Wednesday, September 15, 2004
The blogosphere is relishing its latest success. Quite obviously CBS got hoaxed. Quite obviously they are as yet unwilling to admit it and take the 5 minutes of humilation that such an admission would entail.
But let's be realistic here. 'Conservative' bloggers are 1) engaging in more than a little self-adulation 2) this 'issue' is creating a lot of noise that is just helping El Presidente
Yeah, I know being able to say 'gotcha' is a good feeling. But maybe there are more important issues such as number 1000-1005 Americans being killed in Iraq, or American helicopters (well actually their weapons officers) opening fire on an unruly, but seemingly unarmed crowd.
Here's a spanner in the works, though. Absolutely pure conjecture, and not original to me. But why would any anti-Bush operative do such a lousy job forging documents. I mean jeez, all they had to do was set the font to Courier (monospaced vs. proportional font) , and deactivate the autoformatting (the raised 'th'). So, Republicans are benefitting from this, a forgery that looks like it was designed to be descovered. I am not saying this has anything to do with the RNC -- but it does sound like something one of these 'tech-savvy', hot shot bloggers would think of. In other words, was CBS set up?
But let's be realistic here. 'Conservative' bloggers are 1) engaging in more than a little self-adulation 2) this 'issue' is creating a lot of noise that is just helping El Presidente
Yeah, I know being able to say 'gotcha' is a good feeling. But maybe there are more important issues such as number 1000-1005 Americans being killed in Iraq, or American helicopters (well actually their weapons officers) opening fire on an unruly, but seemingly unarmed crowd.
Here's a spanner in the works, though. Absolutely pure conjecture, and not original to me. But why would any anti-Bush operative do such a lousy job forging documents. I mean jeez, all they had to do was set the font to Courier (monospaced vs. proportional font) , and deactivate the autoformatting (the raised 'th'). So, Republicans are benefitting from this, a forgery that looks like it was designed to be descovered. I am not saying this has anything to do with the RNC -- but it does sound like something one of these 'tech-savvy', hot shot bloggers would think of. In other words, was CBS set up?
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