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."
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I thought I had read that CBS claimed they were working on this story for five years? If so, Karl Rove must have been very steamed that it took so long for his diabolical plot to come to fruition. I can see it now... Karl to Buckhead "What's taking so long? I gave them those *&^%$ forgeries five years ago!"
That Karl Rove is an evil genius, installing Buckhead here in January 1998 to out Dan Rather 6 1/2 years later! ;^)
Spartacus BUMP!
BTW, I contacted language experrt Richard Lederer about the origin of the term "CYA" but he didn't know.
Anyone?
I have not seen details of how Buckhead was identified- beats me. Although I have never placed any store in the alleged anonymity of the web- as an old DOS man, I can see ways to bypass security.
Horse hockey!
Thanks. I liked it! Mxxx
Now, Eggs, #16 is a confused noob. Check it out and ping everyone!
The left has Meathead, FReepers have Buckhead.
Advantage FReepers!
God knows he must have been tipped off. How the heck could a dumb conservative figure this out on his own?????/sarcasm/
Anyone ever seen Buckhead and Rove at the same time?
I think Buckhead is Karl Rove.....
:o)
I don't think it has anything to do with security on this site - bypassed or otherwise. either he provided enough information in his posts or his profile for his identity to be determined, or he "outed" himself. can anyone point to a post where he IDs himself? just being a lawyer from Atlanta still leaves a pool of tens of thousands of possible people.
My mind is reeling. Because someone is sharp enough to catch the error and passionate enough about his politics to pursue justice, his motives are then called into account for attempting to defend his President instead of attacking the sitting Commander in Chief...and the MSM labels said defender suspect for throwing a wrench into the MSM/DNC collusion to bring down the Prez? The defender is wrong, not those plotting a coup?
The DNC and CBS plotted a coup to bring down the reigning sovereign power. If this was merry olde Elizabethan England, numerous heads would be sitting on a pole along the Thames.
Nah, I think Buckhead is a real Superhero!
"I am Buckhead. I am an American patriot ..."
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