Aye, and we're Wellington!
The AWB Has Expired - Gun Owners Have Won Again For All Americans!
Posted on 09/13/2004 9:44:48 PM PDT by GRANGER
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
The End
The Washington Post has run an article which practically humiliates CBS and Dan Rather. It begins with a repudiation of the Killian memos by the 60 Minutes chief document expert, Marcel Matley. The Post then pronounces on the documents themselves: they are fake.
A detailed comparison by The Washington Post of memos obtained by CBS News with authenticated documents on Bush's National Guard service reveals dozens of inconsistencies, ranging from conflicting military terminology to different word-processing techniques.
The analysis shows that half a dozen Killian memos released earlier by the military were written with a standard typewriter using different formatting techniques from those characteristic of computer-generated documents. CBS's Killian memos bear numerous signs that are more consistent with modern-day word-processing programs, particularly Microsoft Word.
It continues unmercifully by citing the evidence of electronic typesetting expert Joseph M. Newcomer who declares "I am personally 100 percent sure that they are fake". The Washington Post goes on to detail numerous factual and formatting errors in the CBS documents, mentioning among other things, word processing characteristics, wrong addresses, styles, inconsistencies in dates before introducing the additional repudiation of key 60 Minutes source Bobby Hodges. Deserted by its original document expert, CBS is then reported to rely on a new consultant called Bill Glennon who says 'IBM electric typewriters in use in 1972 could produce superscripts and proportional spacing similar to those used in the disputed documents' before admitting that he was 'not a document expert, could not vouch for the memos' authenticity and only examined them online because CBS did not give him copies when asked to visit the network's offices.' To set against poor Mr. Glennon, the Post enters the contradictory testimony of the Adobe Company into the lists.
Thomas Phinney, program manager for fonts for the Adobe company in Seattle, which helped to develop the modern Times New Roman font, disputed Glennon's statement to CBS. He said "fairly extensive testing" had convinced him that the fonts and formatting used in the CBS documents could not have been produced by the most sophisticated IBM typewriters in use in 1972, including the Selectric and the Executive. He said the two systems used fonts of different widths.
It is an unmerciful public flogging; the kind one would not wish upon a donkey. Whether or not Stanley Kurtz's theory (see the previous post) is correct, it is hard to see how CBS can maintain their story a single day longer.
Clinton maintained his lying story until the results of the DNA came out. Mr. Rather can do maintain his story forever because he doesn't have to release the originals, (the paper equivalent of the blue dress).
the warning that should apply to the new media is never get into an argument with people who lounge around all day in their pajamas looking for other people to get into flame wars with.
Aye, and we're Wellington!
The AWB Has Expired - Gun Owners Have Won Again For All Americans!
Capitulation isn't enough. I want him to publicly turn on his source.
As Jackie Gleason used to say: "HOW SWEET IT IS!"
Dan Blather and the Elite Liberal Media think that we are obligated to believe whatever garbage they spew. Those days are OVER, and Mr. Blather needs a good whooping and sent to bed without his dinner.
If you earn a flogging and it is delivered, is it still unmerciful?
I think a well-crafted WH response, perhaps by Scott McClellan, something to the effect that the White House need not respond to fraudulent documents or crude forgeries, would go over well right about now.
THe old Soviet Union collapsed (notwithstanding President Reagan) under
an avalanche of lies.
Every factory producing something (and sometimes producing nothing) doctored
its records to show that it had met its government mandated goals. To do less
meant Siberia for it's managers. "Fake it and hope you make it" was their motto.
Poor CBS is trapped in the Soviet model. It must fabricate or risk losing the
small base of liberal viewers to which it clings for advertising revenue.
As with the Soviets, the weight of reality will become just too much to bear and
CBS is shortly to join the ranks of false media exiled to the Gulag.
Mmmmmm maybe these documents arent real....
Where's the Wash Post story he mentions? I can't seem to find it.
LOL!
Here is the Washington Post thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1215197/posts
Here is the NY Times thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1215243/posts
Well put.
Beautiful....
I'd settle for a bad flogging and some more great blogging....
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