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."
I hope I'm not shocking anyone.
Pssst, Buckhead, here's the big tip off see... the letter should not have been processed on a computer......
It looks like Buckhead did not recieve this memo:
dated
August 28/04
No Gop lawyers will be allowed to question the authenicity of any documents,(forged or not) which are part of CBS 60 Minutes programing.
signed
DR
I'm still in shock (quite stuned, really) that conservatives would try to "undermine" a phoney, slanderous news story about President Bush.
Undermining a fake letter. That's a serious charge...
Hmmm. And just why would CBS tell a couple of their sources not to give interviews?
Perhaps Buckhead, like other FReepers, is just a knowlegable, educated US citizen.
Yes, I can attest to the fact Texasforever is a Texas Redneck! ;-)
WAS KNOWN???Has something happened to Mr. McDougald? Or does the author of this article know something about what fate awaits Mr. McDougald???
And proud OF IT!. How ya doing buddy? I haven't seen you for a long time.
Well, its only a serious charge if the undermining was done by a (Republican, shhhhh). If a DimplecRAT, on the other hand, had been the one to undermine a fake letter, forged by a DNC certifiable nut-job, given by a DNC operative to a DNC shill posing as a news professional, well, in that case there might be some validity to the accusation that the forgeries were forged. See? B.S.!!!
Sayyyyyy. These names sound familiar. Are these the same guys who conspired against Bill Clinton by getting Monica Lewinsky hired at Pizza Planet and then inscribed subliminal messages on the mirror above the sink in the Oval Office bathroom that read, "Piiiiizzaaa. You waaaaant piiiiizzzaaa!"?
What the old media believes, is that Republicans are too stupid to be able to figure out when a Dim is peeing on our legs and telling us its raining. (Except for Karl Rove, who is the Boogieman and Dr. Evil, all rolled into one tidy package.) Therefor, it is inconceivable that a single one of us would fail to be duped by even their most transparent falsehoods. IOW, the freight train to reality doesn't stop at their offices.
Well that's nice .. but when are these reporters going to look into who FORGED THE DANG DOCUMENTS??????
HELLO ..
If a Republican was the author of the forged memo, why in the world would dan rather defend him? He would most insuredly expose him as an operative of the Bush Campaign, using it to the advantage of the demonicrat parody.
This is an attempt to take away the damage that rather, and his ilk brought on themselves. This too is a "fake" memo.
Doing too well! I don't get around here as much as I used to. Busy more since I went back to work.
Got to see "the man" recently at the Nashville airport. I got invited and we got to shake hands at the airport as Bush was leaving his speech to the American Legion (or was it VFW?) at the Opryland Hotel.
He is really on top of his game...he looked very spry and very confident in his job.
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