Hoaxes
Propped Up CBS's Fraudulent Memos-- Commentary:
Dan
Rather's CBS' 60 Minutes Hit Piece on President Bush's ANG Record based on Left-Wing Media Hoaxes.
By
Col. John H. Wambough, Jr. USAF (Ret.)
(Permanent link to this column).
(Alternate Permanent link to this column)
Since Left-Wing
Media (LWM) has fabricated many hoaxes (concerning President Bush's Air National Guard
service), it is not practical to
address each of them in one article - so they will be presented to the American people in
a series, starting with the “Leapfrogged Hundreds Hoax” and “Political
Influence/Favoritism Hoax”.
LWM treachery,
deception and distortion laid a solid foundation for Dan Rather's CBS' 60 Minutes fabricated
story and fraudulent memos. Thousands of communications misled the American people about
GWB’s ANG record. As you read LWM hoaxes below, appreciate that they are nothing
more than interwoven myths created (via repetition) by LWM, the DNC, Kerry's Campaign and
Left-Wing 527s to help get a Left-Wing Liberal Democrat (John Kerry) elected President.
It would be incomprehensible for investigative journalists to get so much wrong without malicious
intent to deceive the American people. How is it possible that LWM
investigative journalists didn't inform the American people that there was "no waiting
list" to get into the TANG (147th Fighter Interceptor Group [FIG]) as a pilot in May 1968? How is
it possible that the American people weren't informed that F-102 pilots (from GWB’s unit)
were flying combat missions in
"Leapfrogged
Hundreds Hoax" Left-Wing
Media (LWM) asserts that GWB was leapfrogged over hundreds of Texas Air National Guard (TANG)
applicants to protect him from the draft and avoid
There
were reasons why the TANG was short of pilots. At the time GWB applied for a pilot slot, the 147th
TIG was routinely deploying F-102 pilots to
Can it be validated that there was "no waiting list for qualified pilot applicants in May 1968" when GWB applied for the TANG? Yes it can. Four separate entities can confirm no waiting list: First, the pilots that were flying in the 147th TIG (111th TIS) in May 1968; Second, the ANG senior officers that were in the 147th TIG in May 1968; Third, the Director of Operations for the TANG (when GWB was in the ANG) Colonel Earl Lively says: there was no waiting list for qualified pilot applicants to get in the TANG as a pilot in 1968; and Fourth, the TANG history indicates no waiting list for qualified pilot applicants in May 1968. Even later, when there were waiting lists, practically all applicants were applying for ANG enlisted positions and not for officer pilot training.
The leapfrogged hundreds hoax has been a progressive hoax. Once LWM duped the American people into "erroneously" believing that GWB was leapfrogged over hundreds of applicants, then the hoax was embellished with an assertion: that the only way GWB could have leapfrogged over hundreds of applicants would be through the use of political influence, family intervention, favoritism and special treatment. Then the hoax manufacturers went in for the kill with Dan Rather’s CBS' 60 Minute interview with Ben Barnes. In this interview, Ben asserts how troubling it was for him to admit that it was he who got GWB leapfrogged over hundreds of ANG applicants. Ben, answer one question, how did you get GWB leapfrogged over hundreds of applicants if there was no waiting list (in the 147th TIG) for qualified pilot applicants in 1968? This is a question that needs to be answered by Ben Barnes and Dan Rather.
The
progressive hoax doesn’t stop here. The hoaxers further duped the American people into believing
that not only had GWB used political influence to leapfrog hundreds of ANG applicants but that he
did so to avoid going to
"Political Influence/Favoritism
Hoax"
Left-Wing Media (LWM) asserts that political influence, family intervention, favoritism and
special treatment were used to get GWB into the ANG. There assertion is false. See
LWM’s "Leapfrogged Hundreds Hoax” The truth is GWB got into the Guard based on his own
merit.
President
George Herbert Walker Bush stated publicly that the Bush family played no part, whatsoever, in
getting GWB in the ANG. President George W. Bush stated publicly that he had no help from anyone in
getting into the Guard. For arguments sake, let's disregard what both Presidents said on this
issue.
A serendipity benefit of the CBS 60 Minutes fraudulent memo scandal was that the public got to hear directly from retired ANG senior officers about GWB's ANG service (unfiltered by LWM). What these officers had to say was quite different from what LWM had been telling the American people. Retired Colonel Walter B. "Buck" Staudt (who conducted the interview that resulted in GWB being selected by the ANG) stated in an ABC Special Interview that: "He recalled Bush as a standout candidate"; “No one called me about taking George Bush into the Air National Guard. It was my decision. I swore him in. I never heard anything from anybody.”; “He didn’t use political influence to get into the Air National Guard”; “He was highly qualified. He passed all the scrutiny and tests he was given” “He was a well-educated, bright-eyed young man, just the kind of guy we were looking for." "He presented himself well. He more than met the requirements for pilot training. I’d say he was in the upper 10 percent or 5 percent or whatever we ever talked to about going to pilot training. We were pretty particular because when he came back (from training); we had to fly with him.”
Any
investigative journalist (searching for the truth on how GWB was selected for the ANG) would have
asked themselves simple logical questions. First, why wouldn't the ANG want GWB? Bush was a
Yale graduate and potentially a great asset to the Guard. Second, why wouldn't the Guard select a
young man who had already met stringent educational, security clearance and physical requirements
for pilot training and held the attributes Staudt stated in the ABC
Special Interview? (These attributes were well known by many people). Third, there was
“no waiting list” for “qualified pilot applicants” in May 1968 (when GWB applied for pilot
training) so why would political influence be needed? Fourth, GWB's pilot instructor in the F-102
(Major Maurice Udell) pegged GWB in the top 5 percent of pilots he instructed; GWB was known to be a
top notch fighter pilot by the pilots that flew with him and knew him. Given due consideration to
the above considerations and positive information about the flying skills of GWB, a fair minded
journalist would have concluded that the ANG made the right decision when they selected GWB for a
pilot training.
Journalists,
having done their homework, would have known that GWB got into the Guard based on his own
merit. Their problem was that this wasn't the story LWM wanted told, so LWM fabricated a
different story: one of political influence, family influence and favoritism and
sold that story to the American people. They perpetrated a hoax on the American people every bit as
malicious as the fabricated story and fraudulent memos used in Dan Rather's CBS' 60 Minute hit
piece.
President Bush is the 19th President of the
Note:
Should LWM want to use Ben Barnes to defend their accusation of political influence, remind them
that Ben Barnes swore under oath he had nothing to do with getting GWB in the Guard and that Barnes'
daughter (Amy) stated her father told her (during the 2000 election) that he had nothing to do with
getting Bush into the Guard. Also, remind LWM that Ben Barnes is a big fund raiser ($100,000) and
supporter of John Kerry and may have a job should Kerry be elected President. This is the
“reliable source” Dan Rather used to attack President Bush and help validate the content of
CBS’ fraudulent memos. Ben Barnes is the type of “reliable source” LWM goes to when they want
to attack the President. He is the "reliable source" that now swears that he got GWB
leapfrogged over hundreds of ANG applicants even though there was “no waiting list” for
“qualified pilot applicants” in May 1968 when GWB applied to the TANG. See LWM's
"Leapfrogged Hundreds Hoax" above.
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The
President of the
John Wambough is a retired Air Force colonel with 28 years of service. During his career in the Air Force, Colonel Wambough flew F-105 and F-111 tactical fighter aircraft. His combat tour in Southeast Asia was in the F-105s with the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron. Also, he served in Current Operations at 7th Air Force Headquarters, TanSon Nhut Air Base, RVN. He was a Fighter Squadron Commander (F - 111E aircraft, 55 TFS, Royal Air Force, Upper Heyford, United Kingdom) and later Group Commander at the same base. He served on the Air Staff and Joint Staff in the Pentagon -- and attended the National War College. He was head of the Joint Studies Group at Tactical Command Headquarters, Langley AFB, Virginia and completed his service in the Air Force as Commander of the 4442nd Tactical Control Group and Commandant of the United States Air Force Air Ground Operations School, Hurlburt Field, Florida. He retired in March 1990 - having served 28 years in the Air Force. Contact info: j-bwambough@cox.net Visit Site: www.nsar.us
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