[Republic]

Retired Col. Earl Lively, who was director of Air National Guard operations for the state headquarters during 1972 and 1973 said Staudt "wasn't on the scene" after retirement, and that CBS' remote-bullying thesis makes no sense.

"He couldn't bully them. He wasn't in the Guard," Lively said. "He couldn't affect their promotions. Once you're gone from the Guard, you don't have any authority."

I am begining to dispise dan rather. His determination to perpetuate this FRAUD, a FRAUD based on SOURCES WHO WERE THERE....even if the MEMOS were not so sickeningly WEIRD...and dan's FAILURE to disclose that the FAMILY, and other sources who are NAMED and were THERE who ALL disagree with that piece of so called investigative PROPAGANDA is simply ASTOUNDING on its face!

DAN RATHER IS SICK! I will NEVER FORGET THIS!

And I think we can put dan rather in the girlie man category, forever....he does not have the dignity nor the COURAGE (shove that, dan) to COME FORWARD WITH THE BLATANT AND HURTFUL ERRORS MADE IN THIS JOKE OF A SOPHOMORIC ATTEMPT TO MISLEAD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR COMMANDER IN CHIEF.

[SolitaryMan]

If I get this right, the memo's were written in Times Roman font, but the military (per DOD instruction) has always used Courier 12. Has anyone else seen any official documents written in Times Roman?

[JustAnotherSavage]

" He attributed the backlash to partisan politics and competitive journalism."

Competitive "journalism"? CBS...RATHER? LOL!!!!

I wrote CBS and the other so called "journalists" 5 years ago to tell them they had become irrelavant and were FIRED.

......geeez, they're taking their time exiting....

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[mbarr]

Karl Rove did a good job in making up these Doc's !

[Henry Krinkle]

[Indie]

BLATHER: "This story is true.
No it is not and repeating it a hundred times, a nazi propaganda technique, will not make it true.

The questions we raised about then-Lieutenant Bush's National Guard service are serious and legitimate," he said, expressing confidence the memos are authentic.

You can call contrived and proven false questions and assertions "serious and legitimate" but again, lies are the stuff of treason.

"Until and unless someone shows me definitive proof that they are not, I don't see any reason to carry on a conversation with the professional rumor mill."

Communist technique: Spout lies until one after the other is proven a lie, then assert that they are not lies. See #1/

In short, Blather should be arrested for his own protection. There are still a few American patriots in this country.

[nutmeg]

Geesh, this stuff keeps hitting (the fan) faster than I can keep up with it!

[NYCVirago]

A CBS staffer stood by the story, suggesting that Staudt could have continued to exert influence over Guard officials. But a former high-ranking Guard official disputed that, saying retirement would have left Staudt powerless over remaining officials.

How in the world would a retired general have any power? That doesn't even pass the laugh test!

[ckilmer]

analysis of the bush memo

http://img41.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img41&image=60minbusted.swf

[Behind Liberal Lines]

By the way, am I the only one who keeps thinking of that "Bloom County" from the 1980s where Opus tried to forge Elvis's diaries but used "Official Dukes of Hazzard Stationery"?

[sweetliberty]

This "memo" is turning out to be quite a gift from the RATs, isn't it? You can only sow for just so long before you start to do some reaping. They have sown the wind. They will reap the whirlwind! Natural justice can be a beautiful thing to see.

[Chode]

"Killian says Col. Buck Staudt, the man in charge of the Texas Air National Guard, is putting on pressure to `sugar coat' an evaluation of Lt. Bush."

WHY does he refer to him as "COL." since they knew eachother he must of called him BUCK??? and he NEVER would call him "Col.Buck" in a memmo to himself... it'd just be Buck

[Libertina]

oops... (he he he)

[nutmeg]

RA^THERGATE ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[sauropod]

Smoking gun ping!

[mtntop3]

Rather: "Until and unless someone shows me definitive proof that they are not (genuine), I don't see any reason to carry on a conversation with the professional rumor mill."

This is stunning in both its audacity and mendacity. It is up to the public to "prove" the veracity of the output of the media?????

Isn't the media to take all reasonable steps to ensure the veracity of its output prior to publishing or broadcasting it?

All this is right out of "1984". George Orwell only missed by twenty years. I hope that some plaintiff attorneys seek further elucidation by the distinguished Rather and his pack.

[sauropod]

"A CBS staffer stood by the story, suggesting that Staudt could have continued to exert influence over Guard officials. But a former high-ranking Guard official disputed that, saying retirement would have left Staudt powerless over remaining officials."

This happens quite quickly in the military (both green suiter and civilian). A week or two is all it takes for all the power somebody used to have to be rendered impotent after "retirement".

I've seen it happen firsthand.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[AUSTIN, Texas - (KRT) - The man named in a disputed memo as exerting pressure to "sugar coat" President Bush's military record left the Texas Air National Guard a year and a half before the memo was supposedly written, his own service record shows. ]

But this can't be! Dan Blather (soon to be retired) has assured us that his story and supporting evidence are true.

This joker is going to have to be pried from under his desk while sucking his thumb before this is all said and done.

[Truthsearcher]

To me this is as damning a piece of evidence as any other. It alone would point to forgery, add in all the other and this is a slam dunk.