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1 posted on 09/09/2004 1:12:12 PM PDT by dangus
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Good catch.
I am still checking on the zip code. I have sent an e-mail to the postal service to check the history of that zip code and if the address is legitimate for that time.
2 posted on 09/09/2004 1:13:52 PM PDT by mnehring (YP4W)
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Question: What is a Typewriter?


3 posted on 09/09/2004 1:14:02 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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What if it is fake on purpose? Sort of...

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.

I am just saying we should start with the question are these the real documents? Cause these images are not consistent with the period.

-- l8s
-- jrawk


4 posted on 09/09/2004 1:14:22 PM PDT by jrawk
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Good work. Now send this to CBS. All your original work and make no copies. This is series and hughe.


5 posted on 09/09/2004 1:14:49 PM PDT by mlbford2 ("sycophantic kerry koolaid sucker" -- S. Hannity)
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what is a little green football?


6 posted on 09/09/2004 1:14:55 PM PDT by Hanging Chad
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Good work.


7 posted on 09/09/2004 1:15:02 PM PDT by spyone
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This has already been explored in depth.

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/


8 posted on 09/09/2004 1:17:22 PM PDT by federal
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You are right that the line breaks work exactly as shown when using 12 point Times New Roman with the default 1 1/2" margins that Microsoft Word provides. And example is here.

You'll also note that contemporaneous Air Force docs are all in courier or some similar non-proportional pitch.

12 posted on 09/09/2004 1:19:01 PM PDT by Darth Reagan (your lazy butts are in this too)
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Great point. I'd be willing to bet that whoever "did" this document is some young smartarse who doesn't remember life before computers, and has never seen a typewriter.

Remember, there are a lot of people in the country who've never even seen carbon paper. They just sort of assume that Xerox machines have been here all along.


16 posted on 09/09/2004 1:20:48 PM PDT by EggsAckley (.......John Kerry suffers from delusions of adequacy........)
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You didn't whack a Selectric.


19 posted on 09/09/2004 1:22:48 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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Back in the day, hypens were used to continue words onto the next page. Its all but disappeared now that word processing automactically knocks the lenthened word down to the next line below.


21 posted on 09/09/2004 1:22:57 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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Back in the day, hypens were used to continue words onto the next page. Its all but disappeared now that word processing automactically knocks the lenthened word down to the next line below.

In addition, you might check out the spacing on that memo. For example, if had typed a long word before I reached "the bell" I would have to use a hypen to continue the word on the next line because I sure damn well could not erase it, unless of course I faked it on a modern day word processor.

28 posted on 09/09/2004 1:25:26 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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I think on the bottom where it says "Signed, Epstein's Mother" was the dead-givaway. ;)


31 posted on 09/09/2004 1:26:48 PM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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Geez, who was the document/forgery expert that CBS used? Helen Keller?
Good catch!


38 posted on 09/09/2004 1:28:42 PM PDT by mingusthecat (Mingus has again opined. Like any cat, she doesn't really care what YOU think.)
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maybe 60 minutes needs to investigate 60 minutes


39 posted on 09/09/2004 1:28:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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41 posted on 09/09/2004 1:29:52 PM PDT by rocklobster11
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Shouldn't the memo to W have a serial number? Doesn't all official DoD correspondence have a serial number? If so, that number should be recorded in a log book somewhere, though probably long-destroyed.


45 posted on 09/09/2004 1:31:49 PM PDT by Blue Eyes (When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore.)
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This story is getting more and more interesting. It would take mighty big balls for "See B S" to send a known forgery to the WH and then use it for a program. If shown to be true, I would predict the end of "See B S" getting press passes at all to the WH from that point forward. If they just put out lies, why bother to have them there at all?


47 posted on 09/09/2004 1:33:07 PM PDT by BillyCrockett
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You are absolutely correct about this. I remember being ingrained to either stop at a short word or use a "-" to break up the word and continue because there was no such think as wordwrap on a typewriter. I was looking at the (fake) document last night and something was really bugging me about it...this is it.


49 posted on 09/09/2004 1:33:57 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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50 posted on 09/09/2004 1:35:23 PM PDT by ohioconservative
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