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« Poll: Americans Fear Terrorism As Much as Job Loss | Main | Forgery Update 3 » September 10, 2004Forgery UpdatePowerline has a report on Nightline's story last night about the apparently-forged documents used by CBS to accuse the president of shirking his National Guard duty three decades ago. Also, the Chicago Sun-Times has a story, which credits Powerline and other bloggers for leading the investigation into the forgeries. And Powerline's John M. Hinderaker says PowerLine doesn't really deserve the credit - its readers do. The credit really goes to the incredible power of the internet. We knew nothing; all of our information came from our readers. Many thousands of smart, well-informed people who only a few years ago would have had no recourse but perhaps to write a letter to their local newspaper, now can communicate and share their expertise in real time, through sites like this one. The power of the medium is incredible, as we've seen over the last fourteen hours.The people now have the power to expose the lies and counter the myth-making power of the run-amok press. John Podhoretz has more on that. UPDATE: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's column today still accepts that the forged documents are for real - and then uses them as the foundation of a claim that Bush is dishonest. It's the dishonesty, stupid. The real issue in the National Guard story isn't what George W. Bush did three decades ago. It's the recent pattern of lies: his assertions that he fulfilled his obligations when he obviously didn't, the White House's repeated claims that it had released all of the relevant documents when it hadn't.Earth to Krugman: The real issue in the National Guard story is the dishonesty of the documents themselves. UPDATE 2: While even the Left's most prominent bloggers, like Atrios, have admitted the possibility that the documents are forged, Tennessee's most prominent Lefty blogger (SouthKnoxBubba) hasn't said a word about it now 24 hours after he first trumpeted the story. Some people would rather win than be honest. Meanwhile, here , The Tennessean has posted nothing on its website about the forgeries. Posted in Campaign Season
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I dropped a couple of postings in SKB's forum (under his posting "Stupidist thing Ive heard this week." The Bubbites are in full denial. Somehow they can read the WaPo story on all this and decide that the authenticity of the docs has not been seriously challenged. And these reality-challenged folks want to run the country? Posted by: Smaack at September 10, 2004 09:16 AMHow stupid does this make Krugman? Yo just gotta' love it when the visible truth is running an entire news cycle ahead of the supposed news-makers. Posted by: PeterBoston at September 10, 2004 09:54 AMNow you know why I stopped linking to SKB and took him off my blogroll. He's too partisan to be honest. He's blinded by hatred of Bush, and willing to drink whatever Koolaid Michael Moore serves him. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at September 10, 2004 10:27 AMSKB has finally chipped in, in his somewhat typical, chippy kind of way. I respond, in a fairly terse fashion. Check out my only current blog post at drawingdead.com, which I will be up and running on again promptly. Jay Posted by: Jay at September 10, 2004 10:32 AMBill, the Tennessean covered it all right, but only very briefly and buried deep inside another story. See my excerpt and commentary. Posted by: Donald Sensing at September 10, 2004 12:13 PMAs a former Tennessean, and ex-subscriber to The Tennessean, I would not hold your breath for in depth coverage on the forgery story. Posted by: The Man at September 10, 2004 01:26 PMIf James Carville had any hair,he'd be tearing it out about now. Oh the best-laid-plans...hehehehehe. Posted by: jane m at September 10, 2004 01:37 PMThe Memphis Commercial Appeal has a story, from the Dallas Morning News of all places. Even though the New York Times (their sister paper) ran a page one story. The headline is "Bush Guard duty disputed: White House calls charges old news." http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/national_politics/article/0,1426,MCA_15116_3171661,00.html You have to read down to get to the forgery part, and it's muddled and confusing. Posted by: mike hollihan at September 10, 2004 01:53 PMPost a comment
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