Posted on 09/10/2004 11:57:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
NEW YORK -- Yesterday, Goliath CBS News was delivered a smooth stone to the forehead by a FReeper.
A poster in the FreeRepublic.com conservative news forum mentioned something peculiar about two documents CBS’s 60 Minutes claimed on September 8 were generated by now deceased Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian regarding an allegedly National Guard-evading George W. Bush in 1973.
Within minutes following the broadcast, FReeper "TankerKC" wrote this to FReeper "Howlin'":
WE NEED TO SEE THOSE MEMOS AGAIN!
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Since then, news of the potential forgery glitch spread like wildfire from blog to blog and into the mainstream press - especially that of CBS competitors ABC and NBC.
(Excerpt) Read more at illinoisleader.com ...
Bump to THAT!
And a BUMP for TRUTH!
All I can add is an amen, sister!
Me, too.
I sent it last night to a Marine Lt. Col. in Iraq. She sends e-mail to a whole bunch of us. I e-mailed her this thread (I replied to all so everyone got it) and the original post with Buckhead's post #47 and the NY Post article as well. It was being discussed by someone else who receives her e-mails. I just had to tell her who started the avalanche!
Well, I sit at my computer in my pajamas (I thought it was the official FReeping outfit), and I daresay, I probably know more about what's going on than most of these braindead DNC sycophants of the ABB gang.
Yeah! Moore The Rocket Scientist of Documentaries
Thanks for your powerful post 173! WOW.
:-) Thanks Kim! It was like coming in from the desert all hot and thirsty to see all those hysterically and pungently funny FReeper signs beckoning like a clear glass of the waters of sanity!
Anyone looks at that and they can't have any questions; if they love freedom and America.
What's the pajama part?
This criticism proved easy to debunk. Simply obtain a similar weapon and have some folks try to duplicate what was ascribed to Oswald. Many were able to do so and the criticism was laid to rest.
We have a similar situation here. If Buckhead had simply said he thought the docs were forged using a word processing package, the criticism would have found little audience and rightfully so. But he went further and actually produced a document so indistinguishable from the CBS doc that the text could still be read when overlaid. This proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the documents could have been produced by the method Buckhead described.
It is now up to those who challenge the Word genesis for the documents to describe how they were produced using equipment available at the time. It's a simple task really -- make and model of the typewriter, list of special features, whatever, then how to insert the paper and strike the keys. That CBS has not done so strongly indicates they can't. That none of the MSM's useful idiots has done so strongly indicates they can't.
Only one side has a verifiable description for how those documents were produced. That side shows they were forged.
I think your referring to Yoshi Tsurami. He's not a japanese official (he likes to think he is though). He was Bush's former professor at Harvard when Bush was getting his MBA.
Side note, he was also my professor this year at Baruch. He's a lunatic and shows signs of mental illness.
This is not worth starting yet another thread, but the Washington DC local CBS affiliate show just played "Inside Washington" and addressed this story. That is, they addressed the National Guard "controversy."
Did President Bush have preference getting in? Fulfill his obligations?
Moderator said Globe & AP said no, he did not meet obligation.
Screechy liberal female Nina Totenberg said No, and he probably did not fulfill his obligation, but she doesn't care -- but it is an issue because the SwiftVets have questioned the service of a genuine war hero.
Krauthammer then said Pres Bush may have missed a couple of drills but that is not a scandal. He said what IS a scandal is CBS using false documents that can only be produced by a modern word processor.
He was then cut off and the next panelist went off on a tangent about Kerry needing to get back on target.
Remember this was on a CBS station.
Sorry I didn't explain.
This smug CBS guy appeared on O'Reilly last night (Tony Snow was hosting).
He said the reason people should believe CBS was because they had "checks and balances" in their reporting and researching process.
Then he went on to compare their "veracity" to online bloggers, and said that CBS was alot more credible than people at their computers in their pajamas trying to do research.
He was really SMUG!
Jim, I am so thrilled to be here!!!
Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!!!
I love Freeping!!! This is too marvelous for words!!!
bttt
Well, the CBS guy on O'Reilly last night that made the "pajama" remark also said their producer had been working on this for 4 years.
Right. Four years. It took them four years to come up with a crappy forgery of President Bush's supposed poor military service? Brilliant, aren't they?
Thanks for the info.
Now would you just look at what you've done!!! MRN.
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