then they came for Johannes Gutenberg. . .
And at last, they came for Neil Armstrong . . .
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November 21st, 2004 at 12:54 pm
Is there a link for the Neil Armstrong story? Are people saying that’s not actually the moon?
November 21st, 2004 at 2:10 pm
Richard Nixon isn’t dead either… I’ve said too much.
November 21st, 2004 at 3:28 pm
Well, really they started picking on Neil Armstong long before Rather and Gutenberg. But the logic of my post required some distorion. A Google search for “moon landing” and “fake,” pulls up all sorts of good stuff. Like this. Or, even more compelling: this.
November 22nd, 2004 at 1:59 am
i suppose the fact that i’m out of the country doesn’t really help me understand this post…
November 22nd, 2004 at 11:56 pm
Hmm. pQ you missed the whole Dan Rather thing? Well, you are blessedly lucky. During a 60 minutes report on GW’s military record, Rather cited some memos that turned out to be fake. Armies of right-wing Bloggers took to detailed typographical analysis to show how these documents were forgeries (and they obviously did look like documents typed-up using Word, etc.). So Rather’s (true) claims abt. GW’s ntl guard record were lost in a discussion of these questionable memos–”Rathergate” it was called, in ernest.
My little joke then has this group of thuggish document examiners coming after Gutenberg, and then Armstrong, too. O, who will save the world from their canny examining eyes?
I’m not sure, actually, whether I was making a joke or some kind of comment too.
November 23rd, 2004 at 3:10 pm
Postscript: Dan Rather to Resign