Limbaugh! Rather & Kalb Credit Free Republic (or Buckhead.com) for breaking the FORGED documents

Limbaugh ^ | 09/27/05 | Rush

[freedrudge]

KALB: You just said that, um, (pause) you think the story is "accurate."

RATHER: Well, the story is "accurate."

KALB: Okay.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

I usually don't get a chance to listen to Rush, but today I was able to catch that segment of the show. I was cheering and screaming. Did any of you hear me? I'm sure that the other drivers around me thought that I has lost it. Oh well, it the price you pay when you are a Freeper.

[rodguy911]

Rush did mention lgf today.

[rdb3]

I've heard of Buckhead, but not a Buckhead site.

If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!

[Ladysmith]

Good grief! If they can mess up the facts about that night this badly, what does that say about the accuracy (or lack of!) in everything else they report on!!

[My2Cents]

Poop-flingers all.

[SandRat]

KALB: Every now and then it even looks as if the new media is at war with the old media. I want to go back to the National Guard story of last year. I've always been astonished that even before the program ended -- it was still on -- a blog site called FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer blasted the program. Four hours later another website called Buckhead ran a detailed critique of the documents that you used in the report. What happened, then, was that dozens of other bloggers joined in, ..

JR I didn't know that you were an active duty Air Force Officer. Buckhead what's the name of the website you run?

Hehehehehehehe they can't even get the facts of what hit em in the head correct!

hehehehehehe

[Ciexyz]

Ah, how sweet to hear the MSM snarlin' and screamin'!

[My2Cents]

The comments that the accusations were true, and that only the supporting documents were lacking in credibility cracked me up.

Thank God this Rather-biased anchor is now retired. Unfortunately, there are more where he came from.

[pollyannaish]

Buckhead.com? Boy, am I behind the times. I've never heard of it.

/dripping sarcasm

[ncountylee]

Marvin Kalb

Lecturer in Public Policy

Senior Fellow

Shorenstein Center

-R

Tel: (202)518-2239

Fax: (202)518-2250

email: marvin_kalb@harvard.edu

[El Gato]

"....FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer...? The lame-stream press just don't get it...!!!

No Shiite! Jim Robinson has been wheel chair bound since 1996. He served in the Navy, not the Air Force (although we'd love to claim him :) ). He was not a commissioned officer, although he was a Third Class Petty Officer, way back when. Can they get it any more wrong than that?

[El Gato]

If they can mess up the facts about that night this badly, what does that say about the accuracy (or lack of!) in everything else they report on!!

Haven't you noticed that whenever you actually know something, from prior experience or education, about what they write, you find all sorts of errors. What does that tell you about the stuff you did not have knowledge of before?

[Gritty]

Can they get it any more wrong than that?

They haven't gotten anything right yet! Why should we expect they would get this right?

They are just being true to form.

[Ladysmith]

That's exactly what I'm suggesting.

[Nekman]

Marvin Kalb now runs the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center at Harvard



So,this bozo is now a member of the filling minds with mush crowd. At least it isn't a stretch from all those years as a "journalist/reporter"

[sharkhawk]

Marvin Kalb, alleged "journalist" and lecturer at Harvard, got 4 facts wrong in one question.

1. Free Republic is not a blog.

2. The documents were questioned first by TankerKC because the signatures were right justified, something that could be noticed at a glance. The proportional fonts were not discovered until CBS proudly posted them at their website, and they could be studied properly.

3. The owner of FR is not active duty military. (although TankerKC might be.

4. Buckhead is a poster on Free Republic, not a web site.

With all of these errors in one question, how he could possibly denigrate the internet for not doing proper research? An e-mail is going to Mr. Kalb right now, although I doubt he has the guts to answer.

[ncountylee]

I've sent him an email also asking him about fact checking.

[DouglasKC]

a blog site called FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer blasted the program. Four hours later another website called Buckhead ran a detailed critique of the documents that you used in the report. What happened, then, was that dozens of other bloggers joined in, then

Too bad that Rush didn't seem to pick up on the glaring inaccuracies in this statement. I've counted at least 5 mistakes in just that one sentence. Incredible that a show about journalism can't even get the facts straight.

[TaxRelief]

They can not get their facts straight because they do not know how to navigate internet forums, search for blogs or maximize the use of search engines for dated facts.