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.
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.
And this is the best they have! CBS is going down the drain.
This is a must read article. It warmed the cockles of my uncompassionate conservative heart.
I hope CBS can get sued. The amount of forensic evidence in the docs, suggesting forgery, is huge.
Who was post 47? Howlin?
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.
Great article. And congrats to the poster of post 47. I belive it was Howlin', right?
This fiasco will haunt the DNC for the rest of this election cycle.
Post # 47 will liver forever. How cool is that? It's exciting that an average citizen who has been taking it from Rather for decades got payback. Hoo-ah!!!
"I hope CBS can get sued."
Where is The Great One (Mark Levin) when you need him??
Can someone post the thread with post 47?
That is way, way cool!!! I am SO PROUD to be a part of FreeRepublic!!!
I'm working eleven hours for the GOP tomorrow, and I have got to go to bed. But I'm afraid as soon as I turn the computer off, something big is going to break.
> ... they have been unmasked by ordinary people who can see
> what they and their hired experts evidently could not.
Based on other reports, it appears that the only vetting
CBS did was to make a phone call to one of the senior
officers mentioned in the fake docs, who just happens
to also be a Dean supporter.
All the real hired experts interviewed by other reporters,
pundits and hosts today, all agree that these docs are at
the very least highly suspicious.
Which post did the #47 post reference in this article come from? That post should be a permanent golden link on the main page.
Very nicely done.
FreeRepublic credited with starting Memogate!!!
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.
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."
Hi Everyone over at DUh, hope you all are enjoying this as much as we are!
I know. Who's post was it that took down the Old Media empire?
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