Limbaugh! Rather & Kalb Credit Free Republic (or Buckhead.com) for breaking the FORGED documents

Limbaugh ^ | 09/27/05 | Rush

[freedrudge]

RUSH: I want to now go to these Dan Rather sound bites. Dan Rather was interviewed last night at the National Press Club in Washington by former CBS News employee-reporter Marvin Kalb. Marvin Kalb now runs the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center at Harvard, and you know something? When you hear these bites you're going to understand what I'm saying here. This is one of the problems of the mainstream media today. When these reporters that get long in the tooth get laid off or retired, they farm them out to these think tanks and these journalism schools and these government schools, and these old guys start inculcating their old-media, old-world views into these students, and that's why nothing changes. Some of this (laughing) especially sound bite #2 here,

....KALB: Every now and then it even looks as if the new media is at war with the old media. I want to go back to the National Guard story of last year. I've always been astonished that even before the program ended -- it was still on -- a blog site called FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer blasted the program. Four hours later another website called Buckhead ran a detailed critique of the documents that you used in the report. What happened, then, was that dozens of other bloggers joined in, then the mainstream media joined in, and then everything shifted and the focus was on you! The focus was not on the substance of your story --

[sphinx]

And somewhere, someone is paying $1200 a credit hour to take a class from him or one of his lackeys.

I wonder if any of his students will check this thread and/or the original forgeries thread. Nailing the forgeries would make an instructive case study for a journalism student. Maybe worth a term paper or two. Anybody know how to get a foreign substance introduced into the Harvard food chain?

[SunkenCiv]

Since the exposé of Rather's agitprop phony story was to the benefit of George W. Bush, obviously FReepers are all RINOs! /s

[SunkenCiv]

...Every now and then it even looks as if the new media is at war with the old media... and then everything shifted and the focus was on you! The focus was not on the substance of your story...

Lifelong partisan shill Marvin Kalb lies! The focus was PRECISELY on the story, which HAD no substance.

[Brown Deer]

Congressman James Robinson was a general in the Union Army!

[M Kehoe]

In the fwiw dept, Hume on Fox gave FR credit quickly.

5.56mm

[mlo]

"Almost word for word what I have been telling people for years."

Same here.

[lepton]

Thanks for the link.

Some basic points:

1) At the alleged time of the ‘memo’, it was not yet time for the physical (due during birth-month)..
2) there were, within 24 hours, over 40 LINES of evidence that the documents were not only themselves forgeries, but also did not accord with known facts and procedures. This grew to around 65 lines of evidence within 48 hours.
3) even if the document had been real, and further, had reflected the intent of the CO, it having not been given to the subject of the order means it’s meaningless. Orders not delivered are not actually orders.

[GOPJ]

No Shiite! Jim Robinson has been wheel chair bound since 1996. He served in the Navy, not the Air Force (although we'd love to claim him :) ). He was not a commissioned officer, although he was a Third Class Petty Officer, way back when. Can they get it any more wrong than that?

Is it any wonder citizens don't trust the press? On a lighter note Robert Redford's next movie is called, "Bowe Bergdahl - American War Hero"...