BUSH AIR NATIONAL GUARD DOCUMENTS COULD BE INTENTIONAL HIT ON KERRY

PRIVATE EMAIL | SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 | CHRISTOPHER LONG

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[marty60]

Actually it's quite easy to bait Haters, and others with pathological hatred (Dan Rather re Republicans and Bush)

[Jeff Chandler]

If this was a sting operation, it only makes it all the more amusing.

[mlbford2]

They get mad at you here if you don't use a '*' for the 'i'. I personlly cuss like a $12 whore but some here are not like us.

[umgud]

Dear Dan,

You are either a forger or a sucker. Which is it? Why protect a source that had to have known that he/she was putting your good name in jeapordy?

Personally, I think you're just a partisan sucker.

[Pete]

Why protect a source that had to have known that he/she was putting your good name in jeapordy?

Because he is a father who loves his daughter.

[mass55th]

"The forgeries are amateurish, crude and blatant."

Only two individuals I know worthy of that description: Carville & Begala. Everybody knows that the Clinton's want Kerry out so Hillary can run in four years. Hell, Kerry even knows it. His whole campaign has been run by Clinton cronies.

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What are you alluding to with that comment?

[hsrazorback1]

The patient has flatlined, and Rather's attempt at resuscitation has failed.

Somebody call the time...

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

I looked at your posting history. Do you ever comment on anything, or do you just methodically post articles.

It's impolite to disappear after you post an article.

[blue-duncan]

These people underestimate the curiosity and passion for the truth of conservative bloggers. We are now the gatekeepers and the old media is finding out we are not as credulous as the past generation.

[NeoCaveman]

I confess it was all me. And while I'm confessing let me also say I'm really Karl Rove.

[NeoCaveman]

What's the superscript Kenneth?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I don't think this was some sort of Machiavellian plot. The dems routinely make outrageous statements, e.g., "One million African Americans were disenfranchised in 2000," "If Bush is elected it will be the end of Social Security," "Old people will die," "Children will starve," etc. The forgery case at least had an element of evidence, minimal and easily refutable as it was. I think it's just another page from the old dem playbook--throw as much crap at the wall as you can, and hope something will stick. Too bad for them that the Forgery Wall was made of rubber.

[Deb]

Well, the conspiracy monkey has pooped it's last peanut. With this double, triple back-flipped, Democrat-on-Democrat-against-Democrat, with a cherry on top bunch of nonsense, there really is nowhere else to go.

The Clintons must be the smartest people in the World...and their party, the dumbest.

[pieces of time]

Could it be that the original source was his daughter? Rats using her to get to dad?

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

No need for a complex setup theory. Rather and his colleagues are blinded by their hatred of Bush. They are looking for anything at this point to still up uncertainty and scandal. They probably knew some things didn't smell right but either assumed the viewers are idiots or have no concept of the power of the Internet and new media. They would have completely gotten away with this 10 or more years ago.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I disagree.

The guy might be right. Or he might be implying that the RNC gave it to him.

But remember, the inside information (he hypothesizes) is from the left (Hillary?)
Doesn't matter: The DNC has a April 27 press release repeating Rather's exact questions and duplicating the content of the memo's - Word for almost - word. What I cannot figure out is whether the DNC was copying the forger's documents, or if the forger was copying the dnc's documents. The DNC DID accuse Staudt of the influence peddling, not Barnes. But, then again, Staudt is refusing interviews now, and Barnes wanted an interview to plug his book.