Hello everyone!Just got in from work.Can someone tell me briefly what has happened today?
I nominate Howlin to be the Freepers one nationwide representative to tune in and watch that channel and report back to us. I won't watch.
It's been so long since I watched anything on CBS that I'll have to check the channel listings (or maybe the frequency).
If the documents were produced on a typewriter, each letter should show the same wear markings from the metal type - same as a fired bullet or fingerprints. Should be simple enough to check with a kid's microscope. Hey, Dan - add in another $100 to next year's budget for a scope.
I don't know if this has been brought up, but if Killian didn't type it means he had to have had a clerk or typist. Surely somewhere there must be a record of who clerked for that office. Has any news org. or anyone else tried to track down someone who might know what kind of typewriters were used on the base at that time?
BTW, I read the whole thing unfold here and it was wonderful to see all the great minds coming together.
Kit
There are two polls on the subject on CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
Should Dan Rather and CBS News reveal the sources of the Bush memos?
Yes 35% 282 votes
No 65% 519 votes
Total: 801 votes
AND
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/
Do you think the recently released memos on President Bush's National Guard service are authentic?
Yes 52% 65829 votes
No 48% 61920 votes
Total: 127749 votes
If you are so inclined, CNN needs a little FR power!
If Rather goes down that will be a "twofer" for me, if SeeBS goes down it will be a "threefer".
I hate John Skerry for what he did in 71 (I'm a Nam Vet) and I hate Rather for what he did to my parents in '67 & '68, when I was fighting in Viet Nam. You see, Danny boy reported from Viet Nam right after the Hue battle (the end of the Tet offensive) the contingencies of the 7th Marines and 101 Airbourne Rangers had taken "heavy" casualties during the battle for Hue. That wasn't true! But, my Mother and Father didn't know that, watching the SeeBS news back in Texas. They assumed that they would get a visit and a telegram from the US Army telling them that their son had died, in Hue, in defense of his country. Danny never corrected his original report, he just kept giving bad news about Hue. We took the enemy out,(NVA regulars and Soviet Troops, not many but certainly advisors), kicked their asses out of that vill in 4 days. Then the 7th Marines and my Ranger outfit chased the enemy up the trail, engaging them when we could, we did have artillery and air (gunship) support, but it was mostly the ground pounder that did the work. With all this work I was in the combat zone for about 2 weeks. I never had a chance to write my mom and dad, all they heard was Dan Rather reporting that we were losing the war.
When we had chased them to a place called "the corner" (the intersecting borders of Cambodia, Laos, and Viet Nam) we were relieved and sent back to our individual "base camps". When I got back I fired off a letter to mom & dad and my girl (at the time). I wrote nothing about the action, just the "regular stuff", you know...I love you, I'm OK, don't worry, be home soon, that kind of stuff (don't tell the truth, it worries the loved ones, just tell them what they want to hear).
We stayed in base camp for almost a week. We got 6 days off, that was heaven. Back out in the boonies (firebase Utah) I get a letter from my dad...I NEVER got a letter from my DAD. It seems that my mother, and my dad, had spent 4 weeks in hell, not knowing whether I was dead, wounded, or alive and kicking, thanks to Dan Rather. He put those wonderful people though a hell that they had never imagined. To the day that my mother died she would not permit Dan Rather on HER TV, she hated that man with a passion I had NEVER seen my mother produce, dad was the same way. I told her, in a letter, that if I ever got to Saigon I'd kick the SH*T out of that man for what he did to so many mothers and fathers. I never got there, I was too busy fighting the enemy in the boonies, but I always wanted to beat that man into next week. It looks like I won't have to.
Danny and John F'n...traitors of the same stripe. Both of you are going down, like a turd in the latrine. To my Mamma & Daddy in Heaven....he's fixin to get his. Thanks for the help up there.
