September 14th, 2004
This story pretty much does it. Bad day for CBS.
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The author of that piece is obviously an operative of Lord Gnarl.
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This is the new meme of the liberal left loonies. I call it the “Michael Moore” principle and goes like this:I can make up any facts I want. Then when my accuracy or honesty is questioned, I can fall back to the position of “well, its still a good story, even if the facts are a ‘little’ off.” Moore used it to describe all of the lies in his latest movie. Rather must have taken note.
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Anonymous September 15, 2004 at 7:41 am
At first I leaned toward at least two of the memos being fakes not detected by those consulted by CBS because the points were outside their expertise: maybe 94% leaning. Then came the Rather defense: he has convinced me – they are fakes. His argument seems to be:1. The story is that Bush disobeyed a direct order, not how we got the memos indicating this.2. The memos support the story. 3. One memo mentions Bush’s suspension from flying, which a forger could not have known unless he has been watching the news for a while or saw the documents published earlier or *gasp* actually did a FoIA request.4. Therefore it does not matter whether or not they are forgeries, and the only evidence for the story, and have no indication Bush ever saw the “order” – which is itself not in any form required by regulations since Old Ironsides made her maiden voyage. And the Howard Hughes will, the Hitler Diaries, and a host of others can now be revealed as indisputable. After all, they contain verifiable facts. Yep. John Anderson – teqjack@wowmail.com