Posted on 09/17/2004 3:55:38 PM PDT by Redcoat LI
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 W. MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Times has found.
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"Is gambling going on in here too????"
Well, yes, when we are doing a pool on how late Kerry will be for an appearance. No money changes hands to the best of my knowledge.
What the hell does that have anything to do with the fact that CBS aired FORGED DOCUMENTS?!?!?
bormij, check your super scooby decoder ring. Due to your indescretion, mission directives are now modified.
regdor
Yeah. They go through all this trouble to "out" BuckHead as a conservative activist, even though everyone knows he's an active Freeper. Truly spectacular "investigative" journalism, isn't it?
Hell, they'd probably call him a Facist child abuser who killed his mother.
So what? If the Lamestream press would do its job ....!
The key is the many people who give clues to their identities in their posts. If you want to be anonymous, leave out identifying personal anecdotes, professional qualifications etc. Also, if you do, change your screen name often or use several.
Obviously it is OK for a Democratic partisan to attack the GOP but not OK for a GOP partisan to attack the Democrats.
Is there any member of FreeRepublic with a sign up date of 1998 who is not a "Conservative activist"?
PS: You're my hero. :-)
Time for me to change my screenname. Again.
LOL .. I am still laughing at these liberals ..
Oooooooooooooooooooooo golly gee; a Conservative on www.freerepublic.com.
LMAO.........GREAT scoop, LA Times. Go**amned if I don't smell a Pulitzer here.
Now.....to the morons at the Slimes....any of us who got a look at those documents and came up through typewriters and transitioned to computers later in life could have (and should have) come to the exact same conclusion (you know; guys like ME, for example). To try to paint some conspiracy on OUR part for all this is just beyond the pale.
Freakin' idiots. The MSM truly is populated by droolers, isn't it??????
At least we know Buckhead wasn't Karl Rove. We still think Buckhead is the Freeper of the year.
Hmmm. So it's a big deal the political perspective of a guy who objectively debunks a lie while posting to a website, while the politics of a guy who spreads the lie is not important.
That's my question. They say they "pieced together" stuff from his freerepublic postings over the past few years, but they don't elaborate. This causes concern - - what kind of snooping did they stoop to?
Yeah, can you believe it? The MSM is so dim as to think it's a scoop that a FReeper turns out to be a conservative. I mean, what are the odds of that?
I got a newsflash for them, the forgery story was broken on CBS by a long-time liberal activist journalist who has raised money for Democrats in Texas. Not only that, but it's a family thing; his daughter does it too.
If the rest of the MSM ever gets the hang of this investigative journalism stuff, they might even beat Dan to "breaking" the story that the memos are forgeries. Now wouldn't that be a scoop? They better work on it fast, though. I hear Rather really wants to be the one to score that coup.
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