Posted on 09/22/2004 1:48:24 PM PDT by clueless idiot
Scott Johnson had just gotten off the phone with Tom Brokaw, even as a TV crew was camped outside his office in downtown Minneapolis, while he tried to explain Tuesday what it feels like "to be sitting in the eye of a hurricane. It's unbelievable."
Johnson wasn't getting his 15 minutes of celebrity because of his day job as an attorney and senior vice president of TCF National Bank. Rather (as it were), the attention has come because of his role in helping torpedo a story about President Bush's military records that blew up in the faces of CBS executives and their anchorman Dan Rather.
Johnson is a blogger and the blog he co-writes (www.powerlineblog.com) was among those where questions about the authenticity of the documents were raised immediately after the CBS broadcast. The mainstream media quickly followed the bloggers' lead.
And it appears that what inhabitants of the blogosphere refer to as Rathergate is fresh evidence that blogs have gone from being a cyber-niche populated by lonely geeks to a potentially powerful political force.
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The very night of the Sept. 8 CBS broadcast, bloggers at the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com immediately questioned the authenticity of the documents the network had used to question Bush's record.
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A "potentially" powerful political force? Gimme a break.
Now we know why the WP and the LAT fought Jim Robinson so hard.
God forbid anyone actually dissect their lying screeds.
How I love that Unfit to Report picture!!
"Losing Share? Try the Truth" -
wonderful.
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