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"Buckhead," who said CBS memos were forged, is a GOP-linked attorney
Seattle Times ^
| 09/18/04
| Peter Wallsten
Peter Wallsten
Posted on 09/19/2004 9:17:14 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton
Edited on 09/19/2004 9:39:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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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 MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes and who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Los Angeles Times has found.
TOPICS: Free Republic; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; buckhead; forgeries; friendsofbuckhead; gobuckhead; kerrylies; memos; pajamahadeen; pajamaratti; seebs; weareallbuckhead
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To: Buckhead
You're in the news again!
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:17:53 PM PDT
by
Andy from Beaverton
(I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
To: Andy from Beaverton
Oh my gosh. How many "newspapers" are going to write about this?
To: Andy from Beaverton
OMG! A Republican attorney! It should be against the law...Dan Rather is now vindicated....sarcasm
4
posted on
09/19/2004 9:18:35 PM PDT
by
spyone
To: Andy from Beaverton
You know what? So what if Buckhead was GWB.
It still stands the the documents are forgeries!
5
posted on
09/19/2004 9:18:44 PM PDT
by
BookaT
(My Cat's Breath smells like Cat Food!)
To: Andy from Beaverton
Poor Buckhead....how on earth did they get his name and town??? Stay safe!
To: Andy from Beaverton
To: Andy from Beaverton
A pat on the back for Buckhead - keep your powder dry!
8
posted on
09/19/2004 9:20:28 PM PDT
by
dandelion
(http://johnkerryquestionfairy.blogspot.com/)
To: Andy from Beaverton
OTOH, the LA Times is a Dem-linked newspaper.
And Dan Rather is a Dem-linked anchorman. Even speaks at Dem fundraisers.
9
posted on
09/19/2004 9:20:41 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: Cultural Jihad
round two .... this is a prize fight ......
10
posted on
09/19/2004 9:20:44 PM PDT
by
Gibtx
(focus.........)
To: Andy from Beaverton
By Peter Wallsten Los Angeles Times
Uh even when in other paper- this may need to be excerpted.
11
posted on
09/19/2004 9:21:12 PM PDT
by
Mark
(Treason doth never prosper, for if it prosper, NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON.)
To: Cinnamon Girl
My god. Someone was exercising free-speech rights while Republican.
12
posted on
09/19/2004 9:21:17 PM PDT
by
Tax Government
(Wage unrelenting economic war on the illiterate, stupid lying bastards at CBS.)
To: Andy from Beaverton
A Republican activist on FreeRepublic?!! How did that happen?!!
13
posted on
09/19/2004 9:21:28 PM PDT
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: Andy from Beaverton
"Buckhead," who said CBS memos were forged, is a GOP-linked attorney
So???
Oh I forgot if you can't refute the message, attack the messenger. Typical for the Rat population.
14
posted on
09/19/2004 9:21:28 PM PDT
by
glaseatr
(God Bless, My Nephew, SGT Adam Estep 2nd Bat, 5th Cav reg died Thursday April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
To: Andy from Beaverton
He helped draft the Arkansas petition...
Cool. I am honored to FRequent the same info site that he does.
Buckhead.....you are the man!
To: spyone
OMG! A Free republic have Republicans and even worst, conservatives!
16
posted on
09/19/2004 9:22:13 PM PDT
by
COURAGE
(A charter member of the Grim FReeper Club)
To: Cinnamon Girl
Somehow, in their little twisted brains, they must think it proves Rove leaked the memos.
Other than that, I don't understand all the hub-bub that a conservative Republican is posting on a conservative Republican board.
17
posted on
09/19/2004 9:22:31 PM PDT
by
dawn53
To: Andy from Beaverton
When they don't like the message, they try to
18
posted on
09/19/2004 9:22:40 PM PDT
by
kesg
To: Andy from Beaverton
19
posted on
09/19/2004 9:23:17 PM PDT
by
jjames001
(Hillary...? Hitler...? Hitlery...? sKerry is a perfect leader for the DemonRats, fits right in!)
to hell with the liberals.
It's time for an ANN COULTER pic !!! 
20
posted on
09/19/2004 9:23:20 PM PDT
by
kingattax
(The Lead Dog always has the best view)
To: Andy from Beaverton
..........a highly technical explanation posted within hours of airtime citing proportional spacing and font styles. "highly technical" ?????
It seems that Peter Wallsten, cub reporter, is too young to have ever typed on a monospace typewriter.
21
posted on
09/19/2004 9:23:30 PM PDT
by
Polybius
To: Gibtx
Well, that changes everything!
Now that Buckhead is a "GOP linked attorney", the forged documents are now magically authentic.
To: Andy from Beaverton
"Buckhead," who said CBS memos were forged, is a GOP-linked attorney
Perhaps the demo-people would feel better if Buckhead was just an elderly gentleman and his wife, traveling in their car in Florida on a trip to see their grandchildren, and just happened to have their laptop in an active wireless zone, and picked up the freerepublic vibrations. They would listen in....etc etc.
23
posted on
09/19/2004 9:23:41 PM PDT
by
Dat Mon
(clever tagline under construction)
To: Andy from Beaverton
All FReepers should follow my example and create a profile that hides their real identity. I describe myself as a lesbian midget piano tuner who lives in Bangor Maine on an armadillo ranch.
24
posted on
09/19/2004 9:24:24 PM PDT
by
bayourod
(Kerry would avenge the murder of my family by terrorists. Bush would prevent the murders.)
To: spyone
OMG! A Republican attorney!On a conservative website, no less! OMG it's a conspiracy!
This has to be quite possibly the silliest story I've heard out of Memogate yet. A member of FR, a *gasp* Republican? Who'd have thunk it?
Sheesh. I get better investigative reporting from my four year old who tells me what's going on with my ex wife.
25
posted on
09/19/2004 9:24:48 PM PDT
by
Terabitten
(Live as a bastion of freedom and democracy in the midst of the heart of darkness.)
To: Andy from Beaverton
When are they going to disclose how Buckhead got CBS to put the "forged documents" on the net, so he could discover the discrepancies?
lol, these guys are such idiots. I can't even believe they are trying to place the blame on Buckhead because he's a Republican.
26
posted on
09/19/2004 9:24:57 PM PDT
by
NavySEAL F-16
(Proud to be a Reagan Republican)
To: Andy from Beaverton
Why is this "news"? Not your posting, but the search for the man who first noticed the forgeries and his background?
It certainly seems the press is trying to bring back the "Rove planted these forgeries" argument...though as we've seen before by those floating the Rove conspiracy theory, the Seattle Times isn't completely willing to acknowledge teh documents are fakes either. Talk about hedging your bets.
27
posted on
09/19/2004 9:25:09 PM PDT
by
swilhelm73
("I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things" -- Dan Rather)
To: Andy from Beaverton
a highly technical explanation What a crock. This lie is being repeated enough that it's becoming accepted as full-blown truth. Did the reporter even read Buckhead's posting?
To: Andy from Beaverton
Funny how libs are doing a public service when they uncover something; but conservatives MUST have some hidden, insidious agenda. That's basically the impression I have gotten over the coverage.
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:26:29 PM PDT
by
edpc
To: Andy from Beaverton
He could be (just to coin an extreme example) a bestialist who rides from sheepfold to sheepfold to rustle his conquests, and that still wouldn't make
overcopied, crumpled-up Microsoft Word documents into genuine Vietnam-era military memoranda. As the old Texas news hack would say, "with respect, deal with the facts".
30
posted on
09/19/2004 9:27:03 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(CBS News-Yes, We Really Do Think You're That Stupid.)
To: kingattax
Does Ann wear jammies when she lurks or posts here. Inquiring minds would fantasize to know.
31
posted on
09/19/2004 9:27:04 PM PDT
by
Dat Mon
(clever tagline under construction)
To: bayourod
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:27:36 PM PDT
by
TEXOKIE
(Father in Heaven, take command of America and her Mission, her leaders, her people, and her troops!)
To: bayourod
33
posted on
09/19/2004 9:28:19 PM PDT
by
jjames001
(Hillary...? Hitler...? Hitlery...? sKerry is a perfect leader for the DemonRats, fits right in!)
To: bayourod
All FReepers should follow my example and create a profile that hides their real identity. I describe myself as a lesbian midget piano tuner who lives in Bangor Maine on an armadillo ranch.
Well, let me just say I am from Texas originally though I live in NY now, and my daughter is active in state politics. I'm well known in media circles, and I unfortunately was just caught passing forged documents off as the real thing in order to bring down a sitting president.
Hope that doesn't give away my rather private identity.
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:28:32 PM PDT
by
swilhelm73
("I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things" -- Dan Rather)
To: bayourod
Ya mean that ones already taken!!??
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:28:47 PM PDT
by
Dat Mon
(clever tagline under construction)
To: bayourod
you better change that..everyone knows all the armadillo
ranches are in Vermont.
36
posted on
09/19/2004 9:29:04 PM PDT
by
kingattax
(The Lead Dog always has the best view)
To: swilhelm73
How hilarious..........watching these people trying to scramble is just funny.
Darn, Buckhead........I'm still waiting for the pic of you in your fuzzy slippers.
Now that would be newsworthy. Heehee.
To: Howlin
38
posted on
09/19/2004 9:32:31 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Comrade Hillary - 6/28/04)
To: Andy from Beaverton
39
posted on
09/19/2004 9:32:37 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
(His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
To: Andy from Beaverton
It looks like Buckhead did not recieve this memo:
dated
August 28/04
No Gop lawyers will be allowed to question the authenicity of any documents,(forged or not) which are part of CBS 60 Minutes programing.
signed
DR
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:33:09 PM PDT
by
woofie
(This document was generated in 2004 by a computer)
To: Dat Mon
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:33:21 PM PDT
by
kingattax
(The Lead Dog always has the best view)
To: Andy from Beaverton
Nobody can expect CBS to present any kind of credible interpretation of facts on its own, ever again. CBS is oblivious to truth, and incapable of acknowledging or countering rational arguments made against the CBS docs.
When individuals act this way, we say they are habitual liars and criminals. And when pubic corporation act this way, we say they are thoroughly corrupt, unqualified to be listed on major stock exchanges, and not suitable to hold licenses to a shared public resource, the airwaves.
42
posted on
09/19/2004 9:33:48 PM PDT
by
Tax Government
(Wage unrelenting economic war on the illiterate, stupid lying bastards at CBS.)
To: Andy from Beaverton
The network also has sought to counter the arguments by referring to a typewriting script distributor, who says the typing style in the memos has been available since 1931. Wrong, cub reporter.
Times New Roman was available since the 1930's as a typesetting font used by the Times of London. It was not until 1980 that Times New Roman was licensed as a word processor font and available as a typing font.
If you do not know the difference between a typesetting font and a font available on a typewriter, cub reporter, ask the Editor of the Seattle Times to arrange a little lecture for you by the guys who run the printing presses that print The Seattle Times.
When an Internet poster who is a physician by profession knows more about printing technology than a reporter for the Seattle Times, it illustrates the abysmal ignorance of those who now work for the news media.
43
posted on
09/19/2004 9:35:05 PM PDT
by
Polybius
To: Andy from Beaverton
Do you know - I found out Dan Rather has held Democrat fundraisers, the lawyer for Burkett is a democrat hoping to run for Supreme Court in Texas, Dan Rather's daughter is in the Texas Democrats and hopes to run for mayor.
Also realized that Burkett has the cell phone number of Max Cleveland, had contacted the DNC, NY Times, and other "friendly" Bush-haters to try and ruin Bush.
I also found out that CBS is a free network site for DNC propaganda. Now we are investigating how far back this has been going on and how many more "fake" documents have been used to support their "news".
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:35:13 PM PDT
by
ClancyJ
(Vote for President Bush - For our grandchildren. Democrats are not to be trusted with our country)
To: Andy from Beaverton
Yo, Peter Wallsten. How much effort did the LA Times put into identifying Buckhead as compared to the identity of the person who created the forged documents?
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:35:27 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
To: Andy from Beaverton
This must be the billionth legacy media outlet to run this
non story.
So why are they doing it?
To intimidate FR users, bloggers and other pajamahadeen.
They don't want you digging in their dirt or even
expressing your opinion.
So you do need to decide whether to change IDs often,
keep your posts free of personal info, or just not
care that the darksiders might try to out you.
To: NavySEAL F-16
LOL Buckhead could be a purple Liertarian, and the documents would be just as fraudulent! Earth to Dan Rather....!
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:39:24 PM PDT
by
Libertina
(Thank God we have President Bush in the White House.)
To: Andy from Beaverton
"Buckhead," a blogger...
Good for Buckhead and all the other who dissected this fraud. Though I feel for him now. I am sure every RAT weasel and their vermin infested friends are targeting him now.
And FR is not a Blog! It's a forum. Sick of reading that. These MSM idiots don't even know what they're writing about.
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:41:54 PM PDT
by
LiberalBassTurds
(Al Qaeda needs to know we are fluent in the "dialogue of bullets.")
To: Andy from Beaverton
It's absolutely amazing! An ATTORNEY? A REPUBLICAN? It just CANT be true! Somebody call Dan Rather!
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posted on
09/19/2004 9:42:59 PM PDT
by
Just Lori
(CBS: Turn out the lights. The party's over.)
To: bayourod
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