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PC World: Top 10 Internet Scandals of All Time (Free Republic & Rathergate)
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| 6 FEB 2007
| Dan Tynan, PC World
Posted on 02/06/2007 4:37:21 PM PST by Polybius
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To: Unmarked Package
Hey..I thought that wasn't half bad..cut me some slack..(G)
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posted on
02/06/2007 4:56:32 PM PST
by
ken5050
To: Polybius
Instead of focusing on where W actually was when he was supposed to be serving with the National Guard in 1972, political bloggers immersed themselves in the arcana of typewriter fonts "Instead of focusing on the allegations, the bloggers focused only on the facts."
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
02/06/2007 4:58:21 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
To: Polybius
Without the exposure of the fraud we would be saying President Kerry right now, exactly what CBS and Rather's intended.
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posted on
02/06/2007 4:58:50 PM PST
by
tobyhill
(The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
To: Mr. Brightside
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posted on
02/06/2007 4:59:17 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
To: Petronski
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:00:50 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
To: Polybius
Conservative blogs Free Republic... You'd think that PCWorld would know the difference between a blog and a forum.
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:00:54 PM PST
by
Plutarch
To: Caipirabob
Something FR can easily forget.
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:02:07 PM PST
by
brivette
To: ken5050
"Anyone remember "Deep in the Heurtgen Forrest?" LOL"I remember him well. He sure had people going for quite awhile.
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:02:32 PM PST
by
Spunky
("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
To: Polybius
Free Republic focused on whether CBS was using forged documents to advance their anti-Bush political agenda. CBS was doing just that.
Exactly. And the media continue to use falsified and non-existant evidence, sources, and stories to advance their far left agenda. Fortunately, there are places like Free Republic where this sort of deceit can be exposed.
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:02:41 PM PST
by
centurion316
(Democrats - Supporting Al Qaida Worldwide)
To: Polybius
Instead of focusing on where W actually was when he was supposed to be serving with the National Guard in 1972, political bloggers immersed themselves in the arcana of typewriter fonts--and the mainstream media followed suit The mainstream media was forced to look at the freakin' facts. REGRETFULLY.
This smacks of "accurate but false."
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:04:48 PM PST
by
bannie
To: TankerKC; cmsgop; Petronski
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:06:28 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Pelosi, the call was for Comity, not Comedy. But thanks for the laughs. StarKisses, NVA.)
To: Polybius
Looking at the other scandals. No one has ever taken an accounting of the Foley follies. This story did impact the election and all for what ended up to be a series of chats between consenting adults. Republicans got mired in this "pseudo-scandal" for weeks and lost momentum and control of the congress in the contrails of this.
At the time, it was known that this was timed like the Rathergate plot to have just this effect. Yet there still hasn't been consequences to those who plotted this and carried it out.
The soft underbelly of the conservative movement is that it has no mechanism to deal with the double standard of the left and no stomach to make the left live by the same rules. We just shrug it off and decide thats how the game is played.
Rush has been trying to change this ground, but till we find the way to deal with these situations without becoming the slimy slicks on the left, we cannot win against this sort of slime attack. Tom DeLay still languishes due to false charges, and the cost of this folly is incalculable.
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:08:21 PM PST
by
dalight
To: bannie
Indeed ... and perhaps if they said bloggers jump on plot to take down a sitting President it would be far closer to what really happened.
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:11:04 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Pelosi, the call was for Comity, not Comedy. But thanks for the laughs. StarKisses, NVA.)
To: Polybius
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:11:15 PM PST
by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
To: Polybius
I'd put last summer's "fautography" escapades on that list somewhere too. That was 100% driven by the internet.
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:11:45 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: ken5050
Anyone remember "Deep in the Heurtgen Forrest?" LOLOh yeah - - but my favorite was quidam. "Trust Starr". Remember all his cryptic posts about "the turtle"?
To: dalight
To: Plutarch
I agree! It bugs the crap out of me as well! If one of the meida idiots actually visited this site, they would see...it is obviously NOT a blog... (rolling eyes)
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:17:37 PM PST
by
BossLady
("People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul" - Carl Jung)
To: Polybius
While Buckhead and KCTanker sure deserve all honor and respect, I am personally hurt that my report on the Welstone Memorial Party that I overheard on the Acela Express between Route 128 Station and Grand Central Station wasn't included.
Listening to that Clinton sycophant talking to Clinton and also to his secretary was a real eye-opener, especially when he trashed the RAT governor candidate from Mass. And then several of the FR faithful tried to discredit my report, even though it happened just as I heard and reported! I reported verbatum what that empty suit from Iowa blathered in his speech!
And a little-known factoid...when I got off of the train, my bag, sitting on my roll-behind, fell off...and guess who courteously put it back on for me? You guessed it...the Clinton mouthpiece! :-)
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posted on
02/06/2007 5:17:53 PM PST
by
Redleg Duke
(Heaven is home...I am just TDY here!)
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