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What Blogs Have Wrought (Buckhead)
Weekly Standard ^
| September 27, 2004
| Jonathan V. Last
Posted on 09/18/2004 7:23:10 AM PDT by Truth Table
IF YOU TRAWL the posting boards at FreeRepublic.com long enough, you'll go mad. Hundreds of voices are shouting, spitting, and clamoring for attention at any given moment. The night of Wednesday September 8 was no different. Following the 8 P.M. airing of CBS's 60 Minutes hit on President Bush's record in the Texas Air National Guard, Freepers were rattling their cages and pinging around the web in anger and disconsolation. On a thread begun in response to a New York Times article about the 60 Minutes story, "tomahawk" wrote, "The MSM [mainstream media] are whores for Kerry, whores for Democrats, and whores for Jihadists. Through their lies and distortions, our country's continued existence is now in doubt."
Amidst this clamor, the post by "Buckhead" could easily have gotten lost. At 11:59 P.M.
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KEYWORDS: buckhead; cbsnews; killian; rather
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To: Truth Table
The evening of September 15, Dan Rather cluelessly told the Washington Post's indefatigable media reporter Howard Kurtz, "If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story." Rather was a week late; Free Republic's Buckhead had scooped him. And dozens of bloggers, whether in pajamas or three-piece suits, had subsequently filled in many of the details. (CBS could still break one big story--who gave them the forged memos?--but has so far hidden behind an invocation of "longstanding journalistic ethics" governing "confidential sources." So forgers are now sources?)Methinks Rather, like Kerry, is so scared of full disclosure that it's not an option.
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posted on
09/19/2004 3:17:10 AM PDT
by
L.N. Smithee
(The Final Score: Buckhead 1, Talking Head 0)
To: CaptRon
"Wow. That's not very flattering."
Neither was the term "incestuous" used to describe the blogs.
Carolyn
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posted on
09/19/2004 3:33:52 AM PDT
by
CDHart
To: WOSG; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
"We the People of the United States of America" ... what a conspiracy we are!
bump for TRUTH!!
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posted on
09/19/2004 3:42:01 AM PDT
by
exhaustedmomma
(I still believe in a place called, The USA. God Bless and keep her.)
To: DirtyHarryY2K; yall
184
posted on
09/19/2004 4:59:06 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: Brian Allen
Thank you, sir! :^DEspecially love that [#134] one of Rather NOT! in Hillary's graduation costume.
hahahaaaa!
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posted on
09/19/2004 5:00:46 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: Truth Table
Buckhead and KCTanker....the 'Woodward and Bernstein' of Bloggers....
CBS & Rather going down and by his extension his mentor Cronkite...aka The Most Trusted Traitorous Man in Televsion
& I'm lovin it
imo
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posted on
09/19/2004 6:37:35 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
( "Two Heads Are Better Than One"...."Unless They're On The Same Person" -Andy Sipowicz)
To: Truth Table
The Agents of the main stream media "Matrix" really don't like it when their little financial sources unplugged themselves from the 'one-way' propaganda scam they've run successfully for the last 50 yrs
As long as a passive audience sits back on their cans and absorbs their screed... (and more importantly...'buys the products they market for their advertisers') they are relatively content...
Then they pushed too far....
They are scared to death of 'two way communication'...while they pretend to be 'an authority' they insist on the power of those 'in authority'...and refuse to allow those they indoctrinate to challenge them
There is a rebellion afoot...and they cant stand it....when their audience begins to question the accuracy of information or their bias they go nuts and begin making counter accusations, threats, and engage in personal insults...
Further alienating those who buy their advertisers products....as mom used to say..they cut off their nose to spite their face..
It is interesting that while they consider us 'good enough' to absorb their wonderfully packaged garbage but when we throw it back in their faces...that they find.. most unpalatable
Threatening, insulting, lying, are the only defense they have left....the MSM is pathetic...and their deliberate use of public trust to indoctrinate...to lie outright and to fabricated evidence and testimony against innocents or the guilty....is evil....and nothing less...but for them to knowingly use falsified evidence to bring down our President?...
That is criminal imo...and if so...that crime... should be prosecuted to the fullest extent...let the nation see them for exactly who and what they are...criminal propagandists...perhaps traitors
At any rate they are the furthest thing away from being the journalists....they claim to be
imo
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posted on
09/19/2004 7:17:36 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
( "Two Heads Are Better Than One"...."Unless They're On The Same Person" -Andy Sipowicz)
To: Enterprise
The issue for me has really not been the forgeries since a few minutes after I read the blogs and saw for myself what was going on. The issue is the source of the forgeries. CBS cannot hide the source of a proven fraud, especially given CBSs initial 3 or 4 news releases with respect to this issue.
CBS will have to out the source because there is no reason to hide the identity of someone trying to defraud them and the American people. The source is going to point to the Democrats. Why would Dan the Man take a noes dive for anything else? Nope, this is not going away in my estimation.
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:11:09 AM PDT
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
WOOHOO for buckhead & company!!!!!
free dixie,sw
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posted on
09/19/2004 10:06:41 AM PDT
by
stand watie
( being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. damnyankee is a LEARNED prejudice.)
To: MeekOneGOP
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posted on
09/19/2004 6:08:24 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Dan Rather don't need no stinkin facts, he is a journalist and therefore above reproach.)
To: Just mythoughts
"lol, a ten minute lurker." What can you expect from 'The Weekly Standard' neo-con noise factory? They're sKerry voters in disguise.
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posted on
09/19/2004 7:10:22 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(There are thousands of men of higher moral character than Hanoi John Kerry waiting on Death Row)
To: editor-surveyor
"What can you expect from 'The Weekly Standard' neo-con noise factory? They're sKerry voters in disguise."
lol, I always thought of the 'standard' as McCain's 527.
To: Truth Table
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posted on
09/19/2004 7:18:28 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(immanentizing the eschaton)
To: occutegirl
" What I really like here is the intellectual level of the dialog, no profanity, name, calling, etc, that I have seen on other forums." Ya haven't been here long enough! Stick around for a while and post up-dates to your evaluation :o)
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posted on
09/19/2004 7:21:31 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(There are thousands of men of higher moral character than Hanoi John Kerry waiting on Death Row)
To: Conspiracy Guy
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posted on
09/19/2004 7:47:10 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: Lijahsbubbe
Wow, Al's really let himself go.
To: CaptRon
Hundreds of voices are shouting, spitting, and clamoring for attention at any given moment.For a minute there I thought he meant the CBS Nightly News.
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posted on
09/20/2004 7:19:11 PM PDT
by
GVnana
(If I had a Buckhead moment would I know it?)
To: GVgirl
Maybe it should be renamed the CBS Naughty News.
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posted on
09/21/2004 11:52:25 AM PDT
by
SuperSonic
(Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.)
To: Truth Table
IF YOU TRAWL the posting boards at FreeRepublic.com long enough, you'll go mad.Only if you're a wuss...
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posted on
09/21/2004 11:53:16 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Kerry could have left 'Nam within a week if Purple Hearts were awarded for shots to the foot.)
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