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Posted on 09/12/2004 2:43:11 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
These days, CBS News anchor Dan Rather and his colleagues at the network's magazine program "60 Minutes II" are enduring an unusual wave of second-guessing by some of the public and fellow journalists.
For that, they can thank "Buckhead."
It was a late-night blog posting by this mystery Netizen that first questioned the validity of documents Rather cited Wednesday as proof that George W. Bush did not fulfill his National Guard duty more than 30 years ago.
Buckhead refuses to further identify himself, other than dropping hints that he is a male who lives on the East Coast — preferring to proclaim that the scramble to verify the contentions in his posting marks an extraordinary achievement for a medium that has operated more as an underground world of ideological venting than a source of legitimate news.
But Buckhead is vehement about one thing: He acted alone when he posted, to the conservative website FreeRepublic.com, what was widely believed to be the first allegation that the CBS report relied on documents that could have been forged.
"Absolutely, positively, on my own, sitting at my computer in my bedroom just before midnight — but not in my pajamas," he wrote in an e-mail exchange with The Times. "But once I posted the comment to Free Republic I was no longer working alone, and that is the real point of the story about the story about the story."
That story began Wednesday, 19 minutes after the "60 Minutes II" broadcast began, when another FreeRepublic poster, TankerKC, noted that the documents were "not in the style that we used when I came into the USAF…. Can we get a copy of those memos?"
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Yep. I just went there and this account is listed:
uid: separatebutequal
password: ocoogea
I find Jim's absence on this thread (and topic) to be highly hughly supicious....disturbing even. Could it be that he is off plotting our next move with Karl Rove, aka, buckhead? < /sarcasm >
Wait until they see the IL threads, LOL. Just kidding!!!
...given to us by Matt LaBash of the Weekly Standard: "...a fierce, warlike tribe from the Free Republic organization--a fire-breathing conservative band of Internet brothers.."
This LA Times article should go into Free Republic Hall of Fame. Kudos to Buckhead!
SORELOSERMAN (Registered, and other collaborators) may have been the first real FR out in the public light ...
CatsPaw suggested in a post that OBL was behind 9/11 within a few minutes of the second aircraft impact.
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Nude freeping?
The lamestream Old Media is finally starting to understand that the internet is truly powerful.
Many of them will not make the transition, and will die.
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bttt
Another wonderful thing about FR is that it truly levels the playing field. Everyone here who is intellectually honest has something valuable to contribute, and it makes no difference if you're a teacher or a student, an engineer or assembly worker, a doctor or the secretary in the front office, an author or a reader, a Walmart administrator or the greeter at the front door, a librarian or the bum that comes in off the street to use the computer. That goes a long way to eliminate the kind of elitist snobbery that permeates the MSM. I think that's why the anonymity bugs them so much. Heck, we could even be getting fed information from closet conservatives on their own "teams" who are fed up with their BS. They can't really attack or discredit someone about whom they nothing, other than a FReeper screen name with a grasp of facts that confounds them.
Or a cadre of rightest warriors, as this person states! LOL I love it.
See John's #34 here. He doesn't address the number of new accounts, but the volume of traffic. I'm not sure he knows the number of new accounts. Perhaps the mods would know that.
I second that. We may go down in history as the PPP (Political Pajama Party) that changed the world...or at least saved America.
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THANKS HOWLIN FOR THE SUMMARY:
There is so much information OUT THERE, I decided to put up the OFFICIAL version, rather than let bloggers misconstrue what actually happened.
This is the OFFICIAL timeline:
I put this thread up for the 60 Minutes show.
Live Thread: Ben Barnes and CBS Attempt Another Bush Smear (60 Minutes) at 7:39:18 PM EDT.
At 8:19:00 PM EDT TankerKC posted this:
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Then Pikamax put up this thread:
Documents Suggest Special Treatment for Bush in Guard
To which Buckhead posted the shot heard round the world:
To: Howlin
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
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47 posted on 09/08/2004 11:59:43 PM EDT by Buckhead
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After all the questions that arose from everybody on the forum, I put this thread up:
THE "New" CBS BUSH DOCUMENTS: Let's do some investigating
As Buckhead said on another thread, many, many Freepers were involved.
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As you have noted, many FReepers contributed to this. I was not one of them this time, however I have been a contributer to some other stories in the past, as a great many FReepers here at this wonderful virtual think tank have contributed. The lamestream Old Media can not compete with us any more, but if they choose to, they can benefit from our research. Some of them are starting to realize that we have real power.
I don't think the Old Media can survive with its present leftist formulary.
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Check out this thread, nic, if you haven't already. It's a good one.
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