Comments on: First they came for Dan Rather. . . http://thisdarkqualm.com/archives/70 a sudden access Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:24:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: washburn http://thisdarkqualm.com/archives/70#comment-128 washburn Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:10:53 +0000 http://thisdarkqualm.com/?p=70#comment-128 Postscript: <a href="http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6898395">Dan Rather to Resign</a> Postscript: Dan Rather to Resign

]]> By: washburn http://thisdarkqualm.com/archives/70#comment-126 washburn Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:56:27 +0000 http://thisdarkqualm.com/?p=70#comment-126 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 <a href="http://www.flounder.com/bush2.htm">some memos that turned out to be fake</a>. 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. 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.

]]> By: pQ http://thisdarkqualm.com/archives/70#comment-122 pQ Mon, 22 Nov 2004 06:59:57 +0000 http://thisdarkqualm.com/?p=70#comment-122 i suppose the fact that i'm out of the country doesn't really help me understand this post... i suppose the fact that i’m out of the country doesn’t really help me understand this post…

]]> By: washburn http://thisdarkqualm.com/archives/70#comment-120 washburn Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:28:40 +0000 http://thisdarkqualm.com/?p=70#comment-120 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<a href="http://batesmotel.8m.com/"> this</a>. Or, even more compelling: <a href="http://www.brainsluice.com/miscellanea/misc/moonlanding.html">this</a>. 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.

]]> By: Famous P http://thisdarkqualm.com/archives/70#comment-119 Famous P Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:10:40 +0000 http://thisdarkqualm.com/?p=70#comment-119 Richard Nixon isn't dead either... I've said too much. Richard Nixon isn’t dead either… I’ve said too much.

]]> By: Allison http://thisdarkqualm.com/archives/70#comment-118 Allison Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:54:00 +0000 http://thisdarkqualm.com/?p=70#comment-118 Is there a link for the Neil Armstrong story? Are people saying that's not actually the moon? Is there a link for the Neil Armstrong story?  Are people saying that’s not actually the moon?

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