Modern Times [Wretchard on Rather, Buckhead, etc.]

Belmont Club ^ | September 12, 2004 | wretchard

[GVnana]

Although the article half-humorously suggests "Buckhead" is actually Karl Rove

OMG! Will they stop at nothing?

[T'wit]

Hi, Karl Rove, and welcome to Free Republic. What's your handle?

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Just like the Pennsylvania Railroad disappeared into history, so has the MSM. If CBS had any brains in their head they would fire that moron, Dan Rather today!!! He has lost any vestige of creditability that he ever had, if he ever had any, which I seriously doubt.

[hoosiermama]

...an era HAS passed.

[Pukin Dog]

Buckhead is famous! He needs a book deal.

[xyz323]

kudos to you bloggers

[willieroe]

The Information Gatekeeper has fallen, and arising from their ashes comes the pajama warrior.

[Steely Tom]

If CBS had any brains in their head they would fire that moron, Dan Rather today!!!

That's easy for us to say, but think of what it means to CBS. Think of all the archival footage of major historical events in their film library. Think how much of it involves Dan Rather as the talking head. Think of the blow to their corporate culture and asset base that will result if he leaves under scandal conditions.

He has been their big star for almost 30 years. He replaced Walter Cronkite, for goodness' sake. Imagine if McNeill had decided to stonewall the Tylenol poisonings, and insisted that their packaging was absolutely tamper-proof, that the whole incident was cooked up by operatives of Bayer.

They've put all their eggs in one basket, and that basket is held by a semi-stable left-wing loon who thinks that objectivity means trashing all things Republican. He thinks that, since he is the face of CBS News, he (in effect) owns CBS News. As far as he's concerned, it's his network, to do with what he wishes.

Think of the implications, the fallout.

Fun, isn't it?

(steely)

[hoosiermama]

IMOSOmeone needs to write a book about FR. There have been so many times we have gotten information sooner and more accurate than the MSM....I remember sitting at my computer into the wee hours when the airplane was forced down in CHina; reading news articles from Hong Kong etc....the research done by the Guild on CLinton's pardons....the thread exposing JJ "love child" weeks before the mainstrain had a clue. etc. etc. etc.

I had just told a freind to keep an eye on the news in the next few days RE CBS and Rather, by the time I got home that day, it had already exploded....At least they're getting quicker.
It's a shame the MSM does use our "research skills" to their advantage instead of insulting us with name calling.

[omstrat]

MSM in NY City so far today is ignoring most mention of forgery . The general public , I'm afraid,will never hear the truth about Rather. I'm sure CBS is hoping the story will blow over soon enough. Sad truth is it probably will go away .

[RogueIsland]

It's not the origin of the memos that matters, it's the seriousness of the charges! < /DU >

[js1138]

... in 1971, even the most powerful available computer systems were not equipped to produce documents like the Killian documents. In Fall 1971, I entered graduate school in Computer Science at Stanford. I soon gravitated to the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which had the most powerful time-sharing system (a PDP-10) on campus. In either 1972 or 1973, Xerox gave the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory a prototype xerographic printer called a "Xerox Graphics Printer (XGP)". Two similar prototypes were given to the MIT Computer Science Department and the Carnegie-Mellon Computer Science Department. The programming staff at the Stanford AI Laboratory was thrilled with the gift because it was the first opportunity that computer science research community had to develop software to support printer quality type-setting. The three Computer Science Departments cooperated in developing the word processing programs to support the XGP. I wrote my first published research paper and my doctoral disseration using the XGP in Spring 1976. It would take another decade before comparable word processing systems were available to most computer science researchers on minicomputers running Unix. It would take nearly another decade before they were widely used on personal computers.

This really is the death knell.

[Always Right]

Although the article half-humorously suggests "Buckhead" is actually Karl Rove

Actually, the quote in the LA Times article was mine. I was making fun of the fact that Democrats were running around saying the memos were planted by Karl Rove.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Al Gore, Dan Rather, Howard Dean, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, John Kerry, Tom Harkin, Paul Begala, James Carville, etc. all have the same thing in common. They are all head cases!!!

[js1138]

Here's the official CBS/Dem position: The documents are authentic and they were planted by Karl Rove.

[Always Right]

Hi, Karl Rove, and welcome to Free Republic. What's your handle?

Funny how much play my sarcastic comment is getting.

[RogueIsland]

IMOSOmeone needs to write a book about FR

Agreed. It would be fascinating. Although I've been on FR since 1999, my most vivid memory of FR was 9/11. I was at work, and my coworkers and I couldn't get much information off the MSM sites. So I brought up FR and we got what amounted to real-time coverage of the events.

FR has had a big impact. It should be documented.

[Salvation]

BTTT!

[js1138]

IMOSOmeone needs to write a book about FR.

I've had the title in my head for some timeL This Is Hugh; This Is Series...