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"Are the CBS National Guard Documents Fake?" (Font expert says gut tells him its a fabrication!)
In DC Journal ^ | 9/9/04

Posted on 09/09/2004 12:41:23 PM PDT by The G Man

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---• Next, Dr. Bouffard began entering individual characters in an attempt to match them to the remaining fonts that were available on proportional spacing typewriters of that era, focusing on numbers. Thus far, one character stood out, the number “4.” In the document provided by CBS News, the number 4 does not "have a foot" and has a “closed top,” which is indicative of Times New Roman, a font exclusive to more modern computer word processing programs.

* He looked through old papers he's written, and noted that he's come up against the inconsistency of the "4" several previous times with forgeries that attempt to duplicate old proportional spaced documents with a computer word processing program.---

To Rather: YOU'RE BUSTED DUDE!


21 posted on 09/09/2004 12:54:59 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: The G Man
If theses DOCs are proven to be a hoax......

The election is OVER and Dan Rather's career ends on the low note he'll be remembered for and rightly so.

22 posted on 09/09/2004 12:55:13 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Frumious Bandersnatch

There should be rousing demands for Rather to resign!


23 posted on 09/09/2004 12:57:05 PM PDT by BunnySlippers ("F" Stands for FLIP-FLOP ...)
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To: The G Man
As someone who was in the military in the Typewriter Era, it's obvious those documents don't look like the typewritten documents I used to work with. It was theoretically possible to change fonts by changing balls on a Selectric, but I never saw any clerk do it - all the documents I saw were in that same old typeface, which was not Times New Roman.
24 posted on 09/09/2004 12:57:43 PM PDT by colorado tanker (wanna see my happy hat?)
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To: Frumious Bandersnatch

Zounds! CBS got bitten by the moose.

My sister was bitten by a moose....


25 posted on 09/09/2004 12:57:50 PM PDT by Chinito (Combat Apple '69)
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To: crv16
60 Minutes is in series trouble.

It's 59:59 and counting....

27 posted on 09/09/2004 12:58:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: crv16
This is HUGH!

CBS Busted BIG TIME.

FONTGATE.

They are going down.

Somebody should be arrested for this. And there should be investigations if the attempt was to bring down a sitting US President through patent and blatant forgeries.

28 posted on 09/09/2004 12:59:00 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (ANY U.S. Soldier's Blood Worth Tiptoeing ANYMORE Around Middle Eastern "Holy" Cities or Mosques???)
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To: Mamzelle
Hey, Dan, I have a $500 bill! Would you mind changing it for me? harharhar

No way, I've offered Dan a better deal, He can take my 10,000 bill and only give be back a hundred. harharhar

29 posted on 09/09/2004 1:00:16 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: jrawk
I absolutely agree with your assessment. That will be the story from CBS. They had to edit/enter it into a word processor because the originals looked lousy, then they "sexed it up" by making it look old.

It wouldn't be the first time they had been caught sexing up the truth. Does anyone recall the time they had an American voice actor do a fake Iraqi translator accent for Saddam's interview?

30 posted on 09/09/2004 1:00:23 PM PDT by Paradox (Occam was probably right.)
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To: You Dirty Rats
All your fonts are belong to us.

For great justice!

31 posted on 09/09/2004 1:01:23 PM PDT by WashingtonSource (Freedom is not free)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Freepers have been vindicated! There ARE conspiracies.

Dude, I wouldn't be breathing today if not for Reynolds Aluminum!

32 posted on 09/09/2004 1:02:05 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: colorado tanker

The only typewriter of that era that I know of used by the military was the IBM executive. It had proportional fonts.

Looks like the experts have already eliminated this due to the font issue.

Rather needs to resign immediately.

Blessings, Bobo


33 posted on 09/09/2004 1:05:51 PM PDT by bobo1
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To: sphinx

I'd love to see someone prosecuted for this fraud. I guess it's hoping for too much for someone's hard drive to provide the evidence that those documents were produced by computer.


34 posted on 09/09/2004 1:07:07 PM PDT by alnick (US forces armed with what? Spitballs??)
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To: The G Man

Staggeringly good stuff.


36 posted on 09/09/2004 1:08:53 PM PDT by doug from upland (Who has yellow cake? I want to weaponize my spitballs.)
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To: jrawk

I think retyping the text is one thing, but I doubt seriously that a PA would put the signature on the retyped text.


37 posted on 09/09/2004 1:09:19 PM PDT by alnick (US forces armed with what? Spitballs??)
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To: Revolting cat!
Dude, I wouldn't be breathing today if not for Reynolds Aluminum!

I know what you mean. I have one too.


38 posted on 09/09/2004 1:09:38 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Santorum 2008)
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To: The G Man
Dr. Peter Bouffard took the time to examine a pdf of the documents

The media will report that back in the late 80s Dr. Bouffard's baby sitter's best friend dated someone who knew a nanny that worked for the Bushes.

39 posted on 09/09/2004 1:09:43 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: alnick

Would they go to the trouble of re-recording the translators voice for an interview with Saddam because they didn't like the sound of the original?

'cause they did...

-- l8s
-- jrawk


40 posted on 09/09/2004 1:11:22 PM PDT by jrawk
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