Posted on 09/09/2004 11:21:38 PM PDT by Jackson Brown
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU SEPT 09, 2004 22:45:32 ET XXXXX
Marjorie Connell — widow of the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, the reported author of memos suggesting that Bush did not meet the standards for the Texas Air National Guard — questions whether the documents are real on tonight's NIGHTLINE, sources tell DRUDGE.
Transcript:
I WAS ANGRY, BECAUSE HERE THEY ARE GOING BACK AND PULLING RECORDS OF A MAN WHO IS DECEASED TWENTY YEARS, WHO IS NOT HERE TO EXPLAIN WHAT ANY OF THESE DOCUMENTS SAID OR SUPPOSED TO HAVE SAID, AND I JUST FOUND IT APPALLING. I WAS SICK THAT HERE WITHOUT WARNING HIS PICTURES ARE UP THERE, HIS NAME IS BEING BATTLED BACK AND FORTH AND I, LIVID I GUESS IS A BETTER WORD FOR IT."
"I THINK THERE WAS SO MUCH UNTRUTHS BEING SAID THAT THAT FRUSTRATED ME AND THAT I KNEW THAT IF JERRY WERE ALIVE TODAY THAT HE WOULD JUST, NUMBER ONE HE WOULD BE TURNING OVER IN HIS GRAVE TO KNOW THAT A DOCUMENT SUCH AS THIS WOULD BE USED AGAINST A FELLOW GUARDSMAN."
"THAT IS WHAT AGGRAVATED ME SO MUCH, WAS THAT HE CAN NOT BE HERE TO SAY AND YET THEY CAN DRAG HIS NAME ONTO TELEVISION, MAKING BAD ACCUSATIONS ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT AND A MAN THAT HE RESPECTED AND I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT HE THOUGHT THIS YOUNG MAN AS A SECOND LIEUTENANT OR FIRST LIEUTENANT WAS AN EXCELLENT AVIATOR, AN EXCELLENT PERSON TO BE IN THE GUARD AND WAS VERY HAPPY TO HAVE HIM BECOME A MEMBER OF THE 111TH F-I-S."
"NUMBER ONE, HE WOULD NOT HAVE TYPED BECAUSE HE DID NOT TYPE. NUMBER TWO, THE WORDING IN THESE DOCUMENTS IS VERY SUSPECT TO ME. I JUST DON'T BELIEVE THAT, IT LOOKS LIKE SOME THINGS MAY HAVE BEEN PICKED UP OUT OF A DOCUMENT AND THEN OTHER THINGS JUST MADE FICTITIOUSLY TO FILL IN THINGS, TO MAKE THEM FLOW. I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THIS IS HIS WORDS, MY LATE HUSBAND'S WORDS."
"NOT A TYPIST, DEFINITELY NOT A TYPIST. WE HAD NO COMPUTERS AT HOME BUT HE WASN'T A TYPIST, AND WHAT IS REMARKABLE TO ME IS THAT HE WAS A PERSON WHO DID NOT TAKE OR MAKE COPIOUS NOTES. HE CARRIED EVERYTHING IN HIS MIND AND HE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO MAKE NOTES."
"I AM STILL PRESENTLY LOOKING FOR OTHER DOCUMENTS. I HAVE FOUND SOME THAT SAY THE 147TH ON THEM AND THEY GO BACK TO 1970. I CAN NOT FIND ANY AT THIS MOMENT THAT HAVE ANY 1972 INDICATIONS ON THEM OTHER THAN A, AND I TOLD HER THAT, A FLIGHT SCHEDULE THAT HE HAD JUST SIGNED HIS NAME TO."
"UNFORTUNATELY WHEN WE MOVED I PUT THINGS IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AND I JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE EVERYTHING IS AT THIS MOMENT AND I WAS SEARCHING FOR THEM AND I STILL HAVE NOT FOUND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS. I DO HAVE ALL OF HIS FLIGHT RECORDS THOUGH AND THEY ARE IN MY HANDS."
"HE DISCUSSED WITH ME HOW PROUD HE WAS TO BE ABLE TO GO AND PIN THE WINGS ON YOUNG GEORGE AND TO MEET THEN MR. BUSH, I'VE FORGOTTEN IF HE WAS WITH THE CIA OR WHAT OFFICE HE HELD AT THAT TIME AND BARBARA BUSH."
"HE LEFT THE 147TH, FLEW TO WHEREVER GEORGE GOT HIS WINGS AND JERRY PINNED THEM ON HIM AND HE WAS, CAME HOME JUST, HE TOLD ME ABOUT THAT AND HOW PROUD HE WAS TO HAVE MET THE FAMILY."
"HE WOULD JUST WRITE LITTLE NOTES ON THE BACK OF ANYTHING. UNFORTUNATELY OR FORTUNATELY AS THE CASE MAY BE, IF HE NEEDED TO JOT SOMETHING DOWN HE WOULD JOT IT ON ANY PAPER THAT HE COULD FIND, ON A CARD, LIKE A CALLING CARD THAT YOU WOULD HAVE, OR JUST LITTLE BITS OF PAPER. HE ALWAYS KNEW WHERE EVERYTHING WAS, AND IF HE NEEDED TO PULL IT OUT OF HIS WALLET ON A LITTLE NOTE OR SOMETHING, BUT HE JUST DIDN'T TAKE MANY NOTES."
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You Mean CBS Did not ask the Guys Widow?
I WAS ANGRY, BECAUSE HERE THEY ARE GOING BACK AND PULLING RECORDS OF A MAN WHO IS DECEASED TWENTY YEARS, WHO IS NOT HERE TO EXPLAIN WHAT ANY OF THESE DOCUMENTS SAID OR SUPPOSED TO HAVE SAID, AND I JUST FOUND IT APPALLING. I WAS SICK THAT HERE WITHOUT WARNING HIS PICTURES ARE UP THERE, HIS NAME IS BEING BATTLED BACK AND FORTH AND I, LIVID I GUESS IS A BETTER WORD FOR IT."
If this were happening to Kerry instead of Bush, I'd be posting: "Guys, it's over--Kerry's gonna win."
This is delightful way to frame the end of Dan Rather's career.
I suspect that he won't be sleeping well tonight.
Just another brick in a crumbly DemocRat-enabling, elitist MSM wall.
Someone needs to do jail time over this fiasco.
So who forged the documents? Barnes or Rather Not?
OOH! This just keeps getting better and better.
Jackson, I listened to this interview and I'll tell you this: this woman didn't say 1/4 of what it says here.
Now she might have said this on ABC Radio, but she did NOT talk this long on Nightline.
Actually I haven't heard anyone even come close to mentioning Kerry as a possible accompliss. Chris Lehane, what a creepy dude, was the first I heard mention anything about Kerry being involved. Who knows what the real story is? This could get very interesting indeed.
The entire left wing media is burning tonight because these documents were so rapidly proven false!
Check out the signatures and analysis in this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1211634/posts?q=1&&page=1#1
IMHO, the K gives it away. If you closely examine the originals, the left leg of the K is created by the downstroke of the Y (no loop), and then the top right half of the K is created by an upstroke and finishes with a very tiny downstroke to the right. The bottom half of the K is created with a new stroke (pen was lifted from the paper to begin a new stroke) and then continues on to form the second letter (e) in the 2nd example where there is no loop from the bottom of the K right leg and an obvious incomplete loop in the 1st example. Both examples, however do show that the e is part of a continuous motion, not a new stroke.
The "memo" signature (or initials) have none of these characteristics. Neither does the only other "memo" which contains a signature, shown on http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/BushGuardmay4.pdf (2 of the 4 memos were unsigned) And that memo doesn't have the TX ANG designation, either.
In this 2nd "memo", it is obvious that the K does NOT start with the downstroke of the Y, but is a completely new downstroke. The upper right half of the K is also obviously an incomplete large loop which continues on into a small loop to form the bottom half of the right leg. Instead of a large loop, this should have been closer to a tight V for the top half and ending with a tiny downstroke to the right, NOT as part of a loop into the bottom half.
This is completely uncharacteristic of the signatures on the originals.
The only logical conclusion is that these are forged, faked.
I recorded it .. let me go check
Well, you know, it's the turtles up on fenceposts, as we say in Texas, and the hogs would go over to the apple farm if they had wings but they don't, and it's two hands worth of white knuckle still hanging ten...This race is shakier than cafeteria Jell-O.
Well, according to my liberal friend tonight, I am insane to think that it might be a democrat. Really? Why would a democrat do this... poor poor left.
I doubt if the President is out of the forest yet. We know that wasn't the best period of his life. But who are we to criticize him? It is what he has done after he began to serve in public office that matters. I'm betting that he served well. I'll forgive him if he didn't. I won't forgive John F. Kennedy for meeting the VC in Paris, though.
Oh, if only that would come true.
So not only did CBS and The DNC (yeah..this has their handwriting on it) lie about the President's Honorable Guard service...
But they also DisHonored a Veteran who has passed on.
AND they have hurt his family in the Process.
PAGING SEN. HARKING....WE WILL EXPECT A BIG..."I'm sorry for being a scumbag" ON FRIDAY!
"NOT A TYPIST, DEFINITELY NOT A TYPIST. WE HAD NO COMPUTERS AT HOME BUT HE WASN'T A TYPIST, AND WHAT IS REMARKABLE TO ME IS THAT HE WAS A PERSON WHO DID NOT TAKE OR MAKE COPIOUS NOTES. HE CARRIED EVERYTHING IN HIS MIND AND HE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO MAKE NOTES."
Then the aired part of the son's reaction
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