Posted on 09/09/2004 1:12:11 PM PDT by dangus
This is hardly absolute proof, but it is evidence of a forgery:
Word processors bump words from one line to the next to allow the most possible writing on a line without causing a word to be broken, and of course, you automatically start the next line, without even noticing this after a while.
Typewriters didn't work that way. They cued you to start a new line with a little bell that went off as you approached the end of a line. For anyone who did much typing, this became extremely Pavlovian: the bell went off, and you whacked the "carriage" to the starting position of a new line. Typically, this was about eight or ten characters away from the end of the line.
Well, the difference is that a word processor will often fit an extra short word after the point at which a typist would have started a new line. True, a poor typist will often hear the bell go off and decide "Aw, heck, I can squeeze an extra word in." But any real typist will be typing fast enough that they will just smack the carriage over.
Well, guess what? The placement of line breaks suggests that the CBS document was produced by a word processor, not a typewriter.
"what is a little green football?"
Either a type of LSD or possibly a Placidil (sp?)
LOL
(showing my age, now)
The Capt.
The sad thing is I'm not much older.
"Back in my day, we didn't Playstations and Video Phones. The only video games we had were just two rectangles and a square bouncing back and forth. And it only made two noises, Boop and Bleep. But that's the way it was, and We LIKED it!"
What the? Can you believe they don't have a good pic of Dana Carvey's Grumpy Old Man?
All the sudden FR is up to it's hips in "fake" revelations.....hmmmmm ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211235/posts
Stay safe
No magic markers in my day...good old fat crayola crayons..but for me it was library paste....ahhh good times. :)
Red
The hubby and I went to Staples and asked where the carbon paper was.....the saleskid looked at us as though we were speaing a forgein language!
I evidently CBS doesn't remember that we remember punks like John Kerry and their ilk that created so much chaos in our Country.
BTW, did the Democrats start the Vietnam War?
Does anyone know if Jimmy Carter ever served in the Military?
How about John Edwards, Ted Kennedy and thos Democratic blowhards on CNN/MSNBC?
Yep. We're outed as old farts. Shoot, I was still using dittos when I was a sergeant at MCAS Beaufort to print squadron orders and duty rosters. That makes me... over 40!
True, but have you seen images of what CBS faxed to the White House, cause I haven't....
It would be nice to compare.
Listen I am not saying I am right, just plausible, and we maintain credibility by pitching our story as:
Are those images of the actual documents? Because those are not consistent with documents of the period and are forgeries.
-- l8s
-- jrawk
How'd you get that goose to eat a number 2 pencil ?
I also don't recall that typewriters had the ability to make "smart quotes."
Another thing about the long-ago years of typewriting and learning to type. The teachers would spend a lot of time with lists of words and how to hyphenate them. Remember how much you'd like to end the line with a two syllable word like "running", with a double consonant in the center? You'd know how easy it would be to type run-ning.
He served in the Navy.
"He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a submariner, rising to the rank of lieutenant. Chosen for the nuclear submarine program, he was assigned to Schenectady, N.Y., where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics, and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Sea Wolf. "
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/ssn-23.htm
Keep in mind that there was extensive use of hyphens.
The image you posted has clearly been tampered with. Notice the "03" in the date at top: Both the "0" and "3" are obviously in a different typeset (font) than the rest of the document. It becomes obvious when compared with the "3" in the zip-code at the top. There may be more discrepancies, but this one sticks out like a sore thumb.
Little Green Footballs(LGF) is a website. Quite a group over there, check them out: http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php
Hannity just mentioned the possible fake letter along with FR where he first picked up on the story.
Yes, the RATs got us neck deep in Vietnam. Of course, it was a mess created by the French. Imagine that...
And yeah, Carter was a Naval officer. I'm pretty sure he was in nukes.
Love it!!
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