September 10, 2004
SOMETIMES THE ONLY CAUSE WORTH FIGHTING FOR IS A LOST KOS:
White House lied to AP, Nation. Bush AWOL (Kos, 9/09/04, Daily Kos)
The Ben Barnes thing is subject to debate, and partisans will line up on the obvious sides (like they have with the Swift Boat Liars). But the official documents uncovered by 60 Minutes (despite the White House's attempt to cover them up)? There's no way to spin those away. The facts are there in black and white.
Even though they're thick as vermin around here, there may not b enough crow to go around on this one. Posted by Orrin Judd at September 10, 2004 12:23 PM
The blind leading the blind - and all of them are in the pit.
Posted by: jim hamlen at September 10, 2004 12:26 PMNo crow necessary. Just more hate. The KOS-crowd will simply blame evil Rove for the plant and dismiss CBS's "ignorance" (eagerness?) in running with the story and scream ever louder "BUSH LIED!" "HALIBURTON!".
Posted by: John Resnick at September 10, 2004 12:41 PMFunny how 1960s-1970s vintage typewriters had all the Microsoft Word defaults, including Times New Roman font, proportional spacing, automatic diminutive superscripts, curly apostrophes, and smart quotes, isn't it?
And only on this one set of documents from that period. Convenient, isn't it?
As for the followup:
doubleplusungood doubleplusunnews.
doubleplusungoodthink.
memhole.
bush is goldstein.
jfk2 4 prez.
You mean things have got so bad someone is now actually accusing the President of lying? That changes everything.
Posted by: Peter B at September 10, 2004 12:49 PMAccording to Powerline, Rather was just on CNN swearing up and down that "he knows" they are authentic. Apparently his goal is to eat enough crow that there's none left over for anyone else.
Posted by: Timothy at September 10, 2004 12:53 PMna-nah na-nah boo-boo soak your head in do-do.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at September 10, 2004 12:54 PMI didn't know an anchor came with a self-destruct button.
Posted by: luciferous at September 10, 2004 12:56 PM"What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at September 10, 2004 1:12 PMI haven't checked Kos' site today, but last night he was presenting himself as "Mr. Typewritter Expert" and swearing that it would be easy to get a replacment ball for an IBM or other model typewritter in 1972 that would have both evenly-spaced lettering, Times New Roman font and a superscript "th" spot on the ball, even if there was no matching spot on the typewritter keyboard.
No doubt there have been hundreds of people for the past 24 hours like Kos who have been scanning websites devoted to historic typewritters or going through catalogues 30-years or more old desperately seeking the Holy Grail of typewritter balls that will bail out the home team at the last minute. When that fails, be assured they will claim that somehow Killian just happened to gain access to a $15,000 linotype machine at or near the Guard office to use just on the dates he happened to write the two memos in question.
Posted by: John at September 10, 2004 1:38 PMThe latest talking points seem to be: "They aren't fakes, and Karl Rove is responsible for them if they are."
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at September 10, 2004 2:11 PMThis is going to be a boon for the obscure hobby of typewriter collecting. And old font junkies, too.
Posted by: Governor Breck at September 10, 2004 2:31 PMGeorge W. has now topped his father in another way: he has humiliated Dan Rather without having to speak with him.
Posted by: ratbert at September 10, 2004 3:22 PMPresident Bush is certainly blessed in his slection of enemies.
Posted by: Mikey at September 10, 2004 4:17 PMPresident Bush is certainly blessed in the suality of his enemies.
Posted by: Mikey at September 10, 2004 4:18 PMPresident Bush is certainly blessed in the quality of his enemies.
Posted by: at September 10, 2004 4:18 PMMaybe typewriter collecting is undeservedly obscure.
As Allen Weinstein related so amusingly in "Perjury," the Hiss defense spent some enormous amount of money trying to build a typewriter to debunk the Pumpkin Papers.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at September 11, 2004 3:39 PM