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CBS = Careless Bush Smear-artists CBS, a dinosaur of the mainstream liberal media, tried to smear the President, and got caught:

"Man named in Bush memo left Guard before document was written"
The type in the document is KERNED. "Kerning is the typesetter'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."
'th' problem and typesetting of a computer: " Rather said typewriters were available in the early 1970s which were capable of printing superscripts. CBS pointed to other Texas Air National Guard documents released by the White House that include an example of a raised "th" superscript. That superscript, however, is in a different typeface than the one used for the CBS memos. Document examiner Sandra Ramsey Lines of Paradise Valley, Ariz., who examined the documents for the AP, said she was "virtually certain" they were generated by computer. Lines said that meant she could testify in court that, beyond a reasonable doubt, her opinion was that the memos were written on a computer."
The blogger little green footballs did an exact match of MS Word and the fake 'memos', the spacing is exact. The spacing is not just similar -- it is identical in every respect.
Son of Late Officer Questions Memos Attributed to His Father , says he Dad didnt write this. On Hannity and Colmes, he said he spoke to CBS producer, and yet CBS chose NOT to give him airtime. He told Fox News that nobody in his family was the source of the memo, that he checked with family members, and that he is sure his father wouldn't have written this memo.
Killian's widowed wife says he didnt even type. She says this are not authentic, they are not something he would do.
ABC Note report - "HODGES SAID HE WAS MISLED BY CBS: Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian's supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. According to Hodges, CBS told him the documents were "handwritten" and after CBS read him excerpts he said, "well if he wrote them that's what he felt." "
Signature was faked: "Eugene P. Hussey, a certified forensic document examiner in Washington state, said yesterday there is another flaw in the CBS memos. Mr. Hussey studied the known signatures of Col. Killian on Air Force documents, and two signatures on documents dated 1972 and 1973 that aired on "60 Minutes" Wednesday night. "It is my limited opinion that Killian did not sign those documents," Mr. Hussey told The Washington Times."
CBS DID NOT IDENTIFY SOURCE FOR THE MEMOS. If it IS authentic: Where's the original? What does it look like? What was it printed on? *Who* gave it to CBS?

There are even more issues, the list could go on - bad dates (a Saturday for one memo); wording and acronyms that are non-military; multiple typesetting issues, not just the "th", the kerning, the proportional fonts, or the TimesNewRoman - that and more features unavailable on standard typewriters of the day.

CBS Said: "the documents in the 60 Minutes report were thoroughly examined and their authenticity vouched for by independent experts." This is clearly not the case. They lied. They found witnesses to vouch for what they wanted, not for the truth.

Conclusion: CBS has no credibility. They fail to report honestly. They accept faked documents without vetting them properly. They are not a serious news organization, just Careless Bush Smear-artists.