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.
I was on FR when the break happened. We were working and watching in real time!