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CBS'S BIG BLUNDER? (Credits Free Republic)
New York Post ^ | 9/10/04 | JOHN PODHORETZ

Posted on 09/09/2004 10:31:38 PM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 09/09/2004 10:55:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

September 10, 2004 -- THE populist revolu tion against the so- called mainstream media continues. Yesterday, the citizen journalists who produce blogs on the Internet — and their engaged readers — engaged in the wholesale exposure of what appears to be a presidential-year dirty trick against George W. Bush. What the bloggers and their audiences did was call into profound question the authenticity of four documents proudly trumpeted by CBS News in a much-heralded investigative report on Wednesday night's edition of "60 Minutes" about the president's National Guard service in the early 1970s.

These were "previously unseen documents . . . obtained by '60 Minutes,' " the network bragged Wednesday night on its Web site. Their author, supposedly, was Bush's squadron commander, Jerry Killian, who died 20 years ago.

They "include a memorandum from May 1972," CBS reports, "where Killian writes that Lt. Bush called him to talk about 'how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November.' " A document dated "18 August 1973" complains that Killian is being asked to "sugar coat" Bush's record. "I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job," the document says.

Liberals went wild with glee about the story, especially after the onslaught on John Kerry's Vietnam record by his fellow Swift-boat veterans.

Kevin Drum, the most talented of the left-wing bloggers, wrote: "This story is a perfect demonstration of the difference between the Swift-boat controversy and the National Guard controversy. Both are tales from long ago and both are related to Vietnam, but . . . in the National Guard case, practically every new piece of documentary evidence provides additional confirmation that the charges against Bush are true."

[snip]The Minneapolis lawyers who run powerlineblog.com were on the case early. Two of the blog's readers directed their attention to a note left on an Internet bulletin board on the freerepublic.com Web site, the 47th posting on the topic there. Post No. 47 pointed out that there was something off about these documents from the 1970s: The spacing between the letters and the words was proportional, and only a few IBM electric typewriters could achieve that effect back then.

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To: Jenya

Buckeye? Where do you think you are Michigan or was it Wisconsin?


121 posted on 09/09/2004 11:02:16 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Bush Democrats = Zell's Angels)
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To: All

In honor of Buckhead forever changing the meaning of John F Kerry's middle initial to Forgery, I propose we change Buckhead's nickname to F---head....oh, never mind...just kidding...haven't got a lick of work done today...it's just sinking in that the Dem candidate will not recover from this.


122 posted on 09/09/2004 11:02:32 PM PDT by spyone (Haven't)
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To: aShepard; BREWS-AND-BLUES; BRYAN-USMC; chemist; Franklin Raff; got_moab?; heylady; hot4teacher; ...
See the links posted in #42 on this thread for Freeper History in the making!

Thank you, Buckhead, Howlin and TankerKC!

123 posted on 09/09/2004 11:02:36 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Comrade Hillary - 6/28/04)
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To: Kozak

Yes, it was.

After the posts on the live thread and the thread with #47 on it, we got so many "factoids" I just figured I'd put up an "investigation" thread and let people who really knew what they were talking about go at it.

And here we are, 24 hours later. :-)


124 posted on 09/09/2004 11:02:39 PM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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To: kattracks; All

Alright rack FR hey Freepers you made King of Page Six NY Post RACK ITTT

Alright that mean Freepers could party harder than Video Skank Paris Hilton


125 posted on 09/09/2004 11:03:01 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Not everybody , in it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: doug from upland

Great idea. I got $5 per year to go to the jersey fund.

"47 looks like Buckhead. I believe that every year, FreeRepublic should choose the best expose and award that person with a Number 47 FreeRepublic jersey."


126 posted on 09/09/2004 11:03:34 PM PDT by jsk10
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To: SunkenCiv
Dan Rather probably had nothing to do with this particular fiasco, but he needs to be retired anyway. </i?

Somewhere on here today I read that the staffers were upset because Rather insisted this go on last night.

127 posted on 09/09/2004 11:03:40 PM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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To: #1CTYankee; .303 Brit; 2nd amendment mama; Agamemnon; AGBRUHN; always vigilant; Anarchist; ...
See the links posted in #42 on this thread for Freeper History in the making!

Thank you, Buckhead, Howlin and TankerKC!

128 posted on 09/09/2004 11:03:55 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Comrade Hillary - 6/28/04)
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To: Tax Government
I hope CBS can get sued. The amount of forensic evidence in the docs, suggesting forgery, is huge.

I'm not so concerned about CBS being sued as this being HIGHLY publicized as the campaign dirty trick it is. Let the public see the depths the Kerry camp will go to forge documents to defame Bush so their criminal candidate has a chance...well, not a chance, thanks to Powerline and Freepers!

129 posted on 09/09/2004 11:03:57 PM PDT by highlander_UW (" Just bear in mind that there is no Botox for the soul.". - Sam Smith)
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To: Psycho_Bunny


Gunga Dan, you should be ashamed.
130 posted on 09/09/2004 11:04:18 PM PDT by John Lenin ("Si vis pacem, para bellum")
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To: Robert357

Yes. Revolutionized the news, thanks. No longer will the MSM think that they can get away with any cheap lie. Especially if this causes a lawsuit, perhaps by the widow of the man whose name was forged and whose rep was sullied.


131 posted on 09/09/2004 11:04:21 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: rdl6989
They are yapping about a Selectric typewriter that existed back then that "could" have been used. That is a long way from actually being used.

That one was mine, I tell you, and there is no way that anybody but me used it!

That was the One Typewriter That Ruled Them All.

-PJ

132 posted on 09/09/2004 11:04:39 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: kattracks

BTTT


133 posted on 09/09/2004 11:04:43 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Gracey; Alamo-Girl; RottiBiz; bamabaseballmom; FoxGirl; Mr. Bob; xflisa; lainde; dixierose; ...
See the links posted in #42 on this thread for Freeper History in the making!

Thank you, Buckhead, Howlin and TankerKC!

134 posted on 09/09/2004 11:05:10 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Comrade Hillary - 6/28/04)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

I remember that.

The 9/11 posts and yesterday's (9/9/04) will remain in my memory as a testament to FR forever.


135 posted on 09/09/2004 11:05:38 PM PDT by Kryptonite (Let me be the first to congratulate Dubya for doing what his Dad couldn't - win a second term)
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To: kattracks
Yes freepers, do you hear the sound of liberals going down the John? Look out tidy bowl man, Kerry`s next.
136 posted on 09/09/2004 11:05:44 PM PDT by nomad
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To: mattdono
Howlin WOO HOO

You may have single handedly destroyed CBS news and the Kerry campaign's attack on the President's guard service!

LOL

You are now the Woodward and Bernstein of the Free Republic. Your post made breaking national news!! Is it sinking in??
137 posted on 09/09/2004 11:06:07 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Psycho_Bunny
And there was this one:

To: wingnuts'nbolts
Kamakazie Palistinians?

Osama bin Ladin is my guess, no matter who takes credit.

38 posted on 09/11/2001 9:15:55 AM EDT by Catspaw
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138 posted on 09/09/2004 11:06:45 PM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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To: Republic
I do feel genuinely sorry for the Killian family. Mother and son. How terrible, dirty feeling, to have your dead husband, an American Veteran, a Colonel, be dragged into this after his passing twenty years ago. Wrongful and totally corrupt.

How do you think the Wellstone family felt about having the Democrats turn their honored Senator's funeral into a rally in an arena with hot dogs and beer being served in the wings, just to score a minor political point?

-PJ

139 posted on 09/09/2004 11:07:03 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: Yaelle

"Post #47 will be forever know as "Deep-Font"
"This really just slays me!!"


THAT hurt and you owe me a new screen!! God that was funny!!


140 posted on 09/09/2004 11:07:36 PM PDT by Gator113
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