Posted on 09/13/2004 7:39:52 PM PDT by jhouston
Edited on 09/13/2004 8:04:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The lead expert retained by CBS News to examine disputed memos from President Bush's former squadron commander in the National Guard said yesterday that he examined only the late officer's signature and made no attempt to authenticate the documents themselves.
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Good. I 'm starting the virtual "Buff FReeper" chapter. You are invited to join....
I predict that image will become famous.
Yeah, I remember my first months on Free Republic. I had just gotten my first computer and my brother, a freeper, sent me a link. It was during the Clinton impeachment, and I didn't hardly sleep for weeks. The closer we get to election time the less I will sleep again.
Who's got the picture of the kitten pawing at the legs of the hanged man? Seems to fit.
That is it!!
Have you guys seen this??
This is interesting too:
from
http://www.polipundit.com/
Driving home from work this afternoon, I listened to the radio, to KSEV AM700, to the Dan Patrick show. The guest I heard was Dr. Jerry Waite from the University of Houston. Dr Waite is an expert on the printing industry, well versed on the history and capability of typewriters, computers and larger commercial printers.
He also believes the memos presented by CBS to attack President Bush are "total fabrications". Dr. Waite is careful to insist the memos are NOT "forgeries", because "the word 'forgery' suggests they are trying to look like real documents". Dr. Waite said the memos may best be described as "fakes... bad ones".
Dr. Waite said the documents could have been produced, but only by an experienced typist on a brand-new top-of-the-line machine, which is in complete conflict with Colonel Killian's inexperience with typing, and distaste for keeping personal files, to say nothing of the National Guard's budget.
Dr. Waite also explained why CBS doesn't want to produce the originals. One quick way to see how a document was produced, is to check the ink on the paper. Toner crystals are distinctive and cannot be confused for anything else, so if a computer printed the documents (if!), the jig would be up immediately.
A caller to the show, however, made the best point I've heard today on this topic. A former Air Force corporal, with experience as a company clerk, made an outstanding point. All typewiters in 1973 used a fabric ribbon for their documents. Why is this important?
Remember, we know the documents received by CBS (and other news sources) were faxed to them. Try this experiment - type a letter on an old-style typewriter with a ribbon, fax it to a nearby fax, and see what it looks like. Ink on a ribbon-typed letter expands when it is photocopied or faxed. So, if the documents CBS received had been typed with a fabric-ribbon typewriter (that is, if they had been produced in 1973), the fax would have resulted in a slightly mushy print. The print is crisp in the documents we see, which proves the documents could not have been produced by a fabric-ribbon typewriter!
For some reason, I strongly doubt we can expect Dan Rather to confirm this discovery on his next broadcast.
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What?!?! What kind of lame sh** are you broadcasting, Dan?!
Please tell me you don't freep nekkid!
That's hilarious......
Sorry, but I respectfully disagree with your assessment. If I were in the document forging business, especially where the President is involved, I would have made some effort to make my documents look as if they were from 1972. At a minimum, I would have used a manual typewriter and hammered it out complete with corrections and erasures. After all, that's what was used in the early 70's.
I was in the FAA in the late 70's and we still had an old manual typewriter in the tower for recording the daily log. I doubt that one page of that log from the time didn't have at least one typeover, misspelling etc. Anyone who used a word processor must be pretty stupid.
No. The Longmont address has been identified as part of the problem on several FR threads -- every bit as significant as the Staudt mistake.
Ya know, you might be right, yeah.
I must have missed it. There were so many discrepancies that we found. Thanks for letting me know.
Thanks for the ping. I receive the WP every morning so it will be a pleasure to turn to A8. The WP should have put it on the front page like they did with the story initially. It was just below the fold.
Meanwhile, in Dan Rather's garage. He can be seen welding a th onto an old typewriter. Bending the i's closer to O's. Soon to be released "Dan Finds The Typewriter Used For His Sory"
"It's a turd Dan. You can quit polishing it. Nobody believes your story about a meteorite in your backyard when you were a kid."
"He'll have a lot of explainin' to do on Election Day."
Let's hope See-BS doesn't have the temerity to put Rat-boy before the nation to do election night analysis! That should our next step in the fight. What credibility does he have now?
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