Don't let Michael Dobbs off the Hook! WP Swiftboat reporter online NOW

[BurtWorm]

A sample of his bullshit!:

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/04/politics_dobbs082304.htm

Gaithersburg, Md.: The smear-mongers who demean Kerry's war record act as though Kerry were running against someone like Sgt. York, or Audie Murphy. If nothing else, Kerry spent 3-plus months risking his life, and getting shot at regularly. Durig that time, George Bush was drinking beer, and playing flyboy, in Alabama, and Dick Cheney was enjoying five deferments. Why can't the media add some perspective to this?

Michael Dobbs: We have already reported extensively on what George W. Bush was doing during the Vietnam war, and may well return to this subject, particularly if there is new information.

[molly]

1. And Rush had a pimple on his butt

[realFedUp]

2. Thread on this already

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=655056&mesg_id=655056

[BurtWorm]

4. Dobbs is online NOW (12-1pm ET, Monday 8/23)

This is different from the other thread about DH's analysis of Dobbs' story.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. CONTACT: [e-mail]

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. I submitted a question but it hasn't appeared, as yet...

[MallRat]

6. I've submitted 3 or 4 questions... nothing yet.

n/t

[BurtWorm]

7. Someone just got an amazing admission from Dobbs

who has been weeping and whining about how Kerry wouldn't talk to him, implying that that's why the articles have been so "balanced" :eyes: (i.e., so "fair" to the Swift Boat Liars for Bush):


Boulder, Colo.: In addition to the guy you contacted, yet another witness from the 43 boat has surfaced in Telluride, Colo., and attested that they were indeed under fire after the mine went off.

Also, if Lambert also won a bronze star, as well as Thurlow, will Thurlow now give back his bronze star, and insist that Lambert as well as Kerry give back theirs?

This story is so obviously fabricated, why does The Post headline not read "Swift Vets Story Unraveling?"

Michael Dobbs: You will have to ask Thurlow about whether or not he will give back his bronze star. He told me last week that he would consider it to be illegitimate --or words to that effect--if it was earned for being "under fire." The man in Telluride is an important additional witness. I regret that I was unaware of him before i wrote my article.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. I wonder if Bush has talked to him about his service record?

[BurtWorm]

11. I think Bush only talks to Karl Rove about his service record.

:eyes:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. Online session closed. He didn't respond to my questions about

how it shouldn't be legit for media to treat this as a "controversy" when what we essentially have is an official military record of events, including citations, and now some charges against that record without any substantive evidence.

[DeepModem Mom]

10. His email's in post #3 -- WP reporters sometimes respond --