(Vanity)"Strategery" by Bill Sammon recognizes FreeRepublic and Freepers

2006 | Bill Sammon

[Danae]

Kudos again to FR, Buckhead, Howlin, Texasforever, NYCVirago, and of course Jim for having this site to begin with.

"Chapter 9 "We're Toast" pg 143 - 145 directly credits Freepers above with uncovering the "missing Documents" out of President Bush's National Guard Service that were distinctly unflattering to the President, and also flat forgeries.

I am reading the book at the moment, and I wanted to pause and give credit where credit is due. I thank all those who helped bring to light these roaches that considered themselves so important as to try to influence a Presidential Election. I thank all of you personally who were influential in finally getting to call the MSM on the carpet, SUCCESSFULY! Bill Sammon has immortalized you in print, you are all immortal in my heart, you were the tipping point in an election. I am eternally grateful! You have done this Nation a service that can not be quantified.

Danae

[don-o]

IBTZ

[Danae]

No IBFZ! I am serious! This is a really good book! Sammon has done three books from the inside of the Bush administration. All of which I recomend! VERY pro-Bush!
No Zot Please!

[Just A Nobody]

We have rules here .....

[RonDog]

From www.amazon.com:

[SevenofNine]

OMGGG we are famousss

We didn't sleep with Frank Sinatra OOPS wrong reset LOL! I think of Kitty Kelley NEVER MIND LOL!

[Just A Nobody]

I have those 3 books and they were great! I plan to get "Strategery" very soon.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Is Stratgery the followup to Strategery?

[hummingbird]

Kudos again to FR, Buckhead, Howlin, Texasforever, NYCVirago, and of course Jim for having this site to begin with.

Bravo!

[RonDog]

ping

[hummingbird]

Hubba, hubba....!

[Just A Nobody]

yum yum...er...I mean...uh huh. ;*)

[SmithL]

And we got to hang out with these guys before they were famous.

[Echo Talon]

Super Stretch bump! :)

[Always Learning]

Ok, as a newcomer, can someone fill me in, or direct me to where I can be filled in as to what this is about?

[daybreakcoming]

That was one of those nights I will always remember. I had no gems of wisdom to offer but watching a chapter of history unfold before my very eyes..........WoW. Thanks forever to all who did participate.

[swheats]

Yall been to the White House yet? Congratulations

[txroadkill]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210516/posts?q=1&&page=1#1

  I became a freeper that night.

[txroadkill]

Here is the famous post:

To: Howlin

 

Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.

In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.

The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.

I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.

This should be pursued aggressively.
 

47 posted on 09/08/2004 11:59:43 PM EDT by Buckhead

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After this post, the only clock ticking on CBS was the one counting down the seconds left in Dan Rather and Mary Mape's careers

[msmagoo54]

I'm with you. I was very new to this website and remember being absolutely glued to it for hours and hours reading the posts.

It truly was historic. Little did we know at the time how remarkable it was! History was made.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, to all who were involved.

[Congressman Billybob]

Freepers CAN do a great deal of good when they get the bit in their teeth, and fill their saddlebags with facts. I have a background in print media advertising (long, long ago). The instant I read Buckhead's famous Post #47, I knew then and there he had it right, and the documents were fakes.

Bringing down Rather was the turning point in the war between the Old Media and the New Media. And the first shot in that war, it's Lexington and Concord, was fired by Buckhead.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article: "Rep. Taylor's Office Caught in an Obvious Lie in Attempt to Smear John Armor"

[thoughtomator]

In light of the UAE/ports fiasco, that book looks as out of date as "The End of History".

[RonDog]

Not to worry. :o)

"Dubai" is Arabic for "Harriet Miers" -- and this, too, will pass.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!!

[Enterprise]

Bimpity to the top bump!

[Howlin]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v225/lweaton/FR/scan.jpg

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[Howlin]

******FOR THE RECORD: CBS Memos Controversy on Free Republic

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

[Howlin]

I became a freeper that night.

You did? Wow, that is wonderful to know!

[Sea2ShiningSea]

Howlin,

That is WAY cool!

[hummingbird]

Mapes was on a roll, alright, just not the kind of roll one would want to be on!

Awesome to see Freepers credited in this way...in a Bill Sammon book!

[don-o]

No IBFZ! I am serious!

Correct. I apologize for the SAWB moment.

d

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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If we Vietnam Vets had had http://www.Freerepublic.com to use to combat the media lies they were telling about the Vietnam War...

...a then Free South Vietnam would still be Free today.


Instead, we have these to see:


Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts


...and not dupicate ever again,

...anywhere.



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[STARWISE]

THE catalyst that paved the way to victory was uncovering the layers of filth that was the Rather/Mapes sinister plot .... mission-oriented FReeping at its very best. Kudos to you all and many many thanks!!!

[STARWISE]

Interesting ... Bush's service record (from your detailed reference thread) from May to July 1973 has been pulled by Acrobat ( ...or SEE BS??? ).. LOL. Perhaps they were rightly threatened with slander/libel and who knows what else by the man they so tried to destroy?? Blather never told the truth anyway, so we'd never know the repercussions from him or his former "superiors."

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Bush_Military_04.pdf

[txroadkill]

First and for most, thank you for your service and sacrifice. I was born after the Viet Nam War, but it is my hope (and I believe it will happen) that it is my generation that is remembered for bringing the honor that is due to those of you who sacrificed so much of yourselves for so many who were ungrateful back at home. Thanks to places like this, the history of that war is being corrected to finally tell the truth and it is my belief that my generation sees the real Viet Nam. A war where our soldiers never lost an engagement, of POW's who survived torture for 6,7,8 years and never dishonored themselves or their country. And most of all, the complete dishonor of so-called 'patriots' who spit on, cursed and shamelessly spread lies about the only true honorable men of their generation. God Bless you and all who have served this great nation.

[ladyinred]

Thanks for the review. I must get this book!

[lowbridge]

bump

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Thank you for your good heart, txroadkill.

But the fight for CLARITY goes on to this day, about a new time of war in a new century.

Only this time its our own Freedom that's directly at stake and it's the same Anti-Freedom liars who are doing the same blurring of the truth thru our American media as they try to re-enter our Oval Office in this time of national peril:

HILLARY RODHAM
WILLIAM CLINTON
WALTER CRONKITE
TED KENNEDY
JOHN KERRY
BARBARA BOXER, and all.

They must all be finally defeated before its too late ..for US.

For the Enemy is now within...
...and always has been.

AR

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[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Please correct thread title - the proper spelling is s-t-r-a-t-e-g-e-r-y.

[smoothsailing]

BTTT!!!

[Mo1]

BTTT

[Danae]

I was watching that night as well Howlin, it just gives me the Chills, I read that thread as it was being written, just sitting and wondering what was going to come of it, it was just so apparent that there was a dead fish in the back seat... You called it and I personally am in your debt! This Nation is. Who knows what would have happened if you had not, perhaps Rather and Mapes would have gotten away with it, and perhaps Kerry would have won the election... The Horror of that thought... The Horror of the following thought, "it was just that close", is enough to make me sick to my stomach even this morning!

I am so GLAD that Sammon included you in his book, and the others who were mentioned. I am eternally grateful that some of the MSM got back in real terms some of the BS they have been shoveling us for years. I would love to ask Rather, "So, in light of your nefarious "Journalism", lack of ethics, and complete loss of Journalistic standards, do you think that you were properly and appropriately punished for publishing Forgeries on "60 Minutes", and a follow up, do you believe you owe President Bush a personal Apology for what amounted to a sleazy lo-ball attack on his character during a Presidential Election?" But I am not holding my breath! lol
I thank you again for being so on the ball. You ROCK!

[WOSG]

The point is, we have to have facts on our side.
For every buckhead post, there are 99 posts that are speculation that doesnt pan out, or is just plain wrong.

The MSM uses that 'noise' to discredit the good work that is done.

Right now, it is bloggers (and a few independent journies like Steven Hayes) that are driving the Saddam documents story ... a story the MSM is mainly ignoring.

[Semper Paratus]

Who's going to write Al Gore's book, Lockbox?

[Fudd Fan]

I just finished "Strategery." "We're Toast" was my FAVORITE chapter!!

[toddlintown]

Strategery.

[Fudd Fan]

You guys have inspired my new tagline. Kudos to FR's best!

[Christian4Bush]

Bill Sammon on Hannity & Cryptkeeper NOW

[Rembrandt]

I agree with the post but it's not right to, in the same breath, give accolades to the Swift Boat Vets.

[KC Burke]

I knew you when you weren't famous. {...only notorius, back then)