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Rather Suspicious, Searching for answers in the Killian memo controversy
Slate ^ | 9-10-04 | Slate

Posted on 09/10/2004 5:21:02 PM PDT by Jeff Blogworthy

On Wednesday night, CBS News released four memos it claimed were written in 1972 and 1973 by George W. Bush's commander in the Texas Air National Guard. In one of the documents, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian writes that a Guard official was "pushing to sugar coat" Bush's training evaluation; in another, Killian suspects that Bush is "talking to someone upstairs" about getting transferred. Within a few hours of the CBS report, bloggers were questioning the authenticity of the documents. By today, the doubts were on the front page of the Washington Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dan; documents; forgery; killian; rather; rathergate; selectricgate; slate
This is a well done, surprisingly accurate story from Slate
1 posted on 09/10/2004 5:21:03 PM PDT by Jeff Blogworthy
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To: Jeff Blogworthy

You sure this is Slate? Wow, maybe their site was hacked and a good old conservative posted that article.


2 posted on 09/10/2004 5:23:13 PM PDT by kcinnh
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To: Jeff Blogworthy

Good old competition trumps bias any day. They smell CBS blood.


3 posted on 09/10/2004 5:23:53 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: Jeff Blogworthy

Monday morning when Dan Rather is live from some windswept location in Florida, holding an official National Hurricane Center Bulletin, will anyone believe him when he reads it?


4 posted on 09/10/2004 5:26:15 PM PDT by feedback doctor (60 Minutes, at their commercials are honest)
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To: kcinnh

Everyone at Slate thinks THEY should be the Anchor of the CBS Evening News.


5 posted on 09/10/2004 5:31:55 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: Jeff Blogworthy

Where is the FReeper thread debunking the Daily Kos story?


6 posted on 09/10/2004 5:33:29 PM PDT by John Thornton
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To: Jeff Blogworthy

They do link to a defensible counter argument about the typeface and fonts. Ut does offer an alternative theory that's not crazy. I'd like to hear if the freepers who matched the fonts followed the methodology described in slate's link.


7 posted on 09/10/2004 5:33:30 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (" You have never tasted freedom my friend, else you would know, it is purchased not with gold, but w)
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8 posted on 09/10/2004 6:23:28 PM PDT by Boazo
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They didn't mention blabbers daughter is connected to the kerry campaign/dnc.


9 posted on 09/10/2004 7:30:20 PM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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