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| LA Times Displays Naked Authoritarianism, Demolishes Strawman |
| 2004-09-17 |
| "Buckhead" was the Free Republic poster who apparently posted the first comprehensive debunking of the CBS/Bush hoax. Blogger Who Faulted CBS Documents Is Conservative Activist It was the first public allegation that CBS News used forged memos in its report questioning President Bush's National Guard service — a highly technical explanation posted within hours of airtime citing proportional spacing and font styles. But it did not come from an expert in typography or typewriter history as some first thought. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, Buckhead's case against the docs did not rest in any way on a claim of credentialed expertise. The concept that facts will stand or fall on their own merit seems utterly alien to Big Media and their slavish audience. Instead, it was the work of Harry W. MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Times has found. >*snipped for copyright(like other LLL outlets, LA Times is very aggressive in defending its property rights) Again, there was no claim of neutrality in Buckhead's analysis nor is this relevant to the validity of his claims, making this line of attack a complete strawman. This story is a classic and obvious example of the LLL's complete reliance on authority as a test of truth. LLL attacks on the blogosphere are based entirely on questioning the authority of the bloggers, unconciously revealing the real nature of the LLL and its adherents. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #5 HEY! PRAVDA WEST! We won't say anything about the "Democrat Activism" of Burkett who spends a lot of time at Kinko's. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-17 9:52:20 PM |
| #4 Pavlov's dogs reminded me of a zany irrelevancy for some reason. National Lampoon's "World Map Parody" was one of the greatest flights of imagination in the history of satire. It had hundreds of joke geographic names on a complete map of the globe, including "Slavelaborsk" and "Pavlovdoggrad" in the Soviet Union, "Yomama" in West Africa, the "Dire Straits" and the "Disease Islands" in the Pacific, "Kidneystone" England; and, of course, Cornhole, KS and Little Hope MA in the United States. I haven't seen a copy in years, but I think PJ O'Rourke was a contributor. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-17 9:37:45 PM |
| #3 The MSM is trying to deflect the message by shooting the messenger. Pavlov's dog learns faster than Dan Rather and Co. Heh heh. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-17 9:15:58 PM |
| #2 "That icky guy who said all those mean things about the memos being fake is a Republican, so that must mean the memos are, ummmmm....still fake." |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-09-17 9:12:34 PM |
| #1 The MSM has to depend on the appeal to authority, because anyone can do their job. Their habit of sneering at those who aren't "real journalists" (Drudge, bloggers, actual witnesses to events) carries over into everything they do. The odd thing is when their biases are confronted by real experts -- like when Rather had to deal with some of the national experts in documents, and some of the very people involved in creating modern word processing software -- they ignore or deny the expertise. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-09-17 8:33:47 PM |