Posted on 09/30/2004 11:15:42 AM PDT by presidio9
An alert Georgia blogger nicknamed "Buckhead," along with other Internet truth seekers who followed his lead, struck a telling blow at smug, unobjective anchor Dan Rather and his CBS TV "60 Minutes II" by quickly analyzing and questioning the proportionally spaced fonts used in the so-called National Guard records of George W. Bush. "Buckhead" - a brilliant Atlanta attorney who spends many a wee hour on his computer surfing the "blogosphere" - first challenged CBS in a posting on the FreeRepublic.com Web site.
"I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old," he wrote barely four hours after Rather's Sept. 8 show unveiled its "scoop." Within minutes, truth-seekers were using their Internet superhighway to further analyze the typefaces - not known to have been used in 1972 typewriters - to reinforce my friend's suspicions and to tweak aggressive news outlets into doing some investigative reporting.
A few days later, as establishment media experts were finally weighing in against a defiant Rather (who apologized 10 days later), one exultant FreeRepublic.com groupie declared in a succinct posting: "Buckhead for the U.S. Supreme Court!"
My friend, though, is a modest man. He later reflected: "As for my part, this tsunami would, without any doubt, have happened w/o me, so it ain't no big thang. I will have a cold one tonight, though."
Yet it really is a "big thang."
As The Wall Street Journal perceptively noted in a Sept. 16 editorial, "this is potentially a big cultural moment." It underscored that the widespread challenge to Rather - to his "reporting" credibility - "means that the liberal media establishment has ceased to set the U.S. political agenda."
Is the liberal media dead? Of course not.
(Excerpt) Read more at 24hour.startribune.com ...
You sure that's not Stymie?
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Super graphic!
I just expected at least three new threads announcing the FOXNEWS story.
Stymie wore the bowler hat.
I thought Buckheat was taller and had a do.
Didn't Stymie wear the little bowler-type hat? That's definitely Buckwheat in the pic.
Man, that graphic rocks!
Yes, your are correct. Here's more about that:
Stymie (Matthew Beard) - (1/1/25 - 1/8/81) - Stymie had a troubled adult life with crime and drugs. In later life he finally cleaned up his act, and made appearances on Sanford & Son. Both he and his father, Matthew Sr., a minister in Los Angeles, were born on New Year's Day. Stymie's trademark bowler was actually one of comedian Stan Laurel's hats which accounts for it's oversize. In 1981 he suffered a stroke, contracted pneumonia, and died at USC Medical Center. His last words were: "Fun, fun, fun...Had a lot of fun."
While we might like to think we killed or mortally wounded the old media with the exposure of this fraud, unfortunately we have not.
to the contrary, They will now most likely feel liberated since we have stripped their mask away.
CBS doesn't have to pretend to be fair any more since it is now crystal clear that they are not. Look at Tuesday's "Secret Draft" scam, there is no pretense there, they are trying scare voters to vote for Kerry.
Hell they haven't even fired those culpable for their massive fraud.
They are not about to lose their bias anytime soon.
LOL... I like that one.
No, but if you look in your rearview mirror, you can see it floppin' around on the road pretty good.
Ah, yes! Farina. It's an understandable mixup.
Dan Rather's got the Buckheads, now.
if they learned their lesson why the phony draft story? the gloves are off now........
What a great bumpersticker. I want one to go along with my other one. [I MAY NOT AGREE WITH YOUR BUMPERSTICKER BUT I WILL DEFEND YOUR RIGHT TO STICK IT! ]
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