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To: LindyBill who wrote (69725)	9/13/2004 1:00:17 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) of 793838

Last week, the old media tried to fight back. The Boston Globe reported a story that documented how president Bush had won preferential treatment in the Texas National Guard because of his political and family connections. CBS News ran an interview with the former head of that Guard who claimed he had pulled strings to keep Bush out of Vietnam. CBS then ran with a story that was based on newly discovered military memos indicating that one National Guard officer was irritated that political pressure had been brought to bear on him to excuse George W. Bush's erratic attendance record. The supporting evidence was far stronger than that behind the Swift Boat Veterans' campaign - and so the new media struck back. A blog called Powerline immediately claimed that the documents were hoaxes; within hours, Drudge had picked up the story. CBS defended its story, but as of the end of last week, no proof of a hoax had been provided. We'll see. -- Andrew Sullivan What a total loser. He must have be taking drugs during his month long vacation....

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