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2004-09-10 Home Front: Politix
Forgeries traced to Kerry campaign
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Posted by Mike 2004-09-10 7:12:42 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 That crunch sound you just heard was the swift boat of Kerry's campaign grounding on a reef!

With a little luck it will drag Dan Rather and the rest of the left wing media down with it.
Posted by DanNY 2004-09-10 7:31:38 AM||   2004-09-10 7:31:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry, using forgeries to discredit your opponent shows you to be a politician. But ones this obvious? That is sand-poundingly stupid.

So CBS is going to try to push it back on Kerry? This should be rich.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-10 7:37:59 AM||   2004-09-10 7:37:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I find it hard to believe the DNC is that stupid and/or insane. Perhaps the same guy who shopped these to the DNC, also shopped them to CBS. The risks of passing suspected forgeries to a friendly media outlet to run, and risk burning CBS, destroying their credibility, is too great. CBS knows who gave the docs to them. And will have to burn their source in order to protect themselves.
Posted by Ben  2004-09-10 7:40:30 AM||   2004-09-10 7:40:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I find it hard to believe the DNC is that stupid and/or insane

If the only Democrat operatives you know are both smart and sane, you are one lucky fellow. Where do you live?
Posted by mhw 2004-09-10 8:06:12 AM||   2004-09-10 8:06:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh my gawd, this is like watching a train full of Imams crush a busload of Al-Qaeda. In slow motion.

Horrifying, yet I can't not watch. And it feels so good.
Posted by Carl in N.H.  2004-09-10 8:29:59 AM||   2004-09-10 8:29:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Having never witnessed it before, I always had a hard time understand why normally rationally good people would participate in the lynching of man because of the color of his skin. The mindless hate and suspension of being human it would take seemed unnatural. Now with the ABB crowd, in and out of the media, I now see but still can't understand the ease with which one can turn off their rational thought process without the aid of drugs or drink. Today George Bush is their N*****. Even with a solid reelection in November I seriously fear for the man in the atmosphere of hate and loathing these people, in and out of the media, have generated. The worst fear, is that President Chaney will not have the ability to hold back the retribution that awaits these people. But then again, tens of thousands of Tories, Crown Loyalist, were driven from the newly created United States and in perspective probably did the new country a blessing rather than a bust.
Posted by Don 2004-09-10 8:46:33 AM||   2004-09-10 8:46:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I need to call my cousin Kelly. He's never seen a train wreck.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-10 8:53:31 AM||   2004-09-10 8:53:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 It gives me the vision of a plastic kerry doll being thrown into the fire.

60 minutes's credibility is toast. Their refusal to run the Swift Vet/Cambodia for "lack of evidence" and their willingness to run with such obvious forgeries, has left them naked.
Posted by B 2004-09-10 9:44:01 AM||   2004-09-10 9:44:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Pop the popcorn, open a cold microbrew, and sit back to watch the mainstream media turn on themselves and on Kerry.

Looks like I've got new weekend plans!
Posted by nada 2004-09-10 10:12:43 AM||   2004-09-10 10:12:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I can't think of a more fitting end to Dan Rather's career.
Posted by B 2004-09-10 10:29:54 AM||   2004-09-10 10:29:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Ah yes... The media bias shown in all of its crowning glory. Never even bothering to check the facts. If it is bad for Bush, RUN IT!! Never mind showing the other side, swift boats, vets, Kerry's voting record....
I love watching the pompous jerks cook in their own juices. Maybe this will force them just to report the facts and leave the propaganda to the politicians. (I know, but I can dream can't I?)
Posted by mmurray821 2004-09-10 10:48:46 AM||   2004-09-10 10:48:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 This is how blogging works. Fact checking, research and reporting. All at the speed of light. A story that it took CBS weeks to prepare was obliterated in a matter of hours.

This is the future of news. Old media will be held to the same standard that bloggers are. News has to be well researched, sources cited, corrections noted, and contributors linked. And it all has to be done quickly. The public's right to know is turning in to "the public knows". You don't need to graduate from j-school to write the news in the Internet age.
Posted by Chuck Simmins  2004-09-10 10:50:24 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org]  2004-09-10 10:50:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 I haven't had so much fun since that Peter Arnett story about poison gas melted down a couple of years ago.
Can I have my popcorn with a little extra melted butter? Thanks.
Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-09-10 10:53:46 AM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com]  2004-09-10 10:53:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 So true, Chuck. BTW, nice link on Daily Pundit yesterday...
Posted by Seafarious  2004-09-10 10:54:03 AM||   2004-09-10 10:54:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Holy smokes! I've just figured this one out. The Kerry campaign were given the forged documents by the Bush campaign! Had the Kerry campaign been smart or honest, they would have checked them out or sat on them. But they thought that they had a hot one, so they sent it to their buddies at CBS, who ran with it, with all the fact checking that the liberal media usually use--none.
An *instant* later, the Bush campaign, or its supporters, have *obvious* proof that they are forgeries. Ready to go as soon as the "60 Minutes" show aired.
So now it gets traced back to the Kerry campaign. No doubt they will bluff and bluster, still not realizing that they were snookered.
To quote Daffy Duck: "Obviously, I am dealing with inferior minds, here!"
Posted by Anonymoose 2004-09-10 11:09:04 AM||   2004-09-10 11:09:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 Don, those Crown Loyalists ended up in Canada World's leading exporter of garbage and Hollywood talent You decide which is which. You're welcome to them back anytime. They spend the summers bitching and moaning about "those american bastards" but spend the winter in Tampa.
Posted by john  2004-09-10 11:13:22 AM||   2004-09-10 11:13:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Were these documents purported to be absolutely original or copies of originals? A '70s original would be obviously impact printed.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-10 11:23:22 AM||   2004-09-10 11:23:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 copies several times over
Posted by Frank G  2004-09-10 11:28:59 AM||   2004-09-10 11:28:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 How long has 60 minutes been on? 30 years?

Did they just jump the shark?
Posted by spiffo 2004-09-10 11:30:24 AM||   2004-09-10 11:30:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 IMHO CBS will have to burn their source and it will turn out to be a DNC or Kerry operative. Do I smell toast?
Posted by Frank G  2004-09-10 11:30:31 AM||   2004-09-10 11:30:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 60 minutes jumped the shark even before the Fonz did....

I'm sure the Kerry Campain will have a handy scapegoat handy and the MSM will run with it and tell the lie so often people will beleave it.
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-09-10 11:38:34 AM||   2004-09-10 11:38:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#22 Moose, Chris Lehane beat you to the punch. But he's one of Clinton's boys who's helping Kery, so that's not a surprise.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-10 11:43:26 AM||   2004-09-10 11:43:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#23 Let me get this straight, CBS is bitching that it got duped by Kerry operatives? When in reality it was CBS's fault for not doing basic journalistic fact checking? Now they blame someone else for their own screw up - pretty par for the course for msm weenies.......can't wait to see them turn on the skerry losers.....
Posted by Jarhead 2004-09-10 11:44:13 AM||   2004-09-10 11:44:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#24 American Spectator, not a paranoid publication. More like National Review's little brother.
{Snicker}
Posted by BigEd 2004-09-10 12:07:48 PM||   2004-09-10 12:07:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Please make it go away...please make it go away...please make it go away...
Posted by Dan Rather 2004-09-10 12:34:17 PM||   2004-09-10 12:34:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Suck it up, Dan!
You knew what you were doing...
What kind of slime spends their life interviewing scum bags like Ben Barnes and Saddam Hussein?
I love this scandal! It is absolutely delicious!
All the more tasty because it was driven by the blogger patriots of the New Media.
Posted by GreatestJeneration  2004-09-10 12:45:33 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-09-10 12:45:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 Un-freaking-believable.

Where the hell is HST? This baby just cries out for his handling. How about "The Banshee Screams for Dan Rather" as a title?
Posted by mojo  2004-09-10 12:48:14 PM||   2004-09-10 12:48:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 I love this scandal! It is absolutely delicious! All the more tasty because it was driven by the blogger patriots of the New Media

Amen to that Jen, baby!

This weekend will be one of the best weekends in years. Consider:

1) CBS, NY Times and Wapo, all turning and slowly roasting on a spit from a scandal they themselves generated.

2) The first weekend after the assault rifle ban is lifted. ( I'm going to the firing range, methinks. )

3) The start of the new NFL season.

4) The second week of NCAA football. Go Pokes!
Posted by badanov  2004-09-10 12:57:28 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2004-09-10 12:57:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 For further reference, and future use, please see the following link, also mentioned elsewhere:

ACME
Posted by BigEd 2004-09-10 1:01:40 PM||   2004-09-10 1:01:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 Let's not forget - this was an operation by the Kerry campaign, and a horribly incompetent one at that. They need to feel the heat just as bad as CBS. More popcorn!
Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-09-10 1:02:14 PM||   2004-09-10 1:02:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Groove on, badanov!
Don't forget the (what I hope will be) HUGE Kerry Lied and Good Men Died Rally in Washington, D.C. on Sunday at 2:00 at the West front of the Capitol building for outraged Vietnam Vets and their supporters--Y'all come and bring your own blanket and beer!
(Of course, we will spend tomorrow respectfully remembering our fellow Americans who were murdered on 9/11/01.)
Posted by GreatestJeneration  2004-09-10 1:05:13 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-09-10 1:05:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 We're gonna need so much popcorn, we're gonna need the giant Jiffy Pop from "Real Genius".
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-09-10 2:18:31 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-09-10 2:18:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 I've heard a Clinton's angle on this. Basically the Kerry campaign was fed the docs by the Clintons to effectively take Kerry out and make room for Hillary in 2008.
Its hard for me to think who would be worse.
Posted by Anonymous6386 2004-09-10 2:30:14 PM||   2004-09-10 2:30:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 Thats the theory anyways.
Posted by Anonymous6386 2004-09-10 2:31:10 PM||   2004-09-10 2:31:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 All I can say, Dan, is better you then me, kid...
Posted by Mike Wallace 2004-09-10 2:32:17 PM||   2004-09-10 2:32:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 Carl in N.H.: LMAO

Hell, why didn't the Kerry Campaign just have one of their volunteer's kids write the letters in crayons for crying out loud.
Posted by Anonymous6389 2004-09-10 2:54:08 PM||   2004-09-10 2:54:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 You should see the discussion threads over at DU. They can't decide whether the memos were written on a spiffy new proportional-spacing typewriter with kerned fonts and superscript (and therefore genuine) or were forged and planted by Karl Rove and the Republican-controlled media.

More popcorn and another Christian Moerlein, please.
Posted by Mike  2004-09-10 3:40:21 PM||   2004-09-10 3:40:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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