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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Free Republic; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: biasedrather; buckhead; fr; leftwingnutcase; msnbc; pajamahadeen; rathergate
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"Her publisher, Random House, will not release the book to reporters or critics in advance,
and Ms. Fonda will not give interviews
before her appearance on "60 Minutes,"
scheduled for April 3."

Hanoi Jane's imminent autobiography

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360385/posts

60 Minutes ALERT!

Anybody think Dan Rather will do the interview?

Rather, 73, is returning to full-time reporting for CBS’s “60 Minutes” broadcasts.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7137959/?GT1=6305


61 posted on 03/14/2005 7:31:24 PM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Be wary of the "Move On " FReepers. They want to give Hanoi Kerry a free pass? mmmm WHY?)
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To: KeyesPlease

Obviously Rachel has a BS in Journalism...


62 posted on 03/14/2005 7:35:49 PM PST by hosepipe (This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
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To: tgslTakoma

It was not MSNBC. It was the Atlanta Business Chronicle last Friday, and MSNBC picked it up.

The business about having one of my briefs challenged back in 1999 on the basis of a court rule about fonts had not previously been reported.

It was a brief in response to a motion for summary judgment in a plaintiff's case I had on a contingency. Believe you me, the thought of having your brief, and thus your whole case and your financial well being, thrown out because of the difference between Courier 10 and Times New Roman 12 is enough to galvanize your attention on the subject of fonts.


63 posted on 03/14/2005 7:45:39 PM PST by Buckhead (Yes, I am mocking their delusional paranoid fantasies.)
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To: KeyesPlease

Awesome article and all those MSM quotes from "Buckhead". Amazing it was written in MSNBC!


64 posted on 03/14/2005 8:51:44 PM PST by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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To: MisterRepublican
[These media nitwits still can't figure out the difference between a blog and a web forum.]


They don't know nuthin' about the interweb.
65 posted on 03/14/2005 9:02:26 PM PST by spinestein
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

You killed my father.... prepare to die.


66 posted on 03/14/2005 10:15:21 PM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (The UN did such a fine job with "Oil for Food" in Iraq, let's let them run the whole country!)
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To: KeyesPlease
I was thinking the title of this piece was referring to Bill Burkett. Funny how all these news organizations, with all their investigative reporters, can't seem to muster the will to find out who fooled and betrayed The Tiffany Network, home of the original muck-raking, "60 Minutes".

You'd think maybe "60 Minutes" might assign a few producers and corespondents to finding out who created forged documents meant to bring down a president. You'd think.

67 posted on 03/14/2005 10:22:24 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: KeyesPlease

Great article..... can't believe it's on MSNBC. Dare I dream that they are actually beginning to "get it"?????


68 posted on 03/14/2005 10:22:33 PM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (The UN did such a fine job with "Oil for Food" in Iraq, let's let them run the whole country!)
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To: Buckhead
It was not MSNBC. It was the Atlanta Business Chronicle last Friday, and MSNBC picked it up.

Well, that explains it; I was beginning to think that MSNBC had actually done some in-depth reporting of their own.

Silly me.

It's a great story. I'm glad that someone finally went further than just finding out your name and political party affiliation.

69 posted on 03/15/2005 4:17:34 AM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: Buckhead

I admire your steadfastness to convservatism and dealing with the unwanted celebrity of this event while surrounded by the lawsuit liberals at WCSR.


70 posted on 03/15/2005 5:11:00 AM PST by Rebelbase (Who is General Chat?)
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To: Buckhead

"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."

As such, there can be no doubt regarding her intent, regardless of how it is spun. She had knowledge they were fakes and her intent was clearly malicious as she quite recklessly disregarded the opinions of her own experts who doubted the reliability of the documents. We all know one can hire an expert in any field to convey any message, but in this instance, there is no credibility whatsoever. Deep down inside, I wonder if President Bush would consider a defamation action.


71 posted on 03/15/2005 6:42:21 AM PST by KeyesPlease
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To: GaltMeister
It's like calling MSNBC a newspapper, or a sitcom or something.

You mean MSNBC isn't a sitcom?

72 posted on 03/15/2005 8:49:01 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Remember the mash note Tom Shales wrote to Dan Rather on the day of his departure? It included the following paragraph (I swear I am not making this up):
The major flaw of the original story was that documents used to support its allegations were not thoroughly verified. Rather likes to think of himself as a "reporter-anchor," but he hardly has the time to go rummaging through files and halls of records to check on the authenticity of documents that are decades old.

73 posted on 03/15/2005 9:31:05 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: Deb
You'd think maybe "60 Minutes" might assign a few producers and corespondents to finding out who created forged documents meant to bring down a president. You'd think.

Are they on the golf course with OJ who is still looking for the killers.

74 posted on 03/16/2005 6:08:43 AM PST by Republican Babe (Render Michael Jackson)
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To: Republican Babe

And some of their walkers are broken.


75 posted on 03/16/2005 12:49:43 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: SkyPilot

The worm turns. It usually always does...we may or may not see it. In this case we did! Justice prevails.


76 posted on 03/16/2005 12:51:23 PM PST by cubreporter (I trust and admire Rush. He has done more for this country than he will ever know. God bless him.)
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To: longtermmemmory
"Those people have college degrees?"

Ol' BJ Klintoon said everyone that wants to may go to college was his aim. Maybe these folks are some of the result????

77 posted on 03/16/2005 12:55:01 PM PST by litehaus
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To: Buckhead


78 posted on 03/17/2005 10:24:01 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: longtermmemmory

"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."


How do you think I feel? I can't even get an interview for the type of jobs I held when I was in my twenties! I am considered unqualified now because I don't have one of those "degrees", even though I can score higher on most tests than the majority of people I know who do have the degree.


79 posted on 03/19/2005 7:41:42 AM PST by RipSawyer ("Embed" Michael Moore with the 82nd airborne.)
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To: KeyesPlease

It's kind of like an article describing, "George W. Bush, the head of the Senate and most powerful leader from that body." It's not accurate, but if someone was from anoth planet, you'd say they tried there best, but for someone writing an article about it...it's just not good enough.


80 posted on 03/19/2005 10:14:07 AM PST by nickcarraway
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