Posted on 09/11/2004 12:05:54 PM PDT by buzzyboop
On September 10, 2004, Dan Rather declared war on the internet. He shouldn't have because it's a battle he is destined to lose. Addressing only a small part of the hundreds of criticisms that web-based critics and assorted typewriter, font, and military experts have lodged against his report, Rather and his CBS colleagues seem to have a masochistic desire for punishment. Our latest updates on the Memogate controversy are posted below. For our 21-point rebuttal to Rather's Sept. 10 salvo, click here.
The unraveling continues. Two of the three people cited on-camera by CBS News as vouching for its conclusion that Jerry Killian--the former Air National Guard commanding officer of George W. Bush--authored incriminating memoranda about the future president have, in subsequent interviews with other media organizations, tempered their support for CBS.
Robert Strong, who served with Killian as an officer tells the New York Times that he does not believe that his former associate used a proportional font typewriter during his time in the Texas guard.
"Mr. Strong said in an interview Friday he was quite sure that he and others used Selectrics in the adjutant general's office. He added that he was not sure the typewriters and devices were also in the 147th Combat Support Squadron at the Ellington base in Houston, home of the 111th squadron.
"'I'm skeptical that Killian was working on that,' Mr. Strong said."
Strong's comments come on the heels of a statement from Marcel Matley, a writing analyst whom CBS presented as having certified its four documents. Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, however, Matley said that he only vouched for one to the network.
According to the Texas Archives and Barnes' own bio, he was sworn in as Lt. Governor on Jan. 21, 1969.
But Bush enlisted in the TANG on May 27, 1968. Preston Smith was Lt. Governor at that time, not Barnes who had not even been elected to the office yet.
Why would Barnes, as Lt. Governor, be needed to help Bush who had already been in the TANG for 8 months before Barnes even took office?
Why is no one in the media picking up on this fact, proving Barnes is a liar about being asked to help Bush?
Lt. Governors of Texas:
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/ltgov.html
Barnes' bio:
http://www.klru.org/texasmonthlytalks/archives/barnes/bio.asp
Ben Barnes video claiming he pulled strings for Bush WHILE he was Lt. Governor.
http://media.greaterdemocracy.org/
Bush enlistment date: (using CBS itself for this one but there are many)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/14/politics/main600360.shtml
Never pick a fight with someone who buys his bandwidth by the barrell.
Oh, I got a better one.
R stands for wRong!
LOL public education rules.
I have a problem believing that Strong used a Selectric but I could be wrong. I would like to find other clerical people in that particular National Guard and see what they say.
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