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Free Republic Broke This Story?
Posted on 09/10/2004 2:40:58 PM PDT by Without Barbarians
A poster claims that Free Republic somehow broke the story about the Bush documents being fakes. Will someone who actually knows the story please post or email me the details concerning this.
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To: Without Barbarians; Buckhead
Talk to Buckhead. He knows all about this. ;)
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:42:31 PM PDT
by
K1avg
(Buckhead for FReeper of the Year!)
To: Without Barbarians
Yea... This is a little hint...
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:43:46 PM PDT
by
smith288
(Did you know John Kerry was a senator? What's his record, I wonder...)
To: Without Barbarians
Today's Weekly Standard mention a freeper breaking the story.
So did ABC's The Note.
I think National Review had an article about it last night as well.
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:44:45 PM PDT
by
Peach
(The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: Without Barbarians
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:45:33 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: Without Barbarians
Check the Live thread on the 60 Minutes segment and you will find that Howlin first noticed that the documents looked suspicious. She then started a thread when the docs became available. I believe Post 47 was the first to nail it. (Sorry, I don't have the time to search and link the threads.)
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:46:26 PM PDT
by
Dolphy
(Support swiftvets.com)
To: Without Barbarians
Not only that, but I had it pegged as a media hit by post 2 of the thread on the original story =)
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:46:41 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
("With 64 days left, John Kerry still has time to change his mind 4 or 5 more times" - Rudy Giuliani)
To: Without Barbarians
Freeper Buckhead got it going.
Here's a thread detailing it all... HERE
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:47:16 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: Without Barbarians; Buckhead; Howlin; TankerKC; All
From the opening page of Lucianne.com
HIGH TENS to Powerlineblog.com and their readers
And a huge hooray to Freeper 'Buckhead'
You know who you are
The Blogoshere Rules!
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:47:20 PM PDT
by
baseballmom
(You Know Where I Stand - GW Bush - 9/2/04 We're standing with you, Mr. President)
To: Without Barbarians
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:47:33 PM PDT
by
SheLion
(Donate to Swift Boat Vets. "I" did!)
To: Without Barbarians
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:48:05 PM PDT
by
1066AD
To: Without Barbarians
I'm not sure we broke the story as much as we started the story. This is the first place that noted the obvious forgeries. From there it exploded and despite the efforts of CBS, it cannot be contained.
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:48:09 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Without Barbarians
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/28276.htm
From the article:
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.
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:48:56 PM PDT
by
Redcoat LI
("I am the great and powerful Kerry! Look at my medals!")
To: 1066AD
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:52:51 PM PDT
by
1066AD
To: K1avg
From John Podhoretz's column in today's New York Post.
"Minneapolis lawyers who run powerlineblog.com were on the case early. Two of the blogs readers directed their attention to a note left on the internet board at the freerepublic.com web site. The 47th posting on the topic there.
Post 47 pointed out there was something wrong with the documents from the 1970s. The spacing between the letters and the words were proportional and only a few IBM typewriters could achieve that effect back then. From there it was off to the races"
Who is that mysterious 47th poster who may have cost John Kerry the election?. Inquiring minds want to know? (my comment)
To: Dog Gone
Yeah, there were a few people involved...because I specifically remember KCTanker/TankerKC and Howlin talking about it on the live thread at 8:19pm.
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posted on
09/10/2004 2:54:17 PM PDT
by
cwb
(John Kerry: Still attacking Vietnam Vets after 35 years.)
To: Without Barbarians
Yes,we did...thank Howlin and Buckhead who got it all started. :-)
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