What Blogs Have Wrought (Buckhead)

Weekly Standard ^ | September 27, 2004 | Jonathan V. Last

[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.

[L.N. Smithee]

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.

[CDHart]

"Wow. That's not very flattering."

Neither was the term "incestuous" used to describe the blogs.

Carolyn

[exhaustedmomma]

"We the People of the United States of America" ... what a conspiracy we are!

bump for TRUTH!!

[MeekOneGOP]

Check out THIS thread everybody, LOL!:

The Road Less Graveled
(a Texan tells Dan Rather how it is!)

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you, sir! :^D

Especially love that [#134] one of Rather NOT! in Hillary's graduation costume.

hahahaaaa!

[joesnuffy]

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

[joesnuffy]

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

[Truth Table]

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.

[blackie]

Good stuff ~ Bump!

[stand watie]

WOOHOO for buckhead & company!!!!!

free dixie,sw

[Conspiracy Guy]

More MeekOneGOP classics

[editor-surveyor]

"lol, a ten minute lurker."

What can you expect from 'The Weekly Standard' neo-con noise factory? They're sKerry voters in disguise.

[Just mythoughts]

"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.

[Incorrigible]

A must read and save!

[editor-surveyor]

" 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)

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks. :^D

[mark_interrupted]

Wow, Al's really let himself go.

[GVnana]

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.

[SuperSonic]

Maybe it should be renamed the CBS Naughty News.

[dirtboy]

IF YOU TRAWL the posting boards at FreeRepublic.com long enough, you'll go mad.

Only if you're a wuss...