Tell it to the President of CBS News, Andrew Heyward.
Andrew Heyward -- CBS News
Title: President
Department: Headquarters
Phone: (212) 975-4321
Fax: (212) 975-1893
Address: 524 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019
FAX him. Load his desk tomorrow morning. My FAX is already there.
I basically asked him if he was satisfied having his reputation dependent on Dan Rather and the folks at 60 Minutes.
IBM did have a special typesetting machine, the IBM Composer, which WOULD automatically center type if you typed it twice.
http://www.ibmcomposer.org/
I used to use one at work, but I was a professional printer from 1975-1983. It was a bear to use.
Was Killian a professional typesetter? Maybe he used such a machine at work for these memos.
Otherwise, I can't explain why he would have used it.
Nor can I explain why the type lines up exactly like 12 point Times New Roman using Word set to default formatting.
Don't know if its conclusive, but I'm convinced. I've been telling people all day that the document isn't justified and therefore wasn't difficult to produce on a typewriter. The centering function would be nearly impossible to replicate with a 1972 typewriter. My hat's off to you.
Good work!
Boy, don't I know that for a fact. I can still remember 42 years ago when I first took typing in highschool, we had to learn how to center things on the page before we typed it. We had to count the number of letters in the line, then divide it by two. Then we had to count back that amount with the backspace key, starting from the "0" margin in the middle, in order to find our beginning point. Talk about a pain in the rump!
Well, this time the screw ain't turnin' their way. Never again. Never forget. These bastards are a bunch of commie lovin' useful idiots from the day they were born. What they did to turn America against the Viet Nam vets and now our President will never be allowed to happen again.
It's a new age in the press and the old hairy hippie fogies of the 60's may be thinkin' they are havin' a revival, but all they are havin' is their last pathetic collapse.
"I have read the minds of all those who were involved...so I know what is really true. I have also personally witnessed a seance where those who are no longer alive have come back to report the truth about Bush."
How dare you question me and 60 Minutes!
Men in white jackets were seen entering Rather's lavish dressing room at CBS as we completed our interview. Minutes later, Rather was removed from the room clinging to a 1972 IBM Selectric typewriter, screaming..."from my cold, dead hands you will!"
When is the line crossed into libel??? I swear, I wish Bush would sue CBS. He would win. No doubt because a case can be made that he knew they were false or at least should have known.
John
This whole story was planted to the media. I wouldn't be the least bit suprised if the Clintons did it to scuttle Kerrys campaign. It's just too coincidental that it broke right when Kerry replaced the campaign staff with Clinton hatchet men
PING
Listen, I was in the REAL U. S. Air Force in the early 1990's, and spent time (and have LOTS of documentation from) three bases in Air Force bases in Texas: Lackland, Laughlin and Randolph.
I have letters from squadron commanders, wing commanders, and base commanders. EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT is either an Air Force form or on base/squadron letterhead. No one ever TYPES THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE SQUADRON on a letter or memo!!!! Not even in the the 1970's. Not even in the ANG. And there are no such thing as "unsigned" memos.
P.O. BOX
Any Freeper's out there serve who served in the air guard have a P.O. BOX as their squadron's address????
ALSO...
Every single piece of paper I have, form or letter, was done in a fix-spaced font...either courier or OCR or something arial like. I don't have anything in my collection of documents that uses a proportationally spaced Times Roman font...not from any Air Force Base I spent time at...not from any officer. And this is in the early 90's.
Some doc's I have were printed on the base's mainframe line printer, and it looks it...
These CBS documents are such incredibly obvious forgeries I'm shocked they even bothered to post them.
No doubt in my mind that the CBS idiots created these on their office PC's. Either that, or they came from Ragin' Cajun's word processor directly to Dan Rather. No self-respecting forger would pass something off that bad.
No, but my eight-grade typing teacher did. And, by the end of the semester, so did I.
(You simply count the spaces -- conclusive proof you've never used a typewriter.)
It looks like it could almost be thought of as a "fingerprint."
I also noticed that most of the dots on the paper are exactly the same...like someone cloned the same dot all over....
bttt
Dan Rather and CBS have few options to retain any sort of credibility. They need to produce the "original" documents for independent, expert verification. The need to name their "experts" who provided the stamp of approval over the six weeks they were working on the story.
If the documents are indeed a fraud, then Rather and CBS have another obligation. Is is customary for a report to "protect" a source if naming the source might cause some potential harm. I don't see how this could be the case. An unnamed source is unjustified, even if the documents are credible. However, if the source provides fraudulent information or lies about the information in the story, the reporter is under no obligation to protect the source. Rather and CBS should name the source as soon as the documents are proved, by the preponderance of the evidence, to be fakes.
Dan Rather - WHO GAVE YOU THESE FORGED DOCUMENTS? WHO PLANTED THIS FAKE STORY?
YESSSSS, now I remember.. I used a selectric typewriter in the army my last couple of months and I recall how freaking irritating it was to try and center text. You actually had to figure out the spacing because some letters took up half a space. We always used to just guesstimate and we were never truly centered.