Point by point rebuttal to CBS news last assertion that the “Bush memos” are real
1st several methods were used to authenticate the documents. Handwriting experts were consulted, that’s fine. They got to look at copies. I can copy a scanned signature very easily from anything I want and paste it to anything I want. The copy will look perfect which is why if you don’t see the original you can’t tell it is a fake.
The second method mentioned by Bill Glennon was proportional spacing, superscripts(as a custom feature), and proportional spacing between lines “you could order that any way you liked”. Okay, this was the National Guard we’re talking about here, just how common do you really think that was? Let’s say for sake of argument that this guy actually had the only typewriter in the Guard that could do all these special things. That still leaves many other problems with these documents too numerous for me to go into. Go here for a detailed list.
Mr. Glennon goes on to say the lower case l could be reproduced on a laser printer these days. How laughable! Let me try here ( l8 ), gee that looks fine to me! Want to bet it prints fine too?
Okay next he says that a combination of the “th” the “th” would just be too hard on a computer these days. Well I did that last sentence without much trouble lets try a different way. The 1st and 2nd points have been debunked, I bet I can do the same with the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7 th, and so on! Yep that was simple too! All it to was me to press “Ctrl + Z” and it undoes the superscript, or if I put a space in it doesn’t even do it automatically! Wow! I must be a computer wiz!
Now they say the content is consistent. Consistent with what? They say official documents they received show he was suspended on the same day as the memo shows. This point I would have to research more, I’m not sure what the truth is there, maybe someone else can help me out there.
I would say all in all Dan Blather’s last attempt is as lame as the rest to say the memos are real.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12596_Typewriter_Repairman_Promoted
Yesterday, TIME Magazine identified Bill Glennon as a former typewriter repairman.
Today, CBS’s latest denial features Bill Glennon prominently as a “document expert.”
This argument is tantamount to saying that a forged driver's license would be valid if the address shown on the forged license matched the person's actual address.
LAUGHABLE!
"Now they say the content is consistent. Consistent with what? They say official documents they received show he was suspended on the same day as the memo shows."
Heh, that's the great thing about forgeries. You can make them say anything you want. The people running this "excuse circus" must be the same people running the sKerry campaign. But we already know that.