Posted on 09/09/2005 6:01:19 AM PDT by AliVeritas
Today is September 9, the first anniversary of "Rathergate." It was at 7:51 on the morning of Sept. 9, 2004, that Scott hit the "save" button on the original version of "The Sixty-First Minute", which discussed the 60 Minutes program on President Bush's National Guard service that had aired the previous evening, along with the DNC's advertising campaign on the same subject that was beginning on the morning of Sept. 9. At the end of his post--now the most famous post in the young history of the blogosphere--Scott included a quote and a link to a Free Republic post by Buckhead which questioned the documents' authenticity.
Our readers quickly began to weigh in, and over the course of the day we updated "The Sixty-First Minute" fifteen or twenty times, then began a series of separate posts on the same subject. Many other bloggers, of course, were on the same trail; Charles Johnson and Bill at INDC were just two of the many who contributed in one way or another. Demonstrating the power of the medium, within twelve hours after Scott did his original post, Drudge reported that CBS News executives were meeting to discuss the crisis.
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Gosh, how fast the time goes!!
People think Rather is paranoid. I don't think so. I believe that he is aware of his treachery and is afraid that someone will actually punish him for it. He knows that he is a leftist traitor, hes just wondering when someone else will recognize its seriousness and......
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