"Yes you could get some paper from 1972 and you could probably get a typewriter from then too, but whoever manufactured these docs didn't get the typewriter so who would think they would bother to get the paper? silliness indeed...
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Exactly. Which is why suggestions that that one make no sense at all. If the forger had been careful enough to get old paper, they'd have done this on an old typewriter and we'd be none the wiser. That's why I'm suspicious that this was a deliberate plant meant to be discovered. I just can't figure out who and why. It's just too clumsy.
Or lots of stupidity going around. What is interesting are comments that many at at least the DNC were sceptical of the document's authenticity. I can't see an upside for any DEM candidate to diminishing CBS's credibility.
What the media can do at this point is bury the story, as the "crowd booed" story has been buried.
As I read all the ways someone could possibly have done this or that thing in the document in 1973, I keep thinking the following:
Either the documents are forgeries, or they are the rube goldberg typewritten documents from hell.
Please choose one
That's why I'm suspicious that this was a deliberate plant meant to be discovered. I just can't figure out who and why. It's just too clumsy.
Well now comes the fun part tracing the docs back to their source...an investigator would start with Dan and work his way back to the source..Criminal Investigation is needed .
MineralMan, I know what you mean. This is either the clumsiest forgery ever, or it was meant to be discovered.
I do think that one plausible explanation might be that the original 'creator' didn't think that the document copies would be displayed by CBS via the internet where they could be thoroughly vetted. Someone mentioned this on FR today, and it makes sense to me. Therefore, they didn't work very hard to make them believable - only enough to be believable to CBS or some other friendly media. Also, if this was done by an amateur, someone young and not too clever, and NOT knowledgeable about the military, they simply may not have realized how easy this was going to be to debunk.
Here's another possibility: Perhaps someone is trying to throw a cloud of suspicion over ALL government documents from that era, by producing 'plausible forgeries' that are actually easily shown to have serious holes. Why would they do this? Maybe because they know that out there - in the hands of the Swifties, for example? -- there are extremely damaging government documents that they want to claim are forgeries when they come out. Obviously, no one (except the originator(s)) knows right now, but it's a possibility.