Interview With The Man Who Exposed Rathergate [Buckhead]

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[Not gonna take it anymore]

Interview with Harry MacDougald the Atlanta lawyer who's initial questioning of the validity of the Killian documents exposed the flaw CBS report about George W. Bush's National Guard Service.

[CPT Clay]

I was in the Guard with him also.

[plain talk]

I remember that night. one proud time of many to be a FReeper. Thanks for posting.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting; thanks, Buckhead.

[DanielRedfoot]

Someone should make a new movie about the truth and the making of the lie movie

[zeugma]

I recently had a convesation with my father in law who is a raging liberal. A commercial or something for the movie came up and he mentioned something about the documents, not being forgeries and I described to him exactly how I was able to reproduce them myself, and how it was an obvious forgery by someone too damned lazy to even bother typing them up on a typewriter. If the documents had actually been typed, even on a modern typewriter, it would have provided enough room for doubt for the media to have just held ranks. Luckily for us, they weren't and it was so easily demonstrated by anyone who was willing to actually try.

[djwright]

It was a great night to be a freeper. That would be a good movie. To watch real time as a group of 300,000 active member took down a pre-packaged media story by 5 partisan media hacks.

Everybody lets the NYT off the hook, but they had made this a coordinated attack a few weeks before an election. This is media at its absolute worst.

[ponygirl]

I remember that night like it was yesterday. I was lurking because I had been arguing with people on a triathlon forum about leave of absence and flight time rules. (The libturds over there couldn't understand why Bush-or any pilots- didn't work a 40 hour week.) Some guy messaged me and said, "Hey look at this over on Free Republic..." I had never heard of Free Republic! So I was up all night lurking here and that other site ( that will not be named as he turned Obamabot in 2008. But the name is something about a color and something about a sporting type ball.) I had forgotten they called us the "Pajamahadeen."

I lurked here for about a week or so before I finally joined up. Cannot believe it has been 11 years. I also can't believe they're still trying to pass those docs off as real...I guess they figured it worked with the Obama birth certificate, so why not?

[Varmint Al]

I saved the pdf files of the fake Bush Documents. Here they are:

http://www.varmintal.com/BushGuardmay4.pdf

http://www.varmintal.com/BushGuardmay19.pdf

http://www.varmintal.com/BushGuardaugust1.pdf

http://www.varmintal.com/BushGuardaugust18.pdf

It is time to revisit them. I couldn't find them on the internet.


Here is a picture of the august18 file.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[woofie]

[Conservative Gato]

I was here lurking when this happened and remember reading the thread where the fake document was discovered. I lurked here for a long time before joining. I was a libtard slayer out on the wild, wild, internet back in the day, lol.

Freerepublic was a great resource for separating fact from fiction when it come to news information and it still is.

CGato

[Yosemitest]

Documents Suggest Special Treatment for Bush in Guard [Buckhead post 47]

[Ann Archy]

Thank you, Buckhead!! You are a HERO!!

[Not gonna take it anymore]

That was one of my all time favorite nights on FR. Great times.

[Neoliberalnot]

Rather gets caught and thousands of others escape. Those that don’t escape the incessant lying get rehired if they do get caught. The old media is our enemy.

[Uncle Miltie]

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.

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‎9‎/‎8‎/‎2004‎ ‎8‎:‎59‎:‎43‎ ‎PM

by Buckhead

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[Uncle Miltie]

Who was the forger?

[Not gonna take it anymore]

I don’t think we will ever know for sure. But it was probably some Democrat operative.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Ah yes Buckhead questioned the type face among other features. The thread blew up after that. It was a wonderful thing to watch the way that fire spread to eventually engulf Rather and his devious little (w)itch Mary Mapes

[Albion Wilde]

If something like this had happened on Huffington Post, Arianna would have been given a Pulitzer, several magazine covers and the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Albion Wilde]

Cannot believe it has been 11 years. I also can't believe they're still trying to pass those docs off as real...I guess they figured it worked with the Obama birth certificate, so why not?

The Obama birth certificate thing came after, not before. And the Rathergate story is one reason the birth certificate fakery story has never died out.