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.
After the years and years of pure crap that Rather has spewed, after all the sucking up to the tin-pot dictators of the world, after all the ass-kissing to the worst of the democratic party, after the lies he's fed, straight-faced to America night after night after night, after all the money he's taken to be a shill for the nastiest ugliest rumors he can find--after all that, I say flog the old monster with no mercy. Do it in the press until he cries on live television. Do it till no one will take his calls. Do it till he's penniless and alone, reduced to gibbering.
Won't bother me a bit.
Talk about arrogance.
Problem is, the horse is barn sour and can't find the barn!
bttt
The question here is what is the Compost's source? Are they Lurking on FR? Do they owe Jim Rob money? Are they plagerizing?
It's worth registering at the Post to read their article. Or go to http://www.bugmenot.com to get a password.
Does anybody remember when, immediately after 9/11, Dan Rather refused to wear an American flag pin because he didn't want to be partial?
Still waiting.
Still waiting.
"Rather's unmerciful public Flogging." Is less than a slap on his limp wrist, compared the un-merited flogging this sonovabitch and his peers all over the MSM have heaped upon President Bush.
Well, to see how they continue to stand by their story just wait until 3:30PM when they release their statement defending themselves.
Freep the Freak!
Well, here we are, two weeks futher on. Let's see if SeeBS drags it out for another week as I predicted. Today may be the first step, but I predict that they'll drag it out anotehr week anyway in some attempt to look like they are being responsible and deliberate, sort of like Howard Dean after his scream. Let's adapt the Beatles tune as follows:
"No one will be watching you." Instead of doing it in the road, they're doing it in the information highway and can't figure it out.
The eye Blinks..
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