Can be found here.
The Documents Are Genuine!
And there are no US troops in Iraq, anywhere!
“Registered” over at Free Republic has the scoop on Gunga Dan’s replacement.
A Latter-Day King Canute
We discussed various means of mitigating hurricanes in the comments to this post, but now comes a southern Florida businessman with a different idea.
Color me extremely skeptical. My confidence is less than buoyed by his association with Ed Mitchell, definitely one of the wackier Apollo astronauts, but hey, it’s his money, and if by some miracle it works, great. Of course, we won’t ever really know if it works, at least for this particular storm, because there’s no control on the experiment (i.e., we’ll have no idea what would have happened if he hadn’t done anything).
Help For Dems From Redmond
“N. TheKnow” at Free Republic has discovered a previously undocumented feature of Microsoft Word (scroll down to the seventh posting).
[Update at 11:21 AM EDT]
Here’s another version.
“The Parade We Never Had”
Kate O’Beirne has a movie review worth reading.
“The Parade We Never Had”
Kate O’Beirne has a movie review worth reading.
“The Parade We Never Had”
Kate O’Beirne has a movie review worth reading.
The Next Question
…of course, is who did it? Leaving aside the Rove conspiracy theories (does anyone other than Chris (the Weasel) Lehane take that seriously?), the motive is certainly clear. To genuinely smear (I use that phrase to distinguish it from the criticism of Kerry that has been mischaracterized as a smear) George Bush in hopes that they can knock his numbers down.
If they did get it from the DNC, I’d like to be shocked, but after everything that happened throughout the nineties, it’s no longer possible to be. But in just what kind of moral and intellectual swamp does such a creature reside who would do such a thing? Clearly, now as in the Clinton years, political victory trumps truth and honor.
The other question, of course, is why were they so dumb to think that they’d get away with what looks to be, in retrospect, an obvious forgery, for a large number of reasons? Sure, they could expect dumbbell Dan to eagerly run with it unexamined, but did they really think that no one else would notice? It is worth asking, though, if absent the blogger analysis, the other nets would have questioned it, or if they would have just echoed CBS.
Of course, if one wants to get into weird conspiracy theories, there are other people besides Karl Rove who would like to see Kerry’s campaign destroyed if it can be done without their fingerprints on it. Their legal residence is Chappaqua, New York.
[Update at 1:20 PM EDT]
Gerard Vanderleun has further thoughts.
Pet Peeve
Of which I’m reminded amidst all the discussion about the forged documents–people who don’t know the difference between a typeface and a font, including journalists, who should know better. Microsoft and the computer industry have blurred the distinction that was once very clear to the printing community.
Times Roman is a typeface, people.
Times Roman twelve-point italic is a font.
Guess They Don’t Have Internet Access
After everything that happened yesterday, and backtracking by CBS, the Boston Globe is continuing to cite the forged documents to libel the president:
CBS also produced documents that appeared to show that in 1973 Bush’s superior officer complained of being pressured to ”sugar-coat” an annual officer evaluation for Bush even though Bush had not been at the base for the year in question.
Maybe we should have a little pledge drive to raise some money to get them a modem.