Please explain...
To be replaced by a trio of human garbage - Norah O'Garbage, Lyin' Lesley Stahl and Margaret Brennan.
I was on vacation in San Diego chucking quarters into a pay internet connection to follow that in real time.
Thank you for important reminder
"Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS "60 Minutes" report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers."
Bkmrk
Is there a movie clip online that shows that part?
Fox Nation also did a special on it called “Black Eye”.
Oh, my.
I remember that incident.
Yes, Freepers are awesome.
Watching the Bourne Identity tonight. It always helps me to remember to keep my situational awareness going. When I feel safe, I tend to let my guard down. This movie reminds me to keep my antennae up. Very important to keep my SA up these days.
Buckhead and TankerKC... the real internet factcheckers.
From another thread a couple months ago:
“... On September 8, 2004, CBS’s “60 Minutes” used forged government documents as the basis for a story that attacked the military record of then-President George W. Bush. It was bad enough that CBS used forged government documents, but what made it worse was that CBS aired this story during the presidential election and timed the airing to coincide with the rollout of Democrat John Kerry’s “favorite son” campaign theme. CBS thus provided the “news” upon which the Democrat candidate based his attack ads. The CBS story was quickly disproven and eventually forced CBS into personnel changes and investigations. Dan Rather was forced into retirement a few months later. But CBS did not give up before a lengthy battle in which bloggers demonstrated that the font and other features in the forged documents did not exist in 1972 (the date placed on the forgeries)....”
Buckhead’s post:
“9/8/2004, 11:59:43 PM · 47 of 300
Buckhead to Howlin
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90’s. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn’t used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80’s used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
This should be pursued aggressively.”
Buckhead, a fellow Georgia Freeper, is a legend. I remember this like it was yesterday. Down goes Rather!!
Didn’t know “Truth” was a puff piece, although I should have expected that, despite a Freeper’s recommendation. Fifty-nine cents on amazon prime. Watched the first half, stopped for an intermission, and didn’t turn it back on. Depiction of the female lead’s father as a domestic violence abuser was grotesque.
The brief screen shown is FR’s forum page with the sidebar in blue font, while the actors discuss posts to a comment thread. Fun to see, but inaccurate.
There’s a scene where Blanchett’s character reads FR commentary on her physical appearance that does not make us look good. I didn’t even catch anything vulgar, although we have our share of that. Cringe posters are the price that we pay for the freedom from oppressive moderation censoring our speech. Honestly, I’ve always chalked the worst of the posts up to trolls.
That’s so cool.
We’re watching the movie now.
So cool to watch/hear someone read Buckhead’s OP, and see Mary Mapes scrolling through a Freerepublic thread on her computer.