Posted on 02/05/2004 6:11:58 AM PST by Hon
The man who is almost single-handedly behind the story that Bush was AWOL is William Turnipseed of Alabama.
Here is an excerpt from one story recently posted here at FR:
"The media is now re-examining the story, though, and the Bush-haters are quite happy about it. As this story in today's Washington Post indicates, there is plenty of evidence Bush was not AWOL from his Guard duties. Indeed, one of the foundational pieces of the Bush-haters' lie is the failure of a colonel in Alabama to recall Bush ever being on post.
Reached in Montgomery yesterday, Turnipseed stood by his contention that Bush never reported to him. But Turnipseed added that he could not recall if he, himself, was on the base much at that time."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1071803/posts
Look at all of the Google hits you get on Turnipseed, and you'll see he is behind most (if not all) of the stories:
http://www.google.com/search?q=turnipseed%20"john%20kerry"
So what are Turnipseed's politics you might ask? This is from the FEC site:
TURNIPSEED, WILL MONTGOMERY, AL 36123
EDWARDS, JOHN VIA EDWARDS FOR PRESIDENT 06/16/2003 500.00 23991408229
http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/qind/
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