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Scott Johnson had just gotten off the phone with Tom Brokaw, even as a TV crew was camped outside his office in downtown Minneapolis, while he tried to explain Tuesday what it feels like "to be sitting in the eye of a hurricane. It's unbelievable." Johnson wasn't getting his 15 minutes of celebrity because of his day job as an attorney and senior vice president of TCF National Bank. Rather (as it were), the attention has come because of his role in helping torpedo a story about President Bush's military records that blew up in the faces of CBS executives...

<p>Early morning last Sept. 11, a poster on the conservative Free Republic Web site exulted, "[A]ll of us can say we were there when a few people from Free Republic kicked CBS and Kerry ass."</p> <p>The John Kerry part may or may not come to pass, but there is little doubt that a few people using their computers certainly gave CBS News and anchor Dan Rather a beating. Right-wing blogs and forums such as Power Line, Little Green Footballs, and Free Republic were the first to question the authenticity of four memos released by CBS News, purportedly written by Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, who supervised George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard unit in the early 1970s. The memos were part of a 60 Minutes story reported by Rather, questioning President Bush's fulfillment of his Guard service. The buzz created by the blogs became deafening, and the story moved like lightning onto the Drudge Report, and from there to talk radio, cable news and newspapers' front pages - and it's not over yet. On Monday, CBS said it could not prove that the memos were authentic and that it should not have used them. Bloggers cheered that the new-media David had slain the old-media Goliath.</p>

I single handedly won the cold war, and I double handedly won the hot war. That is to say, I am a supercalifragalistic, ultra megamagnificient war hero, and I've got the medals to prove it !!! The entire process was easy as squeezin' ketchup! But I'm too busy right now flip-flopin' my presidential campaigh... otherwise I'd lay it all out for you so you could drool over the simplicity of it all. I call it ... KERRyORISM !!! Warning: I recently filed a patent on "KERRyORISM"... so don't think you're gonna steal my technique for screwing America, the stupid American...

I think that John Kerry is getting a raw deal in this election cycle, especially now that he's getting screwed by Dan Rather, too. So, to show my solidarity with the Senator from Massachusetts, today I have put away my pajamas and donned a NASA "bunny suit" while blogging.

The latest issue of "Section 9" is up. I have a comments thingie below my posts. Tell me whatcha think. It's my take on where we stand strategically as we go into the last month of the election. Be Seeing You, Chris

"Well, if you agree with Rather, maybe you should give just a smidgen more slack to George W. Bush about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Bush's sources were more solid by several orders of magnitude than Rather's, and yet it is "obvious" to so many that Bush lied while Rather deserves the benefit of the doubt. George W. Bush had the head of the CIA, the intelligence agencies of all our allies, the Clinton administration, the United Nations, and most of the establishment media generally backing his understanding of the threat from Iraq. Dan Rather...

This is Joe Hagan of the New York Observer with Back Channels on KCRW. For years now, we’ve heard that one day soon, the television and the Web browser will form one appliance in everybody's living room -— Web TV, which will allow us to flip from, say, CBS to Yahoo with the click of a button. It hasn't happened yet, but it’s almost there, and despite its reputation as the place for speculation, gossip and out-right slander, the Web has already managed to gain a symbiotic relationship with TV news. Consider the latest case. Last Wednesday, CBS's 60 Minutes...

I don't want to sound stupid, but can someone please tell me what a blog is? It's a new word I keep hearing in relation to something on the web. Thanks for your help with this out of touch freeper.

Is there a formal definition of "blog" or "blogger". I have a rough idea what they mean. Those terms have been used a lot lately in reference to increasing sources of news and opinions on the internet. Thanks in advance

...The election coverage from Big Media has been unusually partisan this time around. As Newsweek's Evan Thomas famously remarked: "Let's talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win... that's going to be worth maybe 15 points." ...Mr. Kerry, as even many Dems are admitting, is a weak candidate. But the big media advantage doesn't seem to have turned out to be as big as some thought. ...In a Boston Herald ...Mr. Kerry wrote: "On more than one occasion, I, like Martin Sheen in 'Apocalypse Now,' took my patrol boat into Cambodia...." But the story...

Sometimes success can spoil a good thing. A soldier with the Stryker brigade in Iraq who posted riveting online accounts of combat in Iraq has apparently made his last post, abruptly closing a Website that drew an untold number of readers. CBFTW—the pseudonym of the online diarist, an enlisted soldier with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team—won a following for his frank, profane and often funny take on the life of a soldier in Iraq. He chronicled the tedium of a lengthy deployment and the occasional moments of sheer terror, including a vicious, but largely unpublicized,...

Ryan Sager of the NY Post editorial board is posting quite a few interesting pictures of protests in NYC that you might otherwise not see in the MSM... an example: Take a look at his very entertaining blog at: http://www.rhsager.com/

"Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated?" -last words Johnny Rotten spit onstage at the Sex Pistols last gig in 1978.

Silly right wing wacko site. some funny. some not so. www.noevom.org (it's moveon backwards...)

I don't post vanities.... but I am making an exception this time. I need everyone to look at what a blogger named bkm has up on their site. I found it thru a link at Instapundit.Anti-War Activist accused of Exploiting the POW issue

Right wing. Left wing. Indifferent. Irreverent. There's a blog for every taste, opinion and attitude. washingtonpost.com's 2004 Best Blogs - Politics and Elections Readers' Choice Awards is your chance to speak out and vote for your favorite politics and election blogs. From now until September 3, we'll be taking nominations from the blogosphere on the best weblogs from this political season. Whose rants could give Dennis Miller a run for his money? Who's making the best use of the technology? Who will be around long after the hype has died down? Mark your calendars Nominations begin: July 26, 2004 Voting...

The Night Before Christmas (Cambodian Version) Twas the night before Christmas and we were afloat Somewhere in Cambodia in our little boat. While the river was lightened by rockets red glare No one but the President knew we were there.

Rogue AARP members are targeting a web site with the address JeffBlogworthy.com for "removal". The attack is an allegory of what has been happening to the Bush administration in recent months. The AARP liberals pulled out the standard playbook: 1)Ignore the facts 2)Demagogue opponents 3)Silence dissent 4)Distort the truth 5)Make threats 6)Wallow in willful ignorance Here is the post content detailing the complaint: Bush Blog site caught in lie & deceptionIt has been a great day I started the first step in removing a RNC blog site that uses typical Bush Mafia Tactics, and uses lies, deception. While using Google,...

<a href="http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/>http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/</a> <p> Doubts as evidences.<br> Al Iraqyia TV showed a very sad story that seems closer to fiction but it happened in Saddam’s Iraq. A story that can happen only in a country ruled by brutal regime like Saddam’s and its likes. It’s beyond imagination yet it’s cold reality that reflects the fear the dictator have from his people and his readiness to kill everyone if it takes for him to stay in power. <p> Such people don’t know the meaning of negotiation or dialog and suspicion is enough evidence for them to kill. The important thing is to...

FReeper and co-author of 'Unfit for Command' Jerome R. Corsi, PhD is being attacked on WashingtonMonthly and MediaMatters. From WashingtonMonthly: LUNATICS?....A few misguided souls took issue with my cavalier dismissal of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as "certifiable lunatics" yesterday. If you're one of them, I have two words for you: click here. It turns out I was being too kind.... That leads to this MediaMatters page: While much has been written about the identity and history of John E. O'Neill -- one of the authors of the forthcoming Regnery book Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against...