HODGES SAID HE WAS MISLED BY CBS

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[Ed Zoekuiper]

Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian's supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. According to Hodges, CBS told him the documents were "handwritten" and after CBS read him excerpts he said, "well if he wrote them that's what he felt."

[FredZarguna]

All ya need is a link to a picture of a siren, like this:

Maybe that's not the siren you had in mind. Google about, you'll find one.

[WOSG]

"ABC is zoned in on this thing, like a laser. I'm not saying we need to relax our grip, but I think ABC is going to bring down Rather from this point."

For once, the competitive juices are flowing in the media ... cool!

... of course, the DNC's mole at ABC, George Step-all-over-us, claims it was Rove plant, or so says his unbiased sources Joe Lockhart... I kid you not, the media is going to have to get spanked somehow on this fraud. the only question is ... WHO.

[cookcounty]

I think this is the right General Hodges:

Major General Bobby W. Hodges enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in June 1953.  After primary, basic and advanced pilot training, he spent two and a half-years at Misawa Air Base, Japan, with the 4th Fighter Interceptor Squadron.  While stationed at Misawa, he was a member of the 4th Fighter Squadron’s Rocket Team flying F-86D’s.  In Far East Air Force competition, the team placed second and General Hodges tied for first place in the individual category.

In September 1957, General Hodges became an air technician with the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group stationed at Ellington AFB in Houston, Texas.  He served in a variety of command and staff positions and in January 1968, he was named Deputy Commander for Operations and Base Operations Supervisor.

In July 1968, General Hodges began a 90-day voluntary tour of duty in Southeast Asia.  He participated in the “Palace Alert” program of the Air Force, a program using Air National Guard pilots flying F-102 interceptor aircraft in Southeast Asia.  During his tour of duty, General Hodges flew 51 combat missions out of South Vietnam and Northern Thailand for a total of 101 combat flying hours.

In May 1969, he assumed command of the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group and under his command the unit carried out its air defense mission of the upper Texas Gulf Coast in an exceptional manner.  He also assumed command of Ellington AFB as an additional duty when the Air Force closed out its host base responsibility in March 1975.  He continued in this dual role until his reassignment as commander of the 136th Air Refueling Wing, Texas Air National Guard, Hensley Field.

Under General Hodges command, the 136th Air Refueling Wing accomplished two significant deployments to the European Theater.  During those deployments, General Hodges was cited for outstanding leadership as the wing accomplished 356 tactical airlift employment sorties, carrying 701.6 tons of cargo, 2,056 passengers and dropped 1,374 paratroopers…with no safety deviations.

[litany_of_lies]

I can't answer the formal-informal mail issue, but I can tell you that it was a valid address and zip at the time, and that it appears on docs that are agreed to be genuine from the period.

[Oztrich Boy]

So let me get this straight. Hodges gave an interview based on someone else observation, not his own actual eyewitness account.

But all Hodges testified to was Killian's character. 'If Killian wrote them, it's what he believed'

[Terp]

If they now claim all they had were handwritten notes, they also admit that they forged the signatures on the memos. It is is still forgery either way, and harder to justify or explain under this scenario.

If they were handwritten why the header information on the type written memo's in question? The easy answer is they weren't handwritten.

[suzyq5558]

Loved your Rant because its so very true.

[onyx eyes]

They cant -- or shouldnt be able to claim the documents are handwritten -- else why didnt they just produce the "handwritten" documents to begin with?

[Starboard]

I DISPISE OUR MAINSTREAM PRESS, NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE DEMOCRATS, BUT BECAUSE THEY DO NOT LEAVE THEIR POLITICAL BELIEFS AT HOME WHEN THEY GO TO WORK.

Kind of like most college professors.

[Jorge]

The alleged memo font and the Times New Roman example don't look exactly the same to me.

I see several variations in the forms of the letters.
Is this due to repeated coping?

[BlueOx]

***All you posters predicting DOOM, and GLOOM for CBS, and or Rather, remind me of all the dire consequences predicted for Bildo Clintoon, and Hitlery, and lyinAlGore,and Sid Vicious Blumenthall,,Sandy Burgler,Janet Reo,and...etc.etc.

The CBS fraud is a HUGE HOLE in the dam that has kept the lefties going since the 60s. 'They' will all go down together ... look out when the DAM really breaks!!!! It's beginning to look like Swiss Cheese right now.

[longshadow]

But they've been passing these off as copies of the originals, and defending the typed documents as legitimate circa 1970's.

In tonite's CBS broadcast, they specifically stated they only had copies, not originals. They buried it, but they said it.

I think it's all misdirection, so that everyone gets focussed on the document fonts, proportional spacing, superscripts, etc. Then they will come back and say: "Guess what? I doesn't matter, because the originals were handwritten (we just didn't mention it because it wasn't relevant); the typed stuff was just a WP reproduction, with the signatures scanned and digitally added, to make it easier to read.... so the forgery claim has now been refuted, and therefore the documents are legitimate, and prove Bush lied...."

Think about it; this has been way too easy so far.... there's a trap in here somewhere.

[Conservababe]

And Mr Cronkite has said a couple of days ago that he doesn't understand why the government does not outlaw these internet news sites that posts such untruths.

He still lives, as most of MSM does, of the notion that only news filtered through them is the truth.

[CobaltBlue]

Houston Post Office should have a record of P.O. Box 34567 in Houston TX.

Probably the old clerk is retired by now, would probably take some digging.

[Shortstop7]

You know, I NEVER watch Rather anymore, but did check it out tonight to see what he said.

He sounded like his voice was about gone or something....I figured it was from pleading his case all day. LOL

[JackelopeBreeder]

Right now Baghdad Bob would increase their credibility.

[Gator113]

Even if everything in the memos were true, I still don't see anything that would be fatal or even damaging to Bush. Nothing makes him a liar and there isn't anything that can't be explained. Certainly, it gave the Lib's something to rant about, but that's about it.

[Texasforever]

Ok just to go along. Let's assume there is a trap. What is he hoping to catch in that trap?

[suzyq5558]

LOL I wouldnt mind seeing ole Bagdad Bob in liar Dans chair! I'd believe him over Dan also.

[hole_n_one]

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