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.

[ladyinred]

I can't read the entire article, so did they get his real name or what?

[Repub4bush]

No they don't give them out, but they are very easy to obtain for someone who knows the in's of the Internet. Most forum mods have access to them, as well as some chat servers such as mirc.
I realize this didn't happen in this case, but I know it can be done effortlessly by Internet techies.

[A Navy Vet]

"Here's what I speculate"

With due respect, speculation does not further the truth. That is the other side's M.O. Let's keep to the facts, IMO.

[WOSG]

Buckhead is a freeper.

LATimes thinks that should be an indictable offense.

The form of argument they are using is called
"ad hominem".

And remember, Buckhead was one of dozens of freepers discussing it, which led to a dozen bloggers, then hundreds of people looking into the memos, a collective action to ucover truth. What does the LATimes think we are ... a VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY?

[PhilDragoo]

[WOSG]

RW Prof: These are the people you flunk out of frosh chemistry, who end up in such professions as liberal MSM journalism; just a guess.

[Clinging Bitterly]

>> Do they mention THEY SUED FR in this presumably balanced piece?

They don't mention it, but the article links to the profile on his firm's website, where it is mentioned he participated in that case on some level.

I don't think he has anything to fear, and it looks as though he keep good company.

People do need to be careful about how their identity may be discovered when participating in forums such as this, but our individual circumstances will vary. I have provided informational links here before that revealed my true identity (though never mentioned it on the forum itself), and I used my real name for years on a favorite political newsgroup, and the email address I use most of the time contains personally identifying info. But I refuse to live in fear. I have never hurt anybody, rarely make anybody mad, don't have anything worth stealing, don't have any skeletons in the closet, and I keep the burg handy, so really I have no reason to fear being "outed".

From what I can tell, buckhead has every reason to be proud of who he is and the things he has done in his life, and this isn't going to hurt him at all. If he is presently in hiding, I guess we can hope it's someplace really cool like the Lincoln Bedroom (somebody ought to hint that to the d^uMb0ts or spanking chimps or whatever they are called), and be all the more envious.

[Wil H]

confirmed that he is Buckhead, but declined to answer questions about his political background or how he knew so much about the CBS documents so fast.

Let me be impertinent enough to offer an explanation for the benefit of the press who are no doubt monitoring everything we do now.

Buckhead figured it so quickly because the forgery was glaringly obvious to anyone that was not a f*cking moron blinded by left wing ideology, which would account for why CBS didn't twig it in the prior six weeks they had the documents.

[Smartass]

Good one Phil...But, I like this one better!

[PhilDragoo]

Meester Ratheer, eeven Oddmeerull Booorduh had the honor to rectify the matter.

[GoLightly]

You're talking about getting the IP, but unless someone was posting from work & there aren't many people to select from there or you had access to the IPS customer DB, how would you get to someone's name? I know that when you are a host, you're registered & they can get your info through ARIN, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about a basic net surfer who buys access via say, AOL?

[L.N. Smithee]

I don't like this crap one bit. Newspapers piecing together you identity on a privately run anonymous web forum? I have said it before and I am going to say it again. Don't give out any clues to your identity in postings on FR. Not your real name, address, or where you work.

I don't call myself "L.N. Smithee" for nothing. When I first used this variation on the showbiz pseudonym "Alan Smithee" on the short-lived Drudge Bulletin Board back in March 1998, I did so because I knew that if I was identified, it would give others control over my life -- most likely, people I didn't like and people who hated me with a passion.

I was the originator of the phrase "Sore/Loserman," which, with the assistance of Freepers more artistically skilled than I, became a minor phenomenon within the Florida recount circus. However, to this date, I have never told anyone in my "real life."

I don't believe I have given any clues that could bring the media slimeballs any closer to my identity than scanning San Francisco high school yearbooks spanning certain years, examining the faces of black men in an attempt to figure out which one would grow up to be more conservative than the rest.

[crushelits]

The DU was doing lawyery research a couple of days.
I need to finf=d the link.
Does anyone have it?

[JLO]

Lighten up - I don't think so!

LOL!!!
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Dang it all anyway, fools who can't figure it out. NO WONDER CBS hit the skids,

[lentulusgracchus]

Let me be impertinent enough to offer an explanation for the benefit of the press who are no doubt monitoring everything we do now.

LOL -- way to be kind to CBS! (The alternative is, they were being dishonest, and trying to tip a presidential election with purloined and/or counterfeit documents.)

Bye-bye, Dan! It's been a bitch!

[Dumb_Ox]

I don't like this crap one bit. Newspapers piecing together you identity on a privately run anonymous web forum? I have said it before and I am going to say it again. Don't give out any clues to your identity in postings on FR. Not your real name, address, or where you work.

I'm wondering if this is a counterattack against us uncredentialed pajama-clad nobodys. Think of the damage the loss of pseudonymity could do if the poster were, say, a professor hoping to get tenure someday, or even just a guy whose workplace is full of hyperactive leftists. There's a Japanese folk saying: the nail that stands up gets hammered down. I bet the LA Times wants to chill its rising on-line competition.

[mrustow]

BTTT

[bootyist-monk]

I am shocked... shocked to find conservatives here.

[crushelits]

THE BLOGGER THAT FIRST REPORTED THIS WAS NOT BUCKHEAD. IT WAS something...TANK...something I read earlier today here in FR.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

bump!