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."
"Stuned", Mary, as in beeber lore. :)
Another new word. I can't keep up. Mxxx
They pulled off his pajamas?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1192288/posts
You'll get a chuckle out of this one.
I would say... WAY overpriced!
I, personally, am more of a Rook.
My guess....
They came from the CBS News Corporate Forgery Department...
I am almost suprised that there is not a "1970's typewriter font" available for MS Word...
There I was, squatting down beside the semi, quietly unscrewing the lugs, how was I supposed to know the driver was inside the cab with a billy club because he had lost his wheels before?
Stealing from barns with new doors is seldom profitable.
since no one is answering your question, let's ask again: How did they find out who he was? what prior post of his revealed so much about him, that he could be identified?
Someone suggested that a look at a freepers "in forum" comments would ultimately reveal who he is. Buckhead, for starters, is a place in Atlanta. That he's a lawyer would also be revealed by his posts. Other than than, I don't know how the investigators figured out exactly who he is.
The LA Times had a team of journalist comb through over 2+ years of Buckheads past post. They decided to hunt down a peivate citizen with authentic concerns instead of chasing down who might want to forge federal documents in order to sway a federal election.
read my post #132
Ironic, isn't it? All that manpower devoted to something so insignificant, losing sight of the real issue.
Would you please explain yourself further? How were we used as pawns? Do you feel that way because it turns out Buckhead has ties to conservative Republican causes. Or is it because he's an attorney? Or is it because he's affiliated with the Federalist Society and the Southeastern Legal Foundation? Or is it because he helped draft the petition to disbar Clinton?
Or is it all of the above? Are professionals not allowed as anonymous private citizens to post their observations of FR?
Or do you think Buckhead was an RNC plant whose sole purpose on this site was to discredit the memo's?
Please explain why you feel duped and used as a pawn. I know I don't feel that way and I'm interested in what makes you feel so.
"...an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes."
These people are despicable and insufferable.
"Far beyond his reputed expertise"? Please, it doesn't take an expert in typesetting to know this. I knew it, and plenty of others know this. It's not some arcane and mystical piece of knowlege.
We LOVE you Buckhead!
We are now rid of Dan Rather!
And since when does it matter who you are and what your politics is when it comes to REVEALING THE TRUTH...THAT CBS LIED.??!
Damn propandists just can't quit.
I've got the ROPE. All we need is a good strong tree for these traitors who learned their "journalistic" craft and propaganda techniques straight from Hitler.
Rewrite:
His identity, the Times says "is likely to anger Democrats who resorted to creating forged documents to bolster Democrat rumors that Bush received preferential treatment in the National Guard more than 30 years ago."
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