60 Minutes to Infamy- those forged memos and The Shot Heard Round the World

Here is a pretty good current summary of the situation:

The Shot Heard Round the World The echoes of the big Internet bang which annihilated a 60 Minutes story in under 12 hours are still resounding. The key riffs apparently started at Powerline and as Samizdata notes, the distributed intelligence of the Internet took over. Under the scrutiny of thousands of analysts, the CBS story began to melt down.

The start of it all:

Documents Suggest Special Treatment for Bush in Guard

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The Thread that broke the Camels Back:Post 47, and the Freepers who busted C.B.S.

Let us not forget the contribution of TankerKC

"Free Republic: Tomorrow's News Today."

Forged Documents (electronic overlay of CBS PDF file and Word document) [perfect match] CBS and the rest of the MSM - the Old media - with their JFKs - Journalists for Kerry - have been working overtime to bury Bush since he won the election. Do they stop at anything or is any lie too big for them?

Authenticity of Bush memos questioned Typographical, formatting questions emerge

CBS News denies Bush docs forged (CBS in credibility meltdown)

CNN Still Ignoring Falsity Of Docs Old Media-Old School. Five years ago they would have gotten away with it.
Thank you, Rush Limbaugh, the godfather of the New Media.

New Documents May Shed Light on Bush Military Rec (AP ran this story even after forgery revealed)

Bush Piloted Guard Trainers Before He Quit (AP buries new info on hoax)

Guard Memos Fuel Another Vietnam-Era Battle; ... some question the documents' authenticity


Microsoft announces release of Word '73

Guard memos on Bush fake, says squadron leader's son (new information about the signature)

Woman at CBS Just Yelled at me and hung up! (212) 975 3691

60 Minutes docs on Bush may be fake (UPI)


Guard records stir Democrats
- saying 'character counts' in a president --

Question: Who from the Kerry campaign is responsible?

Democrats.com asks volunteers to replicate forged memos on their typewriters

CBS'S BIG BLUNDER? (Credits Free Republic)

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 #47

Pro-Kerry Media Expose Their Partisanship

Seattle P-I running dubunked Bush docs in big headline (Day after questions arose) "Dewey Beats Truman," only worse!

Steve Malzberg on WABC with the forgery story

John Ziegler on KFI (Los Angeles) discussing Forgery Documents John Ziegler on KFI out here is all over this. His first segment was a brilliant lead in, playing all the groups and individuals attacking President Bush on the memos. He is making the case for a complete coordinated attack by the media and the DNC and the Kerry campaign.
http://www.kfi640.com/interactive/streaming.html

But Why? (list of candidates who forged the CBS document) This was going to be a late October surprise. They were going to release these forged documents on the weekend before the election, In this manner the Republicans wouldn't have time to respond. However, Kerry's numbers were so low, they panicked and release earlier

Democrats Step Up Attack on Bush Guard Record A link has been established between sKerry and the forgeries. Check out related stories on Drudge.

[Killian] WIDOW TO APPEAR ON 'NIGHTLINE'... Live Thread

CBSNEWS LAUNCHES INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AFTER SUSPICIOUS BUSH DOCS AIRED (drudge Siren)

There's also some information on the American Spectator

Anatomy of a Forgery

site that makes a connection. Kerry is a stupid desperate man right now.

WHO faked the "60 Minutes" documents?

Late Atlanta news ignores controvery over documents... Reports about Bush AWOL only... Like the booing story, they will do everything they can not to retract. Folks, its painfully true - the media is not about reporting the news, but about advancing a liberal and Democrat agenda. It's becoming more and more clear.

McAuliffe Statement on Breaking News About Bush's Military Record It's too perfect to have this press release right after the story.

The Media Prepare Kerry's Excuse

O.K. Fill ME IN. JUST HOW WAS DAN RATHER CAUGHT WITH PANTS DOWN?

Ra^thergate

DNC ACTION ALERT: Demand the truth from Bush on National Guard service Thanks. Once the document story settles, and (if) they are proven to be fakes, I plan to e-mail this to a lot of folks to show just how slimy the DNC can get.

Gosh, the DNC is gonna have to stay up all night to keep up with the New Media in the future, aren't they?

Burden now on CBS to authenticate its documents, lest it become a co-conspirator in fraud

Valley Widow Casts Doubts on Bush Memos

Killian's Wife Disputes Document Authenticity

Signature on CBS documents don't match original

And finally, the MSM ( MainStreamMedia, AKA the Jackal Pack Press ) catches up with the New Media of the Internet & Talk Radio:

WASH POST - "SOME QUESTION AUTHENTICITY OF PAPERS" This is just too wonderful if this blows up in CBS face. And may I add the face of the national media as a whole who all ran with this story completely!

False Documentation? Questions Arise About Authenticity of Newly Found Memos on Bush's Guard Service As the honorable judge and great American Sanders Sauls of Floriduh once said during the Gore War... "It's like being nibbled to death by ducks."

Killian Signed a Doc with a Different Typeface and Other Diffs One Year Later (FR EXCLUSIVE)

CBS Bush's National Guard Service Documents --Hoax??

Kudos to our friends on FREE REPUBLIC who I understand started this ball rolling. My understanding of the timeline:

Free Republic members post about the documents being BS.

Story picked up by INDC Journal http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000838.php

The Blogosphere picks it up at:
Powerline http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007760.php
Little Green Footballs http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

Drudge does what Drudge does http://www.drudgereport.com/

The blogs continue to run with it and the evidence continues to mount.

The Weekly Standard picks up the story (see above posts)

CBS stands behind their story.

CBS capitulates. Then....

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9967-2004Sep9.html

MSNBC
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5955784/

ABCNews
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Politics/Vote2004/bush_documents_040909-1.html

The Main Stream media ("MSM") is TOAST. This story show the power of the web, the power of the blog and the demise of the MSM.

The shift is shown by our Free Republic brothers, and our own Grig (with the subliminal story break).

A huge hit to the credibility of the leftist MSM has just been struck...lets stand back and bask in the glow.

Pat yourselves on the back...you deserve it.

Fox News to break forged document story ON NOW! The only down side on this that I can see is that we haven't gotten to spend any time discussing Teressa calling us all "common people"...

BushGuardaugust1 memo - a FAKE

MICHAEL MEDVED Covering 60 Minutes Document Forgery Scandal

Son of Late Officer Questions Memos Attributed to His Dad Just to realize that in less than 24 hours, TankKC's suspicon and Freepers' fabulous investigative skills and know-how hatched the biggest story to hit the air waves since Zell's give-em-hell speech. Hell has just frozen over for CBS and Kerry/Edward...

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211441/posts

Hello SEAN HANNITY ( Hannity credits FR with breaking "Selectragate" document scandal )

ABC is now raising doubts to the authenticity of the "new" memos!

CBS' “new” Bush guard memos a hoax (Update w/ conclusive proof of forgeries!)

HUGH HEWITT REQUESTS A THREAD

"What's The Typeface, Kenneth?"

"Crude and amazingly foolish forgeries" -see my COLOCALIZATION of one of the "original" ANG documents with a Microsoft Word version written in Times New Roman.

General Staudt was retired!

Here's the article that the blog links to.

CBS News denies Bush docs forged (then calls back to back off of earlier "expert" claim)

Newsrooms under siege

Final nail in coffin:

ANG Docs are Fake

Was Rather Duped by Anti-Bush Hoax?

Bush Guard Documents: Forged Well in truth CBS said the "believed" them to be authentic. They have given themselves a legal out. They didn't or can't "CERTIFY" them as authentic.

I've been working in the field for over 20 years and currently serve with a text processing company so I am intimately familiar with these technologies. The document is an OBVIOUS forgery. Note last night I cautioned it's probably not even worth the exercise because it's not part of the current agenda. However, now that this forgery has been proven so effectively, Dan Rather must be held accountable.

Text of memos about Bush suspension (AP claiming white house released forged docs!)

They are spinnig as fast as they can. In the wake of the revelation these documents are fake they think they can spin it into a negative for the White House.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1211250/posts?page=32#32

"Are the CBS National Guard Documents Fake?" (Font expert says gut tells him its a fabrication!)

If theses DOCs are proven to be a hoax......The election is OVER and Dan Rather's career ends on the low note he'll be remembered for and rightly so.

THe THmoking Gun on Forged Killian Memos: UPDATE to Powerline Blog's "61st Minute" EvidenTH

The Sixty-First Minute (Are latest GW Guard documents a forgery?)

Bush "Memos" Look Forged There are a couple of threads like this going, Howlin is trying to get all the info consolidated in one place. Could you repost your info here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210702/posts?q=1&&page=301

New Questions On Bush Guard Duty [CBS USES FORGERIES TO SMEAR THE PRESIDENT!!!!!]

Better read this;

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210987/posts?page=159#159

In summary, the variable type reveals the Killian memos to be crude forgeries, the tiny "th" confirms it in the 8/18/73 memo, and I offer my other points as icing on the cake.

THE "New" CBS BUSH DOCUMENTS: Let's do some investigating

Memos Show Bush Suspended From Flying

Read these:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210783/posts?page=47#47

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210783/posts?page=58#58

Democrats Say Bush Lied on Guard Service

To: N. Theknow; Howlin; Buckhead; TankerKC; evilC; Grampa Dave

ROTFL! ;-D

Great graphic! (#98)

101 posted on 09/10/2004 10:17:55 AM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Comrade Hillary - 6/28/04)

To: Just mythoughts

102 posted on 09/10/2004 10:19:58 AM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)

103 posted on 09/10/2004 10:20:56 AM PDT by RaceBannon (KERRY FLED . . . WHILE GOOD MEN BLED!!)

To: Jim Robinson; John Robinson; Bob J; diotima; Interesting Times; Nick Danger; abner; ...

See post 92 for Howlin's official timeline of events.

104 posted on 09/10/2004 10:21:21 AM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Comrade Hillary - 6/28/04)

KERRY FLED . . . WHILE GOOD MEN BLED!!

GREAT tag line, Race!

105 posted on 09/10/2004 10:29:15 AM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Comrade Hillary - 6/28/04)

Thanks for your great job in documenting the lies and phoney documentation used by C BS in their latest fertilizing of America under the pretense of News.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1212199/posts

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Posted on 09/10/2004 9:36:23 AM PDT by Bob J

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106 posted on 09/10/2004 10:33:50 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Kerry = The Wrong Candidate in the Wrong Country at the Wrong Time (post 9/11)!)

Thanks for the ping!

107 posted on 09/10/2004 10:36:56 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl

Nice job FReepers!

J F'n K is gonna be one heavily stuned beeber before this is over!

108 posted on 09/10/2004 11:24:21 AM PDT by Constantine XIII

I just called CBS and asked if Dan Rather would resign over this? No comment from the CBS Schrill.

109 posted on 09/10/2004 11:38:50 AM PDT by n.y.muggs

To: n.y.muggs; Constantine XIII

Thanks, all, for commenting- I've had to be away today-- more will follow shortly.

This story seems to have legs.

110 posted on 09/10/2004 11:43:37 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

111 posted on 09/10/2004 11:44:58 AM PDT by RobRoy (You only "know" what you experience. Everything else is mere belief.)

That's perfect- I'll send it to the usual suspects out in 'netland.

112 posted on 09/10/2004 11:53:56 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

Stay safe this weekend. Ivan's got you in his sights.

113 posted on 09/10/2004 11:57:11 AM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)

114 posted on 09/10/2004 12:03:19 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

Stay safe this weekend. Ivan's got you in his sights.

Thanks- I'm running around like a crazed chicken trying to get branches trimmed, mother-in-law settled ( she won't move, regardless ), canned goods, gas & water. Bloody nuisance!

115 posted on 09/10/2004 12:05:52 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

And now, per Fox News and a thread running today here on FR, the PENTAGON questions the use of the P.O. BOX number on the memos!

Curiouser and curiouser--- by the second!

116 posted on 09/10/2004 12:08:10 PM PDT by Republic (Terri Schiavo,saved by TERRI's LAW after 7 days of starvation, fights ACLU-Felos to keep law intact)

Curiouser and curiouser--- by the second!

I hope this will prove to be a real eye-opener for citizens-- the MSM has been in the spin-cycle business for decades, but without an alternate voice, there was no way to catch them at it and then inform people.

I believe that has now changed, permanently.

117 posted on 09/10/2004 12:24:40 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

To: backhoe; All; Howlin; Diogenesis

We have an emergency of sorts here.

I have sent way to many emails to CBS news.

SOMEONE needs to send an email that will reach the CEO of this company ASAP as Dan Rather is going to feature this story tonight (he is apparently feeling good about the attention it receives, going to capitalize on it, going to say it was authenicated, that the superscript was available back then, going to defend it and is going to refuse his state his so called 'unimpeachable sources'.

We need to take the BLOOM OFF THIS LILY!

We need to flood the CEO and Dan with the rest of the items found corrupted in these memos. And we need to let him know before his ugly mug goes on the TV tonight that WE ARE WATCHING.

I am serious. Dan is loving this. Or he would not be going to go on the air and defend it...he feels invincible, and able to LIE with the FREEDOM of the UNTOUCHABLE.

No way can we let this fly....if HIS BOSSES know more....then DAN WILL HAVE TO RESPOND.

It would NOT HURT to mention sponsors either.

118 posted on 09/10/2004 1:04:59 PM PDT by Republic (Terri Schiavo,saved by TERRI's LAW after 7 days of starvation, fights ACLU-Felos to keep law intact)

CBS is trying to "center" on the ^th issue. The best summary of the forgery I've seen is the graphic on another thread that animated the scanned original and a MS Word reproduction. They are not visually distinguishable. Sorry, can't remember the thread - been too many today. Maybe someone can post it here. In my opinion, it needs to be posted in every thread dealing with this story.

119 posted on 09/10/2004 1:10:12 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)

Thanks for the ping.

120 posted on 09/10/2004 1:48:49 PM PDT by GOPJ

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