Posted on 09/11/2004 7:51:29 AM PDT by rocklobster11
Given all of the alphabet soup we've been fed by the Alphabet Soup News Stations, and the Alphabet Soupy Dim candidate, would "F" (in John F. Kerry) stand for
"Forged"?
"Fake"?
"Facetious"?
"Fractitious"
"Frumpy"?
"F-ed up"?
Or, to best describe his chances of winning...
"Fuhgeddaboudit"????
In 1970 I worked for a time as an advertising sales rep for a man who laid out his own camera ready copy which was then printed by a commercial printer. This man used an IBM Composer, I know that it was a major purchase for him and was probably the most expensive thing he bought to use in his business unless you count the Chevy Monte Carlo that he drove and I think the car may have even cost slightly less than the Composer. This is strictly a typeSETTER as opposed to a typeWRITER. In 1972 I went to work as a tech rep for Addressograph-Multigraph and was in and out of all kinds of small printing operations, I saw several Composers but I never saw one used as a simple typewriter, they were not practicle for such use. Office typing, if done on an IBM product, was done on the Selectric. The Composer was only used to set type which was photographed on a film negative and used to make an offset printing plate.
There are still old Composers around and I am sure that if anyone could produce a match for these documents by using a Composer they would come forward but I don't believe a match could be produced this way. Even if it could, the likelihood of Col. Killian having used one is almost nonexistant.
This site, The Shape of Days did create a copy on an IBM Selectric Composer, that was close, but not as close as the Word doc. It was also a pain in the ass to create. Here is the overlaid doc they came up with: 
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So it was possible that Killian created these docs on a Composer, but again I think about as probable as getting fair and balanced news from Dan Rather.
SEND IT!!!!!
LOL!!!! I thought it was Donald Segretti
Gotta go now,
Regards, Donald
p.s..........I have always said and I will continue to say........ it has become time that good people do bad things...........just to stay a little ahead of the game! Get it?
Tagline - Nixon Era Dirty Tricks
...if we assume that the May 4 memo ordering Bush to get a physical by May 14 is legit...
According to this post:
Garrett: "The memo also requires a flight physical by May 14th. But military rules set a deadline for flight physicals as the last day of the pilot's birth month. In Mr. Bush's case, that would have been July 31st. All pilots had three months before the end of their birth month to obtain their flight physical."
This also puts the May 4 memo into question, doesn't it??
The Composer is really not even a legitimate suspect because it was a typeSETTER, people did not use typeSETTERS as typeWRITERS. It would be like hunting squirrels with a Barrett fifty caliber sniper rifle.
However, assuming I'm stupid enough to accept Dan Rather's argument that it is legit, the May 19 memo specifically answers that Bush did not obey a direct order, because Killian notes his discussion with Bush about waiting until going to Alabama to perhaps get a physical.
With a little boost and some Freeper art it'll be another "All Your Base Are Belong to Us"
Did you account for the fact that the text is rotated slightly to the right in the pdf copies? If you didn't, that could account for the over-hanging "f"s.
if you look at the image at the top of the page, the words are blown up enough for you to draw your own conclusion. To me, it doesn't seem that any rotated font is causing the issue. I have seen some talk that the apparent kerning is the result of multiple generations of photcopying and the fact that the documents from CBS are black and white images as opposed to gray scale. However, all of the "f"s in all of the documents overhang, so I think that is not really a persuasive argument.
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