Posted on 09/09/2004 4:30:35 PM PDT by ambrose
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]
Have a look here.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/scams/hitler_diaries/
What angers me is the bottom line...if a dead veteran were used to promote this, how dispicable and crude an action. And because it was meant to FALSELY DISCREDIT our President (or any President), I get outraged all over again.<p.Maybe I need to slap myself silly? LOL! Don't answer! hehe
He's doing that now.
I would think the CBS shareholders just MIGHT have something to say about this!!
I love it..."RatherGate" just kicked a cow-pie on a hot day. That poor boy ain't never going to get that stuff off of his boot!
Through my mother, I used retired military "pull" to get my orders changed. Personnel wanted to send me to Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. I wanted to go to Viet Nam. One phone call was all it took, which is generally the case when the call comes from a 4 star. Of course, the Major in charge of assigning 2nd Lieutants was really pissed at me, but that's the way it goes.
According to my wife, one of the major reasons she married me was that she has never, to this day, met anybody who used "pull" to get to GO to Viet Nam.
This just keeps getting more and more interesting.
The old media just has no comprehension of the "new media" and what it is capable of, and it will be their downfall.
I think in order to silence danny blather we should start to target the advertisers on CBS.
How could they get so much wrong in a forgery?
How could they get so much wrong in a forgery?
Incredible. Marked for later.
It's possible. I believe that all the evidence of a forgery put forth here does have a possible explination. From a special order typewriter to a special order print ball to a Ltc. forgetting the proper abbreviation for a 1Lt. It's possible that a secretary signed the odd signature, the same Ltc. using several non-military abbreviations and on and on.
At some point you surpass the level of improbability of the theory of evolution.
Another FReeper created his own forgery that looked just as good did it in no time at all.
As for a retired General coming back to his unit a year later to use his influence for a political favor. There would have to be strong ties to the bush family for that to happen. (or pictures)
I like it. The Piltdown Memo!
Dan is the only Marine I've ever known about whom I was comfortable with the past tense.
"Oh man, that's awesome. This is going to down in history alongside Piltdown Man."
More like the Hitler Diaries, which for those who weren't around to follow it in the 1980s were the supposed discovery of Adolf Hitler's pre-war diaries where he praised Neville Chamberlain's peacemaking efforts. The Diaries were in fact East German/Soviet forgeries intended to influence European public opinion against the United States.
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