but I know what he drinks...
Posted on 09/15/2004 2:00:22 PM PDT by NYCVirago
LOL
No you are not. I am and so is my wife. I wish that we lived in the days when I (and my wife) could challenge you to a duel!!!
[string of expletives, removed because JR doesn't want them on FR]
Buckhead is apparently a lawyer. You know, one of those guys who wears suits and is smarter than a journalist? Lawyers also tend to be better writers. What they write isn't intended to fill pages or fluff someone up, it's there for a purpose. They make logical points, and they do so with style, flair, and grammar. At least, the good ones do.
Aside from the fact that Buckhead isn't even a "blogger" (he's a FReeper), the insult that right-wingers are not capable of writing the English good is a stupid stereotype. It's a bigoted judgement by a stupid elitist [more expletives] leftist who is desperate to change the subject from fraud to conspiracy.
The fact is, the fact that something is amiss is brilliantly, blatantly obvious. You don't have to be a "Certified Document Examiner" to know those memos are weird. You do have to know a lot about fonts, typewriters, and word processors to be able to prove those documents did not come from a Selectric Composer or Executive model typewriter--but you don't have to be a genius to know they didn't come from an ordinary, common, monospace typewriter.
These hit jobs on Buckhead are really pathetic. I mean, really pathetic. Worthless leftist [expletives] [descends into muttering, fade out]
my my...what an elitist this author is.
Are you suggesting that Ann Coulter is Buckhead?
Not to stir the pot up or anything, but these documents were prepared using some kind of word processing device. Unlike typewriter type, where each character has the same width value, each character in the documents has a custom width. Also, notice the custom superscripts in at least two places. The question is, were such word processing devices commonly used in 1972?
If Buckhead is some kind of Republican operative, so am I. The idea that the motivation of the person revealing the falsity of the documents somehow cancels the idea of their falsity is, to my way of thinking, completely disingenuous. If Buckhead hadn't noticed it, hundreds of other people were waiting in the wings.
I was Buckhead before I wasn't Buckhead.
Mr. Anson seems unaware that such "boggling knowledge" as Buckhead demonstrated can be had on any subject in a few minutes by anyone who knows how to work Google. And realizing that typewriters were virtually the only document production machine used by the U.S. military in the early 1970s and that they did not produce porportionally spaced type, is knowledge which anyone over the age of 40 or so already has in their heads without consulting Google.
Really? Must have missed that skimming the pro-Jew, pro-Catholic threads. Ok, back to reading this hilarious article.
First (leaving aside how suspiciously well Buckhead puts sentences together for a righty blogger),
(But not actually leaving it aside, since he does imply that righty bloggers are nose-drooling mouthbreathers who probably eat meat with their salad forks and would put ice in their Chambertin, and couldn't possibly write above third-grade level, whatever that has currently descended to.)
there’s the extraordinary, yeah, boggling, knowledge of typewriting arcana.
It didn't look that arcane to me. Since the breakthrough of computer word processing, the arcana are on every desktop for all to see. What was more interesting to me is the way that Buckhead apparently used memories of the dark ages of typewriting in his analysis. This was familiar ground to me also (I learned to type in 1967 on a Royal manual.)
More remarkable still are the circumstances under which discernment occurred. Namely, viewing the document on a TV screen from a presumed distance of six to a dozen feet. Folks who make their living at this sort of thing rely on magnifying glasses, if not microscopes.
I saw the document on an X Windows system from a distance of two feet. Don't know what buckhead was using, or what resolution, but my system showed me enough to know that the document wasn't typed in 1972.
And they don’t venture opinions unless the document’s in their puss.
This is the most astounding statement in the paragraph I have selected. Just his saying it should make the whole thing vanish in a flash of nada-radiation. Because the "real" document experts, you know, the ones who use the magnifying glass and all that, you know -- they do that only on ORIGINAL documents.
Ain't no originals here. Actually, the originals are just bits in a computer somewhere anyway -- and one day soon, we shall see whose.
The swaggering arrogance of the liberal media never ceases to amaze or nauseate. Free Republic is made up of any number of experts and professionals; this arrogant simpleton is just a journalist who wants to dismiss that fact with a wave of the hand.
His loss.
Regards, Ivan
Mewl mewl mewl bloggers mewl spit conspiracy snivel mewl grunt they'll stoop to anything. The end.
Someone send this stilted frothing sycophant the link. I want him to stand stark in the nomadic plains of his twisted liberal demagoguery, as his credibility is blasted from the bone like rust from the overpass. His argument is that of the hydrocephalic cur dueling his own tail (and succumbing). His prose puckers all sensibility like literary alum. The lengths of his fallacious leaps in logic stump grizzled civil engineers and bespectacled physicists who would seek to bridge the gap. In Tibet, he would be magnified by the pilgrims and elevated by the Lama for having achieved an unprecedented state of mental perfection through the elimination of all rational thought.
Ta, tweedles.
Well put!! May I use part of this in an e-mail to Anson?
You smarmy bastard. Just because you work for a newspaper doesn't mean you're intelligent. Hell, just look at you and your article for an example.
A case of Right Guard won't make up for the want of a single bar of Dial.
Hey wait a minute I thought I was buckhead
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