Posted on 09/19/2004 9:21:37 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton
I Am Buckhead": Newspaper Exposes Blog Folk Hero
By E & P Staff
Published: September 18, 2004
NEW YORK It was the scoop of the day in the presidential campaign (which tells you something): The Los Angeles Times found Buckhead.
The paper reports that it has solved the mystery of who exactly posted the very first (and in some minds, very suspicious) blog blast at the credibility of the "60 Minutes" Killian memos. But as the Times put it, "it did not come from an expert in typography or typewriter history as some first thought."
Buckhead, as he was known at the Free Republic site, has been unmasked as Harry MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes. He even helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
His identity, the Times says, "is likely to fuel speculation among Democrats that the efforts to discredit the CBS memos were engineered by Republicans eager to undermine reports that Bush received preferential treatment in the National Guard more than 30 years ago." GOP officials have denied this.
Reached by telephone by the Times on Friday, MacDougald, 46, confirmed that he is Buckhead but declined to answer questions.
MacDougald, a lawyer in Atlanta, is affiliated with two prominent conservative legal groups, the Federalist Society and the Southeastern Legal Foundation, where he serves on the legal advisory board.
Suspicions that MacDougald may have been tipped off have arisen because his quick comments on typography seemed to go far beyond his reputed expertise. He wrote that the memos purportedly written in the early 1970s by the late Lt. Col Jerry B. Killian were "in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman....The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software and personal computers," MacDougald wrote. "They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts."
Don't have time to read through the threads, but how'd they find out Buckhead's identity?
That's what I'd like to know.
How'd he find Buckhead's identity to out him?
I've got to remember this little gimmick. Everytime you have an agenda to push or a rumor to ignite just begin your sentence with, "Likely to fuel speculation," and then say whatever outlandish thing you want to. For instance, "Observers noted that Dan Rather has had a new lily pond garden area installed in his back yard. This is likely to fuel speculation that he will use it to drown puppies and kittens."
It would take less than an hour to go back through my posts and figure out my real identity. Most of us drop clues along the way, like a trail of popcorn.
It's too bad cBS isn't using their investigative prowess to discover who built & sent those memo's.
See post #105.
It was probly pretty easy.
Clinton playbook..."Enveigle Obsfucate Deceive"
When caught lying
Deny
Make counter accusation of the very thing you are accused of against your accusers
Fix the blame somewhere else
Bluster, Threaten
Promote your own victimhood
Summon your own character witnesses
Create a diversion
bump for later...
I hope you are kidding.
They act as if they're dealing with a bunch of country bumpkins who just fell off the turnup truck! Shame on them for confusing Freepers with democrats:-(
Buckhead is an attorney and there's many more professionals among the ranks of Free Republic.
Kudos to you, Buckhead!
Oh, I get it now. If you are someone who reveals the truth and asks for accountability, you are "exposed." If you are Dan Rather promulgating forgeries, you are "breaking news."
Dittoes, Buckhead! Keep their feet to the fire.
Quite simply put, you don't know what you're talking about.
We can all remember that when we're reading your other posts.
Uh, could it instead be that Buckhead noticed it so quickly because the forgeries were so stinkin' lame? I mean, c'mon, all the forger had to do was type them on a manual typewriter and no one could have told the difference. But doing them on Word in a proportional font with headline centering? Puh-leeze.
Buckhead and his operatives?
What the heck are you talking about? #1. He wasn't even the first one to notice something fishy about those memos. #2. Anybody with a brain could look at those memos and figure out they weren't typed on a typewriter. #3. You really don't seem to understand how FR works and the research that is done here.
My, my, my. That is a nifty little trick, isn't it?
Maybe the LA Times was practicing their honored tradition of gotcha journalism and looking for Karl Rove on our bulletin board?
I don't think that the article was suggesting that Buckhead had anything to do with planting the forgeries, just that he may have been given a "heads up" on the lack of authenticity, and that his critic may not have been as spontaneous as it would appear. I think that some of the leftist talking heads are saying that the while the Whitehouse refused to comment on the documents, they were getting their message out through surrogates, thus avoiding having to answer any questions about the content of the memos. All in all, that's not such a bad strategy, if is true.
Hmm, are you stoned or stunned? (smile) Mxx
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