Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Mary Mapes' Defense of Dan Rather:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_09_16-2007_09_22.shtml#1190410280
[1]Mark Liberman at Language Log has a post on the subject, and in
particular on "the second extraordinary feature of Mapes' screed,
namely her view that the only people who raised questions about the
memos' authenticity were members of 'the conservative blogosphere,
particularly the extremists among them'":
[Y]ou didn't have to be an expert on document analysis to follow
the (straightforward, convincing and indeed incontrovertible)
argument that certain of the crucial documents were crude
forgeries. And the people who were convinced, and said so, were not
all "far right blogosphere bully boys". [2]Geoff Pullum [a fellow
Language Logger who had blogged about the subject -EV] can be a bit
rough on careless purveyors of bad grammatical and stylistic
advice, but he's no thug; and I believe that he considers himself
politically left of center ....
References
1. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004937.html#more
2. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/001454.html
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