Posted on 09/11/2004 12:19:33 AM PDT by kattracks
September 11, 2004 -- CBS anchor Dan Rather hung tough last night and insisted there's no "definitive evidence" to refute the authenticity of documents about President Bush's National Guard service — but a growing number of document experts smell a hoax. "If any definitive evidence to the contrary of our story is found, we will report it. So far there is none," Rather insisted.He produced a man named Marcel Matley as the document vetter.
But Matley is primarily a handwriting expert whose expertise in document evaluation has been challenged by the head of the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners.
Matley spoke only about a signature and initials purported to be those of the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian — "they are his signatures" — though two of the four memos are unsigned.
Rather also acknowledged CBS has no originals, only photocopies.
Allan Haley — a typeface expert at Agfa Monotype — said anyone who claims to definitively authenticate a photocopy "is either guessing or is a fool."
In another challenge to CBS, Killian's boss, retired Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, told ABC News that he regards the documents as a computer "fraud," never saw them in the 1970s and didn't validate them for CBS.
A senior CBS official had claimed to the Washington Post that Hodges had validated the documents.
During his national news broadcast, Rather claimed "partisan political operatives" are challenging the memos but omitted the fact that Killian's widow and son dispute them.
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Imagine what it's going to be like to prove that anonymous e-mails from the turn of the century are fake 40 years from now.
I wear a cowboy hat and boots. Does that count?
You know what the problem is? It's not that Dan Rather and CBS were the victims of a hoax - - it is that Dan Rather and CBS were the victims of a hoax that was not elaborate in the slightest.
This kind of hoax could have been perpetrated on Dan Rather and CBS by a kid in the school library. I say Dan Rather resigns in disgrace within two weeks. He will last be seen smiling broadly and giving a peace sign as he boards the helicopter that will take him away to retirement.
What a pathetic old fool.
1. sting operation -- (a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals))
Just had a thought .. maybe some of our NY Freepers can freep CBS & Dan in their pajamas .. hehehe
I often find the Post's 'cutsie' headlines trite, but this one is quite funny.
I've had worse things said about me right here on this site. Heck, somebody threatened to grab me by the nose today ......LOL.
This may be CBS's downfall.
Well, thanks for THAT visual!
With spurs?
LOL! Was that jerk "smug" or what? Made you want to slap him up the side of the head with your slipper.
Seriously though, dismissing the thousands of people who are at home on their computers (I work from home and my work is soley computer based) as folks who sit around in their pajamas all day. What a jerk!
Matley comes up from Google as a "graphologist" and has authored books on how your handwriting shows your personallity.
A graphologist is to a handwriting expert as an astrologer is to an astronomer.
Man I sure hope the kids drop me off at the dog track before I get as bad as this old fool.
LOL
You wrote:
"And he accused me of doing it in my pajamas!"
[Sarcasm torpedo ARMED. FIRE!]
At _his_ age, Rather probably does it in his Depends.
That would be you
;)
Partisan Political Operatives are what?, like the Vast Right-Wing Conspirators, on steroids.
This is just so lame. It worked in '92, it ain't gonna float this boat.
Only on formal occasions.
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