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BushGuardaugust1 memo - a FAKE
CBS, self | 9/9/04 | Carl Donath

Posted on 09/09/2004 2:09:48 PM PDT by ctdonath2

Proof the CBS document BushGuardaugust1.pdf is a FAKE:

Original text, slightly adjusted for rectangular fit:

Same text, screen capture of document written in MS Word 2002 with no effort to match original aside from document width:

Overlapping images, with original as B/W negative:

Aside from slight warping presumably due to distortion introduced by a low-quality photocopier, the two texts line up exactly. The "30+ year old proof" against Bush is a fraud.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: ctdonath2
I have linked your docs on my PreciseTruth blog and referred your work to you for appropriate & well deserved kudos :)
61 posted on 09/09/2004 2:42:54 PM PDT by Steven W.
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To: ctdonath2

bookmarking


62 posted on 09/09/2004 2:43:11 PM PDT by TheSarce
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To: ctdonath2

I've been reading some preposterous theories about how there were various proportional-spaced and multi-font machines available in the early 70s. Like some Lt Col is going to be messing around programming his desktop typesetter with paper tape just to write a freakin' memo.

I was around in that era and messing with computers in the military and also for civilian applications. I had access to about as advanced a technology as would have been in normal use in offices at that time. I can tell you I would have KILLED to have access to machines that could produce a document that looked that good. For our fanciest documents, we mainly used Selectrics hooked up to computers using either serial or parallel interfaces (time has dimmed my memory on that point), and produced them with the Courier font. I used to love watching the Selectric banging out the pages with its flying type ball. It was just so cool and technologically advanced. I can tell you that I could no more have produced the document in question with that setup that I could fly.


63 posted on 09/09/2004 2:43:35 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: ctdonath2

Hot damn, you're good.


64 posted on 09/09/2004 2:44:20 PM PDT by alnick (US forces armed with what? Spitballs??)
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To: Steven W.

Seeing your blog, Harkin was out again today, calling Bush a liar, based on these documents.


65 posted on 09/09/2004 2:45:11 PM PDT by Howlin (I'm mad as Zell)
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To: ctdonath2
More points I haven't seen brought up about the 4 may 72 memo:

1) It's inconceivable that someone would go to the trouble to center the address at the top of the page with a typewriter. If the page header was preprinted, maybe. I don't believe there were "memory" typewriters in 1972 that could have typed out the address on command. And centering with that proportional type? No way. You'd have to count the space taken up by each character manually.

2) Is the P.O. Box, 34567 just a wee bit suspicious?

3) I looked up the address (which you can read through the black mark), 5000 Longmont #8 in Houston Tx. That address does exist, just outside the 610 loop, I think in the Galeria area. But Yahoo maps give a different zip code for it than 77027. Perhaps the zip code changed, but that's pretty rare. Could anyone in Tx confirm this?

66 posted on 09/09/2004 2:45:23 PM PDT by narby (CBS - The new Democrat 527)
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To: Howlin
Ha! Excellent work!

I have been following this all day. National Review has contacted a document expert (and THEY give his name, UNLIKE CBS) who points out some of the signs that it is a forgery.

There is also a post on here of a blogger who contacted a forensic document specialist who has all sorts of information about type fonts and even has written a program to identify them. That expert is 90% sure it is a forgery.

I must commend you for prodding people last night to investigate this. That thread had to have been the catalyst. Michael Medved was going to discuss this on his show today...don't know if he did, since I can't get that show here.

Anyway, we all should be grateful you set up that initial investigative thread. I hope you get a White House invite or something!!! LOL!

67 posted on 09/09/2004 2:45:39 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Texasforever

I'm still wondering what you were wondering last night: why.


68 posted on 09/09/2004 2:46:27 PM PDT by Howlin (I'm mad as Zell)
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To: Bonaparte

I sent it to Drudge... feel free...


69 posted on 09/09/2004 2:46:35 PM PDT by IncPen (Every Word From Kerry's Mouth is a Dishonorable Discharge)
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To: alnick

Bump!


70 posted on 09/09/2004 2:46:49 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: ctdonath2

Before claiming a slam dunk, you should know that Times Roman has been around since the 1930s. The computer versions of TR are based on high-resolution digitized copies of the originals (with some variations).

Still, I have a hard time believing anyone would save such trivial documents for decades. Plus, there's no source. Makes me suspicious...


71 posted on 09/09/2004 2:47:03 PM PDT by mikegi
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To: ctdonath2

Awesome job! WTG... I really hope you pass this around to Drudge, Rush, Hannity, etc. It is quite revealing. Kudos, my friend.


72 posted on 09/09/2004 2:47:06 PM PDT by marway (JF'nK, show us your records now!)
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To: Howlin
I'm still wondering what you were wondering last night: why.

Not sure I understand the question.

73 posted on 09/09/2004 2:47:35 PM PDT by Texasforever (Kerry's new slogan "IT'S NOT THE STUPID CANDIDATE SO STOP SAYING THAT")
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To: PJ-Comix

"If they are forgeries - the election is likely over."

I think he may be right.


74 posted on 09/09/2004 2:48:26 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: ctdonath2

This looks good except for something I saw right away. In the first sentence, the "1st" clearly has more spacing between the 1 and the letter s. How is that explained?


75 posted on 09/09/2004 2:49:28 PM PDT by doug from upland (Who has yellow cake? I want to weaponize my spitballs.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
These turkeys up against Freepers? No contest. LoL.

LOL. I'm glad as hell my brother and sister FReepers are so damn smart and diligent. I ain't got near enough sense or no-how to prove the things they do.

You guys and gals rock!

Ain't nada more powerful than a motivated FReeper.

76 posted on 09/09/2004 2:49:46 PM PDT by geedee (In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.)
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To: Howlin

Thanks


77 posted on 09/09/2004 2:49:50 PM PDT by firewalk
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To: Howlin; xzins

And Wendell Goler is no help either. No questions from him as to the validity of the "documents"--and contrary to what xzins understood about the "sugar-coating" reference, he keeps stating that what was being "sugar-coated" was Bush's fitness reports! Reading the memos again, I think xzins had the right interpretation.


78 posted on 09/09/2004 2:49:56 PM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: ctdonath2
Oh my God, you didn't just hit it out of the park, you hit it off the planet!

The guy used Word to write this a year before Microsoft was founded...gee, wonders never cease...

79 posted on 09/09/2004 2:50:23 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (If the Cambodia "lie" 100% discredits John O'Neill, what do 50 Cambodia lies do for Kerry?)
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To: ctdonath2

Very clever.


80 posted on 09/09/2004 2:50:45 PM PDT by Victoria
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