Posted on 09/10/2004 3:18:38 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 09/10/2004 4:53:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A typewriter, OTOH, has no way of knowing what character has been typed previously - all it knows is what key you're striking now. Therefore, it cannot adjust the white space around the characters - every character is printed on a fixed-sized field, so they're all equally spaced apart.
Here you go. ;-)
[A]nother aspect of the type on [the August 18, 1973 memo] suggests, perhaps proves, forgery. 1. The type in the document is KERNED. Kerning is the typsetter's art of spacing various letters in such a manner that they are 'grouped' for better readability. Word processors do this automatically. NO TYPEWRITER CAN PHYSICALLY DO THIS.
To explain: the letter 'O' is curved on the outside. A letter such as 'T' has indented space under its cross bar. On a typewriter if one types an 'O' next to a 'T' then both letters remain separated by their physical space. When you type the same letters on a computer next to each other the are automatically 'kerned' or 'grouped' so that their individual spaces actually overlap. e. g., TO. As one can readily see the curvature of the 'O' nestles neatly under the cross bar of the 'T'. Two good kerning examples in the alleged memo are the word 'my' in the second line where 'm' and 'y' are neatly kerned and also the word 'not' in the fourth line where the 'o' and 't' overlap empty space. A typewriter doesn't 'know' what particular letter is next to another and can't make those types of aesthetic adjustments.
2. The kerning and proportional spacing in each of the lines of type track EXACTLY with 12 point Times Roman font on a six inch margin (left justified). Inother words, the sentences break just as they would on a computer and not as they would on a typewriter. Since the type on the memo is both proportionally spaced and kerned the lines of type break at certain instances (i.e., the last word in each line of the first paragraph are - 1. running, 2. regarding, 3. rating, 4. is, 5. either). If the memo was created on a typewriter the line breaks would be at different words (e. g., the word 'running' is at the absolute outside edge of the sentence and would probably not be on the first line).
3. The sentences have a wide variance in their AMOUNT of kerning and proportional spacing. Notice how the first line of the first paragraph seems squished together and little hard to read but the last line of the first paragraph has wider more open spacing. Even the characters themselves are squished in the first line (as a computer does automatically) and more spread out on the last line where there is more room.
There's no way a typewriter could 'set' the type in this memo and even a good typesetter using a Linotype machine of the era would have to spend hours getting this effect.
William Lyne Wilson Professor of Politics
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I wish that Sean Hannity would ask Gary Killian if he knows what Strong is doing now. That would make it easier to try to identify him. I think I'll drop him a line at Fox.
I have this mental image of a whole team of poor schmucks coming into CBS Monday morning and getting these incendiary messages on their voice mail intended for Dan. LOL. Go for it!
What I take away from your remarks and those of Petronski is that...
No way in hell would a USAF LTC have had convenient access to any device with TNR font in the 70's!
Game over...
And, by the way...
...nice triangulation between Pennsylvania, Alaska, and Texas!
FR Rules.
"John Kerry's heart-dots"
LOL!! I was also struck by his closing "Luv ya."
Transcript added at beginning of thread.
Photocopying has gone through many generations. When I was in grammar school in the late 60's and still encountered them in libraries into the late 70's/early 80's, photocopiers produced negative images (ie a photocopy of black text on white paper) and actually used a photo chemical process inside (the sheets came out wet and you had to place them someplace to dry). Then came positive image photocopying on special paper (which would yellow over years), and finally plain-paper copying.
Here is a chronology of photocopy and printer technology
Wow - even among the suspect documents the signature changes! And not a single one comes even remotely close to Killian's real sig.
"For CBS to say "but typewriters in the day could do superscripts" ignores the whole point of why the superscripting in the forged documents are so persuasive -- the letters on a fixed-size metal wheel can't just get smaller or larger. They must know this, and therefore their continued attempts to deceive the American public are even more sickening."
I heartily agree, and am so enraged I've called CBS 3x today and sent several emails.
My son (currently recuperating at home- recently returned from Iraq) sat here today with his mouth open listening to this on FOX, Rush, Hannity etc. He's pretty cynical now though- he's furious yet thinks Rather will get away with it.
Does anyone else feel as though we're living in the twilight zone?
If he said "I KNOW this is true," rather than "I believe" then let me offer my layman's diagnosis: the guy is delusional.
Which I've known all along anyway.
He said "I know it is true". It was all over WABC in NY today. Delusional is right!
Just sent this to CBS Chicago affiliate...
To: winterj@wbbm-am.com, hmarshall@cbs.com
To Whom It Better Concern:
The obvious forgery of the "Killian" documents that "60 Minutes' used to smear President Bush regarding his National Guard service, and Dan Rather's adamant assertion today, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, that those documents are indeed authentic, has led me to conclude that I will boycott any and all CBS affilliated television and radio stations, and after I write this e-mail, any CBS-affiliated web-sites.
I will also publicize to any and all my friends, associates and acquaintances, the advertising sponsors of as many CBS affiliates as I can determine, and urge them to not only boycott CBS, but write and demand that its present sponsors withdraw their advertising from CBS affiliates.
Unless....
Dan Rather apologizes and withdraws the claim about the authenticity of the documents...
or
CBS fires Dan Rather.
I hope someone at the top of your news organization realizes the gravity of the threat this malfeasance poses to your integrity and reputation as heirs to what used to be a venerable news organization.
At present, you make the National Inquirer look like C-Span.
Wow!! Glad to hear he's voting for the prez!
I wonder just how far this is going to snowball. It's getting harder and harder to be a Democrat of conscience and deny what your party has become. We now have the media openly trying to destroy our President!
It's treason.
Oh, I see where we're getting confused. I was only talking about the cable news channels, not the broadcast networks.
Brit Hume primarily ... it ended not long ago. Watching Shep Smith now. It's 4.44pm. All the cable shows are live right now. They repeat every three hours ... but I am normally too tired to watch them later.
Right. Starting at 6:00 p.m. Eastern, the three cable news channels start running hour-long programs, most of which are live, but at 11:00 p.m. those programs all end up repeating until 5:00 a.m. (6:00 a.m. in FNC's case). The cable networks claim it's "for the convenience of West Coast viewers," but in reality they're just too cheap to run live shows at night. Back when CNN was the only game in town, they were live all night long except for maybe an hour or so around 4:00 a.m. (It's been so long since they've done that, I can't even remember the old schedule.)
You'll often see me on this site at 3am in the morning when I wake.
Me too, but usually I'm winding down before bed, LOL! Nothing like breakfast at noon...
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