If we find out that it was someone inside the Kerry campaign that perpetrated this hoax, it will pretty much destroy his chances of winning the election. It makes you wonder if Baghdad Bob is the campaign manager for Senator Kerry. 
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.
Howlin, did you write post 47??
Justice will be done when Dan Rather has to go on Fox News and apologize.
Great article. This story had better have Daddy Long Legs.
Who is the guy that wrote Post #47? We should all give this guy thanks!
If we find out that it was someone inside the Kerry campaign that perpetrated this hoax, it will pretty much destroy his chances of winning the election. It makes you wonder if Baghdad Bob is the campaign manager for Senator Kerry.
Posted on 09/08/2004 7:39:18 PM EDT by Howlin
107 posted on 09/08/2004 8:19:00 PM EDT by TankerKC
47 posted on 09/08/2004 11:59:43 PM EDT by Buckhead.
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.
Free Republic rocks. LOL
And then a FReeper....I can never remember who, immediately said "Can you say Osama Bin Laden"
Reading it a year later, it amazed me how astute that post was. It's still there...I'm just too lazy to find it.
Oh, I wouldn't say that at all. The documents are false. But, the charges against kerry are true, and those documents aren't false. All Kerry has to do is release them, which he won't. If he had nothing to hide, he would release them. ALL OF THEM. Blogger revolt against the one sided MSM? You bet. Interesting as well is that Steve Pitkin's sworn affidavit regarding kerry's arm twisting to make him lie to the Senate investigation at the winter soldier investigation gets no traction at all. Not to mention all the other kerry lies that it reveals.
And by yesterday morning, they were being examined with a fine tooth comb.
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.
From there it was off to the races. Once anyone who had had experience writing and typing in the 1970s began examining the documents, it was impossible not to see some weird anachronisms that suggested they had been crafted not on a 1970s typewriter, but using Microsoft Word.
Isn't forging military documents a felony? ...just noticed the apostrophe in isn't doesn't curve...is this a pre 1972 software program?
Wow! Did you do that?
Tip of the hat to yall.
Post of the Century post #47?!!!
Oh no, I hope you haven't started another "hugh", "series", etc.......
Moderator should add to title, (Free Republic Mentioned!)
You just did it, never mind!
-PJ
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