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Are the CBS Forgeries REAL?
Pacetown ^
| 9.30.2004
| Jeremy Chrysler
Posted on 09/30/2004 2:38:29 PM PDT by thepace
Check out Wizbang for more info, but I'll catch you up here. There's a guy who claims to have refuted the forgery aspect. Wizbang thinks he's a "liar, a fraud, and a charlatan", and I'll try to explain why. You can see it all in process here. Note that this is 'developing' so forgive me if I'm a little hasty.
On page 9 of the PDF, he says that he was able to reproduce the letters exactly, using a typewriter. Here's a sample:
However, on his webserver, is the following PSD file, which shows what looks like the above, but in process (this is a screenshot
(Excerpt) Read more at spacetownusa.com ...
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KEYWORDS: bush; cbs; du; guarddocs; kittychow; newbie; newbiemoron; troll; zot
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posted on
09/30/2004 2:38:29 PM PDT
by
thepace
To: thepace
*yawn*
Welcome to FR. Enjoy your stay.
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posted on
09/30/2004 2:39:40 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(It is dangerous to be right when wicked is called 'good.')
To: thepace
In other words, you think the forgeries are forged?
To: thepace
Is the only reason you are posting excerpts to the articles you are posting because you want traffic to your website?
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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!!!!)
To: thepace
Go back to DemocRAT Underbelly.
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posted on
09/30/2004 2:42:41 PM PDT
by
Outraged
To: thepace
Do I get a faint whif of ozone here?
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posted on
09/30/2004 2:43:21 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
To: thepace
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.
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posted on
09/30/2004 2:43:40 PM PDT
by
bootyist-monk
(<--------------------- Republican Attack Machine)
To: thepace
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.
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posted on
09/30/2004 2:45:09 PM PDT
by
nopardons
To: thepace
Are the forgeries real? Yes, they are real forgeries.
Duh!
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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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posted on
09/30/2004 3:03:38 PM PDT
by
Mike Fieschko
("Did you know I served in the Clone Wars?")
To: thepace
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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.
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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.
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