[narby]

The guy on Little Green Footballs has superimposed the pdf of the memo from the CBS website with one he created with MS Word in Times New Roman 12. They are exact, perfect, inerrant duplicates.

Which proves that, what? MS copied an IBM executive (not selectric) typewriter font and spacing exactly? I would have hoped that they would.

If CBS has the originals, it should be a piece of cake to prove that they were at least done on a real typewriter (impact marks, etc.)

We're handing them lots of ammunition to fire back at us.

Believe me, if we would nail Dan Rather with this, I'd be jumping for joy. But I smell a trap.

[gilliam]

Fonts are copywrited

[RetroSexual]

Which proves that, what? MS copied an IBM executive (not selectric) typewriter font and spacing exactly? I would have hoped that they would.

I understand your skepticism. I'm sure MS did implement the Times font very much as IBM did. But note that the word wrap is the same, also, despite the fact that the military used a different size paper. Also the line spacing. many things independent of the font seem to be just as word processed.
Looks very suspicious to me.

[ScreamingFist]

If CBS has the originals, it should be a piece of cake to prove that they were at least done on a real typewriter (impact marks, etc.)

Agreed, but what about the signatures on the memos?

[Buckhead]

Not to worry. Mash here: http://www.indcjournal.com/

They interviewed one of the top forensic typography experts in the world, and he is 90+% sure they are fakes, based on the font in the fakes not matching fonts on machines available at the time, based on an encyclopedic catalog of all available fonts.

That is to say noting of the dozens of other indicators of forgery which have yet to be refuted.