who at FR discovered the discrepancies?
"60 Minutes," my dyin' a$$! Damn show didn't survive for all 60!
Howlin
The first doubts to the memo's authenticity was attributed to Freeper Buckhead. Congratulations Buckhead! You done good.
Here ya go!
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
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Here is what I have compiled based on everyone's help:
(times in EDT)
09/08/2004:
Live 60 Minutes thread ('Howlin'):
07:39p http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210516/posts
Validity questioned due to formatting by 'TankerKC'
08:19p http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210516/posts?page=107#107
Suggestion to check a gov typewriter of the era by 'Texasforever'
08:24p http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210516/posts?page=131#131
Validity questioned due to "they were typed" by 'armybratproud'
08:27p http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210516/posts?page=148#148
'Howlin' asks for help to get a better look
08:44p http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210516/posts?page=197#197
Documents posted to CBS website
10:30p http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/08/60II/main641984.shtml
NYT article thread started by 'Pikamax'
11:10p http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts
First post questioning documents due to type/font by 'buckhead'
11:59p http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts?page=47#47
09/09/2004:
Offical "Documents" thread created
12:16a http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210702/posts
Powerline provides an extensive analysis
07:51a http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007760.php
Thread referencing Powerline on FR
09:42a http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210946/posts
Buckhead was one of them but there was one even earlier, I think KC something. Just read some of the threads and you'll find it.