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 ...
And the group that did this, will also use optical scanners to cheat the vote. We need to be prepared for SeeBS backing down on exit polls. Exit polls are our only safeguard against wide spread cheating...
When does SeeBS declare exit polls a waste of time?
When a grocery store's "mistakes" are always in the store's favor it's considered theft. When the media's "mistakes" are always against conservatives, but never against liberals, it's NOT A MISTAKE.
Besides, instead of worrying that our right-wing bias is a bad thing, the media should be worrying that their left-wing bias is not serving them well when it comes to finding the truth. Every MSM outlet ran huge stories about 60 Minutes' report, and not a single one even considered that the documents could be fake until the internet reports. <B<Where's the MSM's skepticism when it comes to anti-Bush charges?
Thanks for the ping!
Is that a proportional font, with kerning? And what about those line breaks, HUH?!
just kidding :th)
Cordially,
Excellent work! That's a keeper.
the usual
"stuff gets into the mainstream,..."
IT STINKS.
A very good reason why I don't ead the SinkQuierer or its companion, the libeal Daily rag anymore.
SEPTEMBER 13, 2004. This article on the front page of the liberal St. Petersburg Times. (but not on their web site) hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Lovely Texan Laura Bush stated the following on the subject "I think they are fake..."
They are absolutely fake!
Hey! I wrote that!
I'll say it again too - All hail 'Buckhead !
Seems I posted the very same thing the day before yesterday, EVEN WHILE FIGHTING OFF HURRICANES!
These dirty old tricks ARE JUST TRUE TRANSPARENT AND THEY DO NOT WORK any more.
"I also saw RATHER'S RESPONSE. He found a "handwriting analyst to check the signature". Hello... A signature can be the same, and it can be COPIED AND PASTED onto a FAKE DOCUMENT. ALL YOU NEED IS A BOTTLE OF WHITE-OUT AND SOME SCISSORS, DAN. Rather thinks that we're going to buy his expert's testimony????? RAOFLMAO"
76 posted on 09/11/2004 5:18:03 PM EDT by floriduh voter (www.conservative-spirit.org NATIONAL & FLORIDA ISSUES)
THEY CANNOT OUTSMART FREEPERS. Not ever!
I believe that FOX News has reported that the guy that told Rather the signature was Killian's signature wrote a book a while back saying that on a PHOTOCOPY, you CAN determine if a signature was a FAKE, but that it is NOT possible to determine if it is AUTHENTIC.The guy tells him the signature was authentic. Is this another depends on what the definition of "is" is ??? .....
Have you tried the bugmenot plugin for mozilla/firefox?
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for the historical records:
"buckhead" got plenty of coverage on the Friday, 9-17-04 edition of the John Ziegler (sp?)
Show on KFI radio in Los Angeles
(www.kfi640.com)...
if buckhead read this, welcome to the big time, Ziegler is doing great ratings in
his time slot!
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