http://seetheforest.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_seetheforest_Dave Johnson: 'The supposedly forged document'
Date: Tuesday, September 14 @ 09:36:43 EDT
Topic: Republicans
By Dave Johnson, Seeing The Forest
Remember the Sandy Berger smear? This was the story claiming that President Clinton's National Security Advisor had smuggled incriminating documents out of the National Archives. (Berger was
completely cleared.) This was a planned smear - in the works for months - and was used by the Republicans to make the public think that Clinton was responsible for letting the 9/11 attack happen and that "the Democrats" were engaged in a conspiracy to cover up the evidence.
Well, along similar lines, and listening to Limbaugh just now, I can see that the Right's "Bush Guard memo forgery" is taking shape. The entire Wurlitzer - the Right's media echo chamber that is able to repeat a lie over and over and over until it is the ONLY story in the news - is cranked up and telling the public that CBS has been caught engaging in a smear against Bush using forged documents. Never mind that the document (one document, no plural 's') in question is legit.
According to Limbaugh:
One document is said to look like it could have been typed on a modern computer.
Therefore ALL such documents are forgeries.
Therefore CBS is intentionally working a smear on Bush.
Therefore ANY stories about Bush's National Guard service are not to be believed - he served honorably.
Therefore this proves that CBS (and by extension, ALL mainstream media) is a tool of the "Liberal Elite" and is working hand-in-hand with the Kerry campaign to smear Bush.
Again, by extension, ANY stories ANYWHERE, EVER about Bush doing ANYTHING bad are Liberal lies. Keep in mind that this is not just Limbaugh. In a NY Times Op-Ed this morning William Safire has a piece titled "Those Discredited Memos" (note that he uses the plural...) And it doesn't stop there. It hardly even STARTS there. Today a Google News search for "Bush documents CBS" locates 2,460 stories. (According to reporting from Salon, a Republican PR firm that is also involved with the Swift Boat smear is engaged in driving this story.)
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