[oldbill]

For at least the third time on Fox - The Five, Dana Perino gives exclusive credit to breaking the Rathergate Hoax to her buddy, a Rob Bluey, then at the CNS Cybernews service, now at Heritage. He ran a story on the possible hoax on Thursday, the day after the Dan Rather 60 Minutes show on Wednesday. Yet he is taking credit and his buddy Perino continuously gives brags about his exclusive.

Does Buckhead owe Bluey and Perino and apology (/sarc)?

[mass55th]

Didn’t Buckhead appear on Fox News at one point?

[Mount Athos]

tankerkc got it before buckhead

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Rathergate has been rewitten even here in FR.

[mass55th]

"MacDougald's initial Web posting on FreeRepublic.com, less than four hours after the Sept. 8 broadcast, said the font in the documents Rather used to show Bush had received preferential treatment in the military weren't typical of 1970s-era typewriters. "

The Man Behind Rathergate

[Snickering Hound]

[donna]

https://twitter.com/DanaPerino

[Interesting Times]

Here the whole story, as posted here at FR in 2007: Rather's Ruin and the Rise of the Pajamahadeen.

And here's a preemptive strike against the coming leftist attempt to rewrite history: Dan Rather's Revenge and the Battle for Free Speech.

[GeronL]

I’m going with Buckhead on this one

[oldbill]

I’m a little surprised at the reaction to my post here.

It is irrefutable that FreeRepublic posters were the first to uncover the hoax, while the 60 Minutes show was still in progress.
It is also obvious that Bluey got his information from blog postings here, Powerline, Little Green Footballs, etc., then posted his own blog the next day.

I was trying to show how these inside the Beltway types live in their own little world talking only to each other and promoting each other!s books and TV shows. Perino was in the Bush press office at the time and she and her boss Bartlett were clueless in how to handle the Rather story. They even let CBS reporter John Roberts leave the White House that morning thinking the story on the memos was true.

Perino was clueless then, but now she wants the world to believe it was her buddy Bluey who did all the discovery and broke the story.

[doug from upland]

DAN RATHER SONG - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1357229/posts

This was to be part of a parody album. Unfortunately, former FReeper UncleShag kept my $1200 and didn’t produce anything for me. If anyone knows where he is, tell him to finally send my money back.