Slicing and Dicing Formatting Fraud with Occam's Razor

longleggedfly ^ | Sep 11, 2004 | JCEccles

[JCEccles]

I've posted this up front instead of in the blog area because I believe the observations I am making shed new and helpful light on the Rathergate forgeries. I will be away for awhile, but I'll check back later.

[need_a_screen_name]

bump

[The Duke]

If the Air Force used 8 inch paper at that time, then I'm not sure why we're even bothering to analyze fonts and such(?)

[Carolinamom]

Thank you for this clearly stated information. Your credentials are impeccable.

[Arkie2]

One more nail in the coffin.

[lunatic12]

http://carolan.org/MustBelieve.htm

[JCEccles]

The fonts are questionable for related but different reasons.

The point is, to make CBS's authenticity claims work you have to suspend common sense on not just one but dozens of matters.

By far the cleanest, clearest, and most sensible explanation is that the documents (or at least in this case, the Staudt memorandum) were prepared recently using Microsoft Word at its default settings. That is the ONLY explanation that doesn't have to be forced.

[TASMANIANRED]

I don't have anything staggering to add other than the observation that this;

This has Kerry's paw prints all over it.

1)Kerry by his after action reports and inflation of his role in minor skirmishes demonstrated both a willingness and lack of aversion to falsifying official government documents.

2)Kerry though his seminal position in V V AW in the formation of the group and his instrumental position in putting together the fraudulent group of vets to provide the basis for his first book and his congressional testimony demonstrates an affinity to falsify documents both in print and audio.

3) Kerry's repeated versions of the Cambodia story and his attribution through suggestion that his Cambodia came from a president ( Nixon) who had not been inaugurated at the time of the incident demonstrates he is comfortable being a liar.

4)Kerry has implicit trust that the liberal mainstream press will cover-up for his miserable butt.


I am inaugurating a new tag line.

[Lazamataz]

Excellent. Thank you.

[mercy]

This story is dying already. Fox is only giving it cursory notice and their story now sounds like they agree with See BS. Rupert has pulled the plug.

[Aracelis]

Thanks! Bump for later reference.

[applpie]

unbelievable how the prison story keeps going and the mainstream media (who are all culpable in the guard story) dies in days. i personally hope someone gets prosecuted on this one! i guess i don't see why this is different from the seriousness of watergate?

somedays i wonder if algore regrets inventing the internet?

[faithincowboys]

Really. That's sad, maybe they're doing that becausew it's the third Anniversarry of 9-11. I suspect it will continue on Sunday and Monday.

[MamaLucci]

The line breaks themselves are powerful circumstantial evidence that Microsoft Word generated the Staudt memorandum using Word’s default settings of one-inch margins on 8.5 x 11 paper.

Good post. Thanks.

[finnigan2]

Others in the past have argued the paper size question and said that while the standard size in the 1970's might be different from today's 81/2 X 11 inch, the fact that it is the newer size could be accounted for by the fact that the document was recently faxed, thus making it 81/2 x 11 even when it was a smaller size when transmitted. I think your argument that a different size paper would produce a different spacing/word line count puts that argument to rest. Good work.

[mercy]

Nope. It's obvious the fix is in.

[bootyist-monk]

Not to pick nits... but the standard default margins in Word are as follows:

Top = 1", Bottom = 1", Left = 1.25", Right = 1.25"

The default left / right margins are not 1". Has been this way in every version of Word that I've ever used.

[demkicker]

More proof of CBS & Dan Rather's fraud

This is great. It takes a minute to load. You need some volume for the end.

[dglang]

Faxing or copying a document based on smaller than current sizes onto a lager size medium would leave a wider area of white space on the right than on the left. The centering would be thrown off.

The only way to avoid this is to carefully place the source on the scanner to recenter. Placing the source along the normal guide lines would align the document to the left.

[Wardawg]

No, this story won't die. Today is 911 and they're taking a break. Sunday morning shows will have to cover this and it won't all flatter dncDan. Dan and John are going to get cold feet and start pointing fingers each at the other very soon.