Fake, but accurate^®

the Bill Frist post

Rather? More like Lather, as in what the LLL get themselves worked into when someone dares to point out the truth to them.

I don't get it, a post back to itself?

What's ol Mizz Mapes up to, these day? Working for Pravda yet, or are she and Howell Raines collaborating on AgitProp for Dhimmies?

Sorry -- first post got messed up. Reload, please.

Sorry -- first post got messed up. Reload, please.

I thought it was a zen thing.

It's still good work you did, Charles.

A strange parallel--now that Rather has been brought down, much like the Soviet Union, we are surrounded by a crowd of equally offensive but less powerful idiots, much like certain countries we don't much care for.

Not so fast Charles...

Anchor wants to be 'the gay Dan Rather'
Published September 8, 2005

Back when he was a field reporter at Orlando's Fox affiliate, Josh Fountain says he mostly stayed in the closet when it came to his sexuality.

As of this week, that's pretty much over, since Fountain took the anchor's chair for a new national news show on the Q Television Network.

That's Q as in "queer."

"I want to be the gay Dan Rather," Fountain said a few hours before his debut, "except better-looking."

QTN has been around for about seven years, offering programming that's targeted for and focuses on the gay and lesbian audience.

As for what exactly constitutes a gay-oriented newscast, Fountain referred to Tuesday's premiere edition, in which he talked with analysts about what John Roberts would bring to the U.S. Supreme Court in terms of gay issues and laws. And when Fountain went to Louisiana on the heels of Hurricane Katrina, he said he zeroed in on the lives of New Orleans' large and uprooted gay population.

"Basically," he explained, "it's the first 30-minute news about queer news."

[Link: www.orlandosentinel.com...]

People look at me cross-eyed when I mention the forgeries while defending Bush. They originally heard about it on CBS, and that's all the confirmation they need. Too many intelligent people still believe the documents were authentic.

Besides, Bush causing the hurricane, and then bewitching both mayor and governor is all the proof they need.

One of my favorite Rather quotes:

"If you're disgusted with us, frankly I don't blame ya."

I have to admit that I discovered lgf through a link on the Columbia Journalism Review about Rathergate.
Good work Charles (peace be upon him). Keep it up!

You've gotta bring back the throbbing memo, Charles!

Where did this year go?

Sorry, just going too fast!

You bagged him and tagged him Charles, with help from others of course. But your flashing memo put a graphic fork in this thing.

Congratulations. That's some of the most important goofing around with default word processing in the history of journalism.

Twenty years ago the whole Rather story would have been digested as pure, unadulterated truth. Today, thanks to blogs, like LGF, the media has had their comeuppance. Charles, you are a legend in your own time whether you know it or not. I’d adopt you or marry you in a New York second, but I just don’t have the proper size of pajamas or a place to park your bicycle.

#16 Beagle

That's some of the most important goofing around with default word processing in the history of journalism

That's the funniest thing I've read all day

Has it been a year already? I thought that this fake story was closer to the election.

Also 1 year ago that Australian Embassy in Indonesia suffered a terrorist attack...

[Link: www.theage.com.au...]

And, like Dan Rather, the bastards are still out there somewhere.

Thanks for the memo-ries...

Long may it throb.

(Uh... that just don't sound right.)

#14 Dar ul Harb,

You've gotta bring back the throbbing memo, Charles!

Charles,
Congratulations on the one year anniversary of your part in an important turning point in history. The election, Iraq and the wider war on terror. Buckhead, Powerline and you and others...The throbbing memo.

May I suggest a re-throbbing of the smoking memo?

Canadhimmis

#22,

May I suggest a re-throbbing of the smoking memo?

Refresh. Charles's already got it going again, in all its headache inducing glory...

@17 Grandma

How many times we did we digest unadulterated lies as sterling truth? What would we find if we researched the archives of SeeBullShi'ite?
And we know NYT is downright complicit in publishing bald faced lies.

Oh God! what could I do? I foamed --I raved --I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder --louder --louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God! --no, no! They heard! --they suspected! --they knew! --they were making a mockery of my horror!-this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now --again! --hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!

"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!"

--Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"

#18 Killgore Trout

That's the funniest thing I've read all day

Thanks! :-D

It was the biggest breakout for Internet journalism, during a heated campaign, where the MSM was clearly pulling out all the stops to take down Bush. Evan Thomas admitted as much, and has been criticized for telling the truth ever since.

It wasn't so much protecting Bush from criticism over TANG. The issue itself wasn't going to sway many people. Watching Rather defend the story like a child caught red-handed cheating on a test, night after night, hurt the credibility of the MSM so much the shockwaves from the event are still bouncing around. Then the 'independent' report buried the critical information in an appendix, further making it look like the scam it was.

Power Line, Charles, and the document experts came through in a big way. They wouldn't let go, and won. It really was a bit like David slaying Goliath. Dan Rather taken down by the pajamahadeen.

yes, folks, there it is, that beacon that screams:

THE MSM IS DEAD!

Welcome to a new era!

Rock on Orbit Rain !

Thanks to LGF...

Aaaahhh, the days of 'wine and roses'...

NOW GET ME TWO REEFER TRUCKS! I STILL NEED 2 TRUCKS WITH COOLING UNITS THAT WILL PLUG INTO A 220 VOLT OUTLET! Anybody seen Dan lately? ...

Wow.

I followed the document index link provided in the body of this post.

I was truly stunned.

Thirty-nine topics by Charles/LGF in less than 95 hours...

...brought down a "Big Three" network anchor.

Bravo sir.

#26 Beagle
It was all part of my awakening. I hadn't discovered blogs yet, I was personally fact checking Mikey Moore's F9/11 (the first time i'd ever done anything like that) and I was starting to notice that 60 Minutes (who I had always trusted) was doing some questionable reporting. The 60 Minutes piece with Richard Clarke really stands out in my memory as something that wasn't quite right.
I started to realize that the more I learn, the less I know. I guess that's anti-idolitarianism. That's how I landed here.

Since today is my birthday, I'll always be reminded of Danny Boy hosting that fatal show. (fatal for him, that is)

Do you think the MSM has learned anything from that night? the one thing they should always know is that LGF'rs are never fooled.

#30 Friend of Bill W:

You what stands out for me when I look at the comments on those 39 threads? All the names that are missing from those threads. Familiar names like Studsup, zulubaby, Mr Pol...many. What's happened to us? We've had people move and all but Mike C. can post from you-know-where and so what's happened to them...or to us? Hmmm...

#32 surfer dude:

Happy Belated Birthday greetings. Hope you had a good one!

Awesome stuff. Put LGF on my map and into my favorites list.

TO
STAY,
R

We're dealing with people who have a mental disorder.

When you think about it, that little heartbeat memo helped keep Kerry out of office, and away from events like Katrina.

Makes you wonder how he would've handled it?

@33 foreign devil

Studsup still posts everynow and then. Zulubaby is either back in hebrew classes or mebbe now in S.Africa for a visit. No one knows why MrPol quit posting.

#33 foreign devil

... Studsup, zulubaby, Mr Pol...many. What's happened to us? We've had people move and all but Mike C. can post from you-know-where and so what's happened to them...or to us? Hmmm...

What do you mean? I'm still lurking and posting on dead threads.

Been on/off for 3 years now. LGF is like an addiction, I can't let it sit. It calls me in my sleep.

Charles - Congrats.

Just like the older dial-up BBSes, blogs tend to molt from time to time.

SHEDDING
OLD
COAT,
R

A year passes by like nothing with the Furry Freak Brothers.

/stuck in the 70's

A bright shining moment to remember like no other, Charles. You did your nation proud. Many thanks.

Ah, the old flashing memo ! I tell ya, it brings a tear to my eye to see an old friend again !

The instant I saw that throbbing memo a year ago I knew the battle had been won. And so it was. But then it suddenly hit me...How long has this kind of crap been going on? ...and by all of the big-3 networks, since their news reporting was pretty much in lockstep. How many elections would have come out differently if the Internet had been around for the last 30 or 40 years fact checking their asses? The result of all of this for me is that I haven't watched a big-3 TV newscast for the last year, and have found much more credible and trustworthy news sources on the Internet.

Thanks, Charles...I've become an LGF addict, and have no intention of kicking the habit.

Charles thank you for your part in getting that
man off of the t.v.

Memories...from the corners of my mind...

My gosh - seeing this made me check, and it's only two days until the anniversary of my LGF registration.

In a truly pathetic attempt to have some of Charles' glory rub off on me, I will note that I was one of the 226 people who were lucky enough to have been commenters on the very first LGF thread on this topic:

#173 zombie
...These memos are being referred to as totally authentic all over the media. I haven't seen the slightest peep that their authenticity is being doubted. If it is true that they are forged (and they sure as hell looked forged to me -- I mean, c'mon, just look at them for two seconds) this needs to get out ASAP. I've already read many headlines to the effect of "Superior 'Sugar-Coats' Bush's Deeds," etc. A lie will travel around the word seven times before the truth puts its pants on. It's ACTION time!

I was also at Woodstock, and I was standing just to the left of the Grassy Knoll in Dealy Plaza, and I helped stare down that tank in Tianenmen Square...

/ah, memories...

The next time someone starts waving and screaming about some fake "proof" they have, just say "I'd Rather you didn't!"

Yes, punnery is a terrible disease.

#49 Zombie

We are not worthy! we are not worthy! ::salaam'ing::

(obsequious enough?)

Still impressed after all this time. Wonderful piece of work.

Yet, I grind my teeth wondering why Rather and half of CBS aren't in jail for fraud.

In jail?, Why they're professionals.

#49 zombie

Between the time that Charles posted how to duplicate the memo in Word and when he posted an animated version, I tried entering the text in word, made a throbing gif of my own, and sent it to Drudge and Andrew Sulivan.

Giving all credit to Charles of course.

I was also at Woodstock, and I was standing just to the left of the Grassy Knoll in Dealy Plaza, and I helped stare down that tank in Tianenmen Square..

lol
And Dan rather took pictures of it all.

I met ole Dan in Vietnam,
Should have took him into the jungle to look at some of my hand grenades

but then,
if i would have blown him up,

Charles would not have become the darling of the news blogs.
thanks for exposing one of the most over paid news sluts in the business.

ibm

Congrats, Charles and fellow bloggers. You deserve the thanks of a grateful nation.

I will never forget the realization that I was sitting in my own kid's-bedroom-turned-office and watching history being made in a way not possible before.

I remember even back then, it also struck me that nobody in 1973 used the words "CYA" as an acronym for "Cover your *ss". I think I heard that acronym as a stand-alone cliche less than 10-20 years ago.

And who in '73 would even write a CYA memo? A "memo to file"? Give me a break.

Fake but inaccurate. :)

THe show "American Dad" had a funny charicature of Rather, extendedly whistling his "S's" after every sentence.

"Im Dan Rather, bringing you the newsss"

Thanks Charles. Mainly for making that pledge you made way back in Sept 2001. I found this site because of Dan. It really did give me sanity during the 2004 election.

Happy Dan-iversary, Charles!

Courage.

Check here for examples of the impact that Rathergate has had on blogging and the media over the past year and here for more on Rathergate's role in the new media revolution.

I learned of this site one year ago when some early report I read on the fake (but accurate) memos mentioned LGF. Drudge maybe?

The throbbing memo! Ahhh! My eyes!

BRAVO! Charles Johnson!
You are one of my heroes!

Happy anniversary, Dan.

And thank you, Charles.

Here in Denver one year ago – the biased Democrat journalists at local Fox31 News reported the story as if George Bush was guilty of some crime.

Meanwhile - over at Denver's 9-News, where REAL journalism takes place, they reported the facts and even mentioned LGF.

The sad thing is that Dan Rather if you gave him a lie detector test would probably still say and believe that he is not biased.

#60 Big Dan
I too felt that the term "Cover Your Ass" was an anachronism. I was in college back then and I never heard that term. That was a term that came into vogue in the lat 1980's early 1990's.

Charles,

Congratulations.

History will reflect that your near instantaneous and complete refutation of the fictional "memo" marked the end of the era of MSM supremacy.

Since the advent of modern news dissimination, the coloring of the news to fit the agenda of the Dan Rathers of the world slid inexorably towards "Pravada" like accuracy and balance. It worsened simply because there was nothing to counterbalance it.

Now there is and lying bastards like Rather will not be up to the challenge. A few will probably realize the change and temper their passion but others will continue to attempt to "fudge" the news (if not outright lie) simply because they are, largely, clueless (think Krugman).

They'll lose, fortunately, because there is too much freedom and intelligence on the web for them to prevail. Society will improve with this increased transparency. Just in time, in my opinion.

Muchas gracias, Charles--the free world is growing because of honest patriots & free thinkers such as you. Down with doublespeak mind control forever.

OT, Sandy Berger's fine boosted from $10k to $50k for stuffing 9/11 docs down his pants. Thank you, Judge Robinson! [Link: www.washingtontimes.com...] front page

Why don't the letters match up perfectly? Can someone answer that?

#73 alegrias
I wonder how many of us could even get away with a mere fine of $50,000 for stealing from the National Archives. Good for the judge for raising the fine, but that's nothing compared to what it should have been.

A year later and the only difference from the MSM is that Dan Rather's no longer the figurehead. They cleaned up their act for the remainder of the election, when they knew people would be watching for any faults, and then went back to business as usual the day after.

But, for those few days, it felt great to be at the top of the world. Even though I was diving through the muck of the DU and Kos feverswamps daily to get vital updates to our glorious leader.

that was an exciting day - I didn't really add too much to the original post (see comment #17) other than that in my experience with computers since the late 70s - those documents looked fake.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

it felt great to be part (a small small part) of something historic

#74, photocopy/fax your original Word document a few times and it will become blurred and distorted by the transmission - easy enough to do, try it out.

zombie

I was one of the 226 people who were lucky enough to have been commenters on the very first LGF thread on this topic:

Oo oo, I never thought of that. Me too.

Congrats Charles!
I notice that no one ever claimed the prize money by creating the same memo on a 1972 IBM Selectric typewriter..I have one here and I pulled it out and showed everyone that it would not superscript. I spent years typing on that monster and then CBS tells me and other experienced typists that the 70's model Selectric did all those fancy types. Just how stupid did CBS think we were?

Thanks Charles on behalf of all of us!

But tell us, Charles, did you send flowers to Dan yesterday?

That was, and still is, sooo sweet.

The thing that is most astounding to me is that Dan Rather - powerful, rich and famous beyond my imagination - did not think to make sure that anachronisms such as Time New Roman font and "CYA" were taken out of this ruse before being rushed to air. Ay caramba! The fake was so bad and so obvious that it makes me wonder how he had the brains to ascend to his lofty position. And it makes me wonder about the brains of those many that he beat to the top of the media ladder.

#83 Gape

I've never thought Dan or Mapes made the forgeries. I have always creditted Burkett with that. The other folks were just really, really stupid, blinded by bias, or clearly saw they were fakes but thought they could get away with presenting them.

It attraced me to this site...

Great job Charles and it prevented a Kerry administration...

The thing that surprised me the most about the whole Rathergate deal was the fact that so many lefties went to the mat for those phony memos, which demonstrated to me that lefties really think they can fool all of the people all of the time.

The Reality Based Community is kicking our collective ass!
Odds `n Ends...

As for Daily Kos. My God...the intelligence, compassion and immediacy on display over the past two weeks could (and did) move mountains. Now I know why we're kicking the righty blogosphere's ass: when you live in the reality-based community, you don't have to spend all your time and energy trying to jam square pegs (facts and common sense) into round holes (closed minds). Which explains why the Little Green Footballs crowd strains for credibility like a constipated gorilla (apologies to all the real constipated gorillas for the insensitive comparison).

The CBS memo scandal was one of the most prominent examples of a phenomenon first noted by Charles Krauthammer, and reported on here at LGF: Bush Derangement Syndrome.

"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad."*
-Euripides

*i.e. drive insane

Short trip, huh, Dan?

"If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story."--Dan Rather

blows me away that there are still -lots- of people out there who won't consider the possibility that the documents were frogeries... in the face of what can only be considered certainty.

It was a fantatstic moment when the blinking thing got posted. It changed journalism forever. (and considerably drove up the price of antique typewriters).

regards,

vtrtl

Haiku

The Throbbing memo
What's the frequency Kenneth?
Blog-marks on Dan's ass

Echoing many others, thanks dan for leading me to this site, you’ve done more good than you intended dan. For several years I worked in computing support at a very large university. While hardly an "expert" in typography, I was the "go to" person for word processing formatting issues, un-mangling mangled dissertations and publications and wrote a few articles in university publications advising grad students on the avoidance of common formatting problems. Within seconds of seeing the cBS documents I knew they had been produced on a computer, not a typewriter. Notable was the proportional character spacing, curly quotes, the default auto-superscripting behavior of MS Word (i.e. superscript ordinals after number with no space, non-superscript when space followed the number) But most of all was the kerning, which is especially visible in the fe letter combination, not possible on a 1970 era typewriter. (However most experienced typist of the day knew the trick of correcting a missing character typo by erasing a single character and squeezing two characters in the one character space by holding the carriage, sometimes producing a pseudo-kerning effect sometimes.) Searching the web seeking information about the cBS documents lead me to LGF; I was so glad that there were many other people that noticed the problem and had a forum for publishing the problems with the documents.

Thanks Charles, if it were not for your efforts, who know what may have happened.

Memo-ries (The Way it Weren't)
To the tune of The Way We Were,
by BatBara Striessand

MEMO-rieees, Typed on a Word PC.
Throbbing, typographed fake MEMO-ries
Fake, but accurate.

Smudged comparisons of the memo he left behind,
Smiles we gave to one another
Fake, but accurate.

Can it be that Bush was AWOL then,
Or has Burkett invented every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again,
Tell me? would we?(yes) could we?(Hell no... not with Charles watching you... WTG LGF!)

Memogate may be beautiful and yet,
What's too painful to remember
is sKerry's not President.

So so long Rather
We will remember,
Take that Mapes broad with you
Fake, but accurate;
Fake but accurate...

Dan Rather was actually tricked to run the story even though he knew the docs were created by Karl Rove so Bush would win.

/moonbat

If you can stand to listen to any commie/lib/leftist/democrit claptrap these days...they still think Bush was a no-show for Guard duty and that the memos are accurate.

in 1973, "Backdate" was more common in British usage-certainly never heard of it
in everyday American parlance.

("Substitute" - "I look
pretty young but I'm just backdated")

***

if it throbs for more than 4 hours consult a physician..? why?

L³ game playing on the internet search engine Google. Here's a dumb little game to play, try typing in the word "failure" without the quotes and see where the L³s have it set to go.

The MSM morons are such f*** idiots to have fallen for such a stupid forgery, it's beyond belief.

There is no word int he English language to express their utmost incompetence.

#98 sngnsgt

L3 game playing on the internet search engine Google. Here's a dumb little game to play, try typing in the word "failure" without the quotes and see where the L3s have it set to go.

I like hits # 2 and 4:

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I'm going to post on this (probably) dead thread to say...

Hail, all the LGF posters who are now gone (or haven't been around for a while, at least)...

You are not forgotten.

You have been part of a community that brought down a bullshitter of the first water (Rather not say his name), helped re-elect an essential president, and which will be at the fore when Islam lies at our feet, abject in defeat.

You were right when you posted then.

We stand on your shoulders now.

And thank you, Charles, for creating this space, which has gone on to do so much.

D. Edgren