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Happy Anniversary, Guys
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| September 09, 2005
| John Hinderaker
Posted on 09/09/2005 6:01:19 AM PDT by AliVeritas
Today is September 9, the first anniversary of "Rathergate." It was at 7:51 on the morning of Sept. 9, 2004, that Scott hit the "save" button on the original version of "The Sixty-First Minute", which discussed the 60 Minutes program on President Bush's National Guard service that had aired the previous evening, along with the DNC's advertising campaign on the same subject that was beginning on the morning of Sept. 9. At the end of his post--now the most famous post in the young history of the blogosphere--Scott included a quote and a link to a Free Republic post by Buckhead which questioned the documents' authenticity.
Our readers quickly began to weigh in, and over the course of the day we updated "The Sixty-First Minute" fifteen or twenty times, then began a series of separate posts on the same subject. Many other bloggers, of course, were on the same trail; Charles Johnson and Bill at INDC were just two of the many who contributed in one way or another. Demonstrating the power of the medium, within twelve hours after Scott did his original post, Drudge reported that CBS News executives were meeting to discuss the crisis.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; anniversary; buckhead; bush; bush43; cbsnews; freerepublic; georgewbush; hindraker; mediabias; pajamahadeen; powerlineblog; rathergate; tankerkc
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Happy Anniversary, congrats Buckhead and all of freepdom.
To: AliVeritas; Zacs Mom; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Boazo; ...
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:03:13 AM PDT
by
bitt
('But once the shooting starts, a plan is just a guess in a party dress.' Michael Yon)
To: Buckhead; ken5050; tiredoflaundry; defconw; Jim Robinson; holdonnow; Tony Snow
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:03:25 AM PDT
by
AliVeritas
(Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
To: AliVeritas
CBS News: Fake, But Accurate
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:04:36 AM PDT
by
petercooper
(Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice.)
To: AliVeritas
Yahoo - break out the Champagne!
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:05:52 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(When Rats govern they screw up and people die. Then, the Rats want to punch the President.)
To: bitt
To: petercooper
CBS News: Fake, But AccurateI thought it needed a little tweaking.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:14:15 AM PDT
by
magslinger
(They called Israel the land that GOD Himself gave his Chosen People the Jews.)
To: AliVeritas
A year ago, PowerLine & LGF linked to FR - and I joined with a great group. Thank you Buckhead, FReepers and conservative blogs for pulling the curtain on Rather.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:19:23 AM PDT
by
Minnesocold
(Truth itself is the one enemy against which liberalism cannot prevail. -Christopher Adamo)
To: AliVeritas
To: AmericanMade1776
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:28:56 AM PDT
by
defconw
(ALLEN IN 08+Levin for Senate!)
To: AliVeritas
I suggest a presidential declaration: National Buckhead Day. Flags at CBS will be lowered to half-staff.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:33:55 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Troubled by NOLA looting ? You ain't seen nothing yet.)
To: AliVeritas
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:36:58 AM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
( Don't let facts get in the way of a good a liberal rant.)
To: Buckhead
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:43:51 AM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Prayers for victims of Katrina)
To: AliVeritas
What
Buckhead did with that famous post effectively finished off the credibility of the MSM once and for all. And you wonder why the vast majority of newspapers, TV networks and news magazines are falling on hard times....
In short, it was the ultimate triumph of what Alvin Toffler said back in 1979 when he wrote The Third Wave about the de-massification of the media.
To: RayChuang88
The Beatles said it best: YEAH, YEAH, YEAH...
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posted on
09/09/2005 7:53:54 AM PDT
by
batmast
To: AliVeritas; Buckhead
If I didn't have young ones with soccer pratice tonight I'd grab the husband and head on down to Buckhead for a celebratory drink.
I'll have to make a toast to you from the confines of my house in Alpharetta.
Thanks for your work.
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posted on
09/09/2005 8:15:22 AM PDT
by
Republican Red
(''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
To: AliVeritas
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posted on
09/09/2005 8:27:41 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(Archaeologists test for intelligent design all the time.)
To: Buckhead; TankerKC
Buckhead, ya done good. Happy anniversary. I am sure that someday the screen name Buckhead will be discussed along with the pen names of pro-revolution pamphleteers, and with the monkier "Deep Throat."
I would like to note for the record that the first person to call "BS" on the memos was TankerKC, who pointed out early in the live thread that they didn't look anything like the format he'd seen thousands of times during his Air Force service in the same era. But of course, if not for Buckhead and Powerline, I'm not sure this would have gone as far as it did.
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posted on
09/09/2005 10:56:51 AM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
("It's diabolical...It's lemon scented...this plan can't POSSIBLY fail!")
To: AliVeritas
Happy Anniversary All,the old media is dead.
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posted on
09/09/2005 3:25:18 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
To: AliVeritas
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