Posted on 09/17/2004 10:14:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Tail gunner Joe was right on target.
One more case of CBS lying. McCarthy was right. Communists had infiltrated the organizations he was after.
NO Sh#T. Senator McCarthey was right about most everything. The Venona project confirms almost everyone of his allegations was correct. The conveniently leave out the fact the Robert Kennedy was also a dedicated "Red" chaser since it doesn't fit with their "mythology".
***....Bloggers and FreeRepublic-types checked the credentials of the one expert CBS quoted as confirming that its documents were genuine. He turned out to be not
only unqualified but something of a nut. Show him a woman's signature, he had written, and he could tell if she was likely to be good in bed..... ***
Is this the first published article that's actually come right out and said it?
The fact that there is contemporaneous record of people complaining of being silenced by McCarthy demonstrates, not the truth of the claims, but their falsity.
WOW. This guy nailed it ON THE HEAD.
I didn't realize Burkett was unstable. So Dan Rather's "unimpeacable" source might have been "certified"?
This gets better and better.
I didn't realized everybody wrote in their PJ's here. Anyone out there in their skiveys?
BTTT
Man this is a great read!
I usually write in my underwear. Do I still qualify for the pajamahadeen?
Nice smear, commie.
But, he conceded, "I have found no documentation from LTC Killian's hand or staff that indicate that this unit was involved in any complicit way to ... cover for the failures of 1Lt. Bush ... " Burkett went on to say, "On the contrary, LTC Killian's remarks are rare."
Several people with connections to the Texas National Guard immediately suspected Burkett was the source of the CBS report last week, and saw it as part of an ongoing vendetta against Bush and the Guard.***
Washington Post: Suspected CBS Source Is Well-Regarded Texan - Democrat Lives Among GOP Voters***.........In adjacent Taylor County, which includes the city of Abilene, Burkett is viewed as an intelligent activist or statesman of sorts by Democratic officials -- the crusading voice against what is wrong with the Republican Party in general and with Bush in particular.
"He's very bright; he's not a hayseed," said Royse Kerr, chairman of the Taylor County Democratic Club, which last spring invited Burkett to speak to the members about the "state of politics in America."
Burkett, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Texas National Guard, mentioned then what he had told several reporters last winter -- that he believes Bush aides ordered the destruction of portions of the president's National Guard record because they might have been politically embarrassing. But that was "tangential" to "the framing of his thesis," Kerr said. "What we heard was to demand more honesty of our politicians." .........***
> Tailgunner Joe had the left pegged.
Maybe so, but he was still a schmuck.
BETTER BELIEVE IT. And gool ole ERM was doing EXACTLY the same thing Rather's doing now. "Proud past," my foot.
Bump!
McCarthy was used to get the word out.
He had his failings, no doubt, but that doesn't change the facts.
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