Who Is ‘Buckhead’? Kerry Assaulter Seemed Prepped

New York Observer ^ | 09/15/04 | by Robert Sam Anson

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NEWS FROM THE DU

 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x834113

 

So Buckhead is MacDougald. Now, is there any way to link him to Rove?

Or does this story end at MacDougald being given the commenad from on high to raise questions about the authenticity of the memos?

Can we all agree that it's too much of a stretch this insider attorney "discovered" the documents may have been forgeriries? WHy won't he answer questions now?

 

Some other BULL

The Globe story is itself based on last night's 60 Minutes report: "New questions on Bush Guard duty." The online version of the 60 Minutes story has links to the memos. Killian died in 1984; CBS states that it "consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic." Readers Tom Mortensen and Liz MacDougald direct us to the FreeRepublic post and thread (see post no. 47) to this effect:

http://fatsteve.blogspot.com /

It's a weird name and so that's why it stands out. Liz MacDougald directed someone to the Harry MacDougald post. I'm smelling a fish and it starting to smell rotten. They probably went to all the rightwing blogs directing them to that one post and of course that's how the story grew and grew.

 

Go here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

 

That's very interesting. So is Liz MacDougland a part of those and if so what is her relationship to Harry? It would make perfect sense that the same ones who created the story would also peddle the story. I certainly hope CBS is on this.
On Edit: I think you should put that same information in this thread-- I would do it, but I don't want to take the credit away from you.

 

I think that the smear machine already had their contacts prepped

at the major news organizations. "Readers" Tom Mortensen and Liz MacDougald are probably well known to their contacts at major media. This is the way that pr companies work - they steer stories to their contacts in the media.

What is underhanded is their attempt to make the questions about the memos look like a spontaneous discovery by a clever but disinterested blogger, when the truth is that it was a carefully orchestrated campaign against Dan Rather, implemented as soon as the episode of 60 Minutes II was telecast.

As an American who believes in the Constitution, my biggest concern is the blurring of the lines that should be separating public relations from news reporting, as well as the blurring of lines between legal representation and business consulting. It's unethical imo. And the worst part is that they convince the loyal foot soldiers that this is all about being a good Christian!

Things to keep in mind and look out for in future stories. We should get a list of all the rightwing blogs and check them for the Republican noise machine so that we're not caught off guard.

The thing that really bothers me about the MacDougald post on FreeRepublic is that it was the first post on this and yet it had all the answers (down to the font, the spacing and methods used to achieve the look on the paper). What a wonderful coincidence.

MacDougland's post:
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.

In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.

The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.

I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.

This should be pursued aggressively.

 

and the Media Research Center.

http://www.mrc.org /

 

"CRC worked with CNS and the Media Research Center, another media watchdog client, to push the story into the mainstream press."

Buckhead was a part of things--that much can be assumed. While the freepers like to think that they pieced together information on their site, the fact is that Buckhead was there feeding them crumbs.

 

Elliott Abrams is on Bozell's Advisory Board along with Rush Limbaugh.

This just gets better and better.
http://www.mediatransparency.org/people/elliot_abrams.h...


December 2000
Abrams now (2000) the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center

Elliott Abrams was assistant secretary of state for Inter-American affairs during the Reagan Administration. As such, he was responsible for the repressive and illegal policies pursued in El Salvador and Nicaragua during the 1980s, and played a key role in the US relationship to Manuel Noriega, and then lied about the whole deal to the US Congress.

A book he wrote was underwritten by the Bradley foundation via the Hudson Institute.
Abrams is on the advisory board of the Media Research Center, an organization that opposes any traces of liberalism on TV or in films. Chairman L. Brent Bozell III publishes the newsletter TV, ETC., with an advisory board that includes Abrams, Mona Charen, Pete DuPont, and Rush Limbaugh.

 

Linked to the Federalist Society

Here's the link
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wcsr....

And it lists lots of cases he's worked on in the past. I wonder how many of these intersect with Rove in some way? Time to dig.

 

Seems that B'head is also on the County Registration and Election Board

for Fulton Country. Now...how does that sit?
http://www.fultongop.org/committee_2001.asp

Here's his statement on the NEW DIEBOLD machines.

"I feel reasonably comfortable," MacDougald said recently. "There's always a theoretical possibility . That can never be excluded, regardless of the voting technology. But the measures that were previously in place, with the new measures and technical fixes that are being made, bring the issue within a reasonable degree of security."
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&fil...

 

Oh yea, Bush too.
Got the link Rove to MacDonald with one jump
Center of nexus is : Southeastern Legal Foundation
On tonight's Hardball special (9/17/2004) with Kitty Kelly, Tweety had on a repug Ed Hanscom(?, I think have to wait until transcript is posted.) Tweety was asking him re Kelly's allegations. This guy says he worked with Bush and Lee Atwater on 1988 campaign. He said Bush and Atwater good friends. So where does this guy come from:

Southeastern Legal Foundation
I'll come back to this post later when I nail this Repug's name for sure, but I think this repug that was on Tweety's special tonight is the tie vis SLF.
Show to be repeated at 2AM Est on MSNBC....I'll stay up and edit this post with the correct name.............unless some Du'er can beat me to it

 

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Time even sent a reporter out to knock on Staudt's door

wooooo.

Imagine THAT! Time going gumshoe.