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Read the rest. I'm actually starting to believe this!
1 posted on 09/09/2004 12:41:24 PM PDT by The G Man
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I asked him to put a percentage on the chances that this was a fake, and he said that was "hard to put a number on it." I then suggested "90%?" Again he said it's "hard to put an exact number, but I'd say it's at least that high, sure. I pretty much agree that that font is Times New Roman."

OUCH!

2 posted on 09/09/2004 12:42:40 PM PDT by The G Man (I'm mad as ZELL and I'm not gonna take it anymore!)
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All your fonts are belong to us.


4 posted on 09/09/2004 12:46:14 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats (WE WILL WIN WITH W - Isara)
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My first reaction was to think this was "a little exercise in creative writing" too. Heck I've still got a few reams of paper so old that I could write up some old documents myself. I'm glad to see an expert is on board that can discredit the Leftie smear attempts. The problem, will the MSM give the refutation claims the same coverage they gave the frauds?


6 posted on 09/09/2004 12:47:56 PM PDT by holyscroller (Actions speak louder than bumperstickers)
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I would like to see what IBM has to say. Surely come lurking congressional staff sleuth could put in a request for IBM to evaluate the memos.


9 posted on 09/09/2004 12:50:55 PM PDT by sphinx
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CBS probably knows that they are fake....but what do you expect them to do?? Just because they are fake that shouldn't change their reporting. It hasn't change it before, why start now?


10 posted on 09/09/2004 12:51:19 PM PDT by parthian shot
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I would like to see what IBM has to say. Surely some lurking congressional staff sleuth could put in a request for IBM to evaluate the memos.


11 posted on 09/09/2004 12:51:21 PM PDT by sphinx
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Dan thought this little "exclusive expose" was going to go a long way towards insuring his horse won the race! Probably was whooping it up with staffers before going on the air with it.

You laugh too hard, you cry, you nervous looking biased shakey twit.

12 posted on 09/09/2004 12:51:37 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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SEE B.S. lives up to its name.
13 posted on 09/09/2004 12:51:38 PM PDT by goodnesswins (VICTORY...........brings peace.)
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Random thinking here but...

If I was a PA on 60 Minutes charged with creating the digital graphics for this story the following might happen:

After scanning the original documents I find they are illegible digitally. So I retype verbatim screen shot, bring it into PhotoShop, paste, apply a dimestore old XEROX filter, then photoshop out the signature and place it. Deadline met, the stylized graphic for production has been created. In general the networks do not require the actual document be shown, they have often in the past insisted it is ok to display the actual text in whatever format meets their production needs. So long as the content is not changed.

It needs to be confirmed that those images on the web, and in the show are images of the actual documents before this story goes on.

-- l8s
-- jrawk


16 posted on 09/09/2004 12:53:25 PM PDT by jrawk
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60 Minutes is in series trouble.


17 posted on 09/09/2004 12:53:36 PM PDT by crv16
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Freepers have been vindicated! There ARE conspiracies. Now if we could make similar progress with Vince Foster, Ron Brown, Flight 800.......


19 posted on 09/09/2004 12:54:13 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Santorum 2008)
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't know if this has already been done; if not, let me be the first:

John "Forged" Kerry

I think Effin's campaign is about to reach crush depth...
49 posted on 09/09/2004 1:17:25 PM PDT by 2Hot4You (Don't Be The Bunny)
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The story and the documents are still up on the CBS News website as of 3:20pm central time. I'd love to be a fly on the wall of the meetings they must be having about this right now.


57 posted on 09/09/2004 1:23:46 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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"It's a FAKE!"

62 posted on 09/09/2004 1:30:30 PM PDT by Rastus (Forget it, Moby! I'm voting for Bush!)
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bookmarking


67 posted on 09/09/2004 3:18:15 PM PDT by TheSarce
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