DemocraticUnderground.com Removes Bush Medal Story from Server

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[solicitor77]

Democratic Underground Forums - George W. Bush was photographed ... ... is the "military biography" released by the Bush Campaign: In this document, the claim is made that Bush was awarded the National Defense Service Medal and the ... www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/ duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x654437 - 101k - Cached -

Democratic Underground Forums - Airforce says Bush would not get ... ... after they started attack on medal, seabeyond, Sep ... us an email at mail@DemocraticUnderground.com ... www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard. php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=715826&mesg... - 36k -

[ More results from www.democraticunderground.com ] United Press International: Internet claim on Bush award disputed ... summary of the story was also posted on the DemocraticUnderground.com Web site ... Force and White House disproving the allegations about the Bush medal came Friday ... www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040913-122231-6905r - 9k - Sep 18, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

[solicitor77]

Check this out, Freepers: DemocraticUnderground.com has spiked the phony story about Bush wearing medals he did not earn from their servers. A tactical defeat in the war on error -- Democratic error!

If you click on the links, you receive a message indicating that the site administrator has removed the links and taken the articles out of the archives.

The link to the UPI article exposing the scam is still live, though.

[Petronski]

Damn. And they were so SURE about this one. Well, at least they still have the Plame Grand Jury. Bwa ha ha ha ha!

[Chummy]

Since when did they have troubles with phonying things up?

[Jenya]

I lurked at the DUmmies spider hole the other night, and one poster had investigated the rules of wearing the medal, and posted the rules. This person was at least honest. They were allowed to wear the medal while they were serving or something like that.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

If they removed every untrue or misleading story from their archives, they could run the whole site with a Commodore 64.

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

LOL

[dead]

I just recently started going over there to read their stuff - have they always been so consistently wrong? So consistently arrogant even though they are constantly PROVEN wrong?

In just the last couple of weeks, they've been laughing amongst themselves about how stupid Freepers were to think that a journalistic legend like Dan Rather didn't absolutely insure those documents were geniune, they've posted photographic "proof" that they union goon who ripped up the little girl's Bush/Cheney poster was actually her brother (the photo comparison was absolutely hysterical - they didn't even look remotely alike), and now this story.

They are a confused bunch of bumbling idiots over there, convinced that they are proving their intellectual superiority everyday.

[Grampa Dave]

Dr Krevorkian should clone himself.

He will be in high demand from the lunatic libs between now and when GW is sworn in for his second term.

[shadowman99]

Dear DU Lurkers:

I light of this and todays events at CBS - Perhaps it's time you took a fearless look at which party is engaged in lies, fearmongering, and dirty politics.

You are welcome to switch parties. Keep lurking and open your mind.

[freedumb2003]

Here is the cached version

Can someone archive it???? I am at work and have limited resourdes


http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:qM9UjRSNzVgJ:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php%3Faz%3Dview_all%26address%3D132x654437+DEMOCRATIC+UNDERGROUND+BUSH+MEDAL&hl=en

[Old Sarge]

Sad, and true...

[sweetiepiezer]

I know, huh.............lol

[Chasaway]

Huh??!

Since when did they have an ethics gene? Since when did they pull a story/thread because it was demostrably false?

I don't get it...

[eggman]

The Ministry of Truth is busily erasing the lies that didn't work out.

[AnnaZ]

You're very funny. I really Laughed Out Loud (In My Pajamas).

[MizSterious]

Another "mistake in judgment" ala Dan Rather? Idiots.

[I_be_tc]

Hi Sarge

This is a different (but somewhat related) issue. My sister just emailed this to me from michael moore's website. He claims that service personnel are being "blackmailed" into re-signing or being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. (I could not stomach reading it all...I despise the man.) Anyone know about this?

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=160

Thanks for any help in this.

TC

[T'wit]

>> they could run the whole site with a Commodore 64.

That's very droll, ancient one! :-) :-)

[spodefly]

Don't worry. I keep a folder called "Insane $hit from DU" and that thread is one I have available. I have several threads archived that they have since removed.

[twigs]

I read DU regularly. They are a mixed bag. The language is a LOT worse and for the most part (with some exceptions), they do not like orthodox Christianity or Christians. They also tend to be socialists and hate capitalism. There are some honest researchers over there, though (a few, not most of them). And they are worth reading. They also agree with FR on a surprising number of threads, surprising because of the two sides oft stated disgust with the other. Both FR and DU tend to be adamant on the issue of the State not taking away individual liberties. Sometimes the two sites are saying the same thing, but just taking the exact opposite sides. Sometimes I wonder if outside agitators post on both sites just to keep the two hating each other.