LA TIMES: No Disputing It: Blogs Are Major Players (FreeRepublic.Com & Buckhead Mentioned!)

The LA Times ^ | Sept. 12, 2004 | Peter Wallsten

[West Coast Conservative]

These days, CBS News anchor Dan Rather and his colleagues at the network's magazine program "60 Minutes II" are enduring an unusual wave of second-guessing by some of the public and fellow journalists.

For that, they can thank "Buckhead."

It was a late-night blog posting by this mystery Netizen that first questioned the validity of documents Rather cited Wednesday as proof that George W. Bush did not fulfill his National Guard duty more than 30 years ago.

Buckhead refuses to further identify himself, other than dropping hints that he is a male who lives on the East Coast — preferring to proclaim that the scramble to verify the contentions in his posting marks an extraordinary achievement for a medium that has operated more as an underground world of ideological venting than a source of legitimate news.

But Buckhead is vehement about one thing: He acted alone when he posted, to the conservative website FreeRepublic.com, what was widely believed to be the first allegation that the CBS report relied on documents that could have been forged.

"Absolutely, positively, on my own, sitting at my computer in my bedroom just before midnight — but not in my pajamas," he wrote in an e-mail exchange with The Times. "But once I posted the comment to Free Republic I was no longer working alone, and that is the real point of the story about the story about the story."

That story began Wednesday, 19 minutes after the "60 Minutes II" broadcast began, when another FreeRepublic poster, TankerKC, noted that the documents were "not in the style that we used when I came into the USAF…. Can we get a copy of those memos?"

[Howlin]

None of your damn business.........LOL.

But it did come from L.L. Bean!

[dawn53]

This is interesting to me.

CBS is still standing by their story.

But because of all the doubts about the docs, and many in the MSM now alluding to the FACT that they are forgeries, the "party line" is changing.

First McAuliffe stood with CBS.

Then he blamed Rove.

And now according to the LATimes, Buckhead is Rove.

Gotta love their silly little tin foil hatted heads, LOL!

[kcvl]

ROFLOL! Well yes, that does look something like me. And WHAT is wrong with that?! lol!

I look better in my jammies than most of them do in their street clothes. Thank you very much. lol!

[beyond the sea]

Buckhead ....... — preferring to proclaim that the scramble to verify the contentions in his posting marks an extraordinary achievement for a medium that has operated more as an underground world of ideological venting than a source of legitimate news.

.......... "But once I posted the comment to Free Republic I was no longer working alone." Truer words were never said!

Excellent!

[stands2reason]

OLD MEDIA:

Don't Fear the FREEPER!!!

[Howlin]

I wonder if Pella has a window like that.

[Leisler]

ALL YOUR MSM
ARE BELONG
TO US.

[dawn53]

About the picture...I don't think all Freepers wear long pajamas...maybe we should take a poll for CBS about what kind of pajamas we wear.

But I do have one thing in common with the guy in the picture...that looks like my Farberware percolator on the counter.

[beyond the sea]

Somebody may be making a movie about this some day!

[dawn53]

Yeah, probably Michael Moore, LOL!

[beyond the sea]

That's almost as bad as Rather saying we are partisan political operatives and the other CBS flunky adding "in pajamas."

Those comments almost knocked me on the floor with laughter when I first heard them spoken. LOL!

[kcvl]

If they don't already I'm sure it's in process. Did you see HGTV's new products show the other night? They had television screens and speakers installed in windows and mirrors. You couldn't tell they were there until you turned them on. Fascinating merchandise.

I'm working on blueprints for a home addition with a media room included once I get finished with the kitchen and den remodeling prints. I hope some of those new goodies are ready by the time I am. lol!

[beyond the sea]

Did you see the CBS guy on O'Reilly, saying CBS had checks and balances

I saw that smooth liar from CBS. He was speaking to Tony Snow, but Tony was too much of a gentleman to shut him down. I hate those lying b*stards at SeeBS.

[aloysius89]

Open Source News Gathering

I like that. Here we are at the center of the storm, a bunch of right wing lunatics in our pajamas just doing a little Open Source News Gathering.

Who is designing the Official Freeper Jammers?

[marty60]

No now they want to know who is on FR. Any fool can tell that FR has extrememly intelligent talented people lurking here. Everyone loves a good mystery, and if you have the talent to solve it, your going to use it.

So with that in mind, the idiot media class, can't stand that people on their computers can verify, verify verify, their stories. The current media is lazy. Funny as I get older, I find it amazing how little they know of history.

[shezza]

I wonder how many other news items have been first reported on Free Republic.

Reading back through some of the original 9/11 threads yesterday, the name Osama bin Laden appeared only a couple of minutes after the second plane hit the WTC. FReepers are savvy, intelligent, observant and amazing.

[marty60]

What did you expect from Tony Snow. Rush had to can his butt, because he infuriated Rush's listeners with his mealy mouth lefty pandering.

[beyond the sea]

That is CLASSIC!

[beyond the sea]

Yeah, probably Michael Moore, LOL!

LOL! There goes some more coffee!

[aloysius89]

Correction:

That should the REAL, the ACTUAL, the OFFICIAL,
Tum-te-te-tum-dum

Freeper Partisan Political Pajamas

*with optional coffee proof bib for those LOL moments.