Posted on 09/09/2004 9:16:44 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
Who produced these documents???
CBS? The Kerry campaign? MoveOn.org? The White House? The mafia?
You've nailed it. This is all Al Gore's fault ....
That is brilliant!
I think it is someone under the age of 30. I'm 36 and I learned to type on a typewriter and everyone I know went off to college with one. There were a few computers in use at the time which would be similar to today, but almost everyone would have been familiar with an electric typewriter.
I think about 5 or 6 years after me would be a pretty good guess for someone to not be familiar with a typewriter.
Will the turtle cross the finish line before the election?
Ditto. Sandy Berger did it!
-- Joe
Geez she's been hit with an ugly stick. Is that an optical illusion, or are her pupils not equally dialated, like David Bowie. I think that is a nervous disorder. Ugh, I can't look any more.
That dog won't hunt. Terry McAwful is up to his eyeballs in this, and it exposes the whole party. Every democrat, every last one of them.
CBS is on record saying they cleared these documents with people who saw them at the time they were created.
Hmmmmm.
THE CBS PAPERS [Jed Babbin]
I spoke to Col. Bill Campenni (USAF ret) earlier this morning. As I've written before, Campenni was a member of the President's squadron and flew with him often. Campenni told me that there are a whole slew of reasons -- beyond those being debated now -- to question the authenticity of the CBS papers:
1. The 4 May 1972 order and the 1 August 1972 memo both have a letterhead for the wrong organization. Correspondence and orders in those days would be issued in the name of the parent organization -- the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group -- rather than the squadron. The letterhead is typed. They used printed ANG letterhead;
2. Orders were issued on the standard USAF orders form. (I still have a stack of my old ones. There's not a "memo" among them). Campenni remembers that orders weren't issued as "memos" like the 4 May 72 document;
3. The Killian "CYA" memo of August 1973 refers to pressure by Gen. Standt. The problem with this is that Standt retired in 1972. Why would anyone be worried about pressure from him?
4. Jerry Killian, according to Campenni, never went near a typewriter. In the Air Force, in those days, notes -- if anyone kept them at all -- were handwritten. That raises questions about both the 19 May 72 and the 18 August 73 memos. And, lest we forget, bureaucrats -- not fighter jocks -- write "cya" memos.
5. Orders -- like the purported 4 May 72 order to take the flight physical - wouldn't normally have been signed by Killian. They would be signed by a senior sergeant "by order of" Killian.
If, as it appears, someone faked these papers they did a bad job of it. I can tell you that in the early to mid-1970's when I was on active duty, the active service didn't have anything fancier than the earliest models of the IBM Selectric typewriter, and many offices didn't even have those. The reserves and national guard had our cast-offs, so it's terribly unlikely they could have produced anything as fancy as these papers. (Is it just my imagination, or is Dan Rather's nose growing longer every day?)
Posted at 10:38 AM
Ash and Eschoir were banned so many times they seemed to have movedon. I think Quidam was a dem plant stirring up false hopes here.
Dan Rather should resign or be fired !!
CBS news should fire Dan Rather for not being absolutely positively certain of the authenticity of these forged documents. We are in the absolute final leg of a Presidential election and Dan Rather rushed to press to get these dociuments on the air because he thought it would potentially help Kerry and hurt Bush. He is blinded by his partisanship and is not fit to be a journalist.
Dan Rather never even looked into where these papers came from. It was his job to be CERTAIN of their authenticity. It's fitting that Rather's career comes to an end under this cloud of his extremist partisanship. He will always be remembered for this. His legacy will be fitting....a reporter who would lie to America if it supported his Left Wing Ideology.
Dan:"Thanks for the interview. Does Uday have the documents?"
DU - The place I go to calibrate my maturity meter to zero.
Earlier it was pointed out the address of the guard unit in the header was a PO Box ... instead of a street address, which was somewhat unlikely, but even more unlikely the PO Box number was 34567 ... consecutive numbers ... which is even more unlikely.
Dan Rather is not only a Leftist, he's a fool.
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