SCRAPPLEFACE:
1972 Email Casts Doubt on Bush Guard Service
(2004-09-09) -- CBS reporter Dan Rather today released the text of a recently discovered email from then-Lt. George W. Bush's Air National Guard commanding officer which casts more doubt upon the military service of the man who would become the 43rd President of the United States.
The revelation of the email comes just hours after questions were raised about the authenticity of typewritten memos from the same officer, shown yesterday by Mr. Rather on 60 Minutes.
According to the previously unseen email message sent in May 1972 by squadron commander Jerry Killian, Lt. Bush phoned Col. Killian because "his internet connection was on the fritz and he couldn't IM me."
Lt. Bush apparently wanted to talk about "how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November."
According to Col. Killian's email, the young Bush wanted to go to Alabama to work as webmaster for a Republican candidate's website.
Mr. Rather said the authenticity of the 32-year-old email has been confirmed by several Nigerian officials who specialize in electronic funds transfer by email.
That's funny!
You da man
There are two Americas. One thinks the Enquirer is real. The rest of us will vote for W.
Thank you for the post.
The Scrappleface article needs its own thread.
FOFL.....THAT's where they got the letter.....from NIGERIA!!!!
LMAO! @ #5 post
I worked at IBM Federal Systems Division in 1972. As a new employee, I started my training on the IBM Executive Proportional Typewriter.
However, state-of-the-art at the time was the IBM Selectric Magnetic Card Typewriter which recorded keystrokes on magnetic media roughly the size and shape of data processing cards. Once a document was proofed, those puppies would run off a final copy at 150 words at minute. It created quite a racket in a word processing center with 20 magnetic typewriters and tape machines. Cubicles lined with carpet did little to absorb the noise.