$10,500 reward to anyone who can replicate the CBS documents on a typewriter

defeatjohn.com ^ | 9-10-04

[ambrose]

Friday, September 10, 2004

$10,000 Part Two: The IBM Selectric First of all, thanks to the five people who have each pledged $100 a piece in addition to my $10,000 offering. Therefore, anyone who can reasonably recreate the CBS memos on equipment available in early 1972 will be receiving at least $10,500.

Two people so far have attempted to claim the prize on the basis that the IBM Selectric Composer was a proportionally-spaced font typewriter available at that time (though not yet in wide use). In fact, even CBS News is apparently going on the air tonight with "evidence" that this model and several other typewriters of the day could even do super- or sub-script characters.

Yet the IBM Selectric Composer's own manual makes superscripting of the type seen in the CBS forgeries impossible. This section is taken from page 51 of the manual (page 56 of the .pdf):

[rhombus]

Gee Rocky watch me pull a document out of my hat!

[snowangel321321]

This is excellent! The Rather the slanderer won't get away with this!

[MarkeyD]

You going to post the entries?

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

LOL!!!

[u4ia12000]

Shouldn't we be looking for other documents typed on that same "supposed" typewriter? I'm sure that other service members who served with GWB had records typed up and put into their records. If GWB has the only unique typed letters, it would be fairly obvious. Thoughts???

[longtermmemmory]

It has to only be a military typewriter.

[weegee]

A typewriter pegged Alger Hiss, and now one catches Dan Rather in a trap.

Handy devices those machines.

[Henchman]

According to Drudge I's RATher or I' RATher not ( a little flip flop there) is on the air claiming that too many focused on the documents, not the story. Like all Liberals, FACT do not matter. He fails to realize, nonfactual stories have an implicit "Once upon a time" intro.

[gopwinsin04]

You'll never have to pay that reward.

The commas used on the forged military documents were not available on ANY typewriter at the time..

[dfwgator]

The Tawanna Brawley defense, "who cares if it's a hoax, what matters is that it could have happened."

[longtermmemmory]

Fox should run with this.

Bush Defeat John needs to specify ONLY military typewriters available to the equivalent rank and office.

[beyond the sea]

Rather the slanderer won't get away with this!

He was STONEWALLING IT tonight like always.

Someone has to break this RULE OF OLD MEDIA LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is insanity.

[Viet-Boat-Rider]

Watch Rather's Dirty Tricks

Blather will have his "expert" say that the forged documents "could have been produced" in 1972.

Then Blather will spend the next 59 minutes talking about how Bush is a traitor to the country because he coordinated with the Communists while the country was at war....oh that was Kerry....well, your get my point.

Then Blather will sit tight and wait for the issue to blow over.

[Pearls Before Swine]

The Tawanna Brawley defense, "who cares if it's a hoax, what matters is that it could have happened."

I know he implied it, but did Fat Al Sharpton really SAY that? I NEED to know, since he's just about the most compelling orator the Dems have now. Scary.

[Henchman]

Oh, BTW Dan, where is the balancing story with Kerry, a reserve Naval Officer, conferring with the VC and NVN delegates to the Paris Peace Treaty conference. Isn't that TREASON Dan? What's the frequency, Dan?

[Arkinsaw]

Dan Rather doesn't care about this.

[beyond the sea]

The commas used on the forged military documents were not available on ANY typewriter at the time..

Do you mean apostrophes (too)?

[ambrose]

It is our job to make him care.

[Servant of the 9]

I played with a Selectric composer back in the '70s and one thing I can promise is that it isn't inconspicuous. It was a whole desk and took forever to produce a document. Not even the deranged would use it for internal memos.

So9