SilverNRed

*sigh*

Which is odd considering I've been watching every major league baseball game this season on my computer with MLBTV. Never thought I'd see the day when MLB was more progressive than the NFL. But MLBTV is already in its second year and the NFL has nothing similar.

If it makes you feel any better, I don't see you as someone who just posts DNC 'talking points'. OK, for Iran, I think the US is banking on an internal uprising. The younger generation has been making waves pushing for democratic reforms. I've heard many analysts say they'd be surprised if there wasn't a revolution in Iran within the next 5 years. For Iraq, nothing changed when Bush was elected. Saddam had basically been public enemy no.1 since the Gulf War (and America thought so too - based on his appearances in movies like Hot Shots and South Park). His hands were not clean. The man subsidized suicide bombers, gave save-haven to terrorists, fired on U.S. jets patrolling the no-fly zone every day, and certainly did not comply with UN inspectors until there were over 200,000 U.S. troops on his doorstep. The conclusion that he had to be taken out before he became another Kim Jong-Il seemed reasonable. A nation like North Korea in the Middle East is something much more difficult to deal with - at least the real North Korea is flanked by China, Japan, and South Korea.

Exactly. In fact, he's SO dangerous, that we can't attak him directly because the losses for S. Korea and our troops stationed there would be massive and inescapable. Someone already mentioned this.

The man is a retard, no question. The lefty version of Michael Savage. Listening to him speak, I don't know if even he believes the garbage he spews. I can't detect a speck of sincerity there. How cute that CNN employs an advisor for the Kerry campaign. Super duper!

LOL And now CBS is using the (already debunked) Globe story to support their own position. This is unreal. God bless the internet. Powerline

BINGO.

The Boston Globe has a story and headline today that completely misrepresents an expert who is in the process of analyzing the (fake) memoes. Here's a link with some quotes from the (clearly upset) expert. INDC Journal Give the mainstream media credit. You can't say they don't stick together.

There are probably over a dozen significant problems with the four memos as of right now and a lot of the articles discussing those are in this thread and the other one that I started. The 'TH' is possible but CBS did not show that that specific brand of typewriter was being used at the office where the memoes were supposedly written. Last night, Rather showed another document typed in that era with a superscript 'TH'. The problem? It looked completely different - the memo version resembling the Microsoft Word version of superscript. Also, someone has already re-typed said memoes with an old IBM Selectric and posted the results online. They do not match. Then there is kerning, or how the 'y' in word processors can curl underneath the letter before it. That is somehow present in the memoes....somehow. Not to mention the notes refer to an officer who had retired 1.5 years before they were supposedly written. The heading is somehow perfectly centered, all three lines of it. Doing that with an 1972 typewriter would have taken forever. Finally, a man named Hodges, who CBS used to verify that the memoes, has now recanted. Apparently CBS told him they had hand-written memoes and read the contents to him on the phone (this from ABC News). This won't die as bad as Dan Rather wants it to. His shrill counterattack on the people questioning him (those 'partisan political operatives') didn't help. He can't believe the idiot masses on the internet could possibly bring him down.

Actually, a lot of people have been asking that. But CBS won't reveal their sources. Gosh, wonder why.......

I believe CBS claims to have copies of the supposed original documents.

ABC: Hodges says he was misled by CBS ABC News Get started on your resignation, Danny.

Suzie owns. And, yeah, it would be great.

Three years later..... Bin Laden is dead, and if he isn't really dead, he's so scared for his life he's been hiding in a hole and unwilling to offer proof of his own life for over a year. On second thought, he's dead. National pride and unity are back to where they were before. Actually, that's not true but it has once again become acceptable to sell out your country and, once again, people are taking advantage of that. Two struggling, baby democracies are born in Iraq and Afghanistan. Whether they survive is not certain but that is our mission now. Spain and Russia have each had their own "9/11's." It wasn't on direct orders from OBL and his group but by people just like them. And a big chunk of the world thinks we're the bad guys. *sigh* Anyway, God Bless America and God Bless Our Troops.

Those articles are all somewhere in this thread.

Dan Rather's expert on the CBS Evening News tonight..... ....a handwriting expert! No one even questioned the signatures because it would be so easy to scan a real one and paste it onto freshly word-processed document. Dan Rather: Owned This isn't going away. Rather has been destroyed in the past 24 hours by this thing. Did he think his bitter temper tantrum on national TV tonight was going to scare everyone off? When he didn't answer any of the main questions that have already been raised.

Rather's rebuttal on the CBS Evening News was so weak just now that I am convinced he's lying. (real) MEMO TO DAN: The burden of proof is on you! Not the 'partisan web sites' and their rumors! He picked out the superscript issue and showed that another Bush document also had a superscript 'TH.' He put them side by side to show it could happen. The problem? The two superscript TH's were completely different. Not surpisingly, the 'newly revealed memo' version looked exactly like the Microsoft Word version. He trotted out an expert who thought they were real and a veteran who said they were written the way memos would have been written. NO MENTION OF KILLIAN'S WIFE AND SON AMONG THOSE QUESTIONING THE AUTHENTICITY!!!! Dude made it sound like evil conservative spies were unfairly attacking him!!!! Horrible.

More good news for Dan Rather..... I just saved a load of money by switching to Geico.

Another good point.

I don't see how anyone can actually argue against verifying supposed 'bombshell' documents. Should we all just nod in approval whenever Dan Rather speaks? Ignore the freedom of speech and information that the internet, in 2004, has blessed us with?

It *could* hurt Kerry. It could help Bush just to proving that he's a victim of unfair attacks. Actually, F that, he's a victim of flat out liars. It would be devastating to CBS and Dan Rather. Hopefully a giant shake-up a la Jason Blair at the New York Times. I doubt Rather would resign just because he wouldn't want his career to end that way.

Amen. By the way, CNN has picked up the story. Yet another expert finds the documents fishy and, this time, reproduces them with Microsoft Word.

So the jerkwads at al Qaeda released another video today and, once again, Osama was 100% absent. No proof of life in over a year. No reason why. If you want an "October Surprise" it'll probably be some 'leak' or announcement that OBL is most likely worm food. al Zawahiri speaks

Drudge Report Take with a giant spoonful of salt:

MSNBC/Washington Post now questioning authenticity The article also contains quotes from the supposed author's wife. She calls them a "farce." Didn't take long for the questions to go mainstream.