Republican Noise Machine at Work
Looks like the Republican Noise Machine is already well at work!
The Matt Drudge Report is running a story that alleges that the memos questioning Bush’s National Guard service are forgeries. The Weekly Standard, a well known Republican tool of misinformation runs a similar story:
“[T]he apostrophes are curlicues of the sort produced by word processors on personal computers, not the straight vertical hashmarks typical of typewriters. Finally, in some references to Bush’s unit–the 111thFighter Interceptor Squadron–the “th” is a superscript in a smaller size than the other type. Again, this is typical (and often done automatically) in modern word processing programs. Although several experts allow that such a rendering might have been theoretically possible in the early 1970s, it would have been highly unlikely. Superscripts produced on typewriters–the numbers preceding footnotes in term papers, for example–were almost always in the same size as the regular type.” [ link to Weekly Standard story ]
As the author of the Republican Noise Machine notes in his book, and I paraphrase, it’s not important that Republicans get the facts right, it’s only important that they throw up enough mud to cloud the truth.
