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This is Chapter 13 of the new book To Set the Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry, written by yours truly and The Shrew. It tells the story of how Freepers exposed Dan Rather's fraudulent National Guard documents story during the 2004 presidential campaign. The book-formatted version, with footnotes, can be found at the link.
1 posted on 12/12/2007 7:48:06 AM PST by Interesting Times
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FR’s finest hour ping...


2 posted on 12/12/2007 7:49:57 AM PST by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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What happened with this scandal was truly the penultimate triumph of the de-massification of the media Alvin Toffler talked about way back in 1979 in the book The Third Wave. Is it small wonder why Americans are so skeptical of the MSM since then?
4 posted on 12/12/2007 8:02:06 AM PST by RayChuang88
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Thanks for the ping.... I am still of the belief this book needs to be recorded into the Congressional Record ... “Special Orders” anyone????


5 posted on 12/12/2007 8:04:28 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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I can't wait to read you and Tim's book. You guys are real American heroes!

In January 2005 at its Inaugural Ball in Washington, FreeRepublic.com named Harry MacDougald—“Buckhead”—as the website’s “Poster of the Year.” MacDougald accepted with modesty, saying that others would surely have spotted the forgeries if he had not. He walked away with a plaque that featured a gold-colored investigator’s badge.

On the badge were engraved the words “Pajama Patrol.”

Pajama Patrol Badges, Pins & Iron on Patches

6 posted on 12/12/2007 8:12:33 AM PST by Seeking the truth (Queen Hillary faux postage stamps - 0cents.com)
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I was lurking on that thread almost all night, it was remarkable and the quality of the research was astounding. I was mad as a hornet at C-BS and LOL at the same time.

I finally went to bed in the wee hours of the morning with a smile on my face and malice in my heart. It is disgusting what CBS tried to do that night and something I will never forget.


7 posted on 12/12/2007 8:13:26 AM PST by federal
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HA!! HA!! The downfall of dan rather and CBS
11 posted on 12/12/2007 8:19:46 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (I've been too busy for FR this weekend, because I did the things I refuse to let the invaders do.)
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“Don Mapes told an interviewer, “I’m really ashamed of my daughter, what she’s become. She went into journalism with an ax to grind, that is, to promote feminism—and radical feminism, I might say—and liberalism.”

and one might say she was one of the Hillesbians.

Radical liberal feminists working with Hillary’s core crew of ‘sisters’.

Hillary wanted Kerry to win, because then the DNC controlled the White House and could ‘erase’ any damaging info. Kerry would have one term, then Hillary planned to be President.

So now she is spending a lot of time putting out little fires, most of which she creates.

The SBV’s, the Pajamahadeen, POW’s and New Media became heros, role models, for the rest of us.

The MSM looks for dirt to sell laundry soap.

We use the soap to wash off the dirt, and reveal the truth.

It is wonderful to have a book containing the truth about the scandalous behavior of the DNC and MSM.

Were it not for the internet, though, I doubt I would ever have heard of the book. And Hillary would probably be President right now.

THANK GOD FOR AL GORE!!! (irony is wonderful)


18 posted on 12/12/2007 8:25:19 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (-Not Afraid of the truth, and the whole truth - Are you?)
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Makes me proud just to hang around and sweep the place out.


19 posted on 12/12/2007 8:25:48 AM PST by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid...even by congressional standards.)
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I ordered this book for my brother’s birthday (today he is 62 and is a Vietnam vet).

It hasn’t arrived yet but if it doesn’t so be it. I printed the website page and I’ll just put that in his card. Not until this afternoon though, I still have hope it will be here in time.


21 posted on 12/12/2007 8:27:55 AM PST by Not gonna take it anymore
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I saved one of the all-time greatest posts in the history of DU, that appeared the morning after the report, when FR was basically shredding it:

It so clearly illustrates the bile, misplaced superiority, and utter reliance on what the mainstream media shoves down their throats that liberals exhibit. Funny, but sad too.

29 posted on 12/12/2007 8:38:18 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Historical ping


31 posted on 12/12/2007 8:40:27 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
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What a fantastic summary. You know — and I mean this with all sincerity — this is as big to conservatives and the new media as Watergate was to liberals and the biased media dominance.

Wonder who will star in the movie?


35 posted on 12/12/2007 8:46:56 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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That was, without a doubt, the best story of our time. Makes me proud to be in such good ompany here at FR. And it should be required reading for political science and history classes, or for anyone considering turning on a telelvision or other ‘old media’ for information. People, real people, keep this country great. Thank God they were there in this country’s hour of need. I shudder to think of the outcome if this story never got to the light of day. Excellent work!


39 posted on 12/12/2007 8:57:21 AM PST by SueRae
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...the establishment media now prepared to focus with laser-like intensity on the military service, not of John Kerry, but of George W. Bush. That decision would lead to the sharpest single confrontation between the old and new media during the 2004 campaign.

Great start - I'm hooked into reading...

41 posted on 12/12/2007 9:02:31 AM PST by GOPJ (Dems! Would you trust a pilot's wife to land a plane just because she's a frequent flyer??)
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Bump!


42 posted on 12/12/2007 9:05:04 AM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: TankerKC; Howlin; Buckhead

ping


43 posted on 12/12/2007 9:07:21 AM PST by GOPJ (Dems! Would you trust a pilot's wife to land a plane just because she's a frequent flyer??)
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48 posted on 12/12/2007 9:14:39 AM PST by XR7
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Nice work Scott.

Memories came flooding back...


51 posted on 12/12/2007 9:18:38 AM PST by sauropod (Welcome to O'Malleyland. What's in your wallet?)
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By Thursday afternoon, West coast bloggers were adding compelling new evidence to the case against CBS. Little Green Footballs host Charles Johnson provided a visual coup de grace at 10:24 A.M. Pacific [1:24 P.M. Eastern]:

9/9/2004: Bush Guard Documents: Forged

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....I want to be the one that breaks this story Mapes...

53 posted on 12/12/2007 9:19:06 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (NY Times: "fake but accurate")
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I am proud to have been a small part of exposing those fraudulent documents....their format was all wrong...had CBS gone to any flying types they would have noticed that they were fake...forget the so called experts.


54 posted on 12/12/2007 9:20:30 AM PST by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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