Even a blind man could see this is fake.
It's got legs, and moving up the food chain.
Libs now denying they'd voted for Clinton "I voted for Bob Dole because I thought he was the better man" HILARIOUS!
It's not a scandal unless it's truely forged. If it's not and we hype attention on the memo and it's found to be real (which I honestly assume it is....at least from 1973), then we are doing more harm than good.
See, that phrase proves it. Jesse Jackson wrote the memo.
I wonder how many execs over at CBS are now taking a big dump in their pants? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Why would anyone who was doing what he was doing WRITE A MEMO TO THE FILE ABOUT IT?? Duh...
After reading stuff earlier this morning when it was first posted on Free Republic, I have been watching as the story developed. As someone old enough to have actually used an IBM Ball Selectric, I feel that some of the documents are likely fakes.
It is now be carried on Drudge and starting to get lots of play. Michael Medved picking it up should also expand the understanding by the public as to what has likely happened.
Just for fun, I went to the CBS news website to see what they had to say and if they were yet picking up this story and had any comments. As of about 1:35 Pm Pacific Time, they had no comment about the possiblity of the documents being fakes. I went to their links to view the documents they had on Bush's Texas service and only a few (i.e. not all) appear to have the obvious "th" and proportional font problems. This means that a few of the documents could be legitimate.
I used the contact us feature on the CBS website to submit a complaint to 60 minutes. My complaint pointed out that I had read a compelling discussion on how and why some of the documents were fakes and asked why CBS News and 60 Minutes would not immediately investigate, pull the stories and documents until a determination was made, and post a notice that questions had been raised. I then reminded them about some of the past 60 Minutes specials, one about a nuclear power plant utility executive interveiw, where the utility video taped the entire 60 minutes interview and proved that what 60 minutes aired was a distortion and the one where the ignighter flare was used to produce a nice fire in a truck crash so as to give dramatic footage, when the truck didn't catch fire in a crash. I then asked them if they were learning their craft from the New York Times.
I suggest that all Freepers go to the following URL to send CBS News a piece of their mind.
Link to CBS News 60 Minutes website
Then scroll down to the bottom of the page to the "Contact Us" Java link.
Look, these memos that they showed have no credibility at all. The only one who can confirm it is dead....and even he would seem bogus. Look how unprofessional he is in the documents. He makes unsubstantiated allegations. THey are not in standard form. And the only guy that RATher had look at them...works for him.
Look at the documents...they are on this cbs story
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/06/politics/main641481.shtml
First off...they say these documents are from personal files. THAT SHOWS THEY ARE BOGUS. IF they were military docs...they would not just be in some dead man's personal file. They would be in the AF Records. They would also be copied to Bush's files.
The documents showed last night....are bogus. ON TOP OF THAT....NOTHING IN THOSE DOCUMENTS SHOW THAT BUSH DID NOT MEET HIS REQUIRED DRILL POINTS.
CBS News
524 West 57th Street
NY, 10019-2902
Phone: (212) 975-4114, or
(212) 975-3691 for Dan Rather's office
Fax: (212) 975-1893
ATTENTION FREEPERS
I need the link to the thread where freepers broke this story open.
ALSO- I need the name of the 4 Typography dudes who have said they are bogus.
I am about to speak with someone who is going to get that info to the Barlet types.
I NEED THIS NOW! PLEASE!
BARTLET IS BLOWING IT. He is giving the answers that the consultants tell him to give. That is what got kerry killed in the swing states.
Bump.....
Love this pic.
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1-- proportional spacing not generally available
2 -- superscripts not generally available
3 - small "th" single element not generally available
4 - Smart quotes. Curved apostrophes and quotation marks were not available
5-The blurriness of the copy indicates it was recopied dozens of times, tactic of forgers
6--Signature block. Typical authentic military signature block has name, then rank, then on the next line the person's position. This just has rank beneath the name.
7--Margins. These look like a computer's unjustified default, not the way a person typing would have done it.
8 -- Date usually with three letters, or in form as 110471.
9 - words run over consistent with word processor
10 - may be a Times Roman or similar font not generally available then (per Haas Atlas)
11 - signature looks faked
12 - no errors and whiteout
13 - no letterhead
14 - exact match for Microsoft Word Processor
15 - Paper size problem, Air Force and Guard did not use 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper until the 1980s.
16 - Overlap analysis is an exact match
17 - absence of hyphens to split words between lines, c/w 1970's typewriter.
18 - 5000 Longmont #8 in Houston Tx. does not exist
19 - Box 34567 is suspicious, at best. The current use of the po box 34567 is Ashland Chemical Company, A Division of Ashland Oil, Incorporated P. O. Box 34567 Houston
20 - it would have been nearly impossible to center a letterhead with proportional spacing without a computer.
21 - Bush's grade would "normally" be abbreviated "1Lt" not "1st Lt"
22 - Subject matter bizarre
23 - Air Force did not use street addresses for their offices, rather HQ AFLC/CC, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433.
24 - kerning was not available
25 - In the August 18, 1973 memo, Jerry Killian purportedly writes: "Staudt has obviously pressured Hodges more about Bush. I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job." but General Staudt, who thought very highly of Lt. Bush, retired in 1972.
26 - Language not generally used by military
27 - Not signed or initialed
28 - Not in any format that a military person would use, e.g. orders not given by Memo.
WOW, ain't no typewriter in the world can do that. HAHAHAHAHA, caught with their pants down.