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Authenticity backed on Bush documents Boston Globe — Permalink After CBS News on Wednesday trumpeted newly discovered documents that referred to a 1973 effort to ''sugar coat" President Bush's service record in the Texas Air National Guard, the network almost immediately faced charges that the documents were forgeries, with typography that was not available on typewriters used at that time. | |
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Tim Blair: And then there's the matter of Phillip Bouffard, about whom the Boston Globe writes: "Philip D. Bouffard, a forensic... William J. Dyer: Rathergate day 3 update — Culled shamelessly from InstaPundit in the most part, here's what my quick skim suggests to... Natasha @PacificViews: Daily Kos diarist Hunter debunks the forgery claims against the Bush TANG memos. The Boston Globe has come on board. |
Mitch Berg: Sugar Coat — The Boston Glob grandiloquently claims that the Rather/TANG memos are purrfectly legit: "But specialists... Glenn Reynolds: UPDATE: I don't know what they said on the air, but CBS is amazingly sloppy on their website, where they get Bouffard's... Digby: Dupes And Skeptics — Not that it matters, because the echo chamber seems to have made a decision, but there are a... |
| Also: Kevin Raybould, Jan Haugland, Jeff Goldstein, McQ, Bird Dog, Jesse Taylor, The Farmer, The Big Trunk, DemFromCT, Barbara O'Brien, Skippy, Bill @INDCJournal, Jay Rosen, Allah | |
Noted Now ABCNEWS — Permalink Bookmark this page and return often for the latest political news. HODGES SAID HE WAS MISLED BY CBS: Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian's supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. | |
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Judith Weiss: Meanwhile Killian's former commander says he was misled by CBS: "According to Hodges, CBS told him the documents were... William J. Dyer: ABC News reports that one of the sources CBS News principally relied upon — retired Maj. General Hodges, who was... Bird Dog: One of the CBS News sources who "confirmed" the authenticity of the memos was retired Major General Bobby Hodges, and he... |
Jeff Goldstein: I believe that the witnesses and the documents are authentic. We wouldn't have gone to air if they would not have been. Digby: Today, we hear the startling news that General Hodges now says he was misled into believing that the memos were handwritten, which for some reason is supposed to make a difference. Ace: 5) But the man says on the record he did no such thing, and furthermore, he was lied to to elicit the weak... |
| Also: Charles Johnson, Captain Ed, The Big Trunk, Jan Haugland, Jonah Goldberg, Jay Rosen, Rice Grad, Clayton Cramer, Tim Blair, Bill @INDCJournal, Christopher Kanis, Greg Ransom, McQ, Glenn Reynolds, Allah, John Hawkins, Kevin Drum, Pejman Yousefzadeh | |
CBS falls for Kerry campaign's fake memo By / Chicago Sun Times — Permalink A few weeks ago, Thomas Oliphant of the Boston Globe was on PBS' ''Newshour'' explaining why the hundreds of swift boat veterans' allegations against John Kerry's conduct in Vietnam was unworthy of his attention. | |
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Tim Blair: By the way, if you haven't already, read Mark Steyn. Jan Haugland: The Magic Typewriter — Just read what Mark Steyn writes in his brilliant CBS falls for Kerry campaign's fake memo. KJL: STEYN! ON RATHERGATE "The tragedy for Rather, Oliphant, Krugman and Co. is that even if the memos were authentic nobody would care. |
Judith Weiss: Mark Steyn notes the mainstream media's selective criteria of believability: "A few weeks ago, Thomas Oliphant of the... Avedon Carol: "Tomorrow, Mark Styne will still be claiming that those of us who used IBM Selectrics and Executives were from the future." Skippy: remember, you can't spell "gossip" without "g-o-p" for some inexplicable reason, mark steyn of the chisun-times has... |
| Also: Roger L. Simon, Bruce Sanborn, Michael DeBow, Charles Johnson, The Big Trunk, Acidman, Glenn Reynolds, Betsy Newmark, Orrin Judd | |
Poll: Bush Bounce Persists By / Time — Permalink Presidential choice question based on likely voters. All other results, unless noted, based on registered voters. Telephone interviewing was conducted September 7 - 9 Last week's seismic voter shift to George W. Bush showed no signs of dwindling in this week's Time Poll. | |
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Michael Totten: Here is the latest from Time: "Last week's seismic voter shift to George W. Bush showed no signs of dwindling in this week's Time Poll. Orrin Judd: IN CASE YOU WERE EXPECTING THE KERRY CAMP TO ACT ANY LESS HYSTERICAL: Poll: Bush Bounce Persists: Kerry remains behind,... DemFromCT: Update [2004-9-11 12:55:15 by DemFromCT]: Time is here LV - (last week): Bush 52 (52) Kerry 41 (41) Nader 3 (3) Newsweek... |
Glenn Reynolds: NEW TIME POLL: [snipped quote] — UPDATE: Has Dan Rather re-elected Bush? Look at how the TradeSports market moved for Bush on Friday after RatherGate broke. Ace: Time: still an eleven point lead among likely voters, 52-41 in 3-way heat. Have two key swing states already swung? PoliPundit: Bounce Persists — Time: Still 52-41. |
| Also: Betsy Newmark | |
Questions mount on Guard memos' authenticity By / Washington Times — Permalink A handwriting expert says the two signatures on purported Texas National Guard memos aired by CBS News this week are not those of President Bush's squadron commander, as asserted by "60 Minutes." | |
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Jeff Goldstein: MUST CREDIT protein wisdom** protein wisdom: "To jump right in: this forged document story has really taken on a life of it's own. Allah: Meanwhile, the hits just keep on coming. I heard someone on Fox News about an hour ago say that Fox had spoken to three... Captain Ed: Washington Times: Killian Memo Signatures Forged — Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times reports this morning that... |
William J. Dyer: A certified forensic document examiner contacted by the Washington Times, Eugene P. Hussey, disagrees with CBS News'... Glenn Reynolds: MORE BAD NEWS FOR CBS: [snipped quote] Then there's this: "Gary Killian said one paper with his father's signature... The Big Trunk: Elsewhere in the Washington Times Rowan Scarborough reports: "Question mount on Guard memos' authenticity." |
| Also: McQ, Greg Ransom, Orrin Judd | |
CBS Defends Its Report on Bush Military Record NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 - The debate over President Bush's National Guard service turned into a furious battle over the minutiae of Vietnam-era typewriter fonts on Friday as CBS News mounted a vigorous defense against critics who doubted the authenticity of four documents that suggested Mr. Bush had shirked his duty. | |
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Roger L. Simon: Indeed, I imagine it's beginning to happen already. Even The New York Times is only offering tepid support. Tom Maguire: MORE: NY Times coverage for Sept 11. They miss the brutal, non-technical developments. Greg Ransom: Elsewhere, the NY Times does some solid reporting on typerwriters and their history. |
The Big Trunk: See also the stories by Deborah Orin and Vincent Morris in this morning's New York Post, "Rather forges ahead" by Jim... SLZoll: As the NY Times reveals, all the font analysis in the world is never going to resolve whether the Killian memos are forgeries or not. Tom Smith: New York Times does damage control — Here's the NYT on fontgate or whatever we're going to call it. |
| Also: Allah, Orrin Judd, Lambert @Corrente, Joe Gandelman | |
Authentic or not, Bush memos no big deal to retired guardsmen By / AP — Permalink ALBANY, Ga. - Retired National Guard members and even an Army Reservist home on leave from Iraq say they aren't bothered by memos indicating President Bush was suspended from flying because he skipped a medical exam and missed six months of training with his Texas Air National Guard unit during the Vietnam war. | |
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Judith Weiss: Dan Rather Retirement Watch. National Guardsmen say Bush's irregular service was pretty common. [quote] "We worked around it.[end quote] Orrin Judd: Authentic or not, Bush memos no big deal to retired guardsmen (ELLIOTT MINOR, 9/11/04, Associated Press) "Retired... McQ: The civilian job is the top priority and the reserves and NG do their level best to work with the reservist or guardsman in regard to those conflicts. |
Glenn Reynolds: ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader sends a link to this earlier version, which doesn't mention the problems (except in the... Betsy Newmark: It sounds like most reservists aren't much upset about Bush's record in the TANG even if 60 Minutes' charges are true. |
Bush and Kerry Step Up Attacks in Swing States NYT — Permalink CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, Sept. 10 - As President Bush on Friday leveled one of his strongest attacks on Senator John Kerry's position on Iraq, Kerry advisers said they had agreed on the need to ratchet up their campaign by challenging the president's trustworthiness and leadership skills. | |
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Tom Maguire: We Provide The Headline You Missed — On line readers of the NY Times missed a classic front page headline. DemFromCT: The arguments we have here about the best way for Kerry to proceed are reflected in the national media ("Divisions have... |
S.L.: Distortion — The Times Crosses the Line In its lead story in this morning's paper, The New York Times follows President... Orrin Judd: NEGATIVE + NEGATIVE DOES NOT = POSITIVE: Bush and Kerry Step Up Attacks in Swing States (RICHARD W. STEVENSON and DAVID... |
Growing Up Grieving, With Constant Reminders of 9/11 By / NYT — Permalink The bone brought sad finality to everyone but Brendan Fitzpatrick. It was proof that his father had died on Sept. 11, 2001. But for Brendan, who is 5, the news that a piece of Thomas Fitzpatrick's humerus had been recovered was vexing, at best. | |
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Cori Dauber: That's an important topic, although the number of column inches is a bit surprising, but it does go to the media obsession with victimhood and grief. KJL: 2,990+ CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND — They had parents murdered three years ago today. Jack Cluth: Remembering... Variety of activities to mark 9/11 anniversary Houston man who survived 9/11 now has different... |
Judith Weiss: Bill Sjostrom remembers 9-11 hero Abe Zelmanowitz. The children left behind. [snipped quote] Many must-read links from Glenn Reynolds. Hugh Hewitt: Read the New York Times story on some of the children who had their parents murdered on 9/11. |
9/11 letters Guardian — Permalink My European friends, do not despair of America! It is still the bold and idealistic country of FDR and JFK, though boldness and idealism have latterly turned somewhat into bellicosity and arrogance. | |
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Judith Weiss: Al-Guardian's commemoration of 9-11 consists of former JFK advisor Arthur Schlesinger counselling our "European friends"... Natasha @PacificViews: Craig Unger says Bush soft on terror. A pair of letters exploring the American response to 9-11. |
Laura Rozen: In the papers: Timothy Garten Ash and Arthur Schlesinger on the third anniversary of 9/11. Peter Burnet: DO NOT FORSAKE ME OH MY DARLIN' 9/11 letters (Arthur Schlesinger and Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian, September 11,... |
Hypnosis really changes your mind New Scientist — Permalink Hypnosis is more than just a party trick, it measurably changes how the brain works, says a UK researcher. Hypnosis significantly affects the activity in a part of the brain responsible for detecting and responding to errors, says John Gruzelier, a psychologist at Imperial College in London. | |
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Jim Henley: But for the purposes of a training journal, what grabs me is this: [snipped quote] What this has me pondering is athletic training as self-hypnosis. |
Gary Farber: LOOK INTO THE SPINNING BALL. Hypnosis works. [snipped quote] You will return to this blog. You will return again and again. |
Ruling Class War By / NYT — Permalink There are two sorts of people in the information-age elite, spreadsheet people and paragraph people. Spreadsheet people work with numbers, wear loafers and support Republicans. Paragraph people work with prose, don't shine their shoes as often as they should and back Democrats. | |
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Avedon Carol: "David Brooks finds a whole new way to divide people up! This man needs a real job. Charles Dobson tracks down some anti-semites." Orrin Judd: HEAD VS. HEART: Ruling Class War (DAVID BROOKS, 9/11/04, NY Times) [snipped quote] This is, of course, a simple function... John Quiggin: Creative accountants? Today's NYT runs an archetypal David Brooks piece. |
Matt Davis: Today's piece, though, is really off the charts. The upshot? There are paragraph people and there are spreadsheet people. Rickheller @Centerfield: Numbers People vs. Word People — David Brooks has a great column contrasting the occupational status of donors to the... |
Reign of Terror By / NYT — Permalink On my last visit to the Darfur area in Sudan, in June, I found a man groaning under a tree. He had been shot in the neck and jaw and left for dead in a pile of corpses. Seeking shelter under the very next tree were a pair of widows whose husbands had both been shot to death. | |
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Tom Maguire: We Score A Non-Correction Correction With Kristof — Nick Kristof runs a cryptic "correction" at the bottom of his... Matthew Yglesias: A Darfur Thought — Current with the below, consider Nick Kristof's latest column on Darfur. |
Orrin Judd: THE BOY WHO CRIED LAMB: Reign of Terror (NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, 9/11/04, NY times) [snipped quote] Here's the payoff from... Cori Dauber: So you may wonder why it is that I'm linking to Kristof's column on Darfur today. Just stick with me, we'll get there. |
Bush's National Guard Controversy Remains Front and Center LAT — Permalink A CBS news report that suggested President Bush did not fulfill his military commitment 30 years ago fell under a growing cloud of skepticism Friday. But Democrats insisted that they have plenty of evidence to continue their campaign to show that Bush got breaks that other young men did not get during the Vietnam War. | |
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William J. Dyer: Wizbang! reports that CBS News tonight gratefully and shamelessly repeated the Globe's lies about Dr. Bouffard. Digby: And according to the LA Times this influenced Hodges on the issue: "On Friday night, retired Maj. Gen. Hodges, Killian's... |
Patterico: Here are the details: The Times story is titled Amid Skepticism, CBS Sticks to Bush Guard Story. Steve Bainbridge: Memogate Developments — The LA Times is trying very hard to make Memogate a he said/she said affair (big surprise), but... |
RATHER FORGES AHEAD New York Post — Permalink CBS anchor Dan Rather hung tough last night and insisted there's no "definitive evidence" to refute the authenticity of documents about President Bush's National Guard service — but a growing number of document experts smell a hoax. | |
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Orrin Judd: MORE: RATHER FORGES AHEAD (DEBORAH ORIN and VINCENT MORRIS, September 11, 2004, NY Post) "He produced a man named Marcel Matley as the document vetter. Ace: I'm still waiting for the definitive Old Media double-barrel blast: He produced a man named Marcel Matley as the document vetter. |
PoliPundit: Worse — It just gets worse and worse for CBS. |
The service question By / US News — Permalink Last February, White House spokesman Scott McClellan held aloft sections of President Bush's military record, declaring to the waiting press that the files "clearly document the president fulfilling his duties in the National Guard." Case closed, he said. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: Bush's Guard Service Issues — There's a new update to the U.S. News and World Report article we wrote about here on the issues raised by Bush's National Guard Service. |
Kevin Hayden: Among today's news reports: "Albert C. Lloyd Jr., a retired Air Force colonel who originally certified the White House... |
What Did Rather Know, and When Did He Know It? By / Townhall.com — Permalink La Femme Kerry said the other day that anyone who did not support her husband's health care plan was an "idiot," which if true means they are the same cohort of folks who still believe the CBS documents on President Bush's service record are genuine. | |
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Orrin Judd: YOU KNEW THAT WAS COMING: What Did Rather Know, and When Did He Know It? Glenn Reynolds: That last certainly seems right. Meanwhile Jay Bryant asks: "What Did Rather Know, and When Did He Know It?" |
Wind Rider: End of coverage. End of controversy. An important component to marketing, advertising, and campaigning is persistence. |
Rather Flawed By / Weekly Standard — Permalink Sandra Ramsey Lines, a document expert from Arizona, told the Associated Press: "I'm virtually certain these were computer-generated." The experts pointed to numerous irregularities in the Killian memos that aroused their suspicions. | |
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Glenn Reynolds: I was interviewed today by a journalist for a major paper who's doing a story, and it's getting big play in the latest Weekly Standard. |
Betsy Newmark: Stephen Hayes has some suggestions on what CBS could do if they really believe in their story. |
TXU Energy to link rates, credit Reuters — Permalink NEW YORK (Reuters) - TXU Energy, Texas' biggest utility, plans to increase rates faster for some customers it considers less creditworthy, a move that is angering consumer groups but if successful might lead other utilities to follow, said a newspaper report Thursday. | |
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Susan Madrak: THE PERVERTED LOGIC OF CORPORATE AMERICA — From Fred Clark: [snipped quote] Jack over at Ruminate This has more. |
Charles Kuffner: TXU and credit scoring — Slacktivist is peeved by this Reuters story in which utility company TXU plans on linking credit scores to energy bills. |
CBS' bomb turns blooper By / Washington Times — Permalink CBS has been blown off stride by its own bombshell, joining several major news organizations that trusted the network's claim that it finally had the goods on President Bush. All were essentially bested by Internet bloggers. | |
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Bill @INDCJournal: UPDATE: Powerline, INDC, LGF credited in the Washington Times: "It was like a 'perfect storm' that put us here," said... The Big Trunk: In this morning's Washington Times Jennifer Harper briefly recaps the 60 Minutes forged documents story, prominently... |
Wind Rider: But why? They're being pilloried over this! Sure. But it gives the story legs. It creates persistence. |
Second Beslan reporter drugged Guardian — Permalink Concern over Russia's treatment of journalists covering the Beslan siege increased yesterday after a toxicologist revealed that traces of a tranquilliser had been found in a reporter who was arrested on her way to the school. | |
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Laura Rozen: Russia is poisoning its leading journalists trying to cover Beslan. The Guardian on the career of Philip Roth, and excerpts from his latest novel, The Plot Against America. |
Natasha @PacificViews: Guardian: The Russian government appears to be drugging and arresting reporters heading out to Beslan to cover the story of the government's botched raid. |
Rather Defends CBS Over Memos on Bush By / WaPo — Permalink Dan Rather vigorously defended his "60 Minutes" story on President Bush's National Guard service yesterday, saying the 30-year-old memos he disclosed on the show this week "were and remain authentic," despite questions raised by some handwriting and document experts. | |
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William J. Dyer: WaPo reports that "Matley said last night that a '60 Minutes' executive had asked him not to give interviews." Tim Graham: Wow. Defiant Dan has new quotes in Howard Kurtz's piece today. Orrin Judd: Rather Defends CBS Over Memos on Bush (Howard Kurtz, September 11, 2004, Washington Post) "Dan Rather vigorously... |
Ace: Dan Rather has previously offered Hodges' name specifically as a source who verified the documents, after all: In an... Tom Maguire: WaPo coverage: They include the Dallas Morning News time-warp on Staudt, do not find new experts to support Rather, and... |
Amid Skepticism, CBS Sticks to Bush Guard Story LAT — Permalink A CBS News report that suggested President Bush did not fulfill his military commitment 30 years ago fell under a growing cloud of skepticism Friday. But Democrats insisted that they had plenty of evidence to continue their campaign to show that Bush got breaks that other young men did not during the Vietnam War. | |
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Orrin Judd: Amid Skepticism, CBS Sticks to Bush Guard Story (James Rainey and Elizabeth Jensen, September 11, 2004, LA Times) "As... Jay Rosen: (Indeed, Rather told the Los Angeles Times, "I'm of the school, my name is on it, I'm responsible.") |
Betsy Newmark: The LA Times looks at the story and includes this tidbit. [snipped quote] As I understand it, Matley is mostly a handwriting expert. |
Conditions in Ohio Point to Kerry, but Bush Runs Strong NYT — Permalink Chillicothe - population a mere 21,796 but with access to several major media markets - has a respectable claim, if only a fleeting one, to the title of crossroads of American politics. More ranking politicians have come to town this year than it has seen in all the years since its heyday as Ohio's first capital two centuries ago. | |
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DemFromCT: Note these remarks by an expert on the topic in the middle on a Times article about Kerry's chances in Ohio: "In his... |
Orrin Judd: PASSING THE BUCKEYE: Conditions in Ohio Point to Kerry, but Bush Runs Strong (R. W. APPLE Jr., 9/11/04, NY Times)... |
U.S. Servicemen React to Bush Guard Memos By / AP — Permalink ALBANY, Ga. - Frank Jones says he's angry about newly revealed memos that indicate President Bush got preferential treatment in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam war, but he's not surprised by favoritism in the Guard. | |
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Kevin Hayden: Some news organizations reveal (gasp!) that Republican national guardsmen aren't going to change their votes due to this and some Democratic ones won't vote for Bush. |
Glenn Reynolds: JOURNALISTIC MALPRACTICE: Elliot Minor of the Associated Press has a story on veterans' reactions to the CBS National... |
How to Remember, How to Forget By / NYT — Permalink Madrid — Our perception of time is all too variable, and there are many factors that can strangely affect it, breaking the thread of continuity. When a love affair ends for example, - when you've abandoned all hope and freed yourself from the spider web... | |
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Cori Dauber: The lead piece, from Javier Marias, is one that our friend Franco Aleman would have a grand time dissecting. |
James Frederick Dwight: 2) In an op-ed piece in today's New York Times, a person called Javier Maras attempts to show us "how the rest of the world views 9/11." |
Bush Guard Memos Questioned CBS News — Permalink (CBS/AP) Questions are being raised about the authenticity of newly unearthed memos that say President Bush's National Guard commander believed Mr. Bush was shirking his duties. | |
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Digby: One should always believe them over a man like Robert Strong, a friend and colleague of Killian who ran the TANG... |
SLZoll: So, what else does CBS have (besides expert handwriting analysis)? In a statement, CBS News said it stands by its story. |
RATHER MYSTERIOUS New York Post — Permalink What are CBS — and anchor Dan Rather — trying to hide? The network ignited a firestorm Wednesday when its news show "60 Minutes" reported on memos related to President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. Rather went on the air last night to defend the report. | |
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Bill @INDCJournal: The NY Post — Delivers a verdict on Rather's performance. |
Glenn Reynolds: Indeed. UPDATE: The New York Post asks, in an editorial, "What are CBS — and anchor Dan Rather — trying to hide?" |
Whether he's flipping or flopping, Kerry's just wrong By / Chicago Sun Times — Permalink John Kerry is not only uncertain about where he stands; he's politically bipolar. Hiring Bill Clinton's old staff to shore up his campaign won't work. Anyone who follows the news can tell you what's wrong with his campaign. | |
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Betsy Newmark: Thomas Roeser has a nice description of Kerry's problem. "John Kerry is not only uncertain about where he stands; he's politically bipolar. |
Orrin Judd: MAYBE SALLY FIELDS CAN PLAY HIM IN THE BIOPIC: Whether he's flipping or flopping, Kerry's just wrong (THOMAS ROESER,... |
Tech Boosts the Fraudsters By / Wired News — Permalink If the newly released 32-year-old National Guard memos regarding George W. Bush were written on a computer with Microsoft Word, as experts suspect, they're some of the most inept high-profile forgeries in modern history. | |
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Jan Haugland: Lucky for us, then — Wired: "A lot of forgeries are done by bungling forgers," said document examiner Manny Gonzales,... |
Betsy Newmark: Wired looks at how new technology makes forgeries easier to do. Fortunately, forgers are still pretty stupid. |
The Luck of the President By / Weekly Standard — Permalink BETTER TO BE LUCKY than good. That's an old baseball saying that applies as well to President Bush's reelection campaign. First CBS News—then the entire mainstream media—plays up damaging documents about Bush's National Guard service. | |
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Orrin Judd: The Luck of the President (Fred Barnes, 9/11/04, The Weekly Standard) [snipped quote] Luck? |
Betsy Newmark: Fred Barnes observes that, in politics, it is better to be lucky than good. Clinton was lucky in that his enemies were inept and the economy was humming along. |
Bush's Backers Donate Heavily to Veteran Ads NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 - Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an advocacy group that jolted the presidential race with commercials questioning Senator John Kerry's military service, said it had raised $6.7 million in a windfall brought about by the group's high profile in recent weeks. | |
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Tom Maguire: Democrats Not Funding Swift Boat Vets For Truth — The Times astonishes us: Bush's Backers Donate Heavily to Veteran Ads... |
Steve M.: New York Times Bush says Kerry served honorably in Vietnam. Why do his supporters finance ads that say just the opposite? |
CBS stands by documents on Bush's Guard service MSNBC — Permalink As questions continued to swirl over the authenticity of documents about President Bush's Vietnam-era military service Friday, CBS News, in its evening news broadcast, strongly defended the documents reported about on "60 Minutes" earlier this week. | |
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Captain Ed: This is what CBS said earlier about how important Hodges was in certifying the documents as genuine: [quote] "This report was...[end quote] Bill @INDCJournal: UPDATE: MSNBC is running a fair-minded story that quotes a few experts that argue in favor of forgery ... Independent... Joe Gandelman: First, here's a longer version of what the network said, according to MSNBC: [quote] "This report was not based solely on...[end quote] |
Susanna Cornett: MSNBC reports CBS is standing by their Dan, but also points out that document experts say the documents are forgeries. Tom Maguire: MSNBC joins in, finding experts who question the documents. Hugh Hewitt hears from an expert - this is shock and awe, folks. |
McAuliffe denies involvement in memos flap By / Washington Times — Permalink Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe today said neither his organization nor John Kerrys campaign leaked to CBS documents questioning President Bushs service record, which may have been forged. He suggested White House adviser Karl Rove could be behind the documents. | |
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Tim Blair: Terry McAuliffe, crowing the other day about "new military documents", "serious charges", and "documents from the... Orrin Judd: THE BALD GUY SET ME UP: McAuliffe denies involvement in memos flap (Stephen Dinan, 9/10/04, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)... Hugh Hewitt: And thank God for Terry McAuliffe —the best DNC Chair the Republicans have ever had. |
Betsy Newmark: But, then Terry McAuliffe puts the whole blame on Karl Rove. Avedon Carol: "I don't believe for a minute that the Kerry campaign had anything to do with it, but the purpose of one of these..." Donald Sensing: DNC chairman admits documents are false — Okay, DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe didn't explicitly say it, but he did say... |
| Also: Allah, PoliPundit, Steve M., McQ, Greg Ransom, Ace, Joe Gandelman | |
The blogosphere never sleeps American Thinker — Permalink Three years ago tomorrow, the awe-inspiring towers of the World Trade Center collapsed, following a completely unanticipated mode of attack. Today, the once proud tower of CBS News threatens to collapse under an attack clearly unanticipated by Dan Rather and... | |
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Cori Dauber: But it sure poses a threat to the way things have traditionally worked in terms of the relationship between Old Media and the people. Greg Ransom: "DISTRIBUTED REPORTING" — [snipped quote] — The Spoons Experience More on this topic here and here. |
Hugh Hewitt: This is what The Belmont Club is talking about in his post today, what I called "open source journalism" this morning,... |
Rather stands by '60 Minutes' story on Bush, Guard AP — Permalink CBS News anchor Dan Rather on Friday vigorously defended his "60 Minutes" story on President Bush's National Guard service, saying the 30-year-old memos he disclosed on the show this week "were and remain authentic" despite questions raised by some handwriting and document experts. | |
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Tim Blair: Dan Rather politely requests that you ignore the evidence and instead look at the sinister entities behind these... |
Tom Maguire: He'd Rather Not — Dan Rather delivers a head-scratcher, reported by Howard Kurtz: Asked if he was troubled by the... |
Blogs v. 60 Minutes By / TCS — Permalink The CBS news program Sixty Minutes II ran a story on September 8th bringing to light a set of memos which purported to show that when President Bush was in the National Guard he failed to obey orders. Liberal blogger Josh Marshall framed this revelation thusly: | |
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Atrios: The basic info is here at Tech Shill Station.)is not created with the kerning turned on. Word Doc is here. Wind Rider: Jay Currie frames the pertinent issues of the forgery debaucle - [snipped quote] Yes, that's the question - where did... Susanna Cornett: UPDATE: It was Jay Currie at Tech Central Station who used the term "citizen journalist". |
Betsy Newmark: Jay Currie looks at what blogs can now do. "One day. Bill Hobbs: Forgery Update 3 — Jay Currie looks at how a "rabble" of bloggers exposed the forgeries that CBS, the Boston Globe and 60 Minutes used to smear the president. Jan Haugland: Note a very good overview of the issue at Tech Central Station with the $64K question: The more basic question is how... |
| Also: Glenn Reynolds | |
Rumsfeld Says Terror Outweighs Jail Abuse WaPo — Permalink Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, responding to allegations that he fostered a climate that led to the prisoner-abuse scandal, said yesterday that the military's mistreatment of detainees was not as bad as what terrorists have done. | |
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Jeanne D'Arc: Shorter Donald Rumsfeld — Torture means chopping people's heads off. I didn't do that. Leave me alone. |
Xan @Corrente: The prisoner abuse scandal is NOT going away. (via WaPoEditorial) "A DAY OF congressional hearings yesterday confirmed... |
Man named in Bush memo left Guard before document was written By / The State — Permalink AUSTIN, Texas - (KRT) - The man named in a disputed memo as exerting pressure to "sugar coat" President Bush's military record left the Texas Air National Guard a year and a half before the memo was supposedly written, his own service record shows. | |
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McQ: More Discrepencies noted in CBS Story — As has been mentioned a couple of times by readers of QandO, one of the people... |
Orrin Judd: THE SUGAR-COATED HONEY POT: Man named in Bush memo left Guard before document was written (PETE SLOVER, 9/10/04, The... |
Bush Breaks Kerry's Stride with Talk About the War On Terrorism Zogby — Permalink One week after accepting the Republican party nomination and delivering a stump speech focused on the "war on terrorism", President George W. Bush moves ahead of Senator John Kerry by four points (46%-42%), according to a new Zogby America poll. | |
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EDM Staff: New National Poll Shows Neck and Neck Race for White House — A new Zogby America poll of nationwide LV's conducted... Ace: Even Zogby, Now: Bush Up by 4 — This election may turn out to not be "tighter than a tick on turnip's tit" or whatever the hell Dan the Document Man says. |
Steve Soto: Zogby Shows A Closer Race Than Others — Zogby's latest poll, taken through last night and out today, shows that... Taegan Goddard: The new Zogby Poll has Bush leading Kerry 46% to 42%. |
Forgery feeding frenzy: Media falling afoul of the facts Media Matters for America — Permalink In an effort to obscure overwhelming evidence that President George W. Bush failed to fulfill his duty in the Air National Guard, conservatives have initiated the claim — now echoed widely by the media — that memos revealed by CBS News' 60 Minutes on September 8 — and purportedly written by one of Bush's commanders in 1972 and 1973 — are fake. | |
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Patterico: Lucky for me, the wackos at Media Matters preserved the quote at the end of this Media Matters post. |
Oliver Willis: The nugget of this story isn't about the memos and what typewriter they're written on (though the disinformers are wrong there, too) but their contents. |
Statement From CBS News PRNewsWire — Permalink NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Later today, CBS News will address on the air and in detail the issues surrounding the documents broadcast in the 60 MINUTES report on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. | |
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PoliPundit: Rather to Address Forgeries — Dan Rather will attempt to defend the forgeries tonight on CBS Evening News. William J. Dyer: Or did I just hear someone shout, in Dan Rather's distinctive voice, "Circle them wagons, fellers, and put out another press release"? McQ: Rather to address issue on tonight's CBS news — From a CBS News press release: [snipped quote] Well that should be interesting. |
Hesiod: I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: CBS News is stsicking to its guns, and will be reporting on the Killian documents "forgery" allegations tonight. Jeralyn Merritt: CBS has issued this press release on the Bush National Guard document flap. [snipped quote] CBS and Dan Rather are sticking to their guns Bird Dog: CBS News just released another press blurb: "NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Later today, CBS News will address on... |
Lawmakers troubled by disclosure of more 'ghost detainees' By / AP — Permalink (09-10) 11:54 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid allegations he fostered a climate that led to the prison abuse scandal, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday that the military's mistreatment of detainees was not as bad as what terrorists have done. | |
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Tim Dunlop: It's a po po po mo war — Donald Rumsfeld, who was held "off the books" at an undisclosed location during the Republican... |
Matthew Yglesias: Don Rumsfeld: Not As Bad As a Terrorist — The Republican Party takes another dive into the pit of moral relativism:... |
RATHER DIGS IN: THE DOCUMENTS ARE AUTHENTIC Drudge Report — Permalink CBSNEWS anchor and 60 MINUTES correspondent Dan Rather publicly defended his reporting Friday morning after questions were raised about the authenticity of newly unearthed memos aired on CBS which asserted that George W. Bush ignored a direct order from a superior officer in the Texas Air National Guard. | |
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Tom Paine: Dan, naturally enough, just doesn't seem to understand that he can't make something true merely by pronouncing it to be so. Judith Weiss: Meanwhile, CBS News stands by its story, without actually refuting the forgery charges. Greg Ransom: DAN RATHER — NO APOLOGIES. |
Christopher Kanis: Distributed Reporting: Distributed reporting refers to the concept that "Truth" and "Fairness" and "Accuracy" are too... Nick Gillespie: Broadcast news punching bag Dan Rather says what history will no doubt call Cover Your Assgate are "authentic," which might be the surest sign yet that they are fakes. Sir George: Drudge is carrying an interview with Rather in which Rather defends his obvious forgeries. |
| Also: Ann Althouse, James Joyner, Ace, McQ, Roger L. Simon, Charles Johnson, Allah, Tim Blair | |
Caddell: Dan Rather May Have Cost Kerry the Election NewsMax.com — Permalink Longtime Democratic strategist Pat Caddell said Friday that if documents aired by CBS newsman Dan Rather Wednesday night turn out to be forged, as alleged by experts, the presidential race "is over." "It would be the end of the race," Caddell told Fox News Live. | |
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Jay Rosen: Perhaps that explains this: "Longtime Democratic strategist Pat Caddell said Friday that if documents aired by CBS... Hindrocket: Caddell Warns His Party — Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell told Fox News today that if CBS's National Guard... |
Rice Grad: UPDATE: Here's what famous pollster Pat Caddell says about the faked memos: [quote] "[Democratic officials are] so involved in this," the former Carter pollster worried.[end quote] |
The Whole World Is Watching NRO — Permalink Three years of terrorism since September 11. Chechen Islamicists burn up Russian airliners and shoot schoolgirls — and say they are victims, deprived of the chance for their own autonomous theocracy. | |
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Steve Bainbridge: (Victor Davis Hanson's latest NRO column is, predictably, another must read on this subject. Tom Smith: Professor Hanson, you da man. Charles Johnson: VDH: The Whole World Is Watching — It's Friday, and if you're ready for a break from the Killian document story, go read VDH's latest and greatest: The Whole World Is Watching. |
Bunuel Cela: ask yourself... [snipped quote] Are you reading the weekly (Friday) contribution by VDH to nationalreview.com? Roger L. Simon: He's done it a thousand times already... ... but no one states the current situation more clearly than Victor Davis Hanson. Damian Penny: By way of comparison, note this passage in Victor Davis Hanson's latest NRO column: The recent slaughters in Russia were... |
Some Question Authenticity of Papers on Bush WaPo — Permalink Documents unearthed by CBS News that raise doubts about whether President Bush fulfilled his obligations to the Texas Air National Guard include several features suggesting that they were generated by a computer or word processor rather than a Vietnam War-era typewriter, experts said yesterday. | |
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Digby: According to the Washington Post, the conversation went like this: "A senior CBS official, who asked not to be named... McQ: Hodges retracts CBS authentication — Yesterday CBS pointed out that the documents in question had been authenticated by... Kevin Drum: Both men are still alive, and when CBS read the memos to Hodges over the phone he agreed that "these are the things that Killian had expressed to me at the time." |
Cori Dauber: CBS soon faced a front page story from the Washington Post. Dailies in major markets were questioning the story quoting blogs as regular journalistic sources. John Hawkins: This is soooo sweeet because this story has no chance of holding up when even the Associated Press, Washington Post, &... Avedon Carol: Friday, 10 September 2004 "Rove's glory So now the CBS documents about Bush's bad behavior in the Texas ANG are being... |
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False Documentation? ABCNEWS — Permalink Sept. 9, 2004 — Questions are being raised about the authenticity of newly discovered documents relating to George W. Bush's service in the National Guard during the Vietnam War. | |
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Jeff Goldstein: For instance, ABC has raised questions about the authenticity of those documents. Tom Maguire: Good CBS Coverage At The ABC Note — ABC's Note tracks this story's flight through the blogosphere and into the MSM. Greg @BeggingToDiffer: Here's a quick list of independent media sources I've seen so far calling the documents' authenticity into question:... |
Cori Dauber: Dailies in major markets were questioning the story quoting blogs as regular journalistic sources. ABC piled on. Stefan Sharkansky: Seattle Post-Intelligencer news article, Sep. 10 "White House dismisses memos on Bush Guard duty" [snipped quote] It wasn't just a document expert, but several experts. Tim Blair: And it continues here, here, here, here, here, and here. Last word to James Lileks: "Blogs haven't toppled old media. |
| Also: Pejman Yousefzadeh, Robert Garcia Tagorda, Jan Haugland, Patterico, Donald Sensing, Eric Soskin, Damian Penny, Betsy Newmark, Sebastian Holsclaw, Steve Bainbridge, Ken Layne, Bill @INDCJournal, Captain Ed, Hindrocket, Allah, KJL, Orrin Judd, William J. Dyer, Greg Ransom, Glenn Reynolds, Steve M., Bird Dog, McQ | |
Critical memos on Bush's Guard service faked? By / Chicago Sun Times — Permalink A day after CBS News presented documents questioning President Bush's National Guard service, the veracity of those papers is coming into question. The development comes in a campaign in which charges continue to fly about the authenticity of Bush's time in the Guard and Sen. John Kerry's Web site listing of medals and Naval service. | |
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Joe Gandelman: The Chicago Sun Times goes into detail on the bloggers in its story: [quote] The morning after the "60 Minutes II" airing, the...[end quote] Jan Haugland: There was old style journalist blood in the water, and boy did the bloggers have a good time. Bill @INDCJournal: Powerline and INDC Credited ... in the Chicago Sun-Times: The morning after the "60 Minutes II" airing, the Internet was buzzing with claims that the documents were forged. |
Blackfive: Forged — Dan Rather needs his chops busted...the Chicago Sun-Times quotes Powerline and Bill of INDC Journal...almost as if they were regular journalists. Patterico: My friend Bill from INDC Journal was quoted by name in this Chicago Sun-Times article. Steve Antler: I know it took the blogosphere just a few hours to uncover this fraud yesterday — can it really be possible CBS had this material for six weeks without noticing it was fake? |
| Also: Bill Hobbs, Greg Ransom, Donald Sensing, Glenn Reynolds, Barbara O'Brien, The Big Trunk, William J. Dyer | |
CBS'S BIG BLUNDER? By / New York Post — Permalink THE populist revolu tion against the so- called mainstream media continues. Yesterday, the citizen journalists who produce blogs on the Internet — and their engaged readers — engaged in the wholesale exposure of what appears to be a presidential-year dirty trick against George W. Bush. | |
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Cori Dauber: I don't know that this is big media political bias at work. Joe Gandelman: (3) If the documents turn out to be fake it'll prove to be the biggest achievement yet for the mostly amateur and... Susanna Cornett: UPDATE: Don't miss Podhoretz in the NY Post on the blogosphere vs CBS News. |
Jay Rosen: Other voices: John Podhoretz of the New York Post sees a "populist revolution against the so- called mainstream media" in the events of the last few days. Tim Blair: Enjoy John Podhoretz: [quote] From the lies of Ben Barnes to the apparent forgeries of who-knows-who-did-it — why has "60 Minutes" exposed itself in this way?[end quote] Charles Johnson: CBS's Big Blunder — As John Podhoretz points out this morning, CBS was so eager to slam George W. Bush that they staked their reputation on an obvious fraud: CBS's Big Blunder. |
| Also: Hugh Hewitt, McQ, Bill @INDCJournal, Christopher Kanis, Mike Hendrix, Allah, Orrin Judd, Bill Hobbs, Glenn Reynolds, KJL, Betsy Newmark, The Big Trunk, Greg Ransom, William J. Dyer | |
Anatomy of a Forgery By / American Spectator — Permalink More than six weeks ago, an opposition research staffer for the Democratic National Committee received documents purportedly written by President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard squadron commander, the late Col. Jerry Killian. | |
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John Hawkins: Keep in mind that this is PURE SPECULATION inspired by Dan Rather's performance tonight, but I SUSPECT that this story... H.D. Miller: On the one hand, there's been the frantic denial of responsibility; a denial quickly challenged by the American... The Big Trunk: Drudge has crashed Wlady Plesczynski's "Anatomy of a Forgery" (quoted by Rocket Man below) at the Spectator Online, but... |
Rice Grad: Via Polipundit, comes the news that the DNC and Kerry campaign could be behind the fake memos: "More than six weeks... Steve M.: Here's the article (if you can get it to load — the Spec's server is about as reliable as its reporting was in the "real Anita Hill" days). Jan Haugland: The mainstream media, for once, jumped on to it pretty fast. CBS is stupidly standing by its story, for now. |
| Also: Jonathan H. Adler, Michelle Malkin, Donald Sensing, Glenn Reynolds, Tom Maguire, Captain Ed, Betsy Newmark, PoliPundit, Ace, Orrin Judd, William J. Dyer, C. D. Harris, John Cole | |
CBSNEWS LAUNCHES INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AFTER SUSPICIOUS BUSH DOCS AIRED Drudge Report — Permalink CBS NEWS executives have launched an internal investigation into whether its premiere news program 60 MINUTES aired fabricated documents relating to Bush's National Guard service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. | |
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Avedon Carol: "I'm dying to know if CBS's internal investigation will turn anything up." Taegan Goddard: Matt Drudge says CBS News has launched an "internal investigation." Donald Sensing: Drudge: CBS News lainches internal investigation after suspicious Bush docs aired "CBS NEWS executives have launched an... |
Nick Gillespie: As Drudge likes to say, developing... Maybe this is Dandy Dan's payback for the tongue-lashing Poppa Bush gave him way back when? Acidman: liar!!! i_rather_hi.jpg Got caught this time, didn't you, Dan? No wonder you're "shell-shocked." Glenn Reynolds: Drudge reports that CBS has launched an internal investigation into what went wrong. UPDATE: James Lileks: "Blogs haven't toppled old media. |
| Also: Damian Penny, Betsy Newmark, Roger L. Simon, McQ, Ace, Bill @INDCJournal, Captain Ed, Charles Johnson, Allah, Orrin Judd, Bird Dog | |
Commander's Son Questions Memos on Bush's Service NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 - A day after memos emerged suggesting that George W. Bush received favorable treatment when he was in the National Guard during the Vietnam War, the son of Mr. Bush's squadron commander said he doubted the authenticity of some of the memos his father was said to have written. | |
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Bill @INDCJournal: In the NY Times: Philip Bouffard, a forensic document specialist from Ohio who created a commonly used database of at least 3,000 old type fonts, said he had suspicions as well. Joe Gandelman: In yet another development, the son of Mr. Bush's squadron commander expressed doubts over the authenticity of memos... The Big Trunk: Reports on the memos in the Washington Post and New York Times, however, add fresh details to issues regarding the documents' authenticity. |
Allah: Via reader "JS", look who decided to start covering the forgery story — on page A17 of the metro edition, according to J. There are two noteworthy details in the article. Dan Gillmor: Documents, Etc. UPDATED Are the CBS Bush documents forgeries? Looks to me as though some legitimate questions are being raised. Hugh Hewitt: The New York Times cites my guest yesterday Farrell Shiver in detailing the documents' flaws, which underscores just how... |
| Also: Ann Althouse, Greg Ransom, PoliPundit, Howard Kurtz, Tom Maguire, Sebastian Holsclaw, Josh Marshall, Captain Ed, Orrin Judd, William J. Dyer, Mark Kleiman | |
The Dishonesty Thing By / NYT — Permalink It's the dishonesty, stupid. The real issue in the National Guard story isn't what George W. Bush did three decades ago. It's the recent pattern of lies: his assertions that he fulfilled his obligations when he obviously didn't, the White House's repeated claims that it had released all of the relevant documents when it hadn't. | |
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Xan @Corrente: The Coalition of the Shrill — From Krugman today...and if I could get one sentence from his keyboard (screw whether... Garance Franke-Ruta: In a harmonic convergence of fiscal disgruntlement, today Stephen Moore of Club for Growth and Paul Krugman agree (here... Tim Blair: As Paul Krugman says: "It's the dishonesty, stupid." Except Krugman isn't talking about 60 Minutes or the rest of the reliably incompetent media; he's talking about Bush. |
Avedon Carol: "And, of course, it will work beautifully to distract from the real issue, which, as Krugman points out, is not whether..." DeLong: Bush's "Dishonesty Thing" — The Eldest of All the Shrill manifests himself in the New York Times: "The New York Times... Edward _: In his column today, Krugman quotes a series of experts who collectively build a strong case that the Bush... |
| Also: Wind Rider, Orrin Judd, Bill Hobbs, Steve Antler, Greg Ransom, Allah | |
Why conservatives must not vote for Bush By / Salon — Permalink George W. Bush presents conservatives with a fundamental challenge: Do they believe in anything other than power? Are they serious about their rhetoric on limited, constitutionally restrained government? Bush appears to have remained strong in the presidential race by rallying conservatives behind him. | |
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Daniel Drezner: Exhibit A of this antipathy can be found Doug Bandow's essay in Salon, Why Conservatives Must Not Vote for Bush" [Salon?!—ed. Greg Ransom: CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE Doug Bandow throws down the gauntlet against the Bush Presidency. (reg. & 20 sec. ad) Quotable: ... Andrew Sullivan: REAGANITES VERSUS BUSH: Doug Bandow joins the growing throng of principled conservatives unwilling to give Bush a second term. |
Joe Gandelman: A Conservative Urges No On Bush — Salon has a truly startling piece by Reaganite Doug Bandow titled " Why conservatives must not vote for Bush." Hilzoy @ObsidianWings: Like a writer in Salon today, I am curious about why conservatives want to defend him, period. Orrin Judd: MORE (via Danny Postel): Why conservatives must not vote for Bush: A Reaganite argues that Bush is a dangerous,... |
| Also: Nick Gillespie | |
Is It a Hoax? By / Weekly Standard — Permalink DOCUMENTS CITED Wednesday by 60 Minutes in a widely-publicized expose of George W. Bush's National Guard Service are very likely forgeries, according to several experts on document authenticity and typography. | |
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Joe Gandelman: The conservative Weekly Standard also has a piece where it has an expert saying he's "99 percent sure" the documents weren't produced during the 70s. Sebastian Holsclaw: The factual issues are dealt with quite well at Powerline, here, here and here as well as mainstream media sources, here, here and here. Ace: Update: The Weekly Standard's expert says "fake," too. I have yet to hear from a document-authentication expert stake... |
Robert Garcia Tagorda: The High Stakes of the Killian Memos — Everyone is so focused on the minute details of document authentication that it's easy to lose sight of the big political picture. Susanna Cornett: Powerline, Little Green Footballs, The Weekly Standard and others have thoroughly deconstructed the documents that CBS... Maimon Schwarzschild: The Bush Diaries — Eveyone's first reaction to the emerging possibility that Dan Rather's documents (Bush, National... |
| Also: Josh Marshall, Captain Ed, Hindrocket, James Joyner, Lorie Byrd, Hugh Hewitt, Lambert @Corrente, Betsy Newmark, C. D. Harris, Tom Maguire, John Hawkins, Allah, Orrin Judd, Glenn Reynolds, Bird Dog, McQ | |
What the Bush Guard Papers Really Say NRO — Permalink The CBS story just doesn't add up. On May 2, 1973, one of George W. Bush's superior officers in the Texas National Guard wrote an evaluation of him that would later become famous. | |
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Orrin Judd: DOCU-DRAMA: What the Bush Guard Papers Really Say: The CBS story just doesn't add up. Allah: UPDATE: Byron York analyzes the memos for NRO: "When viewed together, the documents released by the White House in... William J. Dyer: NRO's Byron York, who was helping break this story in the mainstream media (ver. 1.5) yesterday on Fox News with Brit... |
The Big Trunk: In his NRO column, Byron York puts the 60 Minutes memos in the context of the contemporaneous unquestionably authentic... Greg Ransom: Sandra Ramsey Lines, a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, on the CBS documents at the center of the... |
Guard Memos Fuel Another Vietnam-Era Battle LAT — Permalink CBS defends letters that seem to impugn Bush's service as some question the documents' authenticity. Partisans on both sides engage. A day after reports that President Bush received preferential treatment during his time in the Texas Air National Guard,... | |
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Tim Blair: The LA Times decided — maybe it was an in-joke — to invoke memories of last week's Bush-didn't-stop-the-booi ng lie:... Hugh Hewitt: The Los Angeles Times also cites Shiver, but only after this odd paragraph: "Conservative talk radio programs and... Orrin Judd: Guard Memos Fuel Another Vietnam-Era Battle: CBS defends letters that seem to impugn Bush's service as some question the documents' authenticity. |
Patterico: The L.A. Times story bears the headline Guard Memos Fuel Another Vietnam-Era Battle. Howard Kurtz: "A day after reports that President Bush received preferential treatment during his time in the Texas Air National... |
Questions Surface About Bush Memos By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) - Questions are being raised about the authenticity of newly unearthed memos which asserted that George W. Bush ignored a direct order from a superior officer in the Texas Air National Guard and lost his status as a pilot because he failed to meet military performance standards and undergo a required physical exam. | |
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Blackfive: Much like what happened with her and Dukakis...remember the claims that Vice President George H. W. Bush had an affair?... Charles Johnson: Killian's Son: "No Officer in His Right Mind" — The son of the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian and the personnel chief of... |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: "The cumulative evidence that's available ... indicates that these documents were produced on a computer, not a... Wind Rider: Update:: AP has filed an updated version under the Kelley byline that drops the extraneous chattering about flying training. |
Son of Late Officer Questions Bush Memos AP — Permalink DALLAS (AP) — The authenticity of newly unearthed memos stating that George W. Bush failed to meet standards of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War was questioned Thursday by the son of the late officer who reportedly wrote the memos. | |
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Patterico: Or how about Killian's son, who has also questioned the authenticity of at least one of the memos. PoliPundit: Typos — Alert reader Cliff Thier sends in his two cents on the forged documents: [snipped quote] UPDATE: Killian's son says they're fake. C. D. Harris: Two quick answers to Question #2: The Washington Post and, wonder of wonders, the Associated Press are already... |
Josh Marshall: In an article today in Weekly Standard, for instance, Steve Hayes writes that ... [snipped quote] This AP article also... Captain Ed: Killian's Son Suspicious Of CBS Documents — The son of the officer who supposedly wrote memos in 1972 and 1973... Jeff Goldstein: AP to Rather: "Oh no you did-int" — Son of Late Officer Questions Bush Memos... (via Drudge) Reached for comment, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) shouted, "Look! |
| Also: Wretchard, Greg Ransom, Roger L. Simon, Glenn Reynolds, Allah, Bird Dog, Tim Cavanaugh, McQ | |