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.
I have in my day seen a typewriter with a "st/th" key. BUT the fonts were different and it was squished. Very very rare, very very expensive. Not for your SOP military typewriter.
This smaks of when the DNC got a hold of bush's debating manuals.
Great tag line!
Its almost as fun as starving old people and denying families medical coverage
LOL - you know Im kidding right ?
What thread was that?????
What thread did that come from?????
LOL. I missed it too. Dan, I mean Damn!!
Years ago (60s) as an employee of a national news magazine I used an IBM PSM typewriter. SWIMJ and flitj were letters that had to have the space calculated. No one would use these typewriters to type internal memos and take the time to calculate the center of the page.
Freerepublic more reliable news source than multimillion dollar budgeted CBS.
CBS "journalists" again humiliated as inept by internet.
CBS/Kerry Kampaign, the ties that bind?
Ping!
Oh, just reminded myself ...
The other thing that I had to explain was how if you take a document and make a copy, then copy the copy (and so on for a few generations), that the quality of the document degrades (looks dirty and the letters get blurred and stretched, the document itself starts to look like it was typed crooked, etc.).
He had no idea that that would happen.
It was funny - he said, "How do you know all of this stuff?" I told him I was a secretary/assistant for ten years - how many dozens of documents did he suppose I had to "correct" retroactively during that time? He laughed, but now he believes that the documents are faked.
That they are risking our national security is immaterial to them. It seems almost that their goal is to destroy this country from within.
I heard on the radio this AM, that the widow of the supposed writer of these documents never typed a day in his life.
Way cool!
We know that Kevin Drum is nothing more than a shill willing to print straight from the DNC fax line.
The State Department called on both CBS and freerepublic.com to exercise restraint
I picture an ad something like this......
Presidential campaign..........300 million dollars
527 attack ads.........25 million dollars
10 minutes of Conservative Freeper effort and $.01 cents of electricity...............priceless
"Conservatism, It's where you want to be"
....and it "could" have been in the military natioan guard?
What if the typewriter were a manual typewriter?
Can we nominate the Blogers or post number 47 for a pulitzer prize?
That's priceless! LOLOL!
Prairie
Couldn't find any info on-line.
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