(2004-09-09) — CBS reporter Dan Rather today released the text of a recently discovered email from then-Lt. George W. Bush’s Air National Guard commanding officer which casts more doubt upon the military service of the man who would become the 43rd President of the United States.
The revelation of the email comes just hours after questions were raised about the authenticity of typewritten memos from the same officer, shown yesterday by Mr. Rather on 60 Minutes.
According to the previously unseen email message sent in May 1972 by squadron commander Jerry Killian, Lt. Bush phoned Col. Killian because “his internet connection was on the fritz and he couldn’t IM me.”
Lt. Bush apparently wanted to talk about “how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November.”
According to Col. Killian’s email, the young Bush wanted to go to Alabama to work as webmaster for a Republican candidate’s website.
Mr. Rather said the authenticity of the 32-year-old email has been confirmed by several Nigerian officials who specialize in electronic funds transfer by email.
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1 mypetjawa v. 2.0 (beta) // Sep 9, 2004 at 6:23 pm
Crow on fork, inches from mouth
I’ve tasted it before. It’s not good. The waiter and chef seem nice enough even if the dish washer did a lousy job. Desert? Something in civilized bar form, deep fried of course….
2 Ambient Irony // Sep 9, 2004 at 7:45 pm
Set The Wayback Machine To 1972!
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3 Overtaken by Events // Sep 9, 2004 at 9:07 pm
Alternative Theory
Fake documents? Cheating? The mainstream media? Regardless of the questions documented here, here, here, here, and most notably by ABC…
4 Dust in the Light // Sep 9, 2004 at 9:32 pm
Debunked Before the Workday’s Out
I’m truly sorry not to have been able to follow the anti-Bush National Guard memo-forgery scandal as it unfolded throughout the day. Such are blogs that a highly visible mainstream media report is minutely proven (in my opinion) to include…
5 Out on a limb at Mike Lief.com // Sep 9, 2004 at 10:03 pm
Well, that explains it
1972 Email Casts Doubt on Bush Guard Service (2004-09-09) — CBS reporter Dan Rather today released the text of a recently discovered email from then-Lt. George W. Bush’s Air National Guard commanding officer which casts more doubt upon the military…
6 Brain Shavings // Sep 10, 2004 at 1:05 am
Feel free to put a sock in it
The Kerry Krew just fired two more dud rounds against President Bush this week, and they sound something like this: “Bush was AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard” (gee, that’s original) and “Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David.” Too bad he earned eve…
7 it comes in pints? // Sep 10, 2004 at 1:27 am
The CBS Documents Issue
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8 Ace of Spades HQ // Sep 10, 2004 at 2:57 am
Scrappleface Scoop: 1973 Email Casts Doubt on Bush’s Guard Service
The email in question is said to include a .wmv of Fountains of Wayne’s Stacey’s Mom Has Got it Goin’ On as an attachment. By the way, would any of you like to hear that song and see a video…
9 Brain Shavings // Sep 10, 2004 at 3:51 am
Forgery funnies
Right Wing News has “The Memo George Bush Doesn’t Want You To See” The Commissar has proof that Kerry was in Cambodia. ScrappleFace unearths more evidence of Bush perfidy. Wizbang cribs a photoshopped Dan Rather from Minion of the Great Satan. Expect m…
10 Ravenwood's Universe // Sep 10, 2004 at 5:45 am
Scrappleface is on a roll
ScrappleFace: Kerry Honorably Discharged from Senate ScrappleFace: 1972 Email Casts Doubt on Bush Guard Service…
11 IMAO // Sep 10, 2004 at 6:24 am
Link of the Day
Forgery! This has even made Drudge now. Politics is just getting wackier by the day. UP
12 Hoosier Review // Sep 10, 2004 at 8:33 am
The Latest Distraction
Unless you are totally foreign to the blogosphere, you’ve missed the biggest bombshell to hit the media. There are serious
13 Little Miss Attila // Sep 10, 2004 at 9:24 am
Scott Ott
scoops us all on a series of e-mails from the early 70s that prove Bush was AWOL from the National Guard….
14 trying to grok // Sep 10, 2004 at 9:45 am
MEMOS
My mom and I got sick yesterday. I went in to work but had to leave early, and I’m playing hooky today too. Actually, it’s not so much “playing hooky”, seeing as I feel like I could die. What a…
15 Heretical Ideas // Sep 10, 2004 at 10:36 am
JUST A KARL ROVE SETUP? ** UPDATED **
I’ve actually seen some speculation around the blogosphere that Karl Rove actually set up CBS with the forged memos about Bush’s National Guard service. Glenn Reynolds has the best retort to that accusation:Now people are wondering if the whole thing…
16 Wizbang // Sep 10, 2004 at 11:27 am
The 10 Spot - [Rathergate Edition]
Ten quotes (or paraphrased points) from the great big interweb on CBS’s magic memo fiassco… Moxie: “This is even more fun than Sandy Berger’s stuffed pants.” James Joyner: “Now this is just mean.” Kevin Drum: “The sky is not falling”…
17 King of Fools // Sep 10, 2004 at 11:31 am
Memo Humor
The parodies and photoshops have begun. The best so far: Courtesy of Wizbang. Other very notable and amusing contributions: Scrappleface and The Commisar….
18 Knowledge Is Power: SondraK.com // Sep 10, 2004 at 12:08 pm
The super silly-ousness of Kerry fraud
1972 Email Casts Doubt on Bush Guard Service (2004-09-09) — CBS reporter Dan Rather today released the text of a recently discovered email from then-Lt. George W. Bush’s Air National Guard commanding officer which casts more doubt upon the military s…
19 Spacecraft // Sep 10, 2004 at 12:37 pm
Back From Travel
I had a meeting in Hampton, Virginia, and got to drive through the remnants of Frances. It’s not much fun driving at 20 mph through rural central Virginia on divided-four-lane US 460 in frog-drowning downpour with lightning all around and…
20 Signifying Nothing // Sep 10, 2004 at 2:02 pm
Meme
I think this whole “forged documents” thing is taking off. Meanwhile, Occam’s Razor suggests that Gary Farber’s theory that the documents might not be forged is unlikely. I find it difficult to believe that by coincidence, someo…
21 Joshua Claybourn's Domain // Sep 10, 2004 at 4:11 pm
Breaking News
1972 Email Casts Doubt on Bush Guard Service. (Hat tip to HR)
22 it comes in pints? // Sep 10, 2004 at 5:57 pm
Satire Roundup
Many other people are doing a fine job rounding up all the available information/posts/columns/reports about the CBS forge documents issue. I have decided that my highly important yet utterly trivial role in this episode will be to document and present…
23 SashaCastel.com // Sep 10, 2004 at 10:06 pm
The Difference Blogs Make
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24 it comes in pints? // Sep 11, 2004 at 12:34 pm
Satire Roundup
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25 Centerfield // Sep 12, 2004 at 10:53 am
On the lighter side
- A conversation between Clinton and Kerry (here) - Secret recipe used by Kerry to shake up his campaign (here) - Utah may revoke Santa’s aviation exemption (here) - Scrappleface: 1972 Email Casts Doubt on Bush Guard Service (here)…
26 JOE'S BLOG // Sep 12, 2004 at 4:14 pm
DAN WHO?
Powerline An interview with Rather from Protein Wisdom Scrappleface From RatherBiased.com: “[T]hose of us in the mainstream media are trained to set our opinions aside as far as humanly possible.” -Dan Rather in The Humanist, November/December 1990. …
27 mypetjawa v. 2.0 (beta) // Sep 13, 2004 at 1:54 pm
Prager Show: Liveblogging
I’m listenning to Prager now, hosted by the guys at Powerline, Mitch of Northern Alliance Radio Network, Lileks, and others.. Charles Johnson is being interviewed. Awesome. Listen live here. 12:18 Charles talks about the probability that documents are …
28 LGF Watch Watch // Sep 13, 2004 at 5:26 pm
Halftime
Updates on the Killian memos controversy: CBS Information Minister Speaks 1972 Email Casts Doubt on Bush Guard Service Via LGF And a political cartoon by Frank at IMAO, Rather’s Last Stand…