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 ...
"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
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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
Obviously Rachel has a BS in Journalism...
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.
Awesome article and all those MSM quotes from "Buckhead". Amazing it was written in MSNBC!
You killed my father.... prepare to die.
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.
Great article..... can't believe it's on MSNBC. Dare I dream that they are actually beginning to "get it"?????
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.
I admire your steadfastness to convservatism and dealing with the unwanted celebrity of this event while surrounded by the lawsuit liberals at WCSR.
"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.
You mean MSNBC isn't a sitcom?
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.
Are they on the golf course with OJ who is still looking for the killers.
And some of their walkers are broken.
The worm turns. It usually always does...we may or may not see it. In this case we did! Justice prevails.
Ol' BJ Klintoon said everyone that wants to may go to college was his aim. Maybe these folks are some of the result????
"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.
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.
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