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In reply to the discussion: Karl Rove is VERY AFRAID of the new Dan Rather - Robert Redford movie [View all]grasswire
(50,130 posts)92. it was a freeper who first alerted on the docs, during the program airing
from Texas Monthly EXHAUSTIVE report on the whole AWOL story
The first person to publicly question the memos was an Air Force officer in Montgomery named Paul Boley, who posted on the conservative online forum Free Republic under the handle TankerKC. Boleys comment popped up while the program was still going on.
But the man officially credited with inspiring a fusillade of blog attacks was Harry MacDougald, known on message boards as Buckhead, a GOP lawyer in Atlanta who missed the segment but downloaded the Killian documents from the CBS website later that night. He specifically claimed that the memos used proportional spacing and superscripts that didnt exist on typewriters of the early seventies.
A conspiracy theory has since arisen that Bartlett, knowing in advance that the documents were forgeriesand, in some fevered imaginations, knowing his boss Karl Rove was the source of themtipped off right-wing surrogates to attack the documents.
When I asked Lloyd why Bartlett ignored his assessment, he said, I guess he was trying to set Rather up for getting mauled.
Bartlett told me that the online attacks began before I started any outreach to the press. He added that Bush himself didnt learn of the Killian memos until after the segment had already aired, because Bartlett felt the documents didnt show anything revelatory. He initially dismissed them as old news.
In any case, MacDougalds arguments about the documents turned out to be inaccurate. He acknowledged as much in an interview with me in 2008. And in a speech given that same year, Mike Missal, a lawyer for the firm that CBS hired to investigate its own report, said, Its ironic that the blogs were actually wrong. . . . We actually did find typewriters that did have the superscript, did have proportional spacing. And on the fonts, given that these are copies, its really hard to say, but there were some typewriters that looked like they could have some similar fonts there. So the initial concerns didnt seem as though they would hold up.
http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/truth-or-consequences/
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Karl Rove is VERY AFRAID of the new Dan Rather - Robert Redford movie [View all]
grasswire
Oct 2015
OP
The Bushes are war criminals who stole elections and have quite possibly assassinated people.
yardwork
Oct 2015
#72
Did they put in the movie that the base that Dubya flew to did not have the kind of jet planes
DhhD
Oct 2015
#12
Or snacks. Remember his snack-related injury? Dogs licked him for salt and helped revive him.
Mabus
Oct 2015
#120
Karl Rove and his team successfully refocused attention away from Bush and his AWOL...
MinM
Oct 2015
#122
I am really looking forward to seeing "Spotlight". I hope it will be in wide release here in Boston
smirkymonkey
Oct 2015
#127
A more suspicious type than me might wonder if this inspired 60 Minutes' rough Obama interview.
Gidney N Cloyd
Oct 2015
#19
The F-102 was an interceptor. No danger Bush would ever have to outfly a MIG or SAM.
leveymg
Oct 2015
#77
variable width type setting (kerning) was uncommon to find on a typewriter back then
0rganism
Oct 2015
#37
Exactly. It's exactly what Rove did to destroy the author of "Favorite Son" in 2000.
hedda_foil
Oct 2015
#43
Precisely. I still have a copy that got onto shelves before the official release date.
hedda_foil
Oct 2015
#90
The IBM Executive, the first proportional space typewriter, was introduced in 1944.
MgtPA
Oct 2015
#65
I own an Olympia daisy-wheel typewriter that had a PS (proportional spacing) wheel
colorado_ufo
Oct 2015
#79
The secretary who generated those documents said plainly there were LIKE the ones she did
KittyWampus
Oct 2015
#57
The DUI and his history of drug addiction didn't matter because he was "saved."
yardwork
Oct 2015
#50
I'm sure he is hoping no one is working on a screenplay about The Franklin Scandal
tomm2thumbs
Oct 2015
#39
Why Karl is scared: Texas ANG shows how bin Laden and Bush families came together for bidness.
Octafish
Oct 2015
#59
A keeper for my files. Thank you. And what about this one about W and Margie Shoedinger?:
AikidoSoul
Oct 2015
#97
thank you. I have to call my local art house and ask when they are going to show it.
niyad
Oct 2015
#71
Bush was a coke head at the time which is why he skipped out on his flight readiness physical.
cpompilo
Oct 2015
#69
You just got a shout-out from Thom Hartmann for this thread grasswire. way to go. nt
Snotcicles
Oct 2015
#89