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No Disputing It: Blogs Are Major Players (LA Times Piece Devoted to FreeRepublic and Buckhead)
LA Times ^ | September 13th, 2004 | Peter Wallsten

Posted on 09/13/2004 9:38:03 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis

No Disputing It: Blogs Are Major Players Netizen's late-night post questioning CBS claims about Bush's service spreads at warp speed. By Peter Wallsten Times Staff Writer

September 12, 2004

WASHINGTON — These days, CBS News anchor Dan Rather and his colleagues at the network's magazine program "60 Minutes II" are enduring an unusual wave of second-guessing by some of the public and fellow journalists.

For that, they can thank "Buckhead."

It was a late-night blog posting by this mystery Netizen that first questioned the validity of documents Rather cited Wednesday as proof that George W. Bush did not fulfill his National Guard duty more than 30 years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: buckhead; cbs; document; forgery; memo; memogate; rather; rathergate
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To: Remember_Salamis

YEAH !


2 posted on 09/13/2004 9:40:36 PM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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To: Buckhead

dude, you're famous!


3 posted on 09/13/2004 9:41:21 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis (Freedom is Not Free)
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To: Remember_Salamis
"It was amazing Thursday to watch the documents story go from FreeRepublic.com, a bastion of right-wing lunacy..."

lunacy, us?
4 posted on 09/13/2004 9:42:16 PM PDT by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: Remember_Salamis

They concluded the story with my quote.


5 posted on 09/13/2004 9:42:52 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: Remember_Salamis
"The fear I have is: How do you know who's doing the Web logs?

Why do you need to know. If someone makes a good point, it doesn't matter who they are.

6 posted on 09/13/2004 9:44:52 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: Remember_Salamis
"It was a late-night blog posting by this mystery Netizen... "

Is a Netzen good or bad?

7 posted on 09/13/2004 9:45:07 PM PDT by bayourod (Kerry's promise not to act until attacked gives the terrorists carte blanch to attack.)
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To: Remember_Salamis

And if he is, so what? Sure, it was nasty to fool poor Danny, but where, then, was Danny's integrity when he ran with the uncorroborated story? Someone said it before: you can't fool an honest man.


8 posted on 09/13/2004 9:45:32 PM PDT by Mach9 (.)
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To: Remember_Salamis
FreeRepublic.com, a bastion of right-wing lunacy

It's actually more of a clubhouse of right-wing lunacy.

9 posted on 09/13/2004 9:45:49 PM PDT by socal_parrot (John Kerry is so 9/10.)
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To: Remember_Salamis
Jeffrey Seglin, a professor at Emerson College in Boston said, "The fear I have is: How do you know who's doing the Web logs?

To which I answer...Prof, how do we really know who's doing the MSM?

Hmmmm?

Rather's sure not telling.

10 posted on 09/13/2004 9:46:22 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Remember_Salamis

So we are right wing lunatics? Well all I can say is that I'd rather be a right wing lunatic on Free Republic than be the grandest member of the Mainstream Media as it exists today.


11 posted on 09/13/2004 9:46:35 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (" You have never tasted freedom my friend, else you would know, it is purchased not with gold, but w)
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To: Remember_Salamis

FR--beyond almost famous.


12 posted on 09/13/2004 9:47:54 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: Remember_Salamis

I don't believe you can post LA Times articles in full.


13 posted on 09/13/2004 9:48:17 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Remember_Salamis

LA Times is excerpt-only. That includes down thread.


14 posted on 09/13/2004 9:48:30 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Remember_Salamis

""It was amazing Thursday to watch the documents story go from FreeRepublic.com, a bastion of right-wing lunacy, to Drudge to the mainstream media in less than 12 hours," said Jim Jordan, a strategist for independent Democratic groups opposed to Bush.

"That's not to say the documents didn't deserve examination. But apparently the entire thing was cooked up by a couple of amateurs on Free Republic. The speed with which it moved was breathtaking."

RIGHT WING LUNACY??? A 'COUPLE OF AMATEURS'???

Well, I've only got one thing to say to Mr. Jordan. Neener Neener Neener!!!! Now go work on your resume, you'll need it.


15 posted on 09/13/2004 9:48:34 PM PDT by rocky88 (" John Kerry has no such clear, precise and consistent vision." - Rudy Guiliani)
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To: Remember_Salamis
dude, you're famous!

Just out of curiosity I scanned a long list of old Buckhead posts going back to early this year, and from what I see, it wouldn't surprise me to find that Buckhead has already achieved public recognition somewhere along the line. I say this because, although his postings show him to be highly intelligent, well-read, well-educated, and evidently well-travelled, he shows not the tiniest trace of the kind of egocentricity so typical of the person with those attributes who posts on internet message boards.

16 posted on 09/13/2004 9:48:40 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("This house is sho' gone crazy!")
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To: CzarNicky

Consider the source... "Jim Jordan, a strategist for independent Democratic groups opposed to Bush."


17 posted on 09/13/2004 9:49:37 PM PDT by upchuck (You do know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct, don't you?)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I'm not happy about the research being done on Buckhead in order to reveal his real name and assassinate his character.

I'm sure when they find out the MSM will say -- gasp! -- he's a devout conservative!

They've already used FreeRepublic to slander the co-author of "Unfit for Command".


18 posted on 09/13/2004 9:52:21 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis (Freedom is Not Free)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

SSSHHHHHHH! DOn't give him away....He's now known as "Deep FONT"!


19 posted on 09/13/2004 9:53:14 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Bush Democrats = Zell's Angels)
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To: Buckhead

So Buckhead if a meeting with the President is in your future, tell him we love him ok!


20 posted on 09/13/2004 9:59:34 PM PDT by swheats
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