Thread: CBS NEWS? - huh
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Old Sep 21, 2004, 09:59 pm   #13 (permalink) (top)
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Originally posted by Zeebadee,+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Zeebadee,)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
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Originally posted by gr8fuldaniel,+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (gr8fuldaniel,)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Dont you guys realize it was Karl Rove who "leaked" these documents to Dan Rather. The facts were real, and should not be discredited by a Republican psy-op. They merely took the actual documents that slammed little boy bush, forged them and released them. Not very sophisticated at all. They cant win a fair campaign that deals with real issues and facts, they have to pull this shit! I expect it from them. This is not an event, but a pattern.[/b]
And your source for this claim?[/b]
Actually Rhandi Rhodes a DJ for Air America Radio, talked about this,
on the air. I found this damning little link to an LA Times article, in her message board:

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Blogger Who Faulted CBS Documents Is Conservative Activist
LA Times article
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.

The identity of "Buckhead," a blogger known previously only by his screen name on the site freerepublic.com and lifted to folk hero status in the conservative blogosphere since last week's posting, is likely to fuel speculation among Democrats that the efforts to discredit the CBS memos were engineered by Republicans eager to undermine reports that Bush received preferential treatment in the National Guard more than 30 years ago.
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Republican officials have denied any involvement among those debunking the CBS story.[/quote]Oh darn, I guess that lets them off the hook. Just kidding.
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe even speculated openly to reporters that the whole thing could have been orchestrated by White House political advisor Karl Rove. The Bush campaign called the allegation "nonsense."[/quote]
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