Not to get all blogger triumphalist or anything, but it’s amusing to note that we’re talking roughly 36 hours from the time the MSM put something up to the time that blog-led challenges to it are appearing in the MSM.
How d’ya like them apples?
Not to get all blogger triumphalist or anything, but it’s amusing to note that we’re talking roughly 36 hours from the time the MSM put something up to the time that blog-led challenges to it are appearing in the MSM.
How d’ya like them apples?
Links man. Ya gotta have links!
Thank you.
My bad.
A.L.
36 hours? I thought it was more like 18. Didn’t CBS News release these memos about 24 hours ago?
Wow. Just, wow. Any OODA loop that includes the news cycle must be reassessed after today, any business model that relies on media gatekeeping as well. Funny, no mention over on smartmobs….
*Ben Barnes daughter says he lied on 60-minute*
_Just thought I would add to the festivities!!
In a phone call to WBAP’s Mark Davis radio show in Dallas, Texas, Ms. Barnes told guest host Monica Crowley that her father was an “opportunist” who had lied about Bush’s Guard record during a “60 Minutes II” broadcast Tuesday night.
BARNES: I love my father very much but he’s doing this for purely political reasons. He is a big Kerry fundraiser and he is writing a book also. And [the Bush story] is what he’s leading the book off with . . . He denied this to me in 2000 that he did get Bush out [of Vietnam service]. Now he’s saying he did.
CROWLEY: Did he tell you, Amy – and I’m glad I have you on the line with me – did your father tell you that he was prepared to do this on behalf of John Kerry – go after President Bush like this?
BARNES: He told me he was going to do it. In fact I talked to him a couple of months ago. He told me he was writing the book. He told me that he was going to be talking about this. And he knows that I – we have very diverse political opinions. He knows my opinions and we get into this debate every time I see him. But, you know, he said that he was going to be talking about it.
CROWLEY: Now you’re saying, Amy, that he has had two separate stories on President Bush’s Guard duty during the Vietnam era?
BARNES: Yes, yes. This came out in 2000 and I asked him then, at the time, if he [helped get Bush into the Guard]. He said, “No, absolutely not. I did not do that.”
CROWLEY: So, I hate to put you in this position but I will ask you, do you think your father, Ben Barnes – who was on “60 Minutes II” with Dan Rather last night – do you believe that he lied on the air to the American people last night about President Bush?
BARNES; Yes, I do. I absolutely do. And I think he’s doing he’s doing it for purely political, opportunistic reasons – trying to get John Kerry elected and trying to make Bush look like the bad person. . . . Like I said, he’s going to be trying to promote his book that he’s got coming out. [End of Excerpt]
Crowley’s colleague, WABC Radio’s Mark Levin, aired a tape of the exchange in New York after confirming that Barnes’ does indeed have a daughter named Amy.
SBD
Plus it’s Page One in tomorrow’s Washington Post.
Well, yes, it is in today’s papers. In my local paper there was a two page disucssion of the ramifications of the memos. However, there was only one sentence acknowledging that there was some controversy surrounding the authenticity of the memos. So that is how the main news organs will play it.
The most interesting content was the fact that the White House had obtained the memos from CBS and then distributed them without comment. (Did some one realize (know?) that they were forgeries?)
Too bad you’re completely wrong. The documents have been authenticated. The Hoax is a Hoax, thanks to the Powerline Blog and the court of synchophants straight out of Shakespeare. In other words, Instapundit, Lileks, and all the other mouth-breathing right wing whiners have been humiliated. Game over.
Six Foot Pole,
lol Your attempt to persuade the blogsphere that the documents are not forgeries seems to be (1) attack the personalities (2) avoid any critical discussion of the documents themselves (3) declare victory. This pretty much replicates the defence of CBS. Since it didn’t work for CBS, what makes you think it will work for you?
I mean, do you think people will read your post and say “Omg – Six Foot Pole claims the documents are authentic, and declares victory! It’s over!” I’m genuinely curious about your thought process.