Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
This should be pursued aggressively.
You da man. Power to the people.
FR Bttt Award!!!
Buckhead's Post #47: It's History!
CBS'S BIG BLUNDER? (Credits Free Republic)
Howlin & TankerKC - Take a bow too! ;-)
THANK YOU BUCKHEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations on your well deserved recognition. The fallout from this may be just enough to save the world. If it keeps kerry out of the White House, that's exactly what's been done. And you started the ball rolling. Thank you.
Way to go!!!!
Congratulations! for 'the post that launched a thousand "Oh $h!t$"'.
This should be pursued aggressively.
This thread will be one that goes down in history as a turning point in the election of 2004 that assured the survival of freedom. I will be able to tell my grandchildren that I was here on this thread.
I recommend that this thread be locked to preserve it in its original condition!
Buckhead, you are a HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friends and I used to do this very thing to create humorous and imposable parody "newspaper clippings" back in the very late `80s and early `90s. We only ran them about 4 generations, doctoring each generation with whiteout to get rid of the pasteup "lines" from the edges of the different pieces of paper stuck together to create the "article." By the 5th generation it looked ok for just a casual glance.
What is shocking is someone or some people are so juvenile to think this old joke would pass inspection at this level of scrutiny?
Can they REALLY be that stupid?
It sounds cliche but I am genuinely surprised by this.
TEAR THE ROOF OFF THE SUCKER !!!!!!!!!!
Great catch!
God Bless You!
Deacon Francis
Thank you is inadequate. Your post appears to be the shot heard round the media. They must realize now that we are watching and we know!
Very good Freepin' there Buckhead! Congrats!
The Post that silenced Rather's blather.
Little Green Footballs has picked up on your theory and has taken it further. Take a look.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12524_Bush_Guard_Documents-_Forgeries
You rock.