Posted on 09/13/2004 12:58:20 PM PDT by anymouse
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Why Did the Forger Incorrectly Believe Lt. Col. Staudt Was Still Serving in 1973? Distributed Intelligence May Tell
Fresh Air comes up with a terrific catch. I will now post it and take all the credit and glory.
"Interesting article I located. It appears the Boston Globe mistakenly said Staudt retired in 1975 during a story about the 1988 presidential race, in which Lloyd Bentsen's son was accused of using his connections to get into the TANG."
--Fresh Air
BENTSEN'S SON GIVEN TIP ABOUT GUARD JOB
Copyright Boston Globe Newspaper Aug 20, 1988
NEW ORLEANS - The only son of Sen. Lloyd Bentsen Jr., the Democratic vice presidential candidate, was accepted into the Texas Air National Guard in 1968 as a financial officer after being told of a rare opening by the unit's top officer, the Dukakis campaign said yesterday.
Responding to a reporter's inquiry, Marilyn Yaeger, communications director for Bentsen's campaign, said Lloyd Bentsen 3d was told of the opening by Lt. Col. Walter Staudt, commander of the Texas Air National Guard at the time.
The two men met at a party in 1968 at about the time Bentsen was graduating from Stanford University with a master's degree in business administration.
Bentsen, who had been turned down previously for a pilot's position in the Guard because of colorblindness, told Staudt that he was still interested in joining the Guard in some other capacity, Yaeger said.
"Staudt told Bentsen that he just happened to have an opening in his accounting division and suggested he apply," Yaeger said.
...
Staudt retired from the Guard in 1975. Bentsen was campaigning for his father yesterday in Texas. Neither he nor Staudt could be reached for comment.
LINK to archived (i.e., you need to pay) article here.
Fresh Air again: "Burkett probably just relied upon news stories and never actually checked to find out when Staudt retired."
Unbelievable, and most likely a bullseye! Casting about for a good heavy to blame the pulling-strings part of his "documents" upon, the forger came across (or previously knew of) Staudt, previously implicated in pulling strings for Lloyd Bentsen's son in 1968.
He relied upon The Boston Globe to get the date of Staudt's retirement correct-- and, of course, relying on The Boston Globe for anything at all will most likely bite you in your ass.
Hard.
Sweet irony! The forger is undone by his own reliance upon the liberal hacks at the Boston Globe, one of the two groups of liberal hacks most desperately pushing these forgeries in the first place!
So you WERE wearing your PJs while freeping? Good job. Excellent in fact.
Here's another theory for the tin-foil it's W's fault crowd. The forger was actually working for the Bush campaign and deliberately included lots of clues that the document was forged (modern fonts, superscript, and an anachronistic reference to pressure from an already retired officer). The forger knew that CBS/Rather would run with the documents with minimal investigation, made careless by their orgasmic state of ecstasy at the thought they were about to derail the Bush campaign, only to have the obvious forgery discredit them.
This dirt was dug up in 1988, by The Dukakis campaign.
The lead dirty trick-guy was John Sasso.
Sasso has just recently joined the Kerry campaign.
Same guy who forged the Niger uranium documents in the name of Niger's foreign minister, Allele Elhadj Habibou, even though he had been deposed a decade earlier?
Someone with access to Lexis/Nexis.
Or the Globe's internal archive system.
Hmmm....
That's whats so funny about them trying to jump through hoops trying to show that it was "possible" to use the fonts back then. Even so, they still blew it with the actual details of the memo.
Tell the forger that he can't depend on anything he reads in the MSM to be accurate...
Nice catch, bump
That blows me away. I could very well see where this person thought Staudt did not retire b/c of this faulty article.
Good work. I tried Googling some of the oddities of language in the memo, but I ran out of time to stick with it.....anyone else who wants can take over. Specifically, I found it odd that one of the memos ends with the phrase (typed exactly like this:
"...him to get in to" rather than the more common "..get into"
Also,
"sugar coat" rather than "sugar-coat" or "sugarcoat".
Well, pass the tin foil 'cuz that's my favorite theory!
> Why Did the Forger Incorrectly Believe ...
Because all they had to work with was the actual Bush
docs released by the WH, and Barnes' imagination, which
has always had calendar problems.
> The forger was actually working for the Bush campaign
> and deliberately ...
Doubtful. This was not a Rove, Nader or Clinton sting.
Until it happened, no one could have counted on such an
utter lack of skepticism in the entire chain of custody
of these memos. Further, someone will trace these back
to their source, and if a Rove case could be made, you
can bet that Rather would spare no expense to prove it.
This was either an inept Dem-sourced fraud, or an
internet prank that spun out of control.
bump!
Note the tinfoil reference when I posited my "theory". It was tongue in cheek. Now that the memos have backfired, I anticipate the advancement of this theory that the memos were actually a republican dirty trick to discredit Rather (as if he needed any help).
"This dirt was dug up in 1988, by The Dukakis campaign.
The lead dirty trick-guy was John Sasso.
Sasso has just recently joined the Kerry campaign."
This is just TOO rich! They shot themsevles in the foot with their own prior opposition research against another Democrat! LOL!!
I realize that this is an hypothesis, but the irony is just too beautiful!!
Likewise, Calvin Trillin wrote a piece during the Carter Administration in the style of Mencken about a "Godly Southern farmer" with a "Bible-thunping sister." It was so well written that it was accepted as a recently-discovered work which just happened to fit well with Carter and family. It took Trillin a while to knock down the success of his parody, even after he confessed in front of God and everybody.
It would be clever if the Killian memos were a stunt that somehow got loose. But that would violate Occam's razor.
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