighing in against a defiant Rather (who apologized 10 days later), one exultant FreeRepublic.com groupie declared in a succinct posting: "Buckhead for the U.S. Supreme Court!"
My friend, though, is a modest man. He later reflected: "As for my part, this tsunami would, without any doubt, have happened w/o me, so it ain't no big thang. I will have a cold one tonight, though."
Yet it really is a "big thang."
As The Wall Street Journal perceptively noted in a Sept. 16 editorial, "this is potentially a big cultural moment." It underscored that the widespread challenge to Rather - to his "reporting" credibility - "means that the liberal media establishment has ceased to set the U.S. political agenda."
Is the liberal media dead? Of course not.
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Buckhead killed it! Thank the Lord.
However, there's a new sheriff in town. Or, more precisely, about a million new sheriffs in town, riding herd on media bias and roping it whenever they see it.
Dear Dan-I think I may have found out who Buckhead is.
M. Mapes
"Take off yo' clothes! Git on da flo'! We gonna make a Buckhead sammich!"
Not yet dead but wounded and hiding.
Internet killed the media star
Where is the thread reporting FOXNEWS reporting how bloggers outed Rather's draft piece?
Thanks for posting a picture of one of my all time favorite characters , BUCKWHEAT . O'TAY !
I like your homepage too, LOL
Congrats to Buckhead for giving Rather the Buckwheats.
Hubba Hubba!! :)
Buckhead: I'm not a font expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn.
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