Posted on 09/09/2004 2:09:48 PM PDT by ctdonath2
It seems clear to me that someone wrinkled up the original typed letter and then copied it. That would account for variations.
Let's hope those days are over.
I want to believe this, but wrinkled paper wouldn't really account for that space difference. If this was done in MS WORD, it should really match exactly, unless someone did some deliberate formatting of certain letters or words to stretch or shrink them.
Brit Hume is going to cover this now!
I heard Brit mention something about this, too--headsup!!
They're used to the debunking happening long after the election, like stuff they still chuckle about that helped put Kennedy over Nixon in 1960. A fraud can blow up in your hand like a bad grenade these days, as "stumpy" Rather can tell you.
To quote Frank Barone: "Holy crap!"
Courier up till 1992 was the official font for the State Department. It's partly why nearly every DD214, Diplomatic message, etc used that font. Standard practices become viral in connecting organzations.
and then there's the rest of us...hehe good job on this one folks....Imagine how the world would have been different if we had the internet and Freerepublic 20 years ago.....imagine Drudge covering the '92 Clinton campaign...Or Freepin' during the Carter Presidency
Time travel! That's the frequency, Dan.
The colonel wanted to see what 2001 would be like. All of us did in those days, remember? Only the colonel had access to Area 51.
While here he typed up the memos at Kinko's.
Piece of cake. CoasttocoastamBushbashing has time-travel, Bush-bashing experts (take your pick) that will help you prove it happened.
Oh! How's this? While here the colonel took photos of the WTC Lt. Bush talked about "taking down," no one knew what the hell he was talking about until then.
CoasttocoastamBushbashing already has experts (take you pick) who say Bush done it! This is going to be soooooooo easy, Dan, and with a "Bush knew" bonus -- knew? Hell, he did it!
Don't thank me I just wanted to give you something a lot more believable than what you'd come up with.
WoC
Brit's going to talk about the validity (or not) of the documents next on Fox.
Brit just noted a question as to whether the documents are what they purport to be. I wonder which aspect he's going to take.
On edge....waiting..
The first "memory" typewriter that I remember seeing was a hugemungous gollywog IBM Daisy-wheel gizmo that had what looked like a television tuner on the right side of the keyboard -- that was about 1983, if I recall correctly.
It's appearance was quickly forgotten as it arrived simultaneously with the first "personal" computer I had seen in a military office. I forget what brand it was, but the operating system was CPM. It also used a standard daisy wheel printer.
Everywhere else in the military between 1976 when I enlisted and 1988 when I was discharged, the normal office workhorse typewriter was one of the IBM series using typeballs. Producing something like the target "memos" on one of those suckers would have been impossible.
Did you see Brit have to question him several times yesterday after he was reporting that Bush didn't want to debate but 2 times? When Brit asked how many times Clinton debated Wendall said 3 times. So Brit had to ask, what about when Clinton was pres? Finally Wendell had to admit it was twice through clenched teeth. Anyone that thinks there aren't dems on FOX doesn't watch enough. I don't care because you get both sides throughout the day which is 100% better than what we got before FOX.
Good news: Brit opened his show mentioning guard documents and questions about their authenticity. That was what I was hoping for since the guard documents have been reported as fact all day long with no mention of authenticity questions.
Brit Humes is going to talk about this next
I hope they bleeping NAIL Rathers butt
Special Report on it NOW
No way two typewriters would produce text which would overlap so closely. Likely the same document done on the same machine two times would not match due to the rhythm variations by the typist. What a fraud. Why did the forger not get a typewriter to begin with. They can be had for a pittance.
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