Blogger Who Faulted CBS Documents Is Conservative Activist (L.A Times RATS out Buckhead!)

L.A Times ^

[Redcoat LI]

WASHINGTON — It was the first public allegation that CBS News used forged memos in its report questioning President Bush's National Guard service — a highly technical explanation posted within hours of airtime citing proportional spacing and font styles.

But it did not come from an expert in typography or typewriter history as some first thought. Instead, it was the work of Harry W. MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Times has found.

[Dan from Michigan]

I agree. I've read Peter Wallsten's stuff before on the Times. He's probably the best guy there. Seems like a straight shooter and is probably the only one that doesn't have a habit of PO'ing me.

[Right Wing Professor]

This really angers me. They act as if there's something sinister in realizing something was hinky about the documents so quickly. As soon as I saw the docs, and looked at the font type, I knew something was up as well.

Yet more proof that to a liberal, an intelligent and informed person is sinister.

[Truth Table]

I think that the implication is that the memos were a plant by conservatives...

[jays911]

most good attorneys are conservative. my firm defends a lot of the left-wing class action craziness. once you've seen the havoc the leeches can create, it opens a lot of eyes. my associate, a 28 year old graduate of UT, is even more conservative than me, and that is saying something.

[Arizona Carolyn]

When they get done they make it sound like being a conservative who happens to participate on Free Republic and give $250 to the Georgia Republicans is a bad thing therefore you are an activist.. they make it sound like a communist! or is it they are shocked to find out Republicans can read and walk and chew gum at the same time.

[mdcen]

Buckhead, did u get that Superscript capable typewriter I sent you two weeks ago??? I know it was old but it still worked real good!!

[P-Marlowe]

The thing that really sticks in my craw is that they don't seem to CREDIT Buckhead for being the first person to discover that the documents were forged. NOOOOOOO!!!!!! They seek to somehow tie him to the forgery. Like nobody else would have discovered it if it wasn't for Buckhead, therefore he must have known they were fakes beforehand. What a crock!

If it wasn't for Buckhead, then it would have been another one of us Freepers ten minutes later. And if not him, then another one 20 minutes later.

The documents were such obvious fakes that it was going to be discovered before dawn. Yet, because Pajama Wearing Freepers are, as a rule, smarter than all the big suits at CBS, the Times tries to paint this as a republican conspiracy.

HEY LA TIMES! GET A CLUE! THIS IS A DEMOCRAT CONSPIRACY! GO INVESTIGATE THEM!

[rocksblues]

I was Shocked, really Shocked when I found out that Buckhead was an Conservative Activist.

[NYCVirago]

....And if the memo was a plant by conservatives, why is CBS hiding the source?

You don't expect their investigative and analytical skills to go *that* far, do you?

[Ironclad]

I think what the LA Times did might be illegal. Going to do some checking.

[Mark]

SO, L.A.Times, a liberal West coast newspaper with strong ties to Michael Moore and the Democrat Party, and a supporter of Clinton, an impeached, disbarred EX-PRESIDENT is publishing that a conservative blogger did what they wouldn't do- investigate!

Now I see.

[Redcoat LI]

They sued us, yet they feel free to raid our site.

Typical leftists.

[mvpel]

Independents and Rats don't post on Free Republic for two years.

Buckhead is an conservative activist? Big surprise there. Welcome to Free Republic, mainstream media.

[mdcen]

Is gambling going on in here too????

[lewislynn]

Have they even bothered to look at the site?

Look at it?...They sued it, that's why you can't post their entire article.

[Twinkie]

No, I think the article is probably in error about the identity. Wouldn't you know it, if it is?

[Bahbah]

"Buckhead" (Bukkuhedo)"

Buckhead's nom de net as it would have appeared in the Japanese press story if they had named names. Howlin would have been Howrin. I am not making this up.

[NYCVirago]

The thing that really sticks in my craw is that they don't seem to CREDIT Buckhead for being the first person to discover that the documents were forged. NOOOOOOO!!!!!! They seek to somehow tie him to the forgery. Like nobody else would have discovered it if it wasn't for Buckhead, therefore he must have known they were fakes beforehand. What a crock!

One of CBS's own document experts said that if they ran the report that Wednesday, they'd have hundreds of document experts asking the same questions she did on Thursday. Funny how *that* tidbit doesn't make it into the story.

[crazyhorse691]

Now we are going to see Buckheads 3rd grade teacher going on how Buckhead used to wipe his runny nose on his sleeve culminating in that he put Monica up to it and he is related to Karl Rove. Oh, the price of fame especially after the MSM got their face rubbed in doo-doo. Lets do it some more!!!!!!!!!!!!

[prairiebreeze]

Oh, YEAH?! Well, I post on Free Republic and I posted to buckhead. Twice. That makes me a conservative activist too AND a HUGE Bush Supporter. I've contributed to the Swift Boat Vets.

So stick that in your pipe and smoke it LA Slimes and See-BS!! Pbblllttt!!

Prairie