Posted on 09/13/2004 10:17:14 AM PDT by Know your rights
CBS Motto: "We swear to lie, tell all lies, and nothing but lies, so help us Terry McAwful."
It is a crime to attempt to swing an election by submitting false libel on a candidate.
The photocopy angle of this story is interesting too. In the early 70's photocopies were not as available as they are now. I remember taking typing class in 1973 and learning how to use carbon paper. If Killian really typed these memos, he would have kept the originals---not a 15th generation photocopy.
Hehehe.
(steely)
Contemplating his retirement, Dan trys out for theater playing
the role of Sophocles in "Three Wise Men of Gotham" and has the line "Since no one can prove that I am wrong I am sure to be right" stuck in his head.
Ya, redstone is on Line 1 - "Dan, good work. You keep distracting the public from the Swift Vets while I funnel more money to Kerry. We'll get through this don't worry."
It would be easy to test the originals. The letters on all documents printed on todays lazer printers can be scratched off with a knife.
A document in 1972 would have been created with real ink.
Maybe. Maybe not.
(steely)
My MS Word memo
18 Aug memo with my MS Word memo overlaid.
Was Dick in Cambodia when he wrote that?
Have you seen this site? This expert seems to know his stuff! http://www.flounder.com/bush2.htm
You've got the "superscript th screen font" problem. Print out your Word document onto actual paper, then scan it back in -- the superscripted "th" will match up perfectly then.
This is giving CBS WAAAAAAY too much credit. What Hodges says he told CBS, was that IF Killian wrote that, it must be what he thought. He never opined that "the documents were authentic" -- how could he have, when he'd never seen them and didn't even know if they were handwritten or typed?
Good old fashioned common sense conservativism. Go Fred!
I was a copier repairman back in 1972/3 and I want to add another aspect to be investigated. I printed these docs out and compared them for "registration". They are indentical but that may not be relevant. I have been out of the business for years and years but back then we had a problem with lines on the edges of copies because of varying registration (paper entering the print area of the selinium drum where the actual image was then transferred to the paper would vary slightly) would leave a black line on the paper. The problem was solved by enlarging the image to overlap the actual size of the paper which solved the problem. This can be checked by holding the original up to overlay the copy and you can see that the line is slighlty longer on the copy than on the original. I am no longer in the business but it would be interesting to know if copies today are size for size and I believe they are.
If they are now size for size, then the "copies" were made recently which tells me the original still exists or existed after the advent of size for size copies.
I was only involved with one copier company so if another company had size for size back then I was unaware of it.
If the IBM Selectric Composer can duplicate the memo, it should be checked for size to see when the copy was made.
Also, all copiers leave "fingerprints" in the form of dirt or specks on the platin (glass) and defects in the printer image surface which show up as spots on the copies. It would be a clue to verify which copier it was printed on if one is ever found. Fingerprints are repeated after each copy process
I bring this up as "food for blogger thought" if someone has the time and means to investigate..
No! And neither was JF'nK!
I read a while back that when a polical candidate is made fun of, over and over, by all of the comics out there, he's finished. The same can be said of the MSM community. Dan has done the other 2 (ABC,NBC) no favors with this REALLY STUPID stunt. Everyone is making Dan the laughing stock of the media. He HAD to expect it... he paid more attention to Saddam than he did the SVB guys. Gotta love it. Payback's a real bitch ain't it Danny?
Also, does anyone have an image of the purported "other document" that contains the th that CBS cites to knock down that argument? I'm wondering if the "valid" th appears in a typeset letterhead and not in the body. Not that I wouldn't take CBS's word at face value :)
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