Cake for everyone! :o)
Posted on 09/12/2004 2:43:11 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
These days, CBS News anchor Dan Rather and his colleagues at the network's magazine program "60 Minutes II" are enduring an unusual wave of second-guessing by some of the public and fellow journalists.
For that, they can thank "Buckhead."
It was a late-night blog posting by this mystery Netizen that first questioned the validity of documents Rather cited Wednesday as proof that George W. Bush did not fulfill his National Guard duty more than 30 years ago.
Buckhead refuses to further identify himself, other than dropping hints that he is a male who lives on the East Coast — preferring to proclaim that the scramble to verify the contentions in his posting marks an extraordinary achievement for a medium that has operated more as an underground world of ideological venting than a source of legitimate news.
But Buckhead is vehement about one thing: He acted alone when he posted, to the conservative website FreeRepublic.com, what was widely believed to be the first allegation that the CBS report relied on documents that could have been forged.
"Absolutely, positively, on my own, sitting at my computer in my bedroom just before midnight — but not in my pajamas," he wrote in an e-mail exchange with The Times. "But once I posted the comment to Free Republic I was no longer working alone, and that is the real point of the story about the story about the story."
That story began Wednesday, 19 minutes after the "60 Minutes II" broadcast began, when another FreeRepublic poster, TankerKC, noted that the documents were "not in the style that we used when I came into the USAF…. Can we get a copy of those memos?"
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Did this exchange actually occur on FreeRepublic, or is the LATimes making things up again just so they can put their own talking points into someone else's mouth?
Sorry.
Cake for everyone! :o)
Too true!
no doubt the MSM would make a similar claim...but what they can't hope to claim is the fact that here in cyberland we get to see for ourselves just how the reasoning goes,warts and all!
FR goes a long way on sharpening 'how to think' skills.
Typical MSM garbage: even though there is absoultely no evidence Karl Rove is involved, that's the RAT's talking point, and that's the spin of the article.
Great FR comments. though!!!
LOL bump
"It was amazing Thursday to watch the documents story go from FreeRepublic.com, a bastion of right-wing lunacy, to Drudge to the mainstream media in less than 12 hours," said Jim Jordan
From today's New York Times...
An Ex-Officer Now Believes Guard Memo Isn't Genuine
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL and JIM RUTENBERG
Published: September 12, 2004
OUSTON, Sept. 11 - A former National Guard commander who CBS News said had helped convince it of the authenticity of documents raising new questions about President Bush's military service said on Saturday that he did not believe they were genuine.
Freepers (sorry for the obligatory)rock.
Then there was Ambassador Wilson's trophy wife's involvement in this skulduggery, and to what degree she might have coordinated it with John Kerry.
Of course, there were even more bits of analysis we were into, but the wits were certainly sharpened!
No way CBS could peddle garbage past us; at least not this time!
It's the warts that make the best pudding. Censoring posts is a sure way to fall into the MSM template land. Post readers need to decide for themselves if a post is worthy or should be tossed in the bit bucket. Diversity is the strength of FR, I HOPE WE NEVER FORGET THAT.
Bump your timeline to the top
8-)
There ought to be a "Threads of Fame" area where we can maintain them for posterity. Some are historic.
It now appears FR watches the watchmen.
President Bush arriving in Baghdad for a turkey dinner?
You heard it here, first.
You're right!
Forgot about that, you've got a better memory than me!
MODESTLY, AFTER BEING THRUST INTO GREATNESS AND HISTORY...BUCKHEAD EXCLAIMS
"But once I posted the comment to Free Republic I was no longer working alone, and that is the real point of the story about the story about the story."
Tis True...Buckhead...we are right behind you,LEAD ON!
The more they run our name down the more our price goes up!!!
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