Gunga Dan, you should be ashamed.
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.
Buckeye? Where do you think you are Michigan or was it Wisconsin?
In honor of Buckhead forever changing the meaning of John F Kerry's middle initial to Forgery, I propose we change Buckhead's nickname to F---head....oh, never mind...just kidding...haven't got a lick of work done today...it's just sinking in that the Dem candidate will not recover from this.
Thank you, Buckhead, Howlin and TankerKC!
Yes, it was.
After the posts on the live thread and the thread with #47 on it, we got so many "factoids" I just figured I'd put up an "investigation" thread and let people who really knew what they were talking about go at it.
And here we are, 24 hours later. :-)
Alright rack FR hey Freepers you made King of Page Six NY Post RACK ITTT
Alright that mean Freepers could party harder than Video Skank Paris Hilton
Great idea. I got $5 per year to go to the jersey fund.
"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."
Somewhere on here today I read that the staffers were upset because Rather insisted this go on last night.
Thank you, Buckhead, Howlin and TankerKC!
I'm not so concerned about CBS being sued as this being HIGHLY publicized as the campaign dirty trick it is. Let the public see the depths the Kerry camp will go to forge documents to defame Bush so their criminal candidate has a chance...well, not a chance, thanks to Powerline and Freepers!
Yes. Revolutionized the news, thanks. No longer will the MSM think that they can get away with any cheap lie. Especially if this causes a lawsuit, perhaps by the widow of the man whose name was forged and whose rep was sullied.
That one was mine, I tell you, and there is no way that anybody but me used it!
That was the One Typewriter That Ruled Them All.
-PJ
BTTT
Thank you, Buckhead, Howlin and TankerKC!
I remember that.
The 9/11 posts and yesterday's (9/9/04) will remain in my memory as a testament to FR forever.
Osama bin Ladin is my guess, no matter who takes credit.
How do you think the Wellstone family felt about having the Democrats turn their honored Senator's funeral into a rally in an arena with hot dogs and beer being served in the wings, just to score a minor political point?
-PJ
"Post #47 will be forever know as "Deep-Font"
"This really just slays me!!"
THAT hurt and you owe me a new screen!! God that was funny!!
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