{"id":3103,"date":"2004-09-20T15:30:44","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T22:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2004-09-20T15:30:44","modified_gmt":"2004-09-20T22:30:44","slug":"barnes-and-ignoble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"Barnes and (Ig)Noble"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keeping on with the Barnes \/ Burkett \/ Rather axis-of-evil theory (sorry, my nipples insist), there’s this<\/a> from John Ellis, posted September 11:<\/p>\n

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If you traveled in certain circles on the East Coast this past summer, the one story you heard over and over again was that Ben Barnes had the goods on George W. Bush’s National Guard record and that CBS News was going to break the story on “60 Minutes.” I must have heard this story four or five times, including once from an investment banker who claimed to have heard it from Barnes himself. <\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is well known in Texas that Ben Barnes is not a guy you’d want to hang a story on, so to speak. And now it is well known that the CBS News piece that appeared on “60 Minutes” is based on fraudulent documents and patently false information. CBS News will have to disown this story soon because it just ain’t true.\n<\/p>\n

\n[…] Ben Barnes is a Kerry fund-raiser in Texas. Leading Democratic operatives had foreknowledge of this story as early as July and were telling friends (and even foes) about it back then. The notion that Karl Rove or Andy Card or Mary Matalin would forge National Guard documents, then secretly have them delivered to Ben Barnes so that he would then take them to Dan Rather so that “60 Minutes” would then do a piece that said that the President of the United States was a slacker who shirked his duty is……(how do I put this?)…… utterly deranged. And everyone knows it.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat we are looking at is a scandal, an attempt by the Democratic Party and a number of its news media megaphones to smear the President of the United States. This is potentially a big scandal; one that might do real damage to the Kerry campaign and cost Dan Rather and his producer their jobs.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut I doubt very seriously that Big Media will devote much, if any, energy to this story. They don’t want to hurt Kerry and they really don’t want to do anything that would damage CBS News. And they certainly don’t want to help Bush in any way, shape or form.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhether Big Media can make this story disappear is a challenge that the blogosphere will take up with gusto. I’m betting on the bloggers (my emphasis)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nLike Nostradamus, this Ellis kid.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd Barnes?  Beginning to smell like Texas feet.\n<\/p>\n

\n(via Allah commenter<\/a> “max”)\n<\/p>\n

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\nupdate<\/i><\/b>: more from Commisar<\/a> (including links<\/a> to the Freeper charts<\/a>); Wizbang’s “suspect”<\/a> overview; and Michele,<\/a> who will be modeling the forthcoming protein wisdom t-shirts that no one in particular has been clamoring for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keeping on with the Barnes \/ Burkett \/ Rather axis-of-evil theory (sorry, my nipples insist), there’s this from John Ellis, posted September 11: If you traveled in certain circles on the East Coast this past summer, the one story you heard over and over again was that Ben Barnes had the goods on George W. Bush’s National Guard record and that CBS News was going to break the story on<\/p>\n

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