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GOP ACTIVIST MADE ALLEGATIONS ON MEMO (BUCKHEAD AND FREE REPUBLIC MENTIONED)
LA Times ^ | 9/18/04

Posted on 9/18/2004, 7:58:26 PM by areafiftyone

WASHINGTON — It was the first public allegation that CBS News had used forged memos in its report questioning President Bush (news - web sites)'s Air National Guard service — a highly technical explanation posted on the Web 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 had helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton (news - web sites) after the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal, the Los Angeles Times has learned.

The identity of "Buckhead" — a blogger previously known only by his screen name on the site freerepublic.com and since lifted to folk hero status in the conservative blogosphere — is likely to fuel speculation among Democrats that the effort to discredit the memos was engineered by Republicans eager to undermine reports that Bush received preferential treatment in the Texas Air National Guard more than 30 years ago.

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1 posted on 9/18/2004, 7:58:26 PM by areafiftyone
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The identity of "Buckhead"

Damn, they found out who I am!

2 posted on 9/18/2004, 7:59:56 PM by TBarnett34 (The Democrats: 9/10 girlie-men in a 9/11 world)
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To: TBarnett34

Someone told me THIS is this Buckhead?

3 posted on 9/18/2004, 8:00:32 PM by ClintonBeGone (Take the first step in the war on terror - defeat John Kerry)
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To: areafiftyone
"Freepers collectively possess more analytical horsepower than the entire news division at CBS," he wrote in an e-mail, using the slang term for users of the freerepublic.com site.

Damn Right! But Buckhead you are the true hero here and it's all because of you. You are the best!

4 posted on 9/18/2004, 8:00:55 PM by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: areafiftyone

So if you follow their line of reasoning...they are trying to say that Rove or a Republican operative gave CBS the fakes and that Buckhead was prepared by the RNC to debunk them.

Okay....so CBS...tell us your source. I'm sure you're really trying to protect Karl Rove, right, yeah that's the ticket, you're keeping quiet because you don't want to out a Republican.


5 posted on 9/18/2004, 8:01:33 PM by dawn53
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To: areafiftyone

Great! They can't let go of the story for what? 10 days after being goosed with it? So let's humor them.


6 posted on 9/18/2004, 8:01:44 PM by BobS
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Oh of course - after all its the LA Slmes. You didn't really expect them not to blame ROVE - Just like the DUers - It's Rove Rove Rove Rove - that's all they ever blame. God forbid they should blame their stupdity in picking a moron like Kerry!


7 posted on 9/18/2004, 8:03:18 PM by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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Idiots ... did they expect McAuliffe or some DUer was gonna bust the scam?

What the heck ... I figure we oughtta just keep on selling shovels to the twits; they're doing a great job with them.


8 posted on 9/18/2004, 8:03:29 PM by timberlandko (Murphy was an optimist.)
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To: areafiftyone

OMG!!!!

A Republican activist posts on a conservative web site?

Will the GOP stop at nothing?


9 posted on 9/18/2004, 8:03:32 PM by harrycarey
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To: areafiftyone

What do you want to be when you grow up?

An engineer, in the conservative blogoshpere.


10 posted on 9/18/2004, 8:03:43 PM by truth_seeker
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To: dawn53

Sorry LA Slmes should read LA SLIMES!


11 posted on 9/18/2004, 8:03:46 PM by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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