Here’s an exclusive photo of CBS News’ document authenticators. OK, they’re really my dairy cows, but what’s the difference?
Here’s an exclusive photo of CBS News’ document authenticators. OK, they’re really my dairy cows, but what’s the difference?
Dan Rather is busted, and Roger Simon calls for his resignation. How long will the stonewalling continue? It’s perfectly obvious that these documents are forgeries; any document authenticator could have seen as much from a cursory examination, yet CBS claims an unnamed outside expert vouched for them. They’re lying. See Donald Sensing for more on … Continue reading “CBS document scam front page news”
Dan Rather is busted, and Roger Simon calls for his resignation. How long will the stonewalling continue? It’s perfectly obvious that these documents are forgeries; any document authenticator could have seen as much from a cursory examination, yet CBS claims an unnamed outside expert vouched for them.
They’re lying.
See Donald Sensing for more on the document contents.
RatherBiased.com has the scoop on the forged documents Dan Rather used to make this case regarding the President’s National Guard service a million years ago: During last night’s 60 Minute program on President George W. Bush’s Air National Guard service, the CBS News touted a number of documents which seemingly indicate that the future president … Continue reading “Was Rather Duped by Anti-Bush Hoax?”
RatherBiased.com has the scoop on the forged documents Dan Rather used to make this case regarding the President’s National Guard service a million years ago:
During last night’s 60 Minute program on President George W. Bush’s Air National Guard service, the CBS News touted a number of documents which seemingly indicate that the future president failed to meet his service obligations.
That may well be the case but it is becoming increasingly evident that 60 Minutes, and the Dan Rather, the reporter behind the story, may have been relying on forged documents to prove their case.
Several indicators point to this conclusion including the fact that the four memoranda, which Rather said were written during the early 1970s by Bush’s commanding officer Lt. Colonel Jerry Killian, are printed in a proportionally spaced type style similar to the common computer font Times New Roman. But such computer technology had not even been invented when the documents were allegedly written.
I don’t think this is an important story, but Rather’s gullibility might make it one. The election cycle is shaping up as a major indictment of the mainstream media for sloppy fact-checking and an increasingly transparent attempt to promote their favorite candidate.
Blogs for Bush has a lot more on this story.
Zell Miller’s speech at the convention was near the high point of the political season for me, as he said so many things about Sen. Flopsy that needed to be said but haven’t been said out of courtesy. Miller’s somebody that a lot of conservative Democrats and Southerners in general can relate to, because he’s … Continue reading “Zell Miller spanks Kerry and Matthews”
Zell Miller’s speech at the convention was near the high point of the political season for me, as he said so many things about Sen. Flopsy that needed to be said but haven’t been said out of courtesy. Miller’s somebody that a lot of conservative Democrats and Southerners in general can relate to, because he’s a symbol of the traditional Democratic Party values that the party has abandoned – classical liberalism, muscular foreign policy, defense of liberty, and individualism.
His appearance on party hack Chris Matthews’ (he’s a former staffer to Tip O’Neill) show was lively and entertaining. He made Matthews shut up so he could answer a couple of questions without Matthews talking over him as he does to most of his guests. Matthews does this so much that I’ve quit watching his show, but I saw the clip linked from the Matthews pseudo-blog. Wonders of the Internet.
Why is Chris Matthews on TV? His network’s convention ratings are in the toilet:
Fox News — 5.2 million
NBC — 5.1 million
CBS — 4.4 million
ABC — 4.3 million
MSNBC — 1.6 million
CNN — 1.5 million
… probably because people are so tired of the spin.
OK, here’s a test: assume a male public official has sexual relations with a woman who works in his office. He then lies about it in order to keep this job, and cuts off the affair. No charges are filed. Is the Democratic Party response to this event: A) circle the wagons to protect the … Continue reading “A test of moral consistency”
OK, here’s a test: assume a male public official has sexual relations with a woman who works in his office. He then lies about it in order to keep this job, and cuts off the affair. No charges are filed.
Is the Democratic Party response to this event: A) circle the wagons to protect the man from his politicial enemies, going so far as to create entire organizations dedicated to smothering the scandal; or B) run him out of office?
It turns out the answer to this puzzle is highly situational and finely nuanced. This is what we call hypocrisy where I was raised.
Duncan “Atrios” Black raised a very interesting question on his blog Sunday: If they’re “the same,” why are the swift boat liars on every news show and Move On people are not? Why indeed? Moveon.org is a partisan organization funded largely by a shadowy billionaire using his influence to elect a president more sympathetic to … Continue reading “Question of the week”
Duncan “Atrios” Black raised a very interesting question on his blog Sunday:
If they’re “the same,” why are the swift boat liars on every news show and Move On people are not?
Why indeed? Moveon.org is a partisan organization funded largely by a shadowy billionaire using his influence to elect a president more sympathetic to his interests and values by running misleading ads, while SwiftVets is a partisan organization funded largely by a millionaire using his influence to re-elect a president sympathetic to his interests and values by running ads some find misleading. The SwiftVets ads are the more above-board since they rely on actual people who are willing to go on record with their complaints against Kerry, and suffer the consequences. The Moveon ads are like the Atrios blog, pseudonymous and unsupported by any verifiable claims.
But the SwiftVets ads are finally getting media attention after the “ignore it and it will go away” strategy didn’t work. It’s also interesting to note just how the MSM broke their silence on the SwiftVet charges: with long, drawn-out “investigative” pieces tracing the web of connections between the Republican Party and the SwiftVets people, as if merely voting Republican were tantamount to committing a crime.
Look, folks, it’s not a surprise that Kerry’s harshest critics are Republicans any more than it’s a surprise that the President’s are French, socialist, and anti-American; we choose sides and that’s where the sides stand right now.
In the evolution of Kerry’s Vietnam Crisis, we’re now at stage two: first they ignore you, then they attack you, then you win. The media’s reaction to the SwiftVets has cost them credibility, as has Kerry’s.
Not only was the man no hero in Vietnam, he hasn’t done anything since Vietnam that was in any way remarkable, so there’s no reason to switch horses at this point in the stream.
HughHewitt.com has the ultimate comprehensive Cambodia post.
HughHewitt.com has the ultimate comprehensive Cambodia post.
Baldilocks, La Shawn, and other black conservative bloggers make the news at National Review Online.
Baldilocks, La Shawn, and other black conservative bloggers make the news at National Review Online.
The generally vitriolic anti-Bush blog Notes in Samsara (“samsara” is Sanskrit for “delusion”) cites an interesting lefty blog as a definitive source debunking the Swift Boat Vets charges against Senator Kerry. To check out its reliability, take a look at its treatment of the Cambodia charges here. You’ll find supporting evidence confined to generalities about … Continue reading “Fine example of delusional reasoning”
The generally vitriolic anti-Bush blog Notes in Samsara (“samsara” is Sanskrit for “delusion”) cites an interesting lefty blog as a definitive source debunking the Swift Boat Vets charges against Senator Kerry. To check out its reliability, take a look at its treatment of the Cambodia charges here. You’ll find supporting evidence confined to generalities about American presence in Cambodia, and no mention of the back-tracking the Kerry campaign is doing on the story, trying to re-write history to the effect that Kerry only said he was “close” to Cambodia, not that he was there:
The Kerry campaign first asserted that the Massachusetts senator never said that he was in Cambodia, only that he was near the country. But when presented with a copy of the Congressional Record and asked about Kerry’s letter in the Boston Herald, the campaign said it would come up with an explanation. After repeated phone calls, there was still no clarification.
It’s now becoming evident that Kerry made up his Cambodia story after seeing the movie Apocalypse Now, which makes Kerry look a little Reaganesque. I wonder how many of the Reagan Democrats he can win over with this strategy?
Remember the Al Qaeda computer dude whose name was allegedly leaked by the Bush Administration to take the heat off Howard Dean’s clams that the recent terror alerts were cooled? Well it turns out that his name was most likely leaked by the Pakistani intelligence service: The American officials would say only that the Qaeda … Continue reading “Who blew Khan’s cover?”
Remember the Al Qaeda computer dude whose name was allegedly leaked by the Bush Administration to take the heat off Howard Dean’s clams that the recent terror alerts were cooled? Well it turns out that his name was most likely leaked by the Pakistani intelligence service:
The American officials would say only that the Qaeda figure whose capture had led to the discovery of the documentary evidence had been captured with the help of the C.I.A. Though Pakistan announced the arrest last week of a Qaeda member, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian wanted in connection with the bombings of American embassies in East Africa in 1998, the American officials suggested that he had not been the source of the new threat information.
An account provided by a Pakistani intelligence official made clear that the crucial capture in recent weeks had been that of Mr. Khan, who is also known as Abu Talha. The intelligence official provided information describing Mr. Khan as having assisted in evaluating potential American and Western targets for terrorist attacks, and as being representative of a ”new Al Qaeda.” [Emphasis added]
It’s all pretty speculative still, but it does appear that Reuters jumped the gun in blaming Bush for this fiasco.
