Powerline links to several items in today's NY Post. One is a column by Ralph Peters comparing CBS to al Jazeera:
CBS won't name its source for those "incriminating" documents about President Bush's National Guard service. That would violate its high journalistic principles (although lying about our president does not).The other is a comment from Frank Abegnale, the true-life forger protrayed in Catch Me If You Can:
Instead, we get poor old Dan Rather, the crazy uncle of network news, insisting that those documents could have been typed on an early-1970s super typewriter, that there might have been just the right outrageously expensive machine in that fly-specked National Guard office — and that an officer who had never used it before would use it for note-taking.
Let me share some reality with Uncle Dan. I served in our active-duty military five years after those documents purportedly were written. I was in Army intelligence. And only the big boss's secretary had an electric typewriter — one too primitive to create those documents.
I worked on a manual machine made in East Germany (swear to God). In 1977. In a front-line division. The National Guard got the junk we didn't want. CBS lied. The sad thing is that they just might be able to stonewall America.
That's network news, folks. Defend forgeries. Defend "journalists" who support terror. Let our soldiers die. Let the American people rot. And trash our president in wartime.
No wonder al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya get away, literally, with murder.
If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been, 'Catch Me In Two Days.'Ouch. Posted by Kevin Murphy at September 15, 2004 09:24 AM | TrackBack