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Somebody Correct Rush Limbaugh
Blam ^ | blam

Posted on 10/12/2015 11:20:21 AM PDT by blam

Someone needs to correct Rush Limbaugh.

He just said on his radio program that it was Roll Call that exposed the Dan Rather fake letters during the Bush presidential campaign.

I believe it was our own FReeper 'Bulkhead' who exposed the fake.

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KEYWORDS: buckhead; bush; danrather; dnarather; freerepublic; rathergate; rush
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To: 867V309
Here's the text of Buckhead's meaningful post.....count me in as an old timer.

Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.

In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.

The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.

I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.

This should be pursued aggressively.

41 posted on 10/12/2015 11:47:04 AM PDT by irish guard
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To: gaijin

how well I remember that clown in Texas and his private Yahoo Group....thinking that they were going to tear W down


42 posted on 10/12/2015 11:48:14 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: blam

Fake but true. But since it was all about a Bush who did more to ruin his own legacy than Rather ever did, who really cares any more?


43 posted on 10/12/2015 11:50:13 AM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: Publius

I was there that day - the excitement was actually thrilling.


44 posted on 10/12/2015 11:50:45 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: irish guard

Thanks for posting. Still gives me a chill reading his words.


45 posted on 10/12/2015 11:52:03 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Publius

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts


46 posted on 10/12/2015 11:52:50 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: blam; All
Free Republic was featured at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. for its role in exposing Rathergate.
47 posted on 10/12/2015 11:53:04 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: irish guard
Here's the text of Buckhead's meaningful post.....count me in as an old timer.

Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.

In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.

The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.

I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.

This should be pursued aggressively.

Thanks, I was there.

I even have a copy of the animated gif somewhere, showing the fake document alternating with a MS Word screenshot. It left no room for doubt the document was fake.


48 posted on 10/12/2015 11:55:41 AM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: blam

Buckhead.................


49 posted on 10/12/2015 11:56:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Publius

You nailed it to the wall, er, bulkhead...............


50 posted on 10/12/2015 11:56:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Slings and Arrows

You’ll just be another brick in the Wall...........


51 posted on 10/12/2015 11:57:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He was the first. I had just posted that my parents owned the IBM typewriter that changed font (3 available). Howlin posted it to its own thread where others picked it up


52 posted on 10/12/2015 12:00:18 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: kristinn

53 posted on 10/12/2015 12:02:36 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

Fake but accurate.


54 posted on 10/12/2015 12:02:46 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: 867V309

Joke?

Actually I wasn’t responding just to you. It was a general response to the thread. I hit a random reply button to post my memory of that night.

Sorry not to appreciate your joke. If I understood it I’d respond to it now ;-)


55 posted on 10/12/2015 12:06:26 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Publius; Buckhead; TankerKC; Howlin

Here’s Buckhead’s famous post 47:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts?page=47#47

To: Howlin

Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.

In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.

The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90’s. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn’t used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80’s used monospaced fonts.

I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.

This should be pursued aggressively.

47 posted on 9/8/2004, 8:59:43 PM by Buckhead

And here’s one on an earlier thread by TankerKC:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210516/posts

To: Howlin

WE NEED TO SEE THOSE MEMOS AGAIN!
They are not in the style that we used when I came in to the USAF. They looked like the style and format we started using about 12 years ago (1992). Our signature blocks were left justified, now they are rigth of center...like the ones they just showed.

Can we get a copy of those memos?

107 posted on 9/8/2004, 5:19:00 PM by TankerKC (R.I.P. Spc Trevor A. Win’E American Hero)

And here’s a write-up about it a few days later by Howlin:

FOR THE RECORD: CBS Memos Controversy on Free Republic
Free Republic ^ | September 18, 2004
Posted on 9/18/2004, 3:26:50 PM by Howlin

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1220090/posts


56 posted on 10/12/2015 12:12:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson; LS

A great moment in American history. Perhaps to be featured in a future history book by our own LS.


57 posted on 10/12/2015 12:14:48 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: blam

Here is the post

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts?page=47#47

Key line: “I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old. “


58 posted on 10/12/2015 12:16:02 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Swordmaker

We were also discussing the fonts in the memo on USENET.


59 posted on 10/12/2015 12:26:06 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: donna

Bump.


60 posted on 10/12/2015 12:40:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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