Hoystory will not refer to this scandal as others have -- by using CBS newsman Dan Rather's surname and appending "-gate" -- because the construction is contrived, overdone and annoying. Now that I've gotten that out of the way, the only people left who believe these documents are genuine are the Kool Aid drinkers on […]
When I saw this in the Sunday paper, my blood began to boil. Sen. John F. Kerry vowed Saturday to "fight tooth and nail" to ensure every African American vote was counted in the November election, saying Democrats would not "stand by and allow acts of voter suppression." The Democratic presidential nominee stepped up criticism […]
Keep this on your clipboard whenever your Democrat friends complain about the "vicious" attack ads that the Bush/Cheney campaign and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are airing. Who's Counting? $106,124,400: Estimated amount spent on TV ads by President Bush's campaign and pro-Republican groups since March. $181,792,922: Estimated amount spent on TV ads by the Kerry […]
I wish I'd been around Friday night to see it, but National Review's Jim Geraghty gives Dan Rather's performance that night a solid fisking which is well worth your time. I'll post more on this entire issue later, but I wanted to point out this part of Rather's introduction. Today on the Internet and elsewhere, […]
First off: LA traffic stinks -- even when I'm not driving. It's nice to be able to read up on what the latest is on the fake Killian documents fallout. The guys over at Powerline (link on left) are all over the story for a second straight day. Apparently Dan Rather went on CNN earlier […]
I'm heading off to the Sequoia National Forest and will be incommunicado for the next several days (unless Sprint has hidden a cell tower somewhere). In the meantime, feel free to hit the tip jars on the left or visit my advertisers.
ABC's "Nightline" piece on the forged documents was less than impressive. The New York Times piece on the story is adequate. Dr. Philip Bouffard, who was also interviewed over at the INDC Journal (link below), is quoted by the Times, but his assessment that there is at least a 90 percent probability that the documents […]
One of the commentors over at Little Green Footballs had an interesting take on the document story vis a vis the Kerry campaign. After all, as the New York Times coverage of the "web of connections" between the Swift Boat Vets demonstrates, anything bad that happens to one campaign is without question orchestrated by the […]
The blogosphere, with the help of several experts, have determined that CBS News' Killian documents are not the product of a 1970s era typewriter. Using my extensive journalistic contacts, I've confirmed what many know: the documents were created using Microsoft Word. But that's not all of the story. I have been provided with one of […]
While there's been plenty of talk on the Hugh Hewitt show and postings around the blogosphere about CBS's fraudulent documents, there hasn't been much discussion about what CBS must do aside from running a correction. Yes, a correction should be forthcoming -- a prominent one -- and sooner rather than later. But that alone is […]