The X Files of Lt. Bush

Time Magazine ^ | 09/12/04 | Amanda Ripley

[Hank All-American]

Yeah, sure, there were typewriters that could have done it (not), but even if that were true NO OTHER DOCUMENTS IN ANY TANG FILES FROM THE 70'S MATCH THIS FONT SPACING/CENTERING/KERNING. This isn't even a close call! Sheesh! Are we supposed to believe that this guy who couldn't even type kept a secret proportional-spacing and superscripting typewriter in his closet and created a total of four memos at a cost of $1,000 dollars a memo?

And oh yeah, I thought Bush lied about being in the Air Force. Why does the fact the Air Force tested IBM composers in 1969 matter then? Bush wasn't in the Air Force, remember?

[bvw]

The essay ends "The truth is ..."

That's the whole essay. The whole magazine. The whole of MSM -- major media for fifty years.

They DICTATE what the truth is. So they used to be able to. No more. Now they are just cranky doffers in the nursing home trying not to trip on the door sill.

Nothing in the essay comes close to the truth -- it is all a whine, of "Why ain't things around here the way we say they dang well should be."

[Semi Civil Servant]

But Bill Glennon, a technology consultant in New York City who worked for IBM repairing typewriters from 1973 to 1985, says those experts "are full of crap. They just don't know." Glennon says there were IBM machines capable of producing the spacing, and a customized key — the likes of which he says were not unusual — could have created the superscript th.

Go for it, Bill. There's a $10,000+ reward for anyone who can reproduce exactly the fake memos on a circa 1972 typewriter. I'd guess $10,000 is worth a couple of hours of easy typing work for a former typewriter repairman. You don't even know how to type -- just like the guy who supposedly typed the original.

Kerry-Edwards: Forging A^thead

 

[arasina]

Pardon me, but this article is an unmitigated pile of shit.

Good analysis, Dr.Deth. Let's flush TIME along with the two Johns!

[alloysteel]

What was George W. Bush's standing in the draft lottery instituted in 1969? With a birthdate of July 6, the draft lottery number would have been 327, sufficiently far down on the list that he would not have been called. But Bush did not request further deferments from the draft upon graduation from college in 1968. He joined the Texas ANG for the purpose of training in interceptor jet aircraft, for air defense over the North American continent. By enlisting in a Guard unit, he was REMOVED from the roster of potential draftees.

One of the means of clout the Reserves or National Guard has with individual members who are less than conscientious about attending drills and summer camp is to order them to active duty, then proceeding with prosecution according to the appropriate article under the UCMJ for continued failure to comply. To say that joining the National Guard was avoidance of mandatory service is to slander the individual and the Guard.

[olinr]

"NO OTHER DOCUMENTS IN ANY TANG FILES FROM THE 70'S MATCH THIS FONT SPACING/CENTERING/KERNING."

The ANG did not get the budgets the the active service had. They only had the "hand-me-downs" from the active branch of service. ergo; no Selectrics. And, yes, the proof is in the orders of the day. Someone please post one!