More challenges about whether Bush documents are authentic

Dallas Morning News ^ | September 11, 2004 | Pete Slover

[AndyJackson]

CYA was common in the Navy in the mid-seventies when I was on active duty. What was never used, however, was the notion of writing a "CYA" memo to file.

[ChewedGum]

Nicely done! I've always wanted to be quoted!

[Renatus]

I went to Vietnam in 1968 and remember that it was commonly
used when I was there. Vienam service 68-69 and 70-71,

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for the replies.
I was in the USMC from '79 - '85 and I never remember hearing or seeing the phrase. (I remember a lot of other interesting phrases though.)

Regards,
LH

[tioga]

Pat Cadell, yes he is the one.

[muir_redwoods]

I first heard the expression used by a recently discharged Air Force veteran in about 1972. I was in college working a bunch of part-time jobs and he was a new hire in the printing warehouse where I worked. I graduated in 1973 and went to work for a printer where, coincidentally, I used an IBM Composer.

No one would have used this IBM beast for typing memos, its only purpose was to set type for camera-ready art work. It was a pain to use but it did proportionally space type. I have a Selectric I Typewriter in the basement still and it does allow one to choose 10 or 12 pitch spacing but in either pitch, the letters are evenly spaced.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The so called "main stream media" have become merely priviledged partisan players in an elite game of Presidential politics. They no longer serve a beneficial public purpose in my opinion; indeed, as evidenced by this example, they are an active menace to democratic self-government. Their so-called "entertainment" programs also degrade the culture and befoul the atmosphere in which we attempt to raise our children to be decent human beings and responsible citizens. Please explain to me why in the age of cable and satelite we should continue to grant broadcast licenses to these despicable excuses for "business?"

The First Amendment was turned on its head by the institution of nominally objective journalism. To claim to be objective is to claim to be wise, and to claim to be wise is to reject the idea that you can learn something new. That is why the explicitly conservative talk show host is less tendentious than the "objective" journalist.

The FCC, and especially the Fairness Doctrine, institutionalized the conceit of "objectivity" in law. The First Amendment, OTOH, presumes that we-the-people will just have to muddle along without having objective news sources.

[Redcoat LI]

You got that right.

And to slander Staudt by saying he would try to throw his weight around is insulting to him personally, and as a professional soldier.

He and Zell Miller should get their dueling pistols and hunt these dirtbags down.

[El Gato]

"Until and unless someone shows me definitive proof that they are not, I don't see any reason to carry on a conversation with the professional rumor mill."

This from the guy who won't tell us where the documents came from? ROTLMAO!

[El Gato]

"He was a very bullying type, and that could have continued."

Another defamation lawsuit in the making. This time it's not a public official or other person in the public arena. Makes suing for defamation even easier. Keep digging Dan.

[DB]

CBS is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

If they got the fake documents from the DNC which is likely they can't come out and say that because that would cause major fallout for them, the DNC and Kerry.

Therefore they have to stick to the story no matter what.

Anyone including CBS that continues to claim that these documents are real are going to get crushed. I really don't think there can be any other outcome. The emperor has no cloths and everyone can see that for themselves.

[tioga]

The emperor has no cloths and everyone can see that for themselves.

God Bless the internet, where the light shines on the truth for all to see.

[JENINMO]

It's like divining voter intent in Florida. Liberals "feel" that this is so, so it must be.

[LTCJ]

Good summary post BUMP.