Sure he can!
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 love this. This is almost as ridiculous as Mohamed Atta's father suggesting that the Jews were responsible for 9/11 and his boy had nothing to do with it.
I guess they don't teach Occam's Razor in journalism school.
My tagline says it all.
Sure he can!
I have not seen that detailed, beyond the vague "going back through years of posts."
I will mention that I have always maintained that the alleged "anonymity" of the web was an illusion- frankly, if I were starting over on the web, I'd just use my proper name and be done with it. Molon Labe' sort of stuff, if you get my drift.
"The question is, how were the able to outed Buckhead???"
I've seen this question asked on another thread....not sure if it's been answered. I'd like to see the answer to this question.
he he he
Could get you soe more business for the firm anyways! :)
I guess the MSM think they're the only people with brains in this country.
What??? Freepers are pawns?
Hey, we resent that! I would like to think we at least qualify as Knights!
I see pajama endorsements in your future.
Not to detract a wit from buckhead, we are not a one man band around here.The Left has to find THE ONE person who dynamited their fraud. That is a mirror of how they see the world - not a million folks rationally discussing a policy, but a million folks marching lockstep behind Der Fuehrer. They cannot believe that there were hundreds of others ready to pounce with their own doubts, from typography, to content to chronology.
Here goes the lefty media, trying to distract attention from the real story again. We KNOW that CBS was "tipped off" by several document experts that these things were fakes, and ran a story based on them anyway. Even if Buckhead WAS "tipped off" (which I doubt was necessary, given the blatantness of the forgeries), at least he had the sense to ACT on the tip-off. I don't find it very sinister that our tippees are smart, while the leftist media tippees are stupid.
Looks like Buckhead is laying low. Last post was on 9/15.
I hope you are well Buckhead. Stay safe FRiend.
GOD BLESS YOU, BUCKHEAD !!!
Oh my goodness! There are Republicans on Freerepublic?!! Say it ain't so!
Jag
"Buckhead has not been "exposed." All that has happened is that the media slime has uncovered his identity."
I've already asked on another thread, but I'll ask again...exactly HOW did the media find out who 'buckhead' was? Did he tell someone? This is what makes me anxious about even posting anything on the internet at all!
There are no such reports.
<< I guess they expected him to be some dumb-ass Southern lawyer who can't possibly know anything outside his legal realm. >>
We're not into overkill.
That's all it needed.
"The Left just doesn't want to get it. THEY'RE the ones cooking up phony documents. THEY'RE the ones with the conspiracy. THEY'RE the ones who resort to lies, deception, forgery and media manipulation because they're bereft of ideas.
And somehow WE are to blame when we catch them being stupid and sloppy?"
This is the same group of people that formed the talking points to bring down the Bush administration and once the documents were leaked claimed that the leakers need to be punished, not the creator of the document.
Call it the Hannity Gambit.
I wonder why they never doubted the "dem operative" Burkett?
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