[buzzyboop]

This is the best source for updates on Rathergate, IMHO. Hope that everyone is having a quiet day of remembrance.

[N. Theknow]

On September 10, 2004, Dan Rather declared war on the internet. He shouldn't have because it's a battle he is destined to lose.

Should know better than to attack an AlGore invention.

[Tom Jefferson]

There is no link. Try to put up the link again.

Thanks

[BonnieJ]

I do wonder though if the damage is already done. They got the documents out there on a very-watched program. Many will not see or hear beyond that.

On the other hand, this is NOT a story that resonates with very many. I did not find the documents shocking or interesting or anything else, and that was when the assumption was they were "real". It all seemed pretty ordinary, deja vu, etc.

[linear]

I suspect that Mr. Strong is actually the source of these documents. He has links to Soros, apparently, but also has the historical background to convince CBS that he obtained the documents legitimately.

[Redcoat LI]

"On September 10, 2004, Dan Rather declared war on the internet"

Wrong War at the Wrong Time,Dan.

[notfornothing]

The thing that you have to come back to when people raise the issue about whether or not the office had Selectrics - anybody using the DEFAULT SETTINGS in Microsoft Word can produce an EXACT to the micrometer replica of the memos in two minutes.

QED

[Grampa Dave]

MS Word 2000 isn't pro Bush or anti Kerry.

Phil Dragoo has provided us with the incredible link below that will show us how the forgery was done with MS Word 2000.

Go to the link, let it load, sit back and watch the forgery recreated in about one minute.

http://img41.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img41&image=60minbusted.swf

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[johnny7]

Simple explanation.

Killian went into the future... about 10 years, got a nice new composer typewriter just to make the Bush memo's look 'nicer'! Then he went back to 1972 and moved them through the system.

He probably got a commendation for the great readability of such everyday communications!

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Mr. Strong said in an interview Friday he was quite sure that he and others used Selectrics in the adjutant general's office.

That would appear to back the other valid NG documents released by the DOD. They are all in monospace font and some have the underlined and vertically aligned superscripted ^th which was available on some Selectrics.

[stockpirate]

Also the General that they are CBS is mentioning says that CBS lied to him when they told him they had "handwritten memos", adn that he thinks the memos's are fake.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Rather: I did not have microsoft relations with that memo

[Windcatcher]

To someone who understands type, this is such an obvious and blatant forgery that I can't believe they even tried it. It's akin to putting a 100-dollar bill through a black-and-white photocopier and filling in the colored parts with a crayon.

[HitmanLV]

Anybody look into the PO Box number? "PO Box 34567" looks....'made up.'

[searchandrecovery]

dnC-BiaS

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The F*ing Campaign attacks GW on his strongest attribute: national security and the WOT.

CBS/60m/Blather then attack the New Media.

These are going to be recorded in history as two of the most colossal blunders of all time.

[Doc Savage]

Forget all about typewriters, fonts, signatures and everything else. Where the hell are the originals?????? Where did the copies come from,.....out of thin air??????? Who stole the originals???? Where are they now????? Why not just bring them forward and all this trouble will magically go away for the DEMS.

Because there are no originals excepting the Masters which have since been deleted and destroyed on an unknown computer!!!!!!!!!!!! End of story!

[Travis McGee]

CBS: Unsinkable!

[Arrowhead1952]

Meek, have you seen this?

[DaveMSmith]

Bag bad Dan Ra^ther's ridiculous rebuttal is laid waste. FReeped. Pajama clad political operatives enjoy the show and allow the President to control the debate. Don't worry 43, we got your six!

Bring on Estrich's fear and smear... Who's up? Kitty Kelly and NBC?

Check out Rush's Final Days of Elite Media Empire from yesterday if you missed it. 18 minutes of infamy.