No seriously, was Bush really AWOL for a year?
I'm used to getting my fair share of chain letters with urban legends, but when I read that Bush was AWOL his last year in the National Guard I was sure this had to be a lie.
I googled for the story, but everything seems to suggest he was AWOL. Is this just the liberal media?
I googled for the story, but everything seems to suggest he was AWOL. Is this just the liberal media?
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granted, i don't think he was listed as "officially" AWOL, just that he was gone and they don't know where. (maybe it was a top secret mission to Columbia.
Originally posted by alcimedes
(maybe it was a top secret mission to Columbia.
I figured it was to look for WMD in Iraq. (like a pretrial...)
Give me the reward now
This article, originally appearing in George magazine, says basically that he technically fulfilled all his requirements for service, but there was some missing time and he failed to take some of his exams to continue his service.
Its basic conclusions: Bush may have received favorable treatment to get into the Guard, served irregularly after the spring of 1972 and got an expedited discharge, but he did accumulate the days of service required of him for his ultimate honorable discharge.
Originally posted by Nordstrodamus
the liberal media
Broadswiping well-sounding generalisation. Gratuitous moreover. Numbers remain ellusive however. Joe Conason cites a 2 to 1 implicated endorsement (read "quiet slant", or your own paraphrase) for G.W. Bush vs. A. Gore in the written media during the elections. 2 republican vs. 1 democrat. 2 conservative vs. 1 liberal. Let's see your numbers.
link it up!
Originally posted by alcimedes
link it up!
I heard Conason say such in an mp3 of him in an interview with Leonard Lapote (whom I know not the reputation of, cause I'm foreign and such). Anyway, a short session of googling got me the following quote:
How about the newspapers? According to the trade magazine Editor & Publisher, newspapers endorsed Bush 2-1 over Gore before the 2000 election. Conservatives have Smith Richardson, John Olin, Richard Mellon Scaife and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to bankroll the dissemination of conservative writings and studies to a wide audience, an advantage liberals lack.
From this reputable source. (<- how reputable is USA Today?).
- der Kopf
it's "they said that he said" i have no idea what his sources were for his book, and i'm not about to pay to find out.
i know that folks have linked to a variety of stats that show the opposite.
http://www.tipponline.com/articles/00/E&p112.htm
The Editor & Publisher/TIPP poll also asked who the editors and publishers plan to vote for themselves next week. In another surprise, those willing to reveal their vote named Bush by a 2-1 margin. Publishers will vote for Bush at a 3-1 ratio, with editors favoring the Texas Governor by a narrow margin.
Conason also says the following here:
We also know that Jack Welch, former chief of NBC (and GE) is an ardent Republican. So was Larry Tisch when he owned CBS. So are Richard Parsons and Steve Case of CNN (and Time Warner AOL). Michael Eisner (Disney ABC) gave to Bill Bradley and Al Gore, but he gave more to Bush and McCain -- and he supported Rick Lazio for the Senate against Hillary Clinton. Rupert Murdoch and John Malone are big Republican supporters of the Cato Institute. So why isn't anybody complaining about the "conservative bias" of media executives?
[OK, after 843 edits, I think I've got it.]
Nearly 4 out of 5 who said that newspapers favored one candidate named Al Gore as the beneficiary.
does this quote mean that even the media folks think that newspapers are biased?
There are details of how the site(s) that put up details of Bush's military records prior to the 2000 election were hacked, attacked and "denial-of-service'ed".
There's photocopies here of Bush military 'bloopers'...(suspension order, disciplinary measures etc).
More documents here http://users.cis.net/coldfeet/document.htm
on Bush's military records. Look at the photocopy of the doc where he is grounded (suspended from flying F-102s). James R. Bath gets a similar suspension just 4 weeks later. Bath was Bush's "babysitter" in the military and longtime buddy afterwards in business. 30 seconds googling pulls up some interesting stuff on Bath, Bush, Carlyle Group, Saudi financing of terrorism etc etc here (amongst numerous) http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/archive....a20163e3.html