LOL! OMG! Spin, spin,.....&.....spin.
See the MSM Spin
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 guess they expected him to be some dumb-ass Southern lawyer who can't possibly know anything outside his legal realm.
The MSM just continues to insult us everyday, and I think their comeuppance will be SOON!
I am glad to hear it.
I've seen the thread in question. Buckhead, not to take anything away from his glory, was not the first to question the authenticity of the memos. He was just the first to bring up the proportional spacing issue. Others had already brought up some of the issues involving formatting, abbreviations in use at time, etc.
"His identity, the Times says, 'is likely to fuel speculation among Democrats that the efforts to discredit the CBS memos were engineered by Republicans..."...rather than the Clintons...
"...eager to undermine reports that Bush received preferential treatment in the National Guard more than 30 years ago'"...which he probably did, although nobody cares.
"GOP officials have denied this."Why would they bother to deny it?
What a pathetic attempt to make something out of nothing...!
These pathetic Democrat hacks can neither understand nor believe that Buckhead is as intelligent as he is. Burying these people in the trashdump of history is going to be easier than we thought.
Yep...but a SMART Texas redneck.
(grin)
redrock
LOL!! Buckhead's Excellent Adventure!!
LOL Thanks
SeeBS has already admitted they were duped. Not one thing these people have said makes the forged memos "real".
Heck, I could have "broken this story"
One look, no one GLANCE, at these CBS memos from anybody that has typed a military memo in MS Word would raise questions.
Have a nice day :)
LOL! OMG! Spin, spin,.....&.....spin.
See the MSM Spin
I would think the WSJ, WT & such would welcome Buckhead to write a OP-ED piece or two.
He could explain it is indeed a shame when a working lawyer with a day job has to do the work of so called MSM journalists who lack the intellectual capacity to expose readily apparent forgery and fraud in a blatant attempt to rig a presidential election.
Or, it could also be the liberal MSM has a vested interest in the truth not being made known.
Are we fishin? Enough is enoug! Thes eguys have been hangin out to long with Mikey! They see a conspiracy behind every door and in every post. It's getin rediculous! I read somethin today that called into question all the polls since now-a-days we have internet phones like Vonage and they can't be called. How many of these phones do ya think there are? Geez they're graspin at straws don't ya know!
We FReepers are living proof that even paranoids have enemies...
Hey, all those years of staring bleary-eyed at legal briefs with no end in sight have paid off - he got so ingrained with type font characteristics that he was able to bust Dan Blitherblather, something that most of us would trade half our fortune to be able to do.
The fact that he's a <<<< GASP!!!!! >>>> Republican activist, makes it even better - now the idiot Demonrats are off scurrying around looking under beds and rocks and their own butts for a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If he'd turned out, after a daring and intrepid L.A. Slimes infestigation, to have just been a regular old redneck thug like (JUST for instance) *ME*, it wouldn't have had nearly the effect of inciting Demonrats to make themselves look even stupider than usual chasing conspiracies.
(Not to mention all of the net.documentexperts who are now off drinking themselves stupid at the big chance they missed and at the fact they got upstaged by a <<< shudder... >>> <<< GASP!!! >>> **** LAWYER ****...)
(Go to bed, fire_eye... you're drooling on your keyboard again...)
I'm pinging Buckhead and his "operatives" to respond to your ravings, also the owner of this site so he can know he's being "used."
Are you completely brain-dead, newbie? Do you even know what the hell you are talking about? Only the most insane of the Democrats believe that this is some Rovian plot.
If you use a search engine to look for "Peter Wallsten -- Los Angeles Times" you will find all sorts of info and articles on the character who outed Buckhead.
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