[jrawk]

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

[mlbford2]

I think the main thing is that Terry McAuful and the rest of the RAT horde, has lambasted Bush on these docs in the last 24hrs. I think some apologies are in order. Plus this would immunize W to whatever is down the road. Plus an added befefit would be a possible gag ball in Rather for awhile.

[Arkie2]

We'll know soon enough. This is up on Drudge and talk radio. CBS will have to come out with some sort of explanation and if your analysis is correct they'll have to provide the original document.

[gorush]

Please ping me when/if you see evidence that satisfies your concerns on this issue. Thanks in advance.

[OpusatFR]

I was a secretary from 1966 to 1985 and went through many types and styles of typewriters from manuals to IBM selectric, to word processors to computer.

I worked for a lot of companies. I have never seen a typewriter of that era able to put "th" above the numbers.

Yes, we did do it manually by half-rolling the cylinder and typing lower-case t and then h and returning the cylinder to its position, but the t and the h would have been standard lower case letters and not the small version in the document.

PS. I also worked for the government.

[dano1]

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

I'm not sure if I follow you as far as why a digital replica of the documents may have been made. However I think in the video world the normal process would just be to shine some light on the document and shoot a few seconds of video of the orignal documents. I don't think CBS would have bothered to make digital replicas of the documents, but perhaps you know much more about this than I do, or maybe I am misunderstanding your point.

[savedbygrace]

CBS faxed the docs to the White House. Your theory would have them faxing a reproduction? I don't think so.

[Logan455]

At Powerline (www.powerlineblog.com ) there is a pdf of the documents faxed to the White House by CBS. I would think that even if a PA reconstructed the documents for production value in a broadcast, the originals would have been sent to the White House.

[golfboy]

"...I retype verbatim screen shot, bring it into PhotoShop, paste, apply a dimestore old XEROX filter, then photoshop out the signature and place it. "

I'd agree with you to a certain point, but the pdf files of the documents are fuzzy. Under your theory, the copies would be nice and clear.

[Oztrich Boy]

(This is about the 99th time I've seen this post)

But while establihing it was produced in MS Word New Times Roman would establish recent producetion, there are also enough indications it is not a "true copy" of something produced by someone in the military in 1972 (May 14,1972 - F.I.S. - Lt Colonel - and most damning, using the acronym NLT, after "Not later than" had been already typed in full)