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 ...
You sure this is Slate? Wow, maybe their site was hacked and a good old conservative posted that article.
Good old competition trumps bias any day. They smell CBS blood.
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?
Everyone at Slate thinks THEY should be the Anchor of the CBS Evening News.
Where is the FReeper thread debunking the Daily Kos story?
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.
They didn't mention blabbers daughter is connected to the kerry campaign/dnc.
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