The supposedly forged document - great read and BRILLIANT advice

[Clinton Crusader]

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Dave Johnson: 'The supposedly forged document'
Date: Tuesday, September 14 @ 09:36:43 EDT
Topic: Republicans

By Dave Johnson, Seeing The Forest

Remember the Sandy Berger smear? This was the story claiming that President Clinton's National Security Advisor had smuggled incriminating documents out of the National Archives. (Berger was
completely cleared.) This was a planned smear - in the works for months - and was used by the Republicans to make the public think that Clinton was responsible for letting the 9/11 attack happen and that "the Democrats" were engaged in a conspiracy to cover up the evidence.

Well, along similar lines, and listening to Limbaugh just now, I can see that the Right's "Bush Guard memo forgery" is taking shape. The entire Wurlitzer - the Right's media echo chamber that is able to repeat a lie over and over and over until it is the ONLY story in the news - is cranked up and telling the public that CBS has been caught engaging in a smear against Bush using forged documents. Never mind that the document (one document, no plural 's') in question is legit.

According to Limbaugh:
One document is said to look like it could have been typed on a modern computer.

Therefore ALL such documents are forgeries.

Therefore CBS is intentionally working a smear on Bush.

Therefore ANY stories about Bush's National Guard service are not to be believed - he served honorably.

Therefore this proves that CBS (and by extension, ALL mainstream media) is a tool of the "Liberal Elite" and is working hand-in-hand with the Kerry campaign to smear Bush.

Again, by extension, ANY stories ANYWHERE, EVER about Bush doing ANYTHING bad are Liberal lies. Keep in mind that this is not just Limbaugh. In a NY Times Op-Ed this morning William Safire has a piece titled "Those Discredited Memos" (note that he uses the plural...) And it doesn't stop there. It hardly even STARTS there. Today a Google News search for "Bush documents CBS" locates 2,460 stories. (According to reporting from Salon, a Republican PR firm that is also involved with the Swift Boat smear is engaged in driving this story.)
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[mimitabby]

1. right on..

[papau]

2. sigh - our lying media that repeats GOP PR lies and calls itself ethical!

:-(

[Nederland]

3. This is a joke

To claim that the argument for why these documents are fakes is a simplistic as being "said to look like it could have been typed on a modern computer" is ridiculous. The are many complex and compelling reasons to believe that the documents are fakes, reasons that go beyond proportional fonts and the superscripted 'th'. Until someone at CBS can pull out a typewriter that can reproduce the CYA memo, IMHO that document is suspect. Until I see them do that that, I'm a skeptic.

[napi21]

4. Why aren't the Dems able to counter all this?

Is it because most Dems asctually have to work for a living, and not just off thier dividends? We do have a good think tank, Center for American Progress, but they haven't een able to capture much face time in the media.

[bpcmxr]

5. Bad Link?