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To: LindyBill who wrote (94084)1/6/2005 8:52:55 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 793799
 
Thursday Open Topic
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Here’s a topic for open discussion; I’ll kick it off by mentioning that I just finished a segment on the Hugh Hewitt show about the imminent (or so we’ve been led to believe) CBS Report on the fraudulent National Guard memos. Three big questions that came up:

1. Will the report try to claim the memos could possibly be real? I agreed with John Hinderaker that they might. If the faulty analysis by Utah State professor David Hailey is included somehow, we’ll know that the snow machine has been turned on.

2. How could the obvious resemblance to computer-produced documents have been missed, by all the people who must have seen them on their way to being broadcast? This is a continual source of amazement for me, because the fact that they were created in Microsoft Word was as obvious as a sock in the eye. The only real way to answer this question is that so many people at CBS were so blinded by partisan ideology that they just didn’t let themselves see it.

3. The big question, and it ties in with the partisan blindness noted above: how much coordination took place between the Democratic National Committee and CBS? Remember that new video that showed up only a couple of days after the story broke, titled Fortunate Son? It featured clips of Dan Rather on 60 Minutes II. There was clearly a big push planned around this broadcast. When did it start, and who was involved?

I don’t expect to get an answer to question #3.
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