Blogger Who Faulted CBS Documents Is Conservative Activist (L.A Times RATS out Buckhead!)

L.A Times ^

[Redcoat LI]

WASHINGTON — It was the first public allegation that CBS News used forged memos in its report questioning President Bush's National Guard service — a highly technical explanation posted within hours of airtime citing proportional spacing and font styles.

But it did not come from an expert in typography or typewriter history as some first thought. Instead, it was the work of Harry W. MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Times has found.

[Crazieman]

PING!

[Shortwave]

The facts are the facts! Who cares! In a related story, Dan Rather was outed by Buckhead as a Communist who is guilty of trying to swing a federal election.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Uh oh. If Buckhead is a conservative (and what are the odds that a conservative, of all people, would oh so coincidentally have taken a critical eye at the memos??), then that means ipso facto that the memos are real.

Damn! We're screwed!

[xm177e2]

Obviously, this proves Karl Rove orchestrated the whole conspiracy. Because there is no other way that we wouldn't notice that the memos were screaming, flaming frauds.

[aft_lizard]

just another instance of disqualifying a fact by accusing the accuser of bias.

[xm177e2]

Anyway, when is the LAT going to out Burkett as CBS's source?

[Viet-Boat-Rider]

Boy, will my family get a load full if I break a story and the media comes after ME! HA HA HA HA

[Michael Goldsberry]

"Blogger Who Faulted CBS Documents Is Conservative Activist"

Also in the news today: It's actually AIR that we are breathing!

[Dog]

who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal,

Buck ....we ever meet the beer is on me..

[Tempest]

*Gasp* How dare a conservative spot a forgery that involves a hit piece on the president.

*ohhhh the horror*

[Tempest]

*Gasp* How dare a conservative spot a forgery that involves a hit piece on the president.

*ohhhh the horror*

[vbmoneyspender]

an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton

Buckhead's batting a thousand. Must be killing the LA Times.

[numberonepal]

Oh well, it was gonna happen sooner or later. I'm disappointed it was the LA Times. Now let's see who gets the exclusive interview.

[Right Wing Professor]

I just marvel at a man who writes for a living describing the difference between nmonospace and professional fonts as 'highly technical'.

It's tantamount to an admission of complete ignorance about his trade.

[Political Junkie Too]

Didn't somebody report that the lawyer for Burkett went to Floriday in 2000 to help toss out military ballots?

Are they really going to play these "who's connected to whom" games?

Does this in any way make the memos less forged because the person who first noticed it might lean one way or the other?

-PJ

[federal]

Like I've said before it doesn't matter if Karl Rove wrote the memos.

Dan Rather is the person who decided to use them against President Bush.

[Mike Darancette]

Shows that Conservative Activists are smarter than Liberals.

[wolf24]

How did they get Buckhead's name?

[gogipper]

Look at the polls, there are LOTS of us conservative activists!

[Redcoat LI]

It's actually a pretty good article.

[jackbill]

So what? He's an American! And a voter! And most likely pays a higher percentage of his income in federal income taxes than the Kerrys.

[dfwgator]

To the LAT, anyone who ever voted for a Republican is a conservative activist.

[NavySEAL F-16]

And, we're supposed to believe that a democratic activist would have done the same thing in investigating the forged documents?

What I am amazed about is that the LAT absolutely sees no bias in their headline.

[BlessedByLiberty]

That's my question!

[bikepacker67]

Yup.. Buckhead is just another evil genius in the VRWC.

Get used to it, moonbats... The secret cabal is coming for your wimmin!

Never mind, we've seen your wimmin.

[Rakkasan1]

DUh!
"...and if it wasn't fot that damn freeper, we would have
got away with it!"

(the Scooby Doo ending)

[abner]

AN ACTIVIST ON FR???????????????????

Will wonders never cease?

The sky is falling and we are all doomed!

[rocksblues]

Buckhead is an Republican Activist?

Off with his head! (/sarcasm)

[Trampled by Lambs]

A conservative? On Free Republic?

Who'd a thunk it?

[P-Marlowe]

Who would have thought that a regular poster at a conservative blog would be a conservative?

I'm shocked!

[Jeff Head]

These people are so...MSM.

They haven't figured it out yet. Their day is coming to a close. They are the walking dead and they are trying to frame things in their pre-MSM-fall world. They are getting further and further behind, more and more out of touch.

The new world of the internet and access unlimited online access 24X7 is something that has eclipsed them and represents a evolutionary leap.

[GOPrincess]

I'm shocked to find out there are conservative activists on Free Republic. Shocked, I tell you!

[Deb]

Was this in today's paper or just on their site? I can't find it in the paper.

[abner]

What is that web site that gets you past registering? I would like to read the article, but don't want to register.

[JoJo Gunn]

[dfwgator]

user: slashdot
password: slashdot

[AHerald]

God bless you, Buckhead. Can't imagine what you must be going through right now. We can only imagine what this outing/invasion is going to do to your life and the lives of your family and friends. You know, of course, that WE ARE ALL WITH YOU AND YOURS IN PRAYERS AND SPIRIT.

We are all Buckhead. What happens to him, happens to us all.

[CA Conservative]

What is so funny is that they seem to think that it is breaking an earthshaking scoop that a member of FreeRepublic would turn out to be a conservative!

Have they even bothered to look at the site?

[abner]

Thank you.

[hellinahandcart]

It's called bugmenot.com, give me the code as so as you know one.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Damn. Buckhead Busted. damn.

[Tax Government]

LAT et al. are making the detection of this fraud into rocket science, to explain why CBS might pretend the docs were valid for longer than 20 seconds.

Abstruse, hard-to-fathom concepts like "tight letter-spacing" and "superscript digraphs" are outside the daily experience of most people. That's why CBS, your faithful impartial news servant, will be breaking the story soon -- any day now -- of how these fraudulent, uh typewritten documents are NOT real after all.

[Jackson Brown]

YEAH, Buckhead!!!

Great Job with Clinton -- and -- with the memos.

You notice they don't emphasis the fact that the memos have been confirmed as fake by just oooooodles of experts.

I guess being right is a fault if one is a conservative activists -- YET -- being wrong is no problem if one is a liberal one!

Funny how life is viewed by the MSM.

[colorado tanker]

But it did not come from an expert in typography or typewriter history as some first thought

More cBS. These days there is so much paper pushing involved in law practice that lawyers get real familiar with Word and Times New Roman.

Also, anyone in the military in the 1970's could tell right away there were goofy things in those memos.

[Cicero]

When you lie or forge documents, then your political opinions are relevant.

When you prove that someone else has lied and forged documents, then your political opinions are irrelevant.

The Emperor has no clothes. Is that too much to understand? Do we need to be certified leftists to point it out?

[Redcoat LI]

How did they get Buckhead's name?

"Until The Times identified him by piecing together information from his postings over the past two years, MacDougald had taken pains to remain in the shadows — saying the credit for challenging CBS should remain with the blogosphere as a whole and not one individual"

[hellinahandcart]

Did you give those buttheads your name?

[Dont Mention the War]

Buckhead, I suggest you use Call Forwarding to redirect all your incoming harassing phone calls from liberals to the L.A. Times newsroom.

[Smogger]

Until The Times identified him by piecing together information from his postings over the past two years, MacDougald had taken pains to remain in the shadows — saying the credit for challenging CBS should remain with the blogosphere as a whole and not one individual

I don't like this crap one bit. Newspapers piecing together you identity on a privately run anonymous web forum? I have said it before and I am going to say it again. Don't give out any clues to your identity in postings on FR. Not your real name, address, or where you work.