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THE STING (oh my)

 
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Nomorelies
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:23 pm    Post subject: THE STING (oh my) Reply with quote

Just picked this up on the net:

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Killian Letters – The Perfect “Sting”

In honor of the real author of the Killian Letters, I am composing these thoughts on Microsoft Word using Times New Roman (TNR) and 12 point font.

Remember the movie “The Sting?”

Paul Newman and Robert Redford team up in this 1973 movie to rob a mob boss who had a friend killed. .

Ever since it became obvious that the Killian letters were forgeries, the question was asked: who did it? Was it the usual suspect: someone in the Kerry dirty tricks department? Others have been named: Dan Rather himself, Carl Rove, Bill Burkett (a disgruntled former National Guard officer), CBS News producer Mary Mapes?

Here’s my theory: the Killian Letters were a sting operation originating somewhere in the military designed to kill at least four birds with one stone. And I think it’s going to work.

Back to “The Sting.” In the modern version, the mob boss is Dan Rather. As an added bonus we see the destruction of accessories Mary Mapes and Bill Burkett and an indelible stain on CBS. And as icing on the cake: collateral damage to the Kerry campaign.

The motive is Abu Ghraib.

It was Mary Mapes, Dan Rather and CBS News that made Abu Ghraib a household name and smeared the military’s name. They decided to run the story despite Pentagon requests to wait until their internal investigation was complete and despite that damage that the story did to the American cause in the Arab world.

So, here’s the payback. And it’s not over yet because the Pentagon and the Bush administration has been mum so far. My belief is that they will carry the story forward.

Why do I believe the memos were composed by a military man? No ordinary civilian would be sufficiently conversant with military memos to provide both a reasonable forgery (to the civilian eye) of a military document, but one that uses unauthentic nomenclature so that it can be discredited on that basis.

Second, it was typed using a computer to provide another way of destroying its authenticity.

Of course, like any good forgery, it has to be gotten into the right hands. Enter Bill Burkett and Mary Mapes. Bill Burkett has a grudge against the National Guard and George Bush ever since he became ill in 1998 while on duty with the Texan ANG and blames Bush, who was governor of Texas at the time, for failure to provide him with medical care.

Someone (we’ll call him “X”) finds a way of getting the Killian Memos to Burkett. While Burkett is a military man, he is not the sharpest tool in the shed (for a sample of his writing click HERE and scroll to the end). He's had several nervous breakdowns so he overlooks the problems with the memos and gets hold of Mary Mapes, a fellow Texan.

Mapes has no way of knowing a fake memo from the real one, but believes that, thanks to Burkett’s familiarity with the Texas ANG, she’s got a real scoop.

The memos pass up the food chain reaching Rather. Rather, a devout Liberal, wants to believe these are real. He is also a technophobe without a clue about computers, Microsoft Word, fonts, superscripts or any of the other wonders of modern computer technology being able to do what 1973 typewriters could not. Furthermore he doesn’t care. He decides that this is the time to counteract some of the Swift Boat controversy by attacking Bush’s National Guard record (again). As the 700 pound gorilla at CBS news, what Dan wants, Dan gets. So that’s how we get to “60 Minutes” and the Killian Memos.

Enter the blogosphere. CBS News obligingly puts the memos up on their web site, a major mistake because it gives literally thousands of people with arcane knowledge of computers the opportunity to examine them. Within a few hours, the fraud is exposed. But here’s where the hook is set: CBS and Captain Dan ‘stand by their story.” They have to! That’s the way the Mainstream Media (MSM) has always done business.

The fraud is so obvious, so blatant, and so widely discussed via the Internet that the MSM has to take notice. At this point, most of the MSM articles are referring to the Killian Memos as “disputed” rather than hopelessly discredited. In solidarity with CBS and Captain Dan, they hope the controversy will just go away.

If I’m right, however, there are several more legs to his story. The Bush campaign has not been heard from and neither has the Pentagon. I predict that there will be a reaction from those quarters until there is general public acceptance that CBS and Rather are exposed as having peddled forgeries.

My other prediction: the original forgeries will never be found. They are no longer in existence and Burkett was fed a photocopy. That way the fraud would be less likely to be discovered until it was too late.
Posted by: Moneyrunner at September 12, 2004 04:24 PM


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is a line to show that the Pentagon released additional records on July 23 that were presumed lost.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040723_1622.html
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heard earlier today (or maybe yesterday) that three experts at the Pentagon have pronounced the memos forgeries. This was on Fox. There weren't any details.

I think the Pentagon will be making a statement soon.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 10:53 pm    Post subject: Perfect Sting Reply with quote

Well if I was writing this as a movie script, that's the way I'd do it.

And for this to be true, the operatives who put the sting in play had to select the perfect foil.

And that perfect foil was Dan Rather.

Rather was selected because the operatives would know that he would run with this story because of his lack of control of the two most motivating emotions: fear and greed.

Rather fears Kerry will not win this election and he is greedy for a story to do further damage to our President.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This makes as much sense as some of the tall tales making the rounds of the howling moonbats sites.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe it was some "w"s old buddys he served with from the super secret AF Intelligence Corps Very Happy

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You GottaBeKidding wrote:
This makes as much sense as some of the tall tales making the rounds of the howling moonbats sites.


Very Happy And it makes MUCH more sense than ABC's and McAuliffe's assertion that it came from Karl Rove - I swear, that man must wear a Superman costume under his suits or something! Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:05 am    Post subject: Karl Rove Reply with quote

Karl Rove is very good, but he is probably not that good. He must really be enjoying this. The liberals really fear him.

Even if Rove were behind the fraud, what does that say about the self annointed intellectual superiors who look down on conservatives as "idiots"? Where have I heard that word used recently....hmmm?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:59 am    Post subject: Why CBS Has Dug In Reply with quote

The main reason CBS has stood firm on this story is so they can continue to "protect their sources." As soon as they acknowledge the docs are forged, they no longer can protect their sources (only legitimate sources get that privilege).

This tells us a lot about the sources -- its not traceable to any person/group that would be embarassing to the Republicans. If it were, CBS would have immediately given up their sources.

Lovin' every minute of this forgery scandal.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dan Rather needs to go to jail. So does kerry. Hey Dan, don't drop the soap Twisted Evil
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