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taratemimaOddly enough, the pretty consistently liberal blogger on my flist was the first person to report the possible fraud (on my flist, that is. I avoid LGF for my own 'stop being on my side, you goddamn Arab-hating nutbars' reasons).
Anyway, from World O'Crap, when she isn't making fun of WSJ columnists:
His son: "It just wouldn't happen," he said. "No officer in his right mind would write a memo like that."
An officer who was being pressured to give evaluations which he felt were not justified might very well do such a thing. Writing MFRs (Memorandums for the Record) is a time-honored way for government employees to record, "for the file," information which they feel is being swept under the carpet by the powers that be. I've written such memos myself, and I can assure you that my family knows nothing about them or the file into which they were placed. So, I'd give a lot more weight to Killian's colleagues than I would his family on a matter like this.
Also, Fox News had William Campenni (the guy who served in the same unit as Bush in the early '70s, and who wrote the letter touted by Ed Gillespie as proving that Bush actually existed back then) on the Brit Hume show this evening. Campenni was brought on to give his opinion that the Colonel wouldn't have routinely written a memo ordering a pilot to show up for his physical, because pilots usually had until the end of their birth month to get checked out -- which for Bush would have been a couple of months after the date on the memo -- and they took said exam without needing a special order to do so. Campenni added that drug and alcohol screening also wasn't routine in 1972, and was only done when requested by a commanding officer who had reason to suspect there was a problem.
So, Fox News is making it sound like Col. Killian had reason to suspect that George Bush was using drugs (or seriously abusing alcohol) in 1972, and so he specifically ordered the young officer to show up for a physical which would have included special screening for alcohol and/or drugs. And Bush refused to obey that order.
So, Bush's record still sucks. But don't stop the typewriter wanking on my account.
Anyway, from World O'Crap, when she isn't making fun of WSJ columnists:
His son: "It just wouldn't happen," he said. "No officer in his right mind would write a memo like that."
An officer who was being pressured to give evaluations which he felt were not justified might very well do such a thing. Writing MFRs (Memorandums for the Record) is a time-honored way for government employees to record, "for the file," information which they feel is being swept under the carpet by the powers that be. I've written such memos myself, and I can assure you that my family knows nothing about them or the file into which they were placed. So, I'd give a lot more weight to Killian's colleagues than I would his family on a matter like this.
Also, Fox News had William Campenni (the guy who served in the same unit as Bush in the early '70s, and who wrote the letter touted by Ed Gillespie as proving that Bush actually existed back then) on the Brit Hume show this evening. Campenni was brought on to give his opinion that the Colonel wouldn't have routinely written a memo ordering a pilot to show up for his physical, because pilots usually had until the end of their birth month to get checked out -- which for Bush would have been a couple of months after the date on the memo -- and they took said exam without needing a special order to do so. Campenni added that drug and alcohol screening also wasn't routine in 1972, and was only done when requested by a commanding officer who had reason to suspect there was a problem.
So, Fox News is making it sound like Col. Killian had reason to suspect that George Bush was using drugs (or seriously abusing alcohol) in 1972, and so he specifically ordered the young officer to show up for a physical which would have included special screening for alcohol and/or drugs. And Bush refused to obey that order.
So, Bush's record still sucks. But don't stop the typewriter wanking on my account.
