Posted on 12/03/2010 7:02:47 AM PST by Islaminaction
Edited on 12/06/2010 12:43:34 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Austrian MP Ewald Stadler
Thank you for your thoughtful post.
Why don't you ask the one who did the deed?
Or start with Post #106 and go from there.
Shees, Eurotwit. :-)
“I remember it well. Well enough to recall it had nothing to do with any blog.”
With all due respect to your “Blogger Overlord” position, and your memory is probably better than mine, I found a couple of interesting threads about Rathergate. It was before I joined FR, although I followed the story closely here. What’s interesting is that the articles that these threads originally linked to seem to be gone - but the FR threads remain to jog our memories.
As far as I know, members of Free Republic were the first to question the forged documents that were presented by Dan Rather on CBS in an attempt to discredit President Bush.
Yes, I know that Free Republic is not a blog, but according to the article below it was connected to the blogosphere of political commentary when blogs like Power Line and Little Green Footballs followed FR’s lead and became involved in the Rathergate story within 24 hours of the September 8, 2004, CBS broadcast.
Blogs Take Lead Role In CBS Memo Furor (Journalism’s new dress code-pajamas)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1216088/posts
(FreeRepublic makes the news again) Bloggers drive hoax probe into Bush memos.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1212670/posts
Yes, those examples are indicative of the ignorant assumption
that anything one reads on the internet is a “blog”.
There are many valid sources of information on the internet.
Very few are blogs.
You said “I remember it well. Well enough to recall it had nothing to do with any blog.”
Did you look at the first thread I linked...Power Line and Little Green Footballs are not blogs?
Excerpt:
Even while the CBS report was still on, someone posted on the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com that the documents were “not in the style that we used when I came into the USAF.”
A few hours later, another Free Republic poster, Buckhead, noted “proportionally spaced fonts” that seemed out of place in an early ‘70s Guard document.
“I am saying these documents are forgeries. . . . This should be pursued aggressively.”
It was. Before going into work the next morning, Minneapolis lawyer Scott Johnson, one of three attorneys behind the conservative blog Power Line, posted a reader’s e-mail that questioned the documents. By the time he got to work, he had 50 e-mails, one of which cited Buckhead’s Free Republic post. Johnson linked to that.
Soon a flood of Power Line readers responded. Those familiar with typewriters said the documents probably couldn’t have been created with machines of that era. Veterans said the memos didn’t read right.
The links were growing exponentially. It was still Thursday morning.
Charles Johnson of the popular LittleGreenFootballs.com learned of the story via Power Line. Within minutes the L.A.-based conservative blogger, who has a long background in computer typography, retyped one of the memos using MS Word default settings, and posted the “exact match” on his site.
By this time, a few in the mainstream media had caught wind of the story. An ABC reporter called Power Line’s Johnson by noon.
Yes, blogs (albeit major ones) ran with the story after it
broke here, on Free Republic, which isn’t a blog.
While you “cling bitterly” to this one example, it has
little to do with the two-bit sleazy one-person blogs
that use FR as a platform for free advertising.
THOSE are the targets being shot down here.
Focus.
Jim Robinson has expressed his opinion and it is his web site. Feel free to take up your argument with him.
The excerpt feature is needed in the blog category as some are from sources that have threatened lawsuits, such as newspapers.
Possibly, but blog pimp haters are righteous.
You call blog pimps "bloggers" so you are in the same lack of class as the other sausagesmellers who label illegal alien criminal scum as "migrants".
Words have meaning 'lil feller and everybody here who is honest and informed sees right through your crap.
Both of whom initially claimed that they broke the story. Typical.
My first comment to you was about one of the first major stories that I followed here on FR (yes, I said that FR is not a blog in my comment). You said to another member that Rathergate had nothing to do with any blog. In looking it up I found that it did involve real blogs, not just what some people might call a blog.
I wasn’t surprised that you parried my first comment to you - but you acknowledged the bloggers’ involvement in Rathergate in your second reply to me. That’s fine.
Since I wasn’t referring to anything about the blogpimps on FR, I was a little perplexed by your borrowing of the Obama phraseology “clinging bitterly”. I do my part here and I don’t think you need my help to do your part.
Well, it’s been over six years ago now...I didn’t recall that. At the time of Rathergate, I think Freepers appreciated anyone who helped gather evidence of the fraud perpetrated by Rather and CBS.
I didn’t read Little Green Footballs and don’t know if it even exists anymore, but I believe it is no longer welcome here due to the views of its founder.
(By the way, my tagline is from Ken Cuccinelli, our esteemed Attorney General who is fighting Obamacare in the U.S. District Court here in Virginia.)
Most? Why not all?
It sounds like you prolly need to clam down.
It was broken on a discussion forum and picked up by blogs and the MSM.
Blog pimping and the junior jerkoffs who pimp their MySpace pages had nothing to do with it.
I will convert that to low carb or die trying!
That looks fantastic. Thank you, and thank your sister after she recovers from the mousse bite.
Some heed wiser FReeper's words, including the boss and see the error of their ways.
My comments were about Rathergate which was over six years ago, not anything to do with the current infestation of blogpimps on FR.
Why do you and humblegunner reply to me as if I am defending them? Have you not shot them down yet? Must all comments on this soon to be 800 post thread be about blogpimps?
We strive to enlighten the unenlightened.
You injected yourself into the conversation when none of us were discussing blogs. We were discussing blog pimping.
Go for it!
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