Limbaugh! Rather & Kalb Credit Free Republic (or Buckhead.com) for breaking the FORGED documents

Limbaugh ^ | 09/27/05 | Rush

[freedrudge]

RUSH: I want to now go to these Dan Rather sound bites. Dan Rather was interviewed last night at the National Press Club in Washington by former CBS News employee-reporter Marvin Kalb. Marvin Kalb now runs the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center at Harvard, and you know something? When you hear these bites you're going to understand what I'm saying here. This is one of the problems of the mainstream media today. When these reporters that get long in the tooth get laid off or retired, they farm them out to these think tanks and these journalism schools and these government schools, and these old guys start inculcating their old-media, old-world views into these students, and that's why nothing changes. Some of this (laughing) especially sound bite #2 here,

....KALB: Every now and then it even looks as if the new media is at war with the old media. I want to go back to the National Guard story of last year. I've always been astonished that even before the program ended -- it was still on -- a blog site called FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer blasted the program. Four hours later another website called Buckhead ran a detailed critique of the documents that you used in the report. What happened, then, was that dozens of other bloggers joined in, then the mainstream media joined in, and then everything shifted and the focus was on you! The focus was not on the substance of your story --

[RDTF]

I thought Little Green Footballs got the credit?

[My2Cents]

Four hours later another website called Buckhead

Get your facts correct, Marvin.

[VRWCTexan]

"....FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer...?

The lame-stream press just don't get it...!!!

[Keith in Iowa]

We need to give Marv a little shcoolin' as to what's what...you'd think he'd be smart enough to do some reasearch and not completley get all his facts wrong as he did...

[kempster]

Wear it as a Badge of Honor!

[freedrudge]

I searched for this site Buckhead> I didn't find it.

[Hi Heels]

The focus was not on the substance of your story --

There WAS NO SUBSTANCE to the story.

*searches madly for buckhead.com......*

[goldstategop]

Rush mentioned Free Republic and Buckhead on today's show segment! Someone should post that Grim Reaper at The White House photo on here - its just too funny. Another MSM manufactured impression of someone reaching out to bless the crowds! ;-)

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Little Bill]

I followed it from the 4th post on, BS is present.

[FormerACLUmember]

Kalb is from the Land of the Lost, another freeking moron like Rather. (left to right) Rather, Kalb and Brokow all screeching, raging and livid at Free Republic:

OOOOOH I am so scared!

[Hi Heels]

ping... will you please direct us to the website called buckhead?

[AFreeBird]

I thought Little Green Footballs got the credit?

Since when has Dan Rather, the Lame Stream Media, or any other DUmmie psycophants, EVER bothered with anything like research & facts?

Which is of course the whole point, and the source of their shame.

[LRS]

The focus was not on the substance of your story ...

Note: his story HAD NO SUBSTANCE...

[NormsRevenge]

blame blame blame (/aRnold)

[Stentor]

Four hours later another website called Buckhead ran a detailed critique of the documents that you used in the report.

Time for Marv to get a drool cup.

[KC Burke]

Gosh, Jim, you have been reactivated and you're in the airforce now! And Buckhead, take your pajamas and hang them up, you are now a full blown website! LOL

[RDTF]

I wonder if Rather sticks pins in a voodoo blogger doll

[NormsRevenge]

The comments that the accusations were true, and that only the supporting documents were lacking in credibility cracked me up.

[freedrudge]

KALB: You just said that, um, (pause) you think the story is "accurate."

RATHER: Well, the story is "accurate."

KALB: Okay.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

I usually don't get a chance to listen to Rush, but today I was able to catch that segment of the show. I was cheering and screaming. Did any of you hear me? I'm sure that the other drivers around me thought that I has lost it. Oh well, it the price you pay when you are a Freeper.

[rodguy911]

Rush did mention lgf today.

[rdb3]

I've heard of Buckhead, but not a Buckhead site.

If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!

[Ladysmith]

Good grief! If they can mess up the facts about that night this badly, what does that say about the accuracy (or lack of!) in everything else they report on!!

[My2Cents]

Poop-flingers all.

[SandRat]

KALB: Every now and then it even looks as if the new media is at war with the old media. I want to go back to the National Guard story of last year. I've always been astonished that even before the program ended -- it was still on -- a blog site called FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer blasted the program. Four hours later another website called Buckhead ran a detailed critique of the documents that you used in the report. What happened, then, was that dozens of other bloggers joined in, ..

JR I didn't know that you were an active duty Air Force Officer. Buckhead what's the name of the website you run?

Hehehehehehehe they can't even get the facts of what hit em in the head correct!

hehehehehehe

[Ciexyz]

Ah, how sweet to hear the MSM snarlin' and screamin'!

[My2Cents]

The comments that the accusations were true, and that only the supporting documents were lacking in credibility cracked me up.

Thank God this Rather-biased anchor is now retired. Unfortunately, there are more where he came from.

[pollyannaish]

Buckhead.com? Boy, am I behind the times. I've never heard of it.

/dripping sarcasm

[ncountylee]

Marvin Kalb

Lecturer in Public Policy

Senior Fellow

Shorenstein Center

-R

Tel: (202)518-2239

Fax: (202)518-2250

email: marvin_kalb@harvard.edu

[El Gato]

"....FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer...? The lame-stream press just don't get it...!!!

No Shiite! Jim Robinson has been wheel chair bound since 1996. He served in the Navy, not the Air Force (although we'd love to claim him :) ). He was not a commissioned officer, although he was a Third Class Petty Officer, way back when. Can they get it any more wrong than that?

[El Gato]

If they can mess up the facts about that night this badly, what does that say about the accuracy (or lack of!) in everything else they report on!!

Haven't you noticed that whenever you actually know something, from prior experience or education, about what they write, you find all sorts of errors. What does that tell you about the stuff you did not have knowledge of before?

[Gritty]

Can they get it any more wrong than that?

They haven't gotten anything right yet! Why should we expect they would get this right?

They are just being true to form.

[Ladysmith]

That's exactly what I'm suggesting.

[Nekman]

Marvin Kalb now runs the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center at Harvard



So,this bozo is now a member of the filling minds with mush crowd. At least it isn't a stretch from all those years as a "journalist/reporter"

[sharkhawk]

Marvin Kalb, alleged "journalist" and lecturer at Harvard, got 4 facts wrong in one question.

1. Free Republic is not a blog.

2. The documents were questioned first by TankerKC because the signatures were right justified, something that could be noticed at a glance. The proportional fonts were not discovered until CBS proudly posted them at their website, and they could be studied properly.

3. The owner of FR is not active duty military. (although TankerKC might be.

4. Buckhead is a poster on Free Republic, not a web site.

With all of these errors in one question, how he could possibly denigrate the internet for not doing proper research? An e-mail is going to Mr. Kalb right now, although I doubt he has the guts to answer.

[ncountylee]

I've sent him an email also asking him about fact checking.

[DouglasKC]

a blog site called FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer blasted the program. Four hours later another website called Buckhead ran a detailed critique of the documents that you used in the report. What happened, then, was that dozens of other bloggers joined in, then

Too bad that Rush didn't seem to pick up on the glaring inaccuracies in this statement. I've counted at least 5 mistakes in just that one sentence. Incredible that a show about journalism can't even get the facts straight.

[TaxRelief]

They can not get their facts straight because they do not know how to navigate internet forums, search for blogs or maximize the use of search engines for dated facts.

[Twinkie]

Dan . . . when you're standing on a platform held up by three pillars and one of them is Gossip, another is Hearsay and another is Forgery . . if the Forgery pillar collapses, then the platform collapses too and you, sir, get spilled. Dan . . are you here?! You're here, aren't you, Dan?!

Don't you get it, Dan? It's NOT ALL ABOUT YOU AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA! This country is in the middle of dealing with much more serious matters than your EGO and your media friends' EGOS.

If you want a perfect example of the liberal Utopia you have devoted your life to producing, just take a look at New Orleans. Yes, there was disgrace there . . and even after the liberal Democrat corrupt politicians have had DECADES to produce by now WHAT OUGHT TO BE a total Utopia in New Orleans. It looks like a lot of people have been rescued . . maybe by the hand of God . . from your liberal Utopia.

[OrangeDaisy]

Haven't you noticed that whenever you actually know something, from prior experience or education, about what they write, you find all sorts of errors. What does that tell you about the stuff you did not have knowledge of before?

And it doesn't matter what level--national or local, networks or newspapers.

[DJ MacWoW]

LOL ping

[My2Cents]

I think you've nailed it. They have been left in the dust by the internet revolution, and this little pity party between Kalb and Rather are proof of that.

[YaYa123]

Yes, Marvin Kalb garbled the facts!

Jim is not active duty military. Buckhead is not a blogger.
And think of it, Marvin Kalb teaches Journalism at Harvard!

[abb]

It depends on what the definition of "right" is...

[nopardons]

Just give them a few more months and Rather, Mapes, and Kalb will get even more things wrong.

[Textide]

[visitor]

FOR THE RECORD: CBS Memos Controversy on Free Republic

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1220090/posts

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

Facts scare the hell out of libs. Think garlic and vampires. Vampires...that's a good analogy for the blood-sucking libs.:-)