Been freeping for 15.7 years and THAT IS A TOTAL LIE..!
What was his handle, our guy..?
WE WERE ROBBED.
What is Power Line? Never heard of it before.
Who wrote this lie???
Both Hinderaker and Johnson are fellows of the Claremont Institute. Their articles have appeared in National Review, The Weekly Standard, The New York Times, and newspapers from Florida to California. The Claremont Institute has archived many of their articles here. http://www.claremont.org/scholars/scholarID.392/scholar.asp Johnson lives with his family in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota Law School. He can be reached by phone at (612)414-6464
Mental Floss. That explains it.
The entire stupid list has sites I don’t think anyone have heard of but geeks.
I believe that Powerline and Hindraker, who did a lot of good work in those days, picked it up. But, of course, it was Buckhead who first figured it out, and FreeRepublic deserves the credit.
I wouldn’t knock Powerline just because this guy has gotten it wrong.
Well, don’t want to discredit PowerLine for their contributions, but some of us know the truth of what happened that night.
See Buckhead’s post no 47;
To: Howlin
Howlin, 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.
47 posted on 09/08/2004 8:59:43 PM PDT by Buckhead
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/replies?c=47
Never heard of most of ‘em.
It was none of the above that put the stake in Dan Rather’s heart.
It was some of Bush’s fellow pilots who refuted the Rather documents based on their own experiences and knowledge of the players involved - Killian, Bush, Mrs. Carr, Lt. Strong.
These were the guys who Rather and Mapes deliberately avoided contacting since they would expose the truth. Those guys knew the regulations involved, Killian’s habits, the actual events, the ANG procedures and processes. They tried to bring up the issues to the media, but were not allowed time by the MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS,Obama supporters. Only Fox gave them some face time.
The Powerline and FreeRepublic pointed out the typewriter issues, which, though valid, could not by themselves refute Rather’s contention that even if the memos were false, the facts were true.
Ironically, those pilots were there and available to the Bush people to refute the memos, but Bush’s aides like Bartlett and Rove (the Architect) refused to use them and tried to wing it on their own. They were just as ignorant as Rather and Mapes, but refused to admit it, and in the process almost gave substance to the Rather claim.
Nobody - Buckhead, Johnson, Howlin, TankerKC - outside those who were actually there could have killed the Rather accusations on there own, because they didn’t know the intimate details involved. Like the Texas ANG DID have a proportional spacing typewriter - but not in Houston, but in Austin, 160 miles away, where it was used to type award certificates to make them look nice. Jerry Killian wan nowhere near it. The proportionally spaced document that Mapes used in her book as “proof” that the Texas ANG had them was the one at the State Headquarters in Austin used for certificate making.
bfl
Where were all these highly knowledgeable pajama journalists when the birth certificate was in doubt?
-PJ
tankerkc got it before buckhead, another freeper
I was on the thread that night and remember it well....never heard that anyone else figured it out before FR
Remember Buckhead
BFL
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