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The man behind Rathergate
MSNBC ^ | March 13, 2005 | Rachel Tobin Ramos

Posted on 03/14/2005 7:41:30 AM PST by KeyesPlease

Before Dan Rather signed off March 9 after 24 years as a news anchor for CBS, conservative "netizens" already were cheering the man they believe led to the tidal wave of criticism that forced Rather to leave his post a year early: Atlanta attorney Harry W. MacDougald.

MacDougald, 46, who has been with Atlanta's Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC since 2002, was the blogger "Buckhead" who first started a cascade of criticism about a report Rather aired Sept. 8 on CBS's "60 Minutes II" about President George W. Bush's Air National Guard service.

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TOPICS: Free Republic; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: biasedrather; buckhead; fr; leftwingnutcase; msnbc; pajamahadeen; rathergate
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"In his blog on FreeRepublic.com..."

???...they still don't know the difference.

1 posted on 03/14/2005 7:41:31 AM PST by KeyesPlease
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To: KeyesPlease

FR is the blog-center of the universe.


2 posted on 03/14/2005 7:43:04 AM PST by pissant
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To: KeyesPlease

MSNBC demonstrates the MSM is populated by uneducated buffoon with no inteligence. Those people have college degrees? Seriously it is beccoming more and more apparent the only difference between a four year degree and a diploma mill degree is the amount of inebreation during the obtaining.

MSNBC can not tell the diffence between a blog and a forum or WORSE they think the public is too stupid to get it. PERHAPS MSNBC is just to lazy to make the distiction.

Either way it only demonstrates in an obvious way that the MSM is incompetent when it comes to dispensing information.


3 posted on 03/14/2005 7:45:42 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: KeyesPlease

4 posted on 03/14/2005 7:46:59 AM PST by SkyPilot
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These media nitwits still can't figure out the difference between a blog and a web forum.

Of course, confusing "journalists" about this is also part of the VRWC.


5 posted on 03/14/2005 7:51:11 AM PST by MisterRepublican (I DEMAND THAT FOX NEWS GET JENNIFER ECCLESTON BACK FROM NBC!)
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To: KeyesPlease

I still think Dan Rather is great American," Smith added. Some thought John Wilkes Booth a great American, also.


6 posted on 03/14/2005 7:52:04 AM PST by Safetgiver (Mud slung is ground lost.)
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To: pissant

Correct that.......FREE REPUBLIC IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.


7 posted on 03/14/2005 7:52:53 AM PST by OldFriend ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child might have peace." Thomas Paine)
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To: Buckhead

Hey Buckhead, T minus 15 minutes and counting...

: )


8 posted on 03/14/2005 7:53:07 AM PST by IncPen ( The Problem with Communism (liberalism) is that people like to own stuff - Frank Zappa)
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To: longtermmemmory

The people who populate the MSM are products of the Schools of Journalism at the various colleges and universities. These schools are teaching a trade, they are not really educating them. People who have a BS or BA with a diverse mixture of English, Science, History, Art, and Music can outhink these pinheads any day of the week. A good analogy is the results of having our children taught by people with degrees in education.


9 posted on 03/14/2005 7:54:30 AM PST by tom paine 2
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To: OldFriend

I stand corrected.


10 posted on 03/14/2005 7:54:51 AM PST by pissant
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To: SkyPilot

Dan Rather is a vile creature and he knows it .


11 posted on 03/14/2005 7:54:54 AM PST by unkus
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To: KeyesPlease; Buckhead
A lawyer who is "smart as a whip"? Who'd a thunk it? Buckhead himself makes a key point that MSNBC misses, perhaps deliberately. What he was the first to discover, the typeface reality, was later confirmed chapter and verse by others. Why did many people, not just Buckhead, realize the evidence that the Rather documents were forgeries? For the obvious reason that they ARE forgeries.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "NASCAR Lessons for Democrats"

12 posted on 03/14/2005 7:57:45 AM PST by Congressman Billybob (Proud to be a FORMER member of the Bar of the US Supreme Court since July, 2004.)
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To: KeyesPlease
This is a wonderful story about a man dedicated to the truth.

In other words, a true American.

13 posted on 03/14/2005 7:58:05 AM PST by OldFriend ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child might have peace." Thomas Paine)
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MSNBC can not tell the diffence between a blog and a forum or WORSE they think the public is too stupid to get it. PERHAPS MSNBC is just to lazy to make the distiction.

No kidding! It's like calling MSNBC a newspapper, or a sitcom or something.

But hey, look at it this way, they still have no clue or understanding of this Internet thingy, how it works, how it is structured, etc. As long as they are that clueless, the web forums like FR, and individual BLOGS will continue to run circles around the fools.

14 posted on 03/14/2005 7:58:27 AM PST by GaltMeister (The only time a Democrat should be allowed in the White House is to visit the President.)
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Actually I think it goes back to the MSM Mediots 1970's thinking that the news is what they say it is. The news is what they say it is.

FR is a blog because they don't have the desire or capacity to get it.

Remeber these are reporters who say "democratic" party instead of democrat party as an intentional means of propaganda.

Blog can be insulte as a single kook writing. A forum is We The People writing.


15 posted on 03/14/2005 7:59:03 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: GaltMeister

I think they do understand how it works. I am CERTAIN they have checked out running contemporaneous threads which consistently rip them appart for slopy and illogical writing.


16 posted on 03/14/2005 8:00:34 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: KeyesPlease
At least they linked it, though that probably means the Viking Kitties need to be on high alert.

-Eric

17 posted on 03/14/2005 8:02:50 AM PST by E Rocc
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"It's like calling MSNBC a newspapper, or a sitcom or something."

I can relate to MSNBC as a sitom.


18 posted on 03/14/2005 8:03:15 AM PST by IamConservative (To worry is to misuse your imagination.)
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To: KeyesPlease

I wouldn't spend too much time educating the MSM of this. The best education you can get is the one from the school of hard knocks. At this point in time most "journalist" are in line to register for preschool. They have a long way to go. :-)


19 posted on 03/14/2005 8:04:15 AM PST by blastdad51 (Proud father of an Enduring Freedom vet, and friend of a soldier lost in Afghanistan)
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To: IamConservative

sometimes the ratings of MSNBC are so low they are just a space keeper channel.


20 posted on 03/14/2005 8:05:00 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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