Everybody's a comedian!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21561-2004Sep14.html
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A Late Development in Fontgate
By Al Kamen
Wednesday, September 15, 2004; Page A23
Beleaguered CBS anchor Dan Rather and CBS executives have "found a new memo that completely vindicates them," according to some creative bloggers.
The note is from President Bush's late Texas National Guard commander, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, who just wrote Rather to reassure him that the highly suspect documents used on a "60 Minutes" report showing favoritism to Bush were absolutely, positively, 100 percent real.
Experts say the documents appear to be fake for a number of reasons. They note that some of the typewriter characteristics did not exist in the early 1970s, when Killian supposedly wrote them. Problems with writing styles, dates and addresses also lead experts to strongly question the documents' authenticity.
But network executives and Rather have repeatedly insisted that the documents are real and that they stand by them.
This latest "document," however, should put to rest any allegation that Rather got hoodwinked by a rather lame fraud. On the other hand, some experts immediately challenged the authenticity of this latest document, saying it lacked the requisite sign-off: "Courage."
Here's the joke memo the WaPo was referring to:
http://slingsnarrows.erudite-absurdity.com/archive/002500.html