LOLOL!! Excellent! :)
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ONE MORE ARGUMENT
As much as the Kerry Spot has tried to keep up with this, PowerLine has been on top of this story all day long. That site just presented what ought to be the straw that breaks the camel's back:
In the August 18, 1973 memo "discovered" by 60 Minutes, Jerry Killian purportedly writes:
Staudt has obviously pressured Hodges more about Bush. I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job.
But wait! Reader Amar Sarwal points out that General Staudt, who thought very highly of Lt. Bush, retired in 1972.
Okay, CBS. The ball's in your court. Explain all this. Make all of this make sense. Don't completely ignore all of this, like you just did on the CBS Evening News.
If CBS ignores this, and gives no counterargument, no defense, then the general public will have no choice but to conclude that the network ran with a hoax - and now refuses to retract a lie.
[Posted 09/09 07:11 PM]
Too funny ... LOL
Is It a Hoax?
The Weekly Standard ^ | Sep 9, 2004 | Stephen F. Hayes
Posted on 09/09/2004 4:30:03 PM PDT by Mike Fieschko
DOCUMENTS CITED Wednesday by 60 Minutes in a widely-publicized expose of George W. Bush's National Guard Service are very likely forgeries, according to several experts on document authenticity and typography. The documents--four memos from Killian to himself or his files written in 1972 and 1973--appear to indicate that Bush refused or ignored orders to have a physical exam required to continue flying. CBS News anchor Dan Rather reported the segment and sourced the documents this way: "60 Minutes has obtained a number of documents we are told were taken from Col. Killian's personal file," he said. The 60 Minutes story served as the basis for follow-up news reports for dozens of news organizations across the country. The memos were almost immediately questioned in the blog world, with blog Power Line leading the charge.
And according to several forensic document experts contacted by THE WEEKLY STANDARD say the Killian memos appear to be forgeries. Although it is nearly impossible to establish with certainty the authenticity of documents without a careful examination of the originals, several irregularities in the Killian memos suggest that CBS may have been the victim of a hoax.
"These sure look like forgeries," says William Flynn, a forensic document expert widely considered the nation's top analyst of computer-generated documents. Flynn looked at copies of the documents posted on the CBS News website (here, here, here, and here). Flynn says, "I would say it looks very likely that these documents could not have existed" in the early 1970s, when they were allegedly written.
Several other experts agree. "They look mighty suspicious," says a veteran forensic document expert who asked not to be quoted by name. Richard Polt, a Xavier University philosophy professor who operates a website dedicated to typewriters, says that while he is not an expert on typesetting, the documents "look like typical word-processed documents."
O Danny Boy, you've ripped your pants in public.
Ben Barnes bought you, and 60 Minutes too.
Your word is mud, your reputation's dyin'.
A fake, a fake you aired and you're so blue.
But come ye back when Bush is re-elected.
Or when your boss is paying out the nose.
'Cause we'll be here exposin' your treachery.
O Danny boy, O Danny boy, thy name is woe.
Pretty funny tjere DFU!
One of your best Doug!
Paper Falsehoods (sung to tune of Paper Roses by Marie Osmond)
I realize the ways Dan's lies deceived me
with tender looks that I mistook for truth
So take away the forgeries you gave me
the FReepers found lies and now have the proof.
Paper Falsehoods, Paper Falsehoods,
oh, how real those Falsehoods seemed to Rather.
But they're only, Imitation,
like his imitation news that's blather.
Dan thought that this would be a perfect story.
It seemed so full of promise at the start.
But like a big red rose that's made of paper,
there isn't any truth; its just Windows art.
Paper Falsehoods, Paper Falsehoods,
oh, how real those Falsehoods seemed to Rather.
But they're only, Imitation,
like his propaganda that's just blather.
Terrific!!!