Thu 09 Sep
2004
Putting the Dubya in AWOL
I watched Dan Rather’s 60 Minutes II piece on the renewed questionability of George W. Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard this evening with great interest. Two quick things occurred to me: first, that it’s highly unlikely that the network would have allowed Dan Rather — who is synonymous with the credibility of their news organization, for better or worse — to lend his imprimatur to this report without being pretty confident that they were right on the facts. This is an important point, because CBS is notoriously weak-willed, having caved into Republican pressure on everything from a harmless Reagan made-for-TV movie to commercials from MoveOn.org. It means something when a lapdog like the Eye bites back.
The second thing I considered was that, hey, maybe the reason George W. Bush didn’t show up for duty is that he came across one of these discs in his mailbox back in 1969. Could be.
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Hahahahahahaha! That’s TOP, that is. Now all we need is a way to get a copy to every household in the US.
awesome, khoi. and i’ve now learned the word imprimatur (as soon as i look it up)
10 Sep 2004, 04:51 am
Geez,
How sad !........another story by the left media just got reversed,like Jenin
13 Sep 2004, 04:53 pm
Remember when GB Trudeu offered $10k to anyone who actually served with Bush during his pretend Alabama hitch? Still no takers….
(and shouldn’t the little yellow guy be snorting some coke? )
20 Sep 2004, 09:18 pm
“Could be”? Couldn’t be. Neither CDs nor AOL existed in the 1970s. Mindless and ahistorical.