[Travis McGee]

CBS made the four documents available in their original form on its Web site Wednesday night.

And by yesterday morning, they were being examined with a fine tooth comb.

The Minneapolis lawyers who run powerlineblog.com were on the case early. Two of the blog's readers directed their attention to a note left on an Internet bulletin board on the freerepublic.com Web site — the 47th posting on the topic there.

Post No. 47 pointed out that there was something off about these documents from the 1970s: The spacing between the letters and the words was proportional, and only a few IBM electric typewriters could achieve that effect back then.

From there it was off to the races. Once anyone who had had experience writing and typing in the 1970s began examining the documents, it was impossible not to see some weird anachronisms that suggested they had been crafted not on a 1970s typewriter, but using Microsoft Word.

[P-Marlowe]

Freeper History in the making:

Posted on 09/08/2004 7:39:18 PM EDT by Howlin

107 posted on 09/08/2004 8:19:00 PM EDT by TankerKC

47 posted on 09/08/2004 11:59:43 PM EDT by Buckhead.

[Lancey Howard]

Here is post #47

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To: Howlin
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.

In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.

The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.

I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.

This should be pursued aggressively.



47 posted on 09/08/2004 11:59:43 PM EDT by Buckhead
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[Swanks]

Blind rage makes the Kery camp very careless. I include CBS in "Kerry camp". This has the same MO as the sloppy military service citations Kerry allegedly won. Just put some s**t out in 'Word', distress the copy enough to look old, and let the lamestream carry the water.