Professor Cartwright has more credibility than Dan Rather and moreover can speak from experience to the nature of the difference between typewriters and modern word-processing systems. Too bad CBS NEWS didn't bother to run the memos by him BEFORE going public with the story. They wouldn't have gotten the black eye they've deservedly received.
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To: goldstategop
CBS: Not Sinking!
Capt. Rather On Bridge!
'Rats Deserting Ship!
2 posted on
09/10/2004 7:23:33 PM PDT by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: goldstategop
Indeed, this article is a MUST READ. Thanks for the post.
To: goldstategop
At this point, anyone has more credibility than Rather. What a sleaze-bag, so desperate to bash Bush, he, like the rest of the far-left tyrants, have TO LIE to advance their "cause".
Rather should be held to account as to where those forgeries came from. But of course, the Marx-stream media will NEVER do that --- great journalists, right?? Puke.
4 posted on
09/10/2004 7:25:24 PM PDT by
EagleUSA
To: goldstategop
Professor Cartwright has more credibility than Dan Rather Baghdad Bob has more credibilty that Dan Rather.
5 posted on
09/10/2004 7:26:37 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
To: goldstategop
We shouldn't confuse a MSM news organization (CBS) with facts. \sarcasm
Great posting though.
6 posted on
09/10/2004 7:27:32 PM PDT by
plushaye
(President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
To: goldstategop
With all due respect to the professor, everyone knows that personal computers, word processing programs, proportional fonts and kerning were technologies acquired by the government from alien spaceships captured near Roswell, NM. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Texas ANG would have had access to this technology decades before it became available to society at large.
7 posted on
09/10/2004 7:28:05 PM PDT by
Boss_Jim_Gettys
(Bush/Cheney, the Official Candidates of the 2004 Olympic Summer Games)
To: goldstategop
Big wow! Thanks for posting this!
9 posted on
09/10/2004 7:33:37 PM PDT by
MizSterious
(First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
To: goldstategop
11 posted on
09/10/2004 7:36:08 PM PDT by
Boxcar
To: goldstategop
**I am a Professor of Computer Science at Rice University who has followed the evolution of word processing technology over the past 30 years. A cursory glance at the "Killian documents" shows that they are forgeries, the product of a modern word processing system.**
CBS is busted!
12 posted on
09/10/2004 7:36:15 PM PDT by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: goldstategop
13 posted on
09/10/2004 7:36:40 PM PDT by
lainde
(Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
To: goldstategop
Wait just a second....Rice University is in TEXAS!
60% of Texans are already planning to vote for Dubya!
Condi Rice is on the Bush payroll.
The NY Times will have a flow chart exposing the Bush-Rice connection.
Lets move on!
14 posted on
09/10/2004 7:36:42 PM PDT by
Agent Smith
(Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
To: goldstategop
Excellent and persuasive argument. This guy clearly knows whereof he speaks.
16 posted on
09/10/2004 7:38:36 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: goldstategop
Win $10,500 if you can reproduce the CBS memos on a typewriter. Worth a click. ;-)
17 posted on
09/10/2004 7:39:39 PM PDT by
handy
(Forgive me this day, my daily typos...The Truth is not a Smear!)
To: goldstategop
Rice Owls ping!!!
Does MS Word do automatic kerning? I've never noticed. I know you can control character spacing by clicking on the "Character Spacing" tab from the font dialog, but I didn't think it was automatic
I know in the old days you had to use Pagemaker or something like that to be able to kern.
Finally, are we sure that the forged docs are kerned? If so, how does default word settings duplicate them exactly.
To: goldstategop
I have seen reports that Dan Rather has upped the ante on the authenticity of the Killian documents by insisting that they are authentic. How foolish! No, how Dan Rather, He is the King, and how dare anyone question him? He will not let this go, and will pretend until his grave the docs are authentic! If he doesn't, I will be shocked.
21 posted on
09/10/2004 7:42:30 PM PDT by
ladyinred
("John kerry reporting for spitball and typewriter duty.")
To: goldstategop
22 posted on
09/10/2004 7:43:23 PM PDT by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
To: goldstategop
23 posted on
09/10/2004 7:43:44 PM PDT by
Chieftain
(Support the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and expose Hanoi John's FRAUD!)
To: goldstategop
I hope Dr. Cartwright still has his job, tomorrow. Rice is now, a very liberal institution. An excellent institution, but liberal.
24 posted on
09/10/2004 7:45:18 PM PDT by
Endeavor
To: goldstategop; mad puppy
This is the best explanation I've seen yet.
Pinging madpuppy for a comment.
25 posted on
09/10/2004 7:48:15 PM PDT by
SirChas
To: goldstategop
Excellent article and Professor Cartwright is absolutely right. I used to program on a PDP-8 back in my college days (same period, 1971-1974) and have fond memories of the flexowriter. I still have printout and rolls of paper tape laying around in stored boxes from those days (I'm a packrat). Kids nowadays don't understand how simple it is for them to print copy, as compared to using typewriters in the old days. I still remember the rarity of using a Selectric, even then the fonts were on a ball and had fixed spacing.
26 posted on
09/10/2004 7:49:05 PM PDT by
roadcat
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