Are the CBS Forgeries REAL?

1 posted on 09/30/2004 2:38:29 PM PDT by thepace

*yawn*

Welcome to FR. Enjoy your stay.

2 posted on 09/30/2004 2:39:40 PM PDT by Prime Choice (It is dangerous to be right when wicked is called 'good.')

In other words, you think the forgeries are forged?

3 posted on 09/30/2004 2:42:22 PM PDT by harrycarey

Is the only reason you are posting excerpts to the articles you are posting because you want traffic to your website?

4 posted on 09/30/2004 2:42:26 PM PDT by truthandlife (http://www.neverforgetneveragain.com -- If you want Bush re-elected pass on this video link!!!!)

Go back to DemocRAT Underbelly.

5 posted on 09/30/2004 2:42:41 PM PDT by Outraged

Do I get a faint whif of ozone here?

6 posted on 09/30/2004 2:43:21 PM PDT by b4its2late (John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)

He didn't type them on a typewriter. He used a IBM selectric typewriter font on his computer (which meant that the font kerned as true-type fonts do). Proves nothing except he is an idiot.

7 posted on 09/30/2004 2:43:40 PM PDT by bootyist-monk (<--------------------- Republican Attack Machine)

You're much too late to the party!

And please do NOT feel compelled to post threads,before you know what FR is all about.

8 posted on 09/30/2004 2:45:09 PM PDT by nopardons

Are the forgeries real? Yes, they are real forgeries.
Duh!

9 posted on 09/30/2004 2:48:14 PM PDT by Brainhose (THINK OF THE KITTENS!)

To: Prime Choice; harrycarey; truthandlife; Outraged; nopardons; Brainhose

Jeremy might be new here, but he's been cobering this story a long time.

Take a look at Utah State Univ Prof Posts Forged Docs in Effort to Prove CBS Memos Authentic for Kevin Aylward's article on this.

The Utah State prof was trying to prove that the CBS memos were typed on a typewriter.

He created docs with Photoshop cut and paste to prove his point.

Here are two comments from the Wizbang site's discussion of the docs the USU prof created:

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The 2nd superscripted 'th' has been added later. It doesn't have the edge pixelation the letters on either side have. It looks "clearer" than the set of letters it was supposedly typed along with.

This is caused by forgery; admittedly a better forgery than the original see-BS forgery (which was totally outrageous) but a poor forgery still.

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Simple explanation: the cut and pasted the TH into the image of the document to make it look like the TH he created on his typewriter matches the TH from the CBS memo. If you look at the PDF and the PSD files, you can see that the 72 in the date "1972" a few lines above the superscript TH also appears to be pasted in.

Considering the professor's credentials, this lameness does not surprise me - he's a technical writer. We are not known for our mental acuity. At least, I'm not!

Excellent catch on this!
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10 posted on 09/30/2004 3:03:38 PM PDT by Mike Fieschko ("Did you know I served in the Clone Wars?")

Wizbang Nails Globe, "Expert"

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/008017.php

11 posted on 09/30/2004 3:17:12 PM PDT by USA_Soccer (Try a better (free + open source) browser -> Mozilla Firefox @ mozilla.org)

To: Mike Fieschko; thepace; harrycarey; truthandlife; Outraged; nopardons; Brainhose

Jeremy might be new here, but he's been cobering this story a long time.

Fair enough and my apologies to Jeremy. I've just seen one too many new members show up and start with the forged memos routine. I think I'm getting jaded.

12 posted on 09/30/2004 3:24:53 PM PDT by Prime Choice (It is dangerous to be right when wicked is called 'good.')

To: Prime Choice

There've been far too many trolls/disruptors/banal vanity postings by newbies,for any of us to NOT be suspicious of ALL newbies,now.

13 posted on 09/30/2004 3:27:52 PM PDT by nopardons

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