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In reply to the discussion: Karl Rove is VERY AFRAID of the new Dan Rather - Robert Redford movie [View all]MinM
(2,650 posts)122. Karl Rove and his team successfully refocused attention away from Bush and his AWOL...
The fact that Karl has such intimate knowledge of these documents fits in with this piece written 10-years ago:
October 1, 2005 (onlinejournal.com)Former CBS News anchor Rather says CBS wouldn't allow him to do a follow-up story on Bush's Texas Air National Guard (TANG) files.
Speaking at the National Press Club on September 26, Dan Rather responded to a question posed by moderator Marvin Kalb concerning the controversial TANG files of George W. Bush. Kalb asked Rather why he did not return to the story and investigate those who created the guard files, passed them off to a former TANG officer and hence to CBS's 60 Minutes, and tipped off right-wing bloggers before the airing of the pre-2004 election exposé by 60 Minutes. Rather responded, "You'll have to ask CBS that question."
Rather stated it was his desire to continue to delve into the story and the set-up. [font color=blue]According to CBS insiders, the original TANG files were scanned by GOP dirty tricks operatives using a sophisticated text scanner that changed the original IBM typewriter Courier font to a Times Roman font, automatically created a "th" superscript for date numbers, and created margins and pagination.[/font] An independent panel commissioned by CBS and headed by former GOP Attorney General Richard Thornburgh never concluded the documents were bogus.
In fact, the [font color=darkred]GOP operatives had to be very careful in their dirty tricks operation:[/font] forging or counterfeiting official government documents is a felony. However, scanning original documents technically does not fall under the category of counterfeiting. Nevertheless, the [font color=blue]GOP quickly tipped off right-wing bloggers, including Free Republic.com, that the CBS documents were forgeries. In doing so, Karl Rove and his team successfully refocused attention away from Bush and his AWOL status in the Guard and on to Dan Rather and 60 Minutes.[/font] [font color=red]People like Karl Rove and, as reported by The New York Post, long time GOP dirty tricks operative Roger Stone, got away with the entire caper, thus eliminating Bush's phony military record as a campaign issue[/font]...
http://www.onlinejournal.org/Media/100105Madsen/100105madsen.html
Speaking at the National Press Club on September 26, Dan Rather responded to a question posed by moderator Marvin Kalb concerning the controversial TANG files of George W. Bush. Kalb asked Rather why he did not return to the story and investigate those who created the guard files, passed them off to a former TANG officer and hence to CBS's 60 Minutes, and tipped off right-wing bloggers before the airing of the pre-2004 election exposé by 60 Minutes. Rather responded, "You'll have to ask CBS that question."
Rather stated it was his desire to continue to delve into the story and the set-up. [font color=blue]According to CBS insiders, the original TANG files were scanned by GOP dirty tricks operatives using a sophisticated text scanner that changed the original IBM typewriter Courier font to a Times Roman font, automatically created a "th" superscript for date numbers, and created margins and pagination.[/font] An independent panel commissioned by CBS and headed by former GOP Attorney General Richard Thornburgh never concluded the documents were bogus.
In fact, the [font color=darkred]GOP operatives had to be very careful in their dirty tricks operation:[/font] forging or counterfeiting official government documents is a felony. However, scanning original documents technically does not fall under the category of counterfeiting. Nevertheless, the [font color=blue]GOP quickly tipped off right-wing bloggers, including Free Republic.com, that the CBS documents were forgeries. In doing so, Karl Rove and his team successfully refocused attention away from Bush and his AWOL status in the Guard and on to Dan Rather and 60 Minutes.[/font] [font color=red]People like Karl Rove and, as reported by The New York Post, long time GOP dirty tricks operative Roger Stone, got away with the entire caper, thus eliminating Bush's phony military record as a campaign issue[/font]...
http://www.onlinejournal.org/Media/100105Madsen/100105madsen.html
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Karl Rove is VERY AFRAID of the new Dan Rather - Robert Redford movie [View all]
grasswire
Oct 2015
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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