And quickly too. Too bad about Buckhead. That's the part that has me concerned more than the damn memos. It sucks that the times reconstructed him from old postings like that. I sort of agree with other posts I've seen that suggest limiting to 6 mos or so the posts available from users.
msl
Mainstream Media Gets Their Smear On
The inept LA Times effort to smear bloggersGOP Activist Made Allegations on CBS Memoshas now been picked up and promoted by Editor and Publisher, with a really dumb title: I Am Buckhead: Newspaper Exposes Blog Folk Hero. Folk hero? Please.
His identity, the Times says, is likely to fuel speculation among Democrats that the efforts to discredit the CBS memos were engineered by Republicans eager to undermine reports that Bush received preferential treatment in the National Guard more than 30 years ago. GOP officials have denied this.
Note to Editor and Publisher and to the clueless LA Times: there is no effort to discredit the memos. The memos have been discredited. Period. Full stop. They are forgeries. No amount of idiotic finger-pointing and lame conspiracy theorizing will erase that simple, damning fact.
I had a telephone conversation with the author of the LA Times hit piece (Peter Wallsten) last week, and he asked me several times if I knew who Buckhead was (no), or if I had been in contact with anyone from the RNC (no), or if I knew of any other bloggers who had been in contact with the RNC (no). His agenda was clear even then.
Heres another interesting fact. Ive now spoken to at least a dozen newspapers, and had my words quoted many times. In every conversation Ive made sure to point out that Ive voted Democratic my whole life, but that I now support President Bush. Not one of these papers thought this was noteworthy enough to print, and with the publication of this LA Times smear job we see why: it doesnt fit their program.
(littlegreenfootballs)