[mingusthecat]

FIRMLY BELIEVE this deserves its own thread.

[mingusthecat]

ping

[ScottFromSpokane]

The problem with starting a new thread is that you miss posts such as this

[Politicalities]

Hmm. I might be wrong, but I thought I've seen typewriters with little "th" keys. (They also had little "1/2" and "1/4" keys.)

Again, I might be wrong. I hope I am, I hope that these are clumsy forgeries we can use to blast the MSM out of the water. But we should be careful not to jump the gun.

[OSHA]

I was a clerk/typist for the US Navy at the Naval Underwater Systems Center...

I'd like to know what kind of typewriter HE used!

[Pukin Dog]

Look, everyone in Washington knows these documents are forgeries, and that is why they were not reported anywhere, until Dan Rather forced the issue.

Now, the media can say "Reported on 60 Minutes" instead of taking the heat for false reporting. Even 60 minutes execs were lukewarm on the story, but Rather kept pushing it. From my vantage point, the media is not giving this the play it would deserve were the documents real. Doubtful the story will survive more than a couple days.

[Diddley]

Also, the signature (as compared to another sample of Killian's signature) is obviously a forgery.

[silverleaf]

ping again and thanks

I earler noted the apparent unfamiliarity of the memo writer with the typical use of military acronyms (especially Air Force specific usage), how things such as unit designators and even rank were typically abbreviated, and the memo writer's untypical formatting of an Air Force unit commander's signature block.
I would like to see a former ANG admin clerk's comments on this.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[colorado tanker]

The abbreviations are wrong. It's 1LT and LTC. Always. No exceptions, no variations.

[Gone GF]

The document might indeed be a forgery, but the point about the tiny "th" is just flat out wrong.

[Arrowhead1952]

Get a load of this ping. Looks like FReepers found the documents were fake.

[pabianice]

Nice job!

[BlueNgold]

Yeah .. what he said .. I found the same thing and posted it on other threads regarding the spacing and the superscripting ... glad Im not alone .. was about to go make a TFH

[MinuteGal]

Where are all the forensic experts we see on TV true crime stories each night?

Experts detected the forgeries in one of the greatest and most accomplished forgery hoaxes of all time, the Mormon Documents case.

Pinging Bill Kurtis.....

Leni

[Congressman Billybob]

The very interesting aspect of this issue is how the White House has handled it. They have said (story today by Yost, AP) that these memos reflect only "normal bureaucratic statements" and that Bush had permission to go to Alabama, where he could no longer fly.

Note what WASN'T said. The White House did not say that these memos were genuine, only that they did not change the story at all. I think Bush is deliberately LEAVING OPEN the possibility that these memos are forgeries.

But the forgery issue will be driven by NWC. That is the "Network of Water Coolers." (c) 2004, John Armor, because I will use that in a book chapter now underway. NWC includes the Internet, the blogosphere, talk radio, and word-of-mouth among the American public. If NWC determines that CBS deliberately ran a story based on forgeries, the impact will be worse on CBS and its favored candidate, John Kerry, than if the White House had made that charge.

I don't think that Bush made this choice of how to answer these memos by accident. I think this choice was very deliberate, and very wise in the long term.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "I'm Mad as Zell, and I'm Not Going to Take It Anymore."

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[bootyist-monk]

Absolute proof of the forgery...

This is taken from IBM's own website. The link is in the image. This is a document written in 1967 which describes the keyboard layout for the Selectric typewriter. It is from the designers. In this image you can see the "golfball" and below, the letters that can be typed. There is no superscript "th" to be found among them.

CBS. Proven liars.

[Robert357]

Hmmmmmmm.

I wonder if any from the Main Stream Media (MSM) will jump on this? Nah, it's not "news," just like "is" isn't is and "sex" isn't sex.

[bootyist-monk]

By the way, here is the link if you'd like to see it for yourself...

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/121/ibmrd1201E.pdf

[Politicalities]

[Mike Fieschko]

Last time I looked at powerineblog's page, it had more than 40 links back to him by the blogsphere.

And, it's on Kerry Spot, the National Review's site.

Propagation rate over the internet will be shooting up like wildfire (mixed metaphor alert, 'You know what a meddafer is?').