9/13/2004 09:09:04 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

My good friend Bob Krumm brought this interesting tidbit to my attention on Friday. I remember listening to the show, but hadn't thought about it since the questionable Bush related Guard documents surfaced. Cutting and pasting from Bob's email:

Nashville radio talk show may give us a clue about who had prior knowledge of the forged documents

The next question regarding the 60 Minutes fraud is: who gave the CBS show the bogus documents? Veteran Nashville broadcaster, Teddy Bart on his daily radio show, “Teddy Bart’s Roundtable” may have given us a clue about who knew about the documents nearly a month ago. It appears that Bob Tuke, who was a guest on the show on August 11th knew that something was about to happen with regard to President Bush’s alleged failure to show up for a physical examination.
Teddy referenced the episode yesterday (September 9th) when 42:13 seconds into the show he said, “Listeners to the Roundtable will note that something was going to come because Bob Tuke, who is a Nashville attorney and significant in the Kerry campaign in Tennessee, told us about three weeks ago that um there was going to be some document, or implied that there will be a document about Bush’s missing time in the Alabama National Guard, in the National Guard, and that somebody was going to come forward with a document. So it did happen, and uh 60 Minutes had it.”

I went back to the show in question from August 11th, where the guests were Sue Rankin, a former special counsel to Senator Bill Frist, Frank Ritter, a columnist with the (Nashville) Tennessean, and Bob Tuke a former Marine Corps officer, Vietnam Veteran, and the Tennessee state chairman of Veterans for Kerry. An interesting conversation began at 56:18 into the show.

Bob Tuke said that by the time of the debates, “We may also know why Bush failed to show up for his medical exam that caused him to lose his flight status.” When pressed on his comment he said that, “The physical exam was scheduled for a couple of weeks after the Air Force changed its policy and decided to put drug testing into physical exams so now the speculation is out there about why would a person who has been serving for--supposedly serving for--three to four years in the Air National Guard as a pilot fail to show up for a physical so that he could maintain his flight certification status? Why?”

Teddy pressed him on the issue and Tuke wouldn’t get more specific, but the astute journalist Teddy concluded the first hour of the show by saying that “My sense of it is just, just, just flitting around the edges of Mr. Tuke’s comment, somebeody’s going to come forward soon and say something about that physical examination.”

What was obvious to Teddy Bart even a month ago was that Bob Tuke was aware of a pending document that would shed a damaging light on President Bush’s time in the National Guard. But how would Bob Tuke know? Sure, he’s well-known in Tennessee Democrat circles, but he’s not that high up in the Kerry organization. If I were a budding journalist wanting to make a name for myself, I’d sure like to ask Bob Tuke, what did you know and when did you know it?

BTW, this coming Wednesday (September 15th) Bob Tuke is again scheduled to be on Teddy Bart’s show. Can’t wait to see if he shows up, and to hear what he might say.

Bob Tuke is as connected with Democratic party, and the Kerry campaign, as anyone in the State of Tennessee. This comment certainly raises some interesting questions. If there is any sort of connection between an arm of the Kerry campaign and these documents, which have been declared fake by 10 out of 10 people (who are not Democratic operatives or Dan Rather) who analyze them, a significant impact could be felt.

|||109508502497112349|||Guard Flap9/15/2004 08:16:49 PM|||Anonymous|||So, what happened at the interview? Did Teddy ask Bob Tuke about the source of the memos?