[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Um,
I didn't know about the documents till I read that thread, but as soon as I saw them I thought they were not right. I noticed that the font looked a lot like the MS Word New Times Roman, and that the signature block was on the wrong side. I also thought the poor quality of the copy was suspicious, looked like someone took a needle and punched a bunch of holes in it.

I don't think that Buckhead would need to be tipped off, in fact I am surprised it took three hours, surely people downloaded the documents before this?

Besides what does it matter? The documents are forgery's and CBS thought they could throw the election.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

Buckhead is aligned with conservative organizations, then he is of course not credible!

God knows he must have been tipped off. How the heck could a dumb conservative figure this out on his own?????/sarcasm/

[finnman69]

Buckhead wont be nearly as famous as the guy who forged the documents when he is identified.LOL

[Ciexyz]

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?

[Ciexyz]

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.

[af_vet_1981]

The Los Angeles Times found Buckhead.

"I am Buckhead. I am an American patriot ..."

[Professional]

The truth never needs an agenda or a conspiracy.

With all due respect to Buckhead, it would have been a hundred other freepers eventually to spot the obvious: The docs didn't come from a typewriter, geesh, that isn't exactly rocket science...

[King Prout]

geesh.
journalists.
vain beasts, thinking they have a lock on such skills as research and incisive writing.

in college, I had to write, on average, two ten page research papers per week. Many others have had the same experience (probably more than journalists can claim)

since the advent of the net, I have grown quite proficient in using search engines to discover the history and development of many types of technologies.

these idiots think Buckhead's response, after a period of FOUR FULL HOURS, was both "quick" and "suspicious"?

what fools these mediots be!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Quick. Get the book deal done before the media goes after Bush's service record (again)!

We need to work on ideas for titles.

How about, "Rather Wouldn't Know His @$$ From a Hole In The Ground"?

Or, "The Media Uses Crayons"?

Ideas???

[Havoc]

We're on a site full of conservative republican activists and they just figured this out. And this passes for journalism. Next we'll get the "sky = blue, news at 11" announcement. What shilling morons. Alas, we have some of our own...

[fight_truth_decay]

..so the bottom line is the memo was bogus and cBS chose to run the 60 minute piece without taking the advice of their experts and only last minute request for verification from the White House. Of which they knew they would not receive, so seemed it was more of a warning or notification of something damaging coming out. Who verifies something like this in 3 hours? The buck stops at the media outlet from which the story was aired.

Rather will stay and others will be fired! Burkett is not well in perhaps more ways than one from recent reports...easy scapegoat. And if there really is a Lucy, she has some "splainin' to do".

Going off topic: If anyone is interested in following the state's Bush/Kerry vote (color map) http://www.electoral-vote.com/

[sc2_ct]

with strong ties to conservative Republican causes

A *REPUBLICAN*!?! Here on Free Republic!?! How could that ever happen? This is a place for talking about progressive socialist policies I thought

[lasereye]

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."

But I thought that stuff was all wrong, they did have typewriters that could do all that according to Dan.

[trumpeterhill]

I thought CBS was supposed to be conducting an "internal" investigation. Oh yea, that's postponed ... according to Les Moonves, the co-president of CBS parent company Viacom, who reported to an analyst meeting:
"the review of the CBS "60 Minutes II" report being done by former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and retired Associated Press chief Louis Boccardi had no timetable for completion. But he said he did not want it to interfere with the Nov. 2 election.
"Obviously, it should be done probably after the election is over so that it doesn't affect what's going on," he told a Goldman Sachs media conference in New York.

A CBS spokeswoman had no immediate comment on the statement. But she pointed out that when CBS News President Andrew Heyward named Boccardi and Thornburgh to conduct the investigation of the Sept. 8 report, he said he hoped it would be completed in weeks rather than months."