Posted on 05/01/2008 6:38:52 AM PDT by BufordP
On 4/11/08, The Newseum opened its new quarters in Washington, DC. I was specifically interested in an exhibit in the Internet, TV and Radio Gallery. The exhibit was "Bias at CBS" and it featured the September 2004 "60 Minutes II" Dan Rather report aimed at discrediting President Bush's service in the Air National Guard. This 9/04 report was meant to hurt Bush's re-election chances in November, 2004.
Comments among FReepers quickly exposed inconsistencies in the documents and led to bloggers on the internet exposing the report as deeply flawed, as well as using forged documents. These inconsistencies ultimately forced CBS to retract its story.
The exhibit describes "how conservative blogs flexed their muscle and played a most significant role in the 2004 election "by discrediting documents used in Rather's "60 Minutes II' report.
Below is a copy of Buckhead's famous post #47 which started the unraveling of Dan Rather's story. His post is displayed as part of the exhibit. The red text are working links.
NYTIMES ^ | 09/09/04 | KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:10:56 PM by Pikamax
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the National Guard came under renewed scrutiny on Wednesday as newfound documents emerged ....
To: HowlinHowlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
This should be pursued aggressively.
It was thrill to see the key role played by Free Republic in exposing a media lie against Bush at a pivotal moment right before the November election. The Newseum will draw a lot of tourists and many will see this.
Prayers up for JimRob. I pray his surgery goes well.
$20/ticket is awfully high, especially since...
the Drive-bys are trying their very best to convince Americans that our economy is terrible and getting worse!
Try here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1996371/posts?page=857#857
Wow! I was a lurker then, but I remember that night so well!
The infamous throbbing memo!
remind me sometime to tell you about my much beloved "duckie" & her "turnaround in an HOUR" because HUNDREDS of FReepers prayed for her by name".
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Thanks for that ping and the post. I’ll bookmark that one for sure. It is good to see TankerKC get some recognition. Yes, Buckhead was the “fire for effect” barrage, but Tanker was the spotting round and right on target. And there were others who played a part as outlined in my #19.
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wow
$20 is high, but worth it...plan to spend 3 / 4 hours. It is a vast series of exhibits and themes. The First Amendment area will teach history to our younger citizens as they sure don’t receive it in most schools.
I made the visit on opening day at kristinn’s request and the price was right.... free admission on opening day.
Indeed. Their exhibit is incomplete without the now infamous words of one Jonathan Klein when interviewed on FoxNews:
CBS executive Jonathan Klein said of the bloggers, You couldnt have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances (at 60 Minutes) and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.
Giving rise to, of course, this...
What can we do to make sure he wakes up to a completed FReepathon. Maybe somebody with a good ping list start a thread focused on that? FReepathons are NOT supposed to run on into a second month!
Thank you! I’ve been checking the sidebar and didn’t see anything—certainly this would count as breaking news, IMO! :-)
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