Congrats Buckhead!!!
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.
Bravo! Congratulations!
Well done, Buckhead!
Congratulations upon the import of your observations.
An honor to post in the same thread with you.
Post #47 will go down in Internet history.
You'll be known as a FReeper Hero for life.
I noticed something related that may or may not have been brought up yet. Whenever the forger writes 1st Lt Bush or 147th or anything like that, it's always 1 st or 147 th.
It looks like the forger put the space in on purpose to get by the automatic superscripting, but missed a couple.
-Eric
Applause!
Congrats on being part of the vast right wing conspiracy....
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html
We always favor looking at the content and substance over WHO is offering up the information, but in the war that will ensue about WHO gave CBS the potentially phony documents, it is interesting to Note that the right (Drudge, Fox, right-leaning blogs, others) led the way in pointing out the questions we have all been asking — and they were onto the questions, with remarkable detail, relatively soon after the documents were made public.
Here's part of how this story got here . . . from a little Marc Ambinder back-lurking on the blogs . . .
At 8:00 pm ET Wednesday night, CBS News does the story . . .
at 8:59 ET — before the broadcast is finished!!! — the documents come into question via a poster named Buckhead on the Free Republic Web site: LINK
Buckhead seems well-read on his forensic document examination skills.
"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."
Well, this is bandied about by dozens of Freepers, as they're called and is picked up at 8:30 am ET and added to by www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ — this little green football guy is a very popular conservative blogger . . .
Bumping the 'Deep-Font' post
Congrats Buckhead!!!
Great find Buckhead!!!!
Buckhead is my little brother. I am bursting with pride. You have busted the left's crooked agenda, singlehandedly. It's monumental! I hope you get a fantastic job offer. You deserve it. Hey, I didn't come close to catching it and I've worked with type, typesetters, etc. for 30 years. You Dah Man!!! (Can I be your agent?)
bump
Nice :-)
Seriously think about trademarking "This should be pursued aggressively", ya'll make millions!!!
Bump and many thanks for your outstanding contribution. This thread may well be referenced in history books 50 years from now.
Read post #47 written 2 days ago.
You are an awesome investigator, Buckhead, and I'm proud to be your fellow FReeper!
This thread and the posted links have been so much fun to read - you can bet I'll be forwarding the links to others.
BUMP!!!
Adding belated kudos to you for getting the ball rolling. It's now the size of CBS, and picking up even more debris as it merrily rolls right over Rather./
do you realize how many left wingers ya pissed off?....bwahhaaahahaha