Posted on 11/30/2004 9:42:30 AM PST by HighWheeler
I'm from the time period PRIOR to chronkite and rather.
Buckhead Ping!
No, that is the legendary Jim Robinson, the founder of this sight.
Welcome to OPEN-SOURCE journalism.
A better way to validate, test, enhance and promulgate news.
I'll bet a lot of dogs would thank Jim too, if they could talk. Before we had Free Republic upon which to release our pent up anger and frustration, our only outlet was kicking the dog and/or throwing bricks at the TeeVee Screen.
Just kidding about kicking the dog, love her too much, just barely kidding about throwing bricks at the teevee though.
HA!!
True-true.
And if one works in today's media?
...well worth remembering. ;^)
And his name forever memorialized. Now the term "rather" is used as an appropriate adjective to describe something as having been forged, faked, or lied about, as in "illegals with rathered documents in their posession."
Yo Danny, don't let the door slap you on the a** on your way out and away from the anchor chair. Unfortunately, the jerk will be working behind scenes at CBS.
I'd like to give huge kudos to Matt Drudge for this as well. He was the one that picked this up and really made the story go. If something is posted here on FR and the MSM ignores it. Most of the world doesn't know about it. If it hits Drudge it makes it much harder for the MSM to ignore it because suddently the competitive juices start flowing among them and they are in peril if they overlook it and other outlets are breaking it. I may be wrong but thats how I think the Lewinsky saga broke out as well.
Let's not forget that this isn't CBS' first questionable anti-Republican "memo."
To break Watergate into the Public Consciousness, CBS broadcast a "memo" supposedly written on official Nixon White House letterhead in which every detail of how to break in and what to take out of the psychiatrist's (for Pentagon Papers leaker Ellsberg) office.
Now really, just how credible is the thought today that Nixon had someone type up that sort of "memo" on official White House letterhead?!
CBS, did you forge Watergate, too?
According to a story now on Drudge, Dan talks to Murrow's ghost.....Maybe he knows the frequency.
...regulate the internet....
If so, we will just find another way. We have tasted freedom of speech and will continue to find ways to exercise it.
Some of you young-un's may not remember it, but this kind of discussion forum existed way before the Internet was available to the public.
It was called Fidonet (among others). Individual operators would exchange messages, computer to computer, over direct dial-up connections, which would propagate all over the country.
It might take a day or so to get a response, but it worked.
I don't think they will ever be able to unscramble this egg.
I remember telling my conservative online friends, "You've got to get a really good radio and try to find this show. You've never heard anything like it. I think his name is Rush Something."
didn't know atlanta was in the midwest. or is this just a euphemism for "flyover country" where anything west of boston is now deemed "midwest"??
Give som props to Howlin as well.
"Now really, just how credible is the thought today that Nixon had someone type up that sort of "memo" on official White House letterhead?"
CBS, did you forge Watergate, too?"
I'm sure I'm not the only one to think this but I asked a while back:
"Is anyone else starting to wonder if there ever really WAS a 'Deep Throat'?
It's Jim Robinson, the man who discovered how to capture lightning in a bottle.
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