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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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To: Kay

I'd be interested in knowing that too. Ping me if you find out.


41 posted on 03/14/2005 10:32:43 AM PST by Space Wrangler
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To: ALOHA RONNIE

Thanks for the ping!


42 posted on 03/14/2005 10:36:14 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: KeyesPlease
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.

Why do they insist on calling FR a "blog" site? We're a Conservative News discussion website. Don't they know the difference? Or is FR technically a weblog?

I'm glad to see FR getting so much mention in the press though, anyway.


43 posted on 03/14/2005 10:51:52 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Space Wrangler; Kay
I would like to know if Buckhead revealed his own identity and, if not, who revealed it.

If I recall correctly, it was the LA Times which dug through all Buckhead's old posts, gathered personal clues from them and 'outed' him.

44 posted on 03/14/2005 10:52:20 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: Kay
I would like to know if Buckhead revealed his own identity and, if not, who revealed it.

An anonymous source in the Bush White House, I bet! :^D

< /humor >


45 posted on 03/14/2005 10:54:52 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: MeekOneGOP
I would like to know if Buckhead revealed his own identity and, if not, who revealed it.
An anonymous source in the Bush White House, I bet! :^D

Rove strikes again. 8^)

46 posted on 03/14/2005 10:57:48 AM PST by jriemer (We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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To: jriemer
:^D

47 posted on 03/14/2005 11:00:04 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: KeyesPlease

bttt


48 posted on 03/14/2005 11:02:24 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: KeyesPlease
"In his blog on FreeRepublic.com..."

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



Also from MSNBC:  "They got that intra-net thing on computers now too!"

Owl_Eagle

"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"

-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)

49 posted on 03/14/2005 11:55:58 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts. "Aww. not even a little?")
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To: KeyesPlease; Buckhead

Score more fame for Free Republic, this should bring in some more rat trolls for us to ZOT!!


50 posted on 03/14/2005 1:01:12 PM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Never play leapfrog with a unicorn!)
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To: KeyesPlease
Peter Jennings of ABC News also referred to FR as a "right wing blog" recently.
51 posted on 03/14/2005 2:49:28 PM PST by octobersky
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To: DeFault User; Space Wrangler; Kay

You recall correctly. It was the LA Times.


52 posted on 03/14/2005 3:12:54 PM PST by Buckhead (Yes, I am mocking their delusional paranoid fantasies.)
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To: Buckhead; Richard Poe

.

Real Media CLARITY is Freerepublic.com and HILLARY knows it =


'HILLARY's Secret War: The CLINTON Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists'

...by Freeper RICHARD POE

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1314562/posts


Interesting, isn't it, how the L.A. Times has all the time in the world to "Out" Freeper 'buckhead'...

...but no time at all to label the RATHERGATE Memos he exposed here on Freerepublic.com as the illegal CBS fraud upon the American People and their Commander-in-Cheif in Time of War
...that they really were..?

Still..?

.


53 posted on 03/14/2005 4:20:41 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Buckhead

Truly Awesome. I will save your post. A personal answer from a great celebrity.

THANKS.


54 posted on 03/14/2005 4:24:52 PM PST by Kay
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To: IncPen

Man, my 15 minutes are officially up.


55 posted on 03/14/2005 5:43:53 PM PST by Buckhead (Yes, I am mocking their delusional paranoid fantasies.)
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To: Congressman Billybob

It would be more correct to say that I was the first person not hired by CBS who said they were fakes. Mapes knew, because she was told they were no good by the experts she hired before she went to air, but she went to air anyway. She said she could get an expert to say anything she needed them to say.


56 posted on 03/14/2005 5:47:24 PM PST by Buckhead (Yes, I am mocking their delusional paranoid fantasies.)
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To: Ragnorak

RE: your # 27:

'Zactly.


57 posted on 03/14/2005 5:49:01 PM PST by Buckhead (Yes, I am mocking their delusional paranoid fantasies.)
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To: GaltMeister; longtermmemmory
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.

Probably can't distinguish between a typewriter font and a Microsoft font, either.

58 posted on 03/14/2005 6:04:08 PM PST by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: KeyesPlease; Buckhead; Angelwood; BillF; Doctor Raoul; BufordP; Trueblackman; Jimmy Valentine; ...
What a great write-up about "The Man Behind Rathergate" (Buckhead). MSNBC really did an in-depth report, and it explains why Buckhead knew so much about typefaces and fonts. A must-read, it's truly a fabulous story!
59 posted on 03/14/2005 6:15:40 PM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: Buckhead; Jim Robinson

The article explains why you were able to pick up on the fonts. Thanks to FR you were able to get the word out. Good Job...


60 posted on 03/14/2005 6:21:50 PM PST by tubebender
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