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The Swiss Cheese Defense: Enumerating All CBS's Memogate Problems
RatherBiased.com ^

Posted on 09/10/2004 10:08:54 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com

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Please join us this evening as we carve up roast anchorman in a live fisking. Send suggestions to blogs@ratherbiased.com We're looking especially for military sources regarding things like abbreviations, etc.
1 posted on 09/10/2004 10:08:55 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
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Time to stick'm with a LONG fork! I think Dan is WELL-done.


2 posted on 09/10/2004 10:11:05 PM PDT by rebel_yell2
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William Pitt and the DUmmies are saying Rather buried the charges. They look rather funny on their knees for Rather.


3 posted on 09/10/2004 10:12:21 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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Could you reduce this to any appropriate bullets and post on http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1212788/posts?page=51,47


4 posted on 09/10/2004 10:20:23 PM PDT by dickmc
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To: RatherBiased.com

Excellently written article!


5 posted on 09/10/2004 10:20:53 PM PDT by spyone (Haven't)
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As one who grew up with "who" and "whom," I react sharply to the latter-day error of substituting "that." Thus I was struck by phrasing in the "memo" of August 1, 1972, "... qualified Vietnam pilots that have rotated...."

I don't believe anyone would have written this in 1972. It would have been, "...pilots who have rotated...."

6 posted on 09/10/2004 10:23:26 PM PDT by T'wit (Believing in socialism is like believing your car will run on water if you just keep trying.)
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Thanks for the summary... hopefully you won't have to worry about Dan TheNewsMan's misconduct much longer!


7 posted on 09/10/2004 10:23:44 PM PDT by DaveMSmith (CEO, VRWC: When you think treason, don't think Benedict Arnold - think JOHN FORGED KERRY!)
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don't you mean "staudt had retired in 1972" not 1973???


8 posted on 09/10/2004 10:25:31 PM PDT by flashbunny
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Please join us this evening as we carve up roast anchorman

I'd like a wing, the left wing,preferably.

9 posted on 09/10/2004 10:26:02 PM PDT by Redcoat LI ("I am the great and powerful Kerry! Look at my medals!")
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Yes. We fixed it online.


10 posted on 09/10/2004 10:29:46 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
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To: flashbunny

And thanks for noticing.


11 posted on 09/10/2004 10:30:53 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
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To: Chad Fairbanks

More good stuff...ping.


12 posted on 09/10/2004 10:31:33 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (God bless Senator Zell Miller.)
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No problem. And btw, I sent this to your email earlier- -- do you think you could get it to danny boy and have his experts look it over?


13 posted on 09/10/2004 10:32:26 PM PDT by flashbunny
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To: Redcoat LI

bttt


14 posted on 09/10/2004 10:33:26 PM PDT by Iconoclast2
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To: flashbunny

Nice parody


15 posted on 09/10/2004 10:36:07 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

Thanks, LOL


16 posted on 09/10/2004 10:42:32 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Kerry's Campaign fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.)
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ROTFLMAO


17 posted on 09/10/2004 10:43:55 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Kerry's Campaign fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.)
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To: RatherBiased.com

Very well done. Thank you.


18 posted on 09/10/2004 10:45:05 PM PDT by Shortstop7
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We're looking especially for military sources regarding things like abbreviations, etc.

The bottom line in this case will be provided by forensic experts that will provide proof that no typewriter had the combination of features used in that memo.

Rather's defense is childishly naive. Yes, Times New Roman has been around since the 1930's......On Linotype machines:

History will judge Dan Rather as either a scoundrel or a fool.

For subjective military trivia.........

One memo had the date written as (let's use today's date):

11 September, 2004.

Proper military dating would have been:

11 September 2004

or

11 SEP 04

The date would never have had a comma after the date.

Another eye-catcher was an officer simply putting a rank in the signature space without then putting the branch of service right after it.

19 posted on 09/10/2004 10:54:27 PM PDT by Polybius
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The date would never have had a comma after the date.

Typo.

The date would never have had a comma after the month.

20 posted on 09/10/2004 11:01:34 PM PDT by Polybius
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