Posted on 09/09/2004 10:31:38 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 09/09/2004 10:55:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
September 10, 2004 -- THE populist revolu tion against the so- called mainstream media continues. Yesterday, the citizen journalists who produce blogs on the Internet — and their engaged readers — engaged in the wholesale exposure of what appears to be a presidential-year dirty trick against George W. Bush. What the bloggers and their audiences did was call into profound question the authenticity of four documents proudly trumpeted by CBS News in a much-heralded investigative report on Wednesday night's edition of "60 Minutes" about the president's National Guard service in the early 1970s.These were "previously unseen documents . . . obtained by '60 Minutes,' " the network bragged Wednesday night on its Web site. Their author, supposedly, was Bush's squadron commander, Jerry Killian, who died 20 years ago.
They "include a memorandum from May 1972," CBS reports, "where Killian writes that Lt. Bush called him to talk about 'how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November.' " A document dated "18 August 1973" complains that Killian is being asked to "sugar coat" Bush's record. "I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job," the document says.
Liberals went wild with glee about the story, especially after the onslaught on John Kerry's Vietnam record by his fellow Swift-boat veterans.
Kevin Drum, the most talented of the left-wing bloggers, wrote: "This story is a perfect demonstration of the difference between the Swift-boat controversy and the National Guard controversy. Both are tales from long ago and both are related to Vietnam, but . . . in the National Guard case, practically every new piece of documentary evidence provides additional confirmation that the charges against Bush are true."
[snip]The Minneapolis lawyers who run powerlineblog.com were on the case early. Two of the blog's readers directed their attention to a note left on an Internet bulletin board on the freerepublic.com Web site, the 47th posting on the topic there. Post No. 47 pointed out that there was something off about these documents from the 1970s: The spacing between the letters and the words was proportional, and only a few IBM electric typewriters could achieve that effect back then.
47 looks like Buckhead. I believe that every year, FreeRepublic should choose the best expose and award that person with a Number 47 FreeRepublic jersey.
Stole it from "the" thread....but like it almost as much as Zell's Angels.
Oops, meant to say Buckhead, not Buckeye.
"If we find out that it was someone inside the Kerry campaign that perpetrated this hoax, it will pretty much destroy his chances of winning the election."
Anybody seen Hillary ?
Not to sound too giddy and conspiratorial, but doesn't all this sound familiar..... missing documents, suddenly reappearing, in altered form?
This has familiar footprints all over it... or it just might be the work of the late,great, Lee Atwater, smiling down from Heaven.
I just checked the DUmmies website (Oh, forgive me). They are in a fit over this story! They are yapping about a Selectric typewriter that existed back then that "could" have been used. That is a long way from actually being used.
You guys changed history. After that, not much I can say, eh?
Didn't remember to check whether his "st" was superspaced!!!
Freepers ROCK!!
That's it!
Tell me they are not!!!!
That just shows what a POS every liberal is.
Now we need to find a way to add the word "Selectrix" to it.
-PJ
I believe Howlin posted it as a new thread, and it took off like a wild fire. The rest is FR History.
Rush will have a field day with this.
Exciting.
Thank you, Buckhead, Howlin and TankerKC!
It is nice to see Free Republic get the credit and it is also nice to see Drudge having so much fun with CBS.
Go Freepers and great job to Buckhead.
Let's see if Kitty Kelly gets knocked off the air and if Stolen Valor gets some attension.
Gosh, has anybody noticed that the more sex Rush has, the better things turn out for us???
This is more than an error, this is propaganda. Built on the hope that no one would notice the tech errors.
They used this good veteran, USED HIM in a way that went against EVERYTHING he stood for as an officer in our military.
For that alone, I hope CBS is sued BIG TIME.
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