Some very alert and powerful people who don't want any truth to impinge on their forward march have been aware of the danger that people like us and places like this pose to them. Be careful and alert. JMHO.
Bu-bye, Dan!
Posted on 01/14/2005 2:30:43 AM PST by Jim Robinson
What's the newest word getting into the dictionary for the new year? Miriam Webster's editors announce it is "blog" — defined as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer."
So hoist a glass to toast perhaps the most famous "blogger" of 2004 — a brilliant Atlanta lawyer nicknamed "Buckhead." He's the pajama-clad fellow, along with a follow-up host of other Internet truth seekers, who struck a telling blow at 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" — who's real name is Harry MacDougal — spends many a wee hour on his computer surfing the "blogosphere." The Georgian 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 Mr. Rather's Sept. 8 show unveiled its "scoop." Within minutes, other bloggers 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 smug and defiant Mr. Rather (who apologized 14 days later), one exultant FreeRepublic.com groupie declared in a succinct posting: "Buckhead for the U.S. Supreme Court."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Yeah! :^D
Thanks, bump!
I just have one complaint
We are not bloggers .. WE ARE FREEPERS!
Some very alert and powerful people who don't want any truth to impinge on their forward march have been aware of the danger that people like us and places like this pose to them. Be careful and alert. JMHO.
Bu-bye, Dan!
I likes that, meek!!!
Thank you. :^D
Three words (and no regrets):
Bring It On!
Indeed. I think we will win.
Bump! I just don't like the word, blog.
Bump! I just don't like the word, blog.Life in the fast lane, I guess. :^)
Proper terminology is Web Log??
Gets shortened to blog, I suppose.
Log sounds better - but blog... lol
Bump and bookmark in Buckhead's honor!! Woo hoo!
It was a pleasure to read this article on the Metro train this morning. Kudos!
Yes I was there and told a friend of mine that afternoon to watch the news. In a couple of days the "shite" was gonna hit the fan, ......that FR had debunked SeeBS......
WHen I got home she was on the phone..... I logged in and sure enough Rather had already been exposed.....COuldn't believe it had happened so quickly.....Surprised you couldn't hear me whoopin it up for where you were.......A wonderful day for truth.
I remember that day like it was yesterday,being relatively new to the internet and FR I felt as if I had finally "arrived"
It was very,very exciting for me.
Thank you,Jim
hehe! Okay. :^D
Congratulations, Buckhead.
I'm privileged to be in the presence of greatness.
From Sea to Shining Sea Salute!
A blog is a blog, not a bulletin board. Their definition is correct: a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.
No matter the idiocy of the press, powerline is a blog. FR is a bulletin board. That is NOT the same thing as a blog.
God continual blessing upon America and FreeRepublic!!!
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