Posted on 05/01/2008 6:38:52 AM PDT by BufordP
On 4/11/08, The Newseum opened its new quarters in Washington, DC. I was specifically interested in an exhibit in the Internet, TV and Radio Gallery. The exhibit was "Bias at CBS" and it featured the September 2004 "60 Minutes II" Dan Rather report aimed at discrediting President Bush's service in the Air National Guard. This 9/04 report was meant to hurt Bush's re-election chances in November, 2004.
Comments among FReepers quickly exposed inconsistencies in the documents and led to bloggers on the internet exposing the report as deeply flawed, as well as using forged documents. These inconsistencies ultimately forced CBS to retract its story.
The exhibit describes "how conservative blogs flexed their muscle and played a most significant role in the 2004 election "by discrediting documents used in Rather's "60 Minutes II' report.
Below is a copy of Buckhead's famous post #47 which started the unraveling of Dan Rather's story. His post is displayed as part of the exhibit. The red text are working links.
NYTIMES ^ | 09/09/04 | KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:10:56 PM by Pikamax
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the National Guard came under renewed scrutiny on Wednesday as newfound documents emerged ....
To: HowlinHowlin, 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.
It was thrill to see the key role played by Free Republic in exposing a media lie against Bush at a pivotal moment right before the November election. The Newseum will draw a lot of tourists and many will see this.
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free dixie,sw
Fantastic!
Don’t you have to pay to get in the Newseum now? It used to be free.
CREDS FOR THE THREAD GO TO KBURI
CREDS FOR PUTTING FREEREPUBLIC IN THE NEWSEUM GO TO JR AND BUCKHEAD
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Last post was yesterday morning.
This is beautiful. Its probably the first thing Dan Rather thinks about when he gets out of bed in the morning.
Yes. Click on the Newseum link above for details.
Sending prayers for Jim .. may our Dear Lord
guide his medical team with wisdom and skill
and provide Jim with His healing and relief
from pain and discomfort. God bless you and be
with you, Jim.
Dan Rather is a DemonRAT, why would you believe he "thinks?"
BTTT
HELL YEAH!!!
Where credit is due, it is given. Congrats. And thanks Jim for this special and historic place...
Thanks for posting, BufordP.
~~AWESOME!
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BTTT
Well now, that is just beyond cool :)
Amen, Dear Starwise, and I’m Praying for Jim with my Whole Heart.
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