Posted on 09/14/2004 12:21:20 PM PDT by Bob J
Edited on 09/14/2004 4:29:13 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I have been asked to appear on Paula Zahn (CNN) tonight with a panel discussing the SeeBS memo scandal and the "New Media".
The segment is live and I am told will be on approximately at 5:40 p.m. Pacific Time. Thought I'd give everyone a heads up!
If anyone would like to offer suggested talking points, feel free to do so! I'll be in and out this afternoon and checking in regularly.
Cool! I never watch Paula, but will make a point of it tonight. Go get them, Bob.
;-)
Point out that one website has offered $47,000 if the Memo's can be reasonably replicated on a typewriter. So far no one has even come close...
Can someone start a live thread of this when the time comes for those of us who are STILL cubicle bound or are driving home at 5:40? Go Bob J!!! Do us proud! (I know you will)
Even without an image of the existing attempts people have made to reproduce the docs with the Composer, all you've got to say is "people have tried to reproduce the entire document, even with 20 thousand dollar typeseting machines, and they have not been successful".
Another soundbyte is "no one can duplicate an entire document on any kind of old typewriter. It's been tried."
There are lots of us absolutly sick and tired of the weasel words "not likely", "not probable". That's BS. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE. PERIOD. NO MACHINE EXISTED THAT COULD DO THAT. NONE. ZERO.
"10,000 people in their pajamas with an extensive array of expertise all talking to each other with immediate access to the wealth of information on the internet".
Exactly ! our "research staff" is 100's of times bigger then the largest news outfit - we have instant access to people in every field of expertise -
We are self-policing - within minutes, hundreds of trails can be followed, and bogus theories dismissed...
Bob, I spent a sizeable chunk of this past weekend researching the fonts used in the CBS memos and comparing them against samples from some of the biggest type foundaries (Linotype, Bitstream, Adobe, etc.) I also used Adobe Photoshop to convert the CBS Adobe Acrobat copies of the memos into a much easier to use image format (.gif), and then emailed the .gif files to the FR webmaster.
Got to rush to a meeting in a minute, but will follow up with more info when I get back.
sorry for yelling. Media bias has been my pet peeve for 20 years and it's just finally coming to a head.
Bob J,
Too sweet to pass up...
Firstly, inform Paula and the Puppets that Free Republic members comprise more intellectual, entrepreneurial and technical firepower than most universities and small countries.
Secondly, declare confidently that the issue about the MemoGate fiasco is not IF the memos are forged - proof is incontrovertible that they were.
(Don't lower yourself to even argue the point, consider it DONE.)
Instead, emphasize the larger questions raised by the fiasco (and call it a FIASCO):
1. WHO forged them?
2. WHY would CBS, a mainstream media network supposedly unbiased news outle, continue to obfuscate, deny, evade and avoid the incontrovertible proof of their forgery?
3. WHAT should be the fallout, including legal actions, of such a flagrant breach of ethics and judgement by CBS and Dan Rather, and what should be the response by competitors such as CNN, by this attempt to:
a) Perpetrate a fraud on the American public;
b) Misrepresent the expertise and conclusions of witnesses and principles, including their own;
c) Influence a federal election late in the campaign;
d) Discredit an American president in time of war;
e) Libel and slander and otherwise aggressively abuse the character of the candidate's supporters who represent up to one-half the American electorate;
f) Cover-up the truth.
Courage!
Note to all. The premise of the segment is the influence of blogs and BB like FR in the dissemination of information and news and it's positive and negative effect on the presidentail race.
Of course, we don't know what turn it may take and it may end up on the SeeBS memos and the connection with JFK, and I'll be prepared for that.
All decentralized and self-organizing. Complexity theory at its finest.
Free Republic and other blogs are all that has kept the American people from having their votes inappropriately influenced by shoddy and biased reporting in this campaign. It doesn't start with the forged memos. The blogosphere has called out:
--Reuters' refusal to use the word "terrorist" and its continued use of "scare quotes"
--AP lying about Republicans booing when President Bush mentioned Bill Clinton's heart attack
--Biased and inaccurate reporting on the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth charges
--Chris Matthews' unprovoked attack on Michelle Malkin
--John Kerry's continued refusal to sign a SF-180
--Kerry's refusal to meet with reporters for over a month since the Swift Boat ads started.
Also try to get in a mention of Free Republic's role in the Florida recount in 2000 -- the Sore/Loserman signs, the protests at Al Gore's house, the protests in Florida against the chad-counters, and the exposure of the Democrats' plan to throw out military votes. And FReepers played a huge role in getting Gray Davis recalled in California. We are a FORCE that must be RECKONED WITH!!!!!!!!!!!!
You will be awesome! We want a tape! (For those who will not have satellite installed until this Saturday~! LOL) BTTT
ROFL!
No need to apologize...we all need that passion.
I still think that it is better to fight on the documents are forgeries, even if (and I don't think it could be or I'd be much richer) it is theoretically possible to create something close on an extremely expensive typesetter...No way was Killian writing memos to file on a typesetter. Their contention that it is possible is irrelevant...it is not possible that KILLIAN typed those memos.
2. There should be a congressional investigation as there was for "The Quiz Show" or Janet Jackson's nipple exposure.
A columnist for the Washington Post filed a freedom of information request for Senator Kerry's military records. He received 6 pages - the government withheld over 100 pages by Senator Kerry's request. What do you suppose he is hiding Paula?
If anyone starts to question the legitimacy of Internet bloggers, you have my permission to use my quote which is included in my "Open letter to Jonathan Klein" post found here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1215042/posts
What really has your knickers in a bunch is the fact that conservative bloggers are doing a much better job at the 'who, what, when, where, and why' of journalism, all the while having much more fun than you lumbering dinosaurs stuck in the tar pits of the mainstream media!
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