Posted on 09/14/2004 2:18:24 PM PDT by ambrose
Former secretary says she didn't type memos 04:10 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 14, 2004
By PETE SLOVER / The Dallas Morning News
HOUSTON – The former secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel who supposedly authored memos critical of President Bush’s Guard service said Tuesday that the documents are fake, but that they reflect real documents that once existed.
Marian Carr Knox, who worked from 1956 to 1979 at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, said she prided herself on meticulous typing, and the memos first disclosed by CBS News last week were not her work.
“These are not real,” she told The Dallas Morning News after examining copies of the disputed memos for the first time. “They’re not what I typed, and I would have typed them for him.”
Mrs. Knox, 86, who spoke with precise recollection about dates, people and events, said she is not a supporter of Mr. Bush, who she deemed “unfit for office” and “selected, not elected.”
“I remember very vividly when Bush was there and all the yak-yak that was going on about it,” she said.
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From Post#86. She said the typeface on the documents did not match either of the two typewriters that she used during her time at the Guard.
She identified those machines as a mechanical Olympia, which was replaced by an IBM Selectric in the early 1970s.
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They have passwords and registration for tons of newspapers.
Then be ripped apart by us, the blogs, talk radio, some cable, probably some of the Old media still sensing blood.
I dare them to feature her as their star witness. :-D
Time for Dan Rather to take it like a man. He's been dishing it our for years...
Turnabout is fair play. It's time for Rather to admit his bias and double standards.
We have a winner. That one works. Thanks.
CBS experts will vouch for their authenticity. No. You can't have their names.
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Let her try and do it. No new documents will hold up under proper scrutiny.
Exactly, just WHY would there be all this "yakking" about GWBush not serving back then? Just how "famous" were the BUSH Men in 1972?? Did someone already know HW was going to be President? What was he doing back then...? CIA?
Another blah de blah...
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I'll raise you a Fawn Hall...
Seems like the only two agencies that don't get that simply reality are CBS and Bill O'Reilly. According to O'Reilly he has no idea whether they're fake or not.
What is up with that clown?
1. Kerry operatives hear stories from the Bush-hating bluehair about comments made about Bush when he was in the National Guard. She probably makes them up or exaggerates a few comments that she heard, because it seems that Bush was well liked and did a good job.
2. They use that information as the basis to gin up some phony memos to file from Killian so they can tie it in to an ad campaign they want to run this fall.
3. They give the docs to CBS, and point CBS to the Bluehair, who can verify that these "sentiments" were expressed by the officers at the time. The Bluehair does verify the sentiments, but they don't show her the documents.
4. Now that the jig is up, they trot out the bluehair so at least they can get some mileage from her (false) claim that officers at the TANG thought Bush was receiving favoritism.
"Miss Knox, please take a memo to cover my ass."
Is that draped or undraped Fawn Hall?
Awwww....too bad. She just blew any objective perspective she might have brought to the table with that last statement.
"So...Ms. Knox, did you...or did you not type these memos?
"No, I did not...but I think the sentime-"
"Ms. Knox, thank you - peddle your unsubstantiated opinions elsewhere...Your witness!"
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