How many years ago was that 60 Minutes report? And he's got nothing else? No other 'liberal media' outrage to flog? No more, shall we say, recent grievances? No, heaven forbid, more relevant outrage?
Pretty soon his website will have nothing but KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN scrolling across a black, black screen of fail.
Flogging your own website like some infomercial salesman isn't exactly the best way to establish credibility.
Bush could've volunteered to go to Vietnam knowing for certain that he would be turned down, therefore fronting an appearance o dutiful and brave sacrifice while in reality risking nothing. But on the other hand, I'm not sure he's smart enough to have figured that move out.
Rather screwed up for some reason- I have no idea why...but the evidence against Bush's National Guard record was sitting right on the internet at the Boston Globe website. I can't believe Rather never heard about these docs. But that's besides the point. This guy Goldberg conveniently attacks Rather and Mapes, while Moonves is facing a $70 million lawsuit on Rather's termination.
@Motoko Kusanagi:
I doubt that CBS did the forgery. It was given forgeries that were probably made from real documents.
The question to ask is did the forger deliberately use some superscript font to later"catch" CBS or did the forger just do it without that knowledge & CBS still fell for it.
And I still think Karl Rove will be found out as behind it.
@Motoko Kusanagi: Actually- the documents were hanging out on the net for awhile, with many other docs. CBS didn't forge them-the source Bill whathisname did.
But- I was interpreting the point (the video wouldn't play for me so...) Gawker made on this being-Bush wanted to go to Vietnam.
I suppose then, we are to believe that Bush broke all the rules so that he might have the opportunity to go to war in Vietnam.
I know Bush isn't the brightest, but someone could have explained that all he had to do was enlist for a tour of duty. If he wanted to fly while in service, then he might have a problem, because he conveniently went missing many times for those training hours.
Bush was to have signed in with the Guard when he arrived at Harvard. He didn't. Most normal recruits would have been sent off to Vietnam at that point.
Something prevented Bush doing a tour in Vietnam and it wasn't the fact that he didn't have enough flight training.
I was pretty pissed that Rather ignored this information. It is bad journalism to rely on a single source for the story.
@lil red: The whole episode was some of the most criminally inept journalism ever. The first thing I said when I heard that the supposed documents had come to light was, "They'd better check the typeface." I've never been an investigator, a journalist, nothing, I'm just an ordinary citizen with a functioning frontal lobe. However, the beauty here is it's being responded to with more of the same.
I think there may of been a simpler way for Bush to of gone to Vietnam. Like by applying to the Air Force instead of using his parents connections to go to the National Guard.
@cockfightbarmitzvah: Exactly. There is nothing so ironic or despicable that some of the biggest war mongerers shirked their duties when it came to actual war. I have yet to meet a veteran who wasn't profoundly affected by their experience, leading them to approach war as the grave, terrible force it is.
08/26/09
Pretty soon his website will have nothing but KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN scrolling across a black, black screen of fail.
08/26/09
Bush could've volunteered to go to Vietnam knowing for certain that he would be turned down, therefore fronting an appearance o dutiful and brave sacrifice while in reality risking nothing. But on the other hand, I'm not sure he's smart enough to have figured that move out.
08/25/09
Rather screwed up for some reason- I have no idea why...but the evidence against Bush's National Guard record was sitting right on the internet at the Boston Globe website. I can't believe Rather never heard about these docs. But that's besides the point. This guy Goldberg conveniently attacks Rather and Mapes, while Moonves is facing a $70 million lawsuit on Rather's termination.
Why do we even listen to these idiots?
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I doubt that CBS did the forgery. It was given forgeries that were probably made from real documents.
The question to ask is did the forger deliberately use some superscript font to later"catch" CBS or did the forger just do it without that knowledge & CBS still fell for it.
And I still think Karl Rove will be found out as behind it.
08/26/09
But- I was interpreting the point (the video wouldn't play for me so...) Gawker made on this being-Bush wanted to go to Vietnam.
I suppose then, we are to believe that Bush broke all the rules so that he might have the opportunity to go to war in Vietnam.
I know Bush isn't the brightest, but someone could have explained that all he had to do was enlist for a tour of duty. If he wanted to fly while in service, then he might have a problem, because he conveniently went missing many times for those training hours.
Bush was to have signed in with the Guard when he arrived at Harvard. He didn't. Most normal recruits would have been sent off to Vietnam at that point.
Something prevented Bush doing a tour in Vietnam and it wasn't the fact that he didn't have enough flight training.
I was pretty pissed that Rather ignored this information. It is bad journalism to rely on a single source for the story.
08/26/09
08/25/09
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