The Thread that broke the Camels Back:Post 47, and the Freepers who busted C.B.S.

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[Redcoat LI]

Credit where it is due,Howlin's thread,Buckheads post.

Post # 47 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 8:59:43 PM PDT by Buckhead [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

[Remole]

I just heard the 5 pm (EDT) NPR news that highlighted the likelihood that the documents were forged.

BUT the segment ended with this teaser: how was it possible for the weblogger to point out the odd type face at 8:56 p.m., even before the 60 Minutes II show ended, if the viewer only had a few fleeting seconds to see the images of the documents?

The news clip, then, suggests that the weblogger (whom we all know is the famous Freeper Buckhead) was an insider to the hoax. We need to respond to this suggestion ASAP.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Shake Off The Chains And SMASH! The Old Media!! FREEPERS ROCK!

[longtermmemmory]

FR has officially arrived and become the most important news forum. We have started making threads out of our own posts that are a nationally recognized. (globally?)

[SevenofNine]

OH YEAH
CBS News=Old Media
FR=Tommorow news make headlines

[AmericanInTokyo]

Globally, yes. Globally recognized. I know folks in the international media who follow FR from time to time, especially when things heat up and they want hot, timely and deep thinking perspective.

[AmericanInTokyo]

The sweet gals of The Days of Post #47 send their love to Howlin and Buckhead, and all the rest!

[trussell]

place marker

[AFPhys]

Thank God For FR, and the FReepers here.

Reagan said before, and we all will be able to say in the future, that we made a difference.
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[Howlin]

How is it that you can defend a story with the same people you used to create the story?

Didn't CBS call anybody else in to verify these documents?

Is this guy the only one they could get?

[supercat]

Congrats again. Since you're in the middle of the storm please remind us FReepers to look over the other posts on sKerry's site - someone noted that his DD-214? looked like it had proportional fonts and those areas were lighter compared to the "typed" portions - wonder what else he's hiding?

Perhaps the person completing the form had stamps for certain common phrases. That would be a plausible explanation, though why a stamp for "INDOCTRINATION" and not "SINGLE" I don't know.

[quark]

How tall is how tall Laurie Dhue?

Her legs go from the ground all the way up to Paradise (sigh).

[Whataday]

While we are at it.

Has anyone seen a copy Kerry's DD 214?

I think that will explain alot....

At leat Bush is daying he has a Honorable discharge. I haven't heard that from Kerry. I think this is a Freeper moment!!!

[Redcoat LI]

The 60 minutes story was only one segment, and the forgery was so crude that it is easily spotted.

Now,if the VRWC was smart enough to fool Dan Rather with these documents, wouldn't they be smart enough to wait a plausible amount of time before uncovering them?

Either way, the documents were forged.

[foreshadowed at waco]

This ain't the first time either. From the "Sore Loserman" of 2000, to the post that let us know about a closed door recount going on in Florida that led to the " Republican riot" that stopped it, to the co author of " Unfit for Duty" to this deconstruction of a CBS hit piece IN REAL TIME FR is shaping the news, not just following it. Thank Jim Rob. Thank you fellow Freepers. The VRWC is proud.

Well said. BTW don't forget "Get out of Cheney's house"...LOL!

[fight_truth_decay]

Compare one of the Jerry Killian memos given to CBS News,
and allegedly produced in 1972, to the same text created using MS
Word 2002. A person who wishes to remain anonymous forwarded a
link to me for an animated presentation which overlaps the two
documents and shows, using a current font, how tab spacing and
inter-line spacing match the defaults in Microsoft's Word.

Brent Baker

You'll need to have Macromedia Flash installed to watch the
slide show. Check it out at:
http://img41.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img41&image=60minbusted.swf

from http://www.mediaresearch.org alert

[al_possum39]

Listen my children to what’s being said,
about post 47 on Howlin’s thread.
Where Buckhead had noticed and Buckhead alone,
strange things in the memos 60 Minutes had shown.

The font and the spacing you just couldn’t do,
On any typewriter in ‘72.
The centering, apostrophes and superscripts too,
where also some things that you just couldn’t do.

The memos are real, CBS still insist,
our expect checked them and nothing he missed.
On their authenticity, his reputation he’ll stake,
but a dozen other experts think the memos are fake.

[FlashBack]

Nice ryhme...maybe O'Reilly will read it on the air!!!!!!!!!


I've said it before, the Freepers are great!!
This site ROCKS!!!

[Antoninus]

Somebody better check to make sure Buckhead didn't make derogatory statements about Islam or the Pope...

[clyde260]

Bump for tomorrow

[JediForce]

A great moment in history. To have Dan Blabber go out to the dog track on this story will forever haunt him. I am so grateful and humbled to be on this patriotic site at this time in America's history.

To quote Ronald Wilson Reagan....Howlin, Buckhead, "not bad..not bad at all."