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Buckhead speaks
Scripps Howard News Service / The Minnesota (Red) Star ^
| September 29, 2004
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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Free Republic; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buckhead; fr; rathergate
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:15:42 AM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:18:42 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF...8th AF...Wolf Pack...408MMS ....Ubon,Thailand in "69" Night Line Delivery.AMMO)
To: Buckhead
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:19:13 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(Ya know, "Amity" means friendship...)
To: presidio9; Buckhead
4
posted on
09/30/2004 11:19:35 AM PDT
by
Quilla
To: presidio9
It's dead, they just don't want to believe it!
Buckhead killed it! Thank the Lord.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:20:24 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
To: presidio9
Is the liberal media dead? Of course not.However, there's a new sheriff in town. Or, more precisely, about a million new sheriffs in town, riding herd on media bias and roping it whenever they see it.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:20:50 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Kerry could have left 'Nam within a week if Purple Hearts were awarded for shots to the foot.)
To: presidio9
Dear Dan-
I think I may have found out who Buckhead is.
M. Mapes
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:20:51 AM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
To: atomicpossum
"Take off yo' clothes! Git on da flo'! We gonna make a Buckhead sammich!"
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:23:35 AM PDT
by
quark
To: presidio9
Not yet dead but wounded and hiding.
9
posted on
09/30/2004 11:24:15 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Dan Rather, "I lied, but I lied about the truth".)
To: presidio9
Internet killed the media star
10
posted on
09/30/2004 11:24:24 AM PDT
by
rabidralph
(All in all, gas is still cheaper than a cup of coffee at Starbucks.)
To: Buckhead
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:25:01 AM PDT
by
IncPen
(Tell your grandkids you helped prevent a Kerry presidency...)
To: presidio9
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:25:53 AM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population - have them spayed or neutered.©)
To: rabidralph
Where is the thread reporting FOXNEWS reporting how bloggers outed Rather's draft piece?
To: atomicpossum
Thanks for posting a picture of one of my all time favorite characters , BUCKWHEAT . O'TAY !
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:26:25 AM PDT
by
builder
(still in search of an intern)
To: atomicpossum; Kokojmudd
ROTFLMPJO
I like your homepage too, LOL
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:27:00 AM PDT
by
Mister Baredog
((Part of the Reagan legacy is to re-elect G.W. Bush))
To: Buckhead
You're in the history books, man! How does that feel? Not too many get singled out for that honor.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:27:08 AM PDT
by
Helen
To: presidio9
Congrats to Buckhead for giving Rather the Buckwheats.
17
posted on
09/30/2004 11:27:42 AM PDT
by
You Dirty Rats
(WE WILL WIN WITH W - Isara)
To: presidio9; Buckhead
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:30:18 AM PDT
by
JesseJane
( “fake but accurate” ... it’s like saying a body in a pine box is “dead but lifelike.” -- Lileks)
To: presidio9
Buckhead: I'm not a font expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:30:19 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS", Fake But Accurate, Experts Say)
To: WildTurkey
There's this thread. I just did a search using buckhead as the keyword and there are many threads cataloging the CBS debacle.
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posted on
09/30/2004 11:33:26 AM PDT
by
rabidralph
(All in all, gas is still cheaper than a cup of coffee at Starbucks.)
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