CBS: Unsinkable!
Posted on 09/11/2004 7:39:33 AM PDT by handy
When I first heard back from Gerry, I felt a little bad for having bothered him. He'd been fielding calls and letters all day, he told me, including an inquiry from CNN. But he was a trouper, willing — enthusiastic even — to help out.
I asked Gerry, in a fit of hubris, if he wouldn't mind trying to reproduce a sample from one of the CBS memos on his Selectric Composer. Just over an hour later, he emailed me back a sample, typed up on his Composer using the 11-point Press Roman type ball and scanned into his computer.
At first glance, the sample Gerry provided looks pretty darned close. The type is proportionally spaced, just like the type in the CBS memos. Gerry was also able to reproduce the now-infamous superscripted "th," though he had a disclaimer about that.
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The most obvious discrepancy was that the line-spacing — what typographers call leading (rhymes with "shredding") — was off. I e-mailed Gerry about this, and he replied: "Yes, if I had really tried, I could have matched the spacing (leading). The leading on the composer can be finely adjusted. Don't know if it is down to the single point level, but it probably is since you can set the leading according to the font, and the leading dial goes from something like 6pt up to 14pt."
Much better … and pretty darned close to the original. But not close enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at shapeofdays.typepad.com ...
Two supposedly manually centered letterheads typed months apart on an electromechanical wonder from 1972 line up pixel by pixel on a computer. Not "closely." Exactly.
These in turn match up with what you get by default in Microsoft Word with centering turned on. My, my!
See there? Mrs. Killian said her husband couldn't type!! Ha, ha, ha... tough way for ol' Dan Blather to end his crummy career, eh?
But I still want to know which base was Killian at?
My husband was at Perrin AFB in Texas.
I'm not a Texas feller so I can't help you but that name you mentioned does sound familiar.
mabelkitty
Here's one to add to your list...
Actually, it appears that the MS Word matchup is even better (though that is hard to imagine) if you use the font "Palatino Linotype".
Grampa Dave posted a source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1212980/posts?page=91#91
... and after all that it MAGICALLY is reproduced faithfully by MS Word thirty years later!!!
as it the perfect centering of the heading --- twice!!!
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Some spokeswoman for the DNC said yesterday that even if the memos were proven to be forgeries, they wouldn't necessarily distance themselves from the information provided in them.
I'm not kidding.
That's because CBS does not see itself as presenting the truth, it sees itself as the prosecution; thus it need only present one side of the story and it is up to others to present the other side.
"The left, from DUers, to Juan Williams, to Rather himself, have all been crying, "Stop worrying whether the memo is fake or not, look at what it says!" "
Yeah, it's a good thing they didn't say W was a space alien or something.
Remember, it's not the nature of the evidence but the seriousness of the charges.
It's an excellent point and let me summarize what I think is the main argument. You could center text on a typewriter by simply tab to the center of the page and then backspacing once for every letter or space in the line you want to center. However that presumes that you are using a monospace font - which typewriter fonts usually are.
However that technique would not work with a proportional font because the widths of the individual characters and spaces will vary. In order to center a line of text using proportional fonts you have to first calculate the width of the entire line and then start the line at the point in which you would be centered.
Word does this automatically for you and thus we don't think of centering as a big deal. However to center text on a typewriter with proportional fonts in 1972 would be a lot of work and beyond the capability of someone who was not familar with typesetting and who was working a machine capable of lining up text to fractions of points. This is extremely unlikely for a machine found in a National Guard office used to type memos that are not prepared for professional publishing.
The fact that the centered text matches exactly to the Word document (created using the default setting of Word btw with no special work) to me is definitive proof of forgery.
you posted the wrong link somehow, and I can't figure any way to recover what you meant... try again?
Please delete post #71
This is the correct link, LOL.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1212991/posts
Yes they know they are exposed as liars, outright. But that won't stop them. They'll still move right on to the next lie. They won't look back. They won't apologize. They will just go right on to the next deception.
Shamelessly. Brazenly. Clinton taught them that.
I agree -- but Rather is a perfect successor to Cronkite..
They're both liars, socialists and biased "One Worlders" with an agenda of their own...
Truth was never a priority with either one of them..
Semper Fi
The DUnces are eating their own over fontgate. If anyone of them mentions that there are mulitple flaws in the document that go beyond the CBS defense, they are automatically labeled a Right Wing Shill by the others and some of them are getting banned!
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