Really, Robert Redford? Really?
Here‘s what I had to say about the idiot Mary Mapes at the time:
…some of them (unlike you, apparently) were smart enough to call the fax number on the memo, and determine that it came from a Kinko’s in Texas. And though there was in fact analysis of what the documents actually said, which also helped torpedo them, it was in fact enough, Mary. It’s hard (perhaps impossible) to prove that a document is authentic, but it only takes one solid strike against its validity to show it to be inauthentic. And the fact that you still don’t understand that, or understand basic logic at all, is why you are now out of a job, and should never have had that job to begin with.
This isn’t merely “stuck on stupid.” This is turned all the way up to eleven on stupid.
It’s amazing that there are still fools who want to defend these people.
That was an awesome story. Was it the first time that citizens destroyed a story from the MSM so thoroughly and so quickly? Are there more examples since?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_authenticity_issues
There are _so_ many problems with the document. Which is more-or-less what I would expect when some amateur tries a clumsy frame-up, then is surprised when forensic experts take it completely apart. CBS (who presumably didn’t really know one way or another, just foolishly took someone’s word for it cause they liked the story line) never imagined that level of scrutiny. New world.
I find it hard to believe that there is anyone left who still believes in these documents. The whole “Lucy Ramirez” thing is so patently absurd. But then, many AGW believers still don’t know that Peter Gleick forged the document from Heartland. I recently saw an extended discussion in the comments from a blog of an AGW supporter (but a smart one) James Annan on the subject. Annan keeps saying that the obvious explanation is that Gleick forged the document and there is no other sensible explanation, and endless commenters just keep coming up with whatever in response. Heartland is Evil, and Gleick is Good, so – SCIENCE!
Of course. Decades ago, the political scientist Robert Strausz-Hupe told William Buckley that one of the main differences between “liberals” and conservatives as that the former “retrieves its wounded.” Rather was a good and faithful servant of the Hive, and the Hive takes care of its own. Ten years from now, Redford will be doing a movie about a heroic Lois Lerner battling uppity Tea Partiers. Baghdad Jim could write the screenplay.
At this rate, ten years from now Redford will be a vegetable.
These MSM bastards certainly do live a long time. Cronkite finally went to meet the guy who he sold his soul to at 92 and Rather is now 82 and still moving about.
I, for one, hope Redford finds A-list backers and goes first cabin all the way on this project. The Hollywood Left seems to love these revisionist histories. They spent at least a couple hundred million dollars on seven or eight of these misbegotten things during the Iraq War and they all laid ostrich-sized eggs at the box office. Nor did Sean Penn’s project about Valerie Plame fare any better. That one also had an Australian actress playing the female lead. As with the cable-access-level ratings for MSNBC, these projects always fail because even the true believers don’t, by and large, go to see them. If this Rather film gets made it will fare no better and probably worse. So I hope it gets greenlit. The more money they piss away on vanity projects to support “The Narrative” the less they have available to do real mischief elsewhere.
I wonder who will play my father. A man from a broken home, raised by his mother who made a living selling clothes at a department store, put himself through college, served in Vietnam, and came home to fly F-101s in the same unit that was transitioning from George W. Bush’s F-102s. Supposedly this was a country club unit with people who avoided Vietnam service by using their political connections. My father didn’t fit that description, and the people I knew that served with him didn’t either. Most of them knew W from the transition and his father, and none of them had anything bad to say about Bush when he ran for Governor or President. But the last time I visited the unit, you could still piss on likenesses of Jane Fonda.