Posted on 09/10/2004 7:42:49 PM PDT by Ed Zoekuiper
I sincerely hope that's the case. (BTW, in my scenario, the handwritten docs are ALSO forgeries; I may not have made that clear)
Ping
Jeepers. I decide to check in before going to bed and only now seeing this whole Hodges wrinkle in the MemoGate story. Unbelievable.
Allah Akbar!!
That's my thoughts too. Very few pilots get purple hearts while still alive.
Your theory is sound, IMO.
Taken at apparent and reported face value thus far, this scenario is preposterous.
Robert Strong is not only a Kerry fundraiser, he is co-chair of some part of Kerry's campaign. I would have to do a search to find his exact title. None of this bothers Rather, though.
Don't-Know-If-You've-Been-Here Ping!
I think you give them far too much credit for intelligence. They've been waffling too long not producing any such handwritten original. The duplicity of suddenly flashing the smoking handwritten letter would look even more suspicious, and it's very doubtful that Killian, in his easily checked handwriting, would have written such things so completely contrary to all his known sentiments regarding the Bushes.
How can they produce handwritten memos after they were defending the typed memos as authentic and written using a typewriter (of course it is a lie) in 1972 and 1973??!!!!
"None of this bothers Rather, though."
Why should it? Rather,himself has spoken at Dem. fundraiser in Texas. He is thick with many Dems. in Texas and is a SHILL FOR THAT PARTY!! Of course, he and CBS NEVER, EVER MAKE DISCLOSURES ABOUT THEIR CONNECTIONS AND ABOUT VIACOM!! NATIONAL ENQUIRER HAS MORE CREDIBILITY CAUSE THEY DON'T TRY TO TRICK ANYONE.
"Actually, they told him they WERE handwritten."
Maybe they knew that LTC Killian did not know how to type.
It is not likely that they have original memos in LTC Killian's handwriting. Not at all. Those would be in his personal files which the family has. People don't copy and distribute handwritten notes to other officers (the alleged source); a typed memo COULD have been copied and given to someone else - some other officer - hypothetically.
"Hodges abandoning ship? "
He wasn't even on it. They "used" him life they used LTC Killian.
He is now saying: I will NOT be USED!
His reaction was the same thing mine was when I first saw the "memos": hey, if that is what the guy wrote, that is what he thought at the time.
(no biggie, however, because nothing in the memos-to-himself change anything about Lt Bush's honorable service in his official service file)
Most likely yes. If you look very closely at the same letters and numbers in the CBS memos they don't even look exactly the same. They have little blurs and fuzzy areas around them. What the MS word overlap proves though is that every single letter from Word matches up precisely on top of where the memo's letters should be - which means that the memos letters were autocentered and assembled using a word processor in default settings and fonts.
The second memo sure DOES look more like 1t!! Thanks for the link.
"Even if everything in the memos were true, I still don't see anything that would be fatal or even damaging to Bush"
That was my reaction exactly. These memos to self are totally innocuous.
Then I heard that Rangel was FABRICATING a tie between the "missed physical" and DRUG USE!
That was likely why they wanted the memos "discovered."
A plant of a missed physical. Implied "Direct order disobeyed". Must have been a serious reason for him to disobey a direct order . . .
IOW SICK beyond my imagining. Total spin. ASSIGN a reason for an innocuous missed physical to assassinate a man's character.
Yes and yes
"we had Clinton . . . "
Clinton was, by all accounts (not IMO!) a likeable oaf.
People (NOT ME) wanted to believe him, or at least for people to leave him be.
Reagan was likeable. Remember the Dims called him Teflon because they could not, hard as they would try, get anything to "stick" to him. In their own way, they were as frustrated about Reagan as we were about Clinton.
However, Bust is congenial, real, unassuming, LIKEABLE.
Kerry is shrill and NOT really sympathetic to Joe and Mrs Sixpack.
So . . . don't worry, it's not the same thing . .
I'm not predicting what will happen to Rather, but I believe Bush will not be hurt and Kerry will be . . . Rather is rather irrelevant to that by this point . . .
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