Posted on 09/26/2004 7:20:50 AM PDT by OSHA
The following evidence from a forensic examination of the Bush memos indicates that they were typed on a typewriter:
1. The specific font used is from a typewriter family in common use since 1905 and a typewriter capable of producing the spacing has been available since 1944. 2. The characters “e,” “t,” “s,” and “a” show indications of physical damage and/or wear consistent with a well used typewriter. 3. The characters that are seldom used show no signs of damage or wear. 4. The quality of individual characters is inconsistent throughout the memos beyond expectations from photocopying and/or digitizing but quality is consistent with worn platen and variations in paper quality.
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6. Critical indicators of digital production or cut and paste production are missing.
Implications are that there is nothing in this evidence that would indicate the memos are inauthentic. Furthermore, from the point of view of the physical evidence in the documents (excluding any rhetorical evidence or external evidence, which is not examined in this study) no amount of additional research on the part of CBS would have lead them to exclude the documents from their 60 Minutes report.
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First, The documents are not Times New Roman, or any similar font, nor are they produced with word processing software (or at least, were not printed using contemporary printing technologies). The documents are almost certainly printed using an impact printer (typewriter or daisy wheel) and are not digitally produced for the following three reasons:
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None of the fonts available on the Internet seem to be exact matches, however. It is unlikely that a digital typeface could have produced any of these memos. Specifically, the quality of strike between characters is inconsistent, and the effect caused by photocopying and digitizing are inadequate to explain the differences.
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Absolutely freepincrazy these demoncats are.
> "This PhD (of what?) is claiming what?" <
Standard definition (from an MBA):
P iled
H igher (and)
D eeper.
PhD = Piled High and Deep
So much absolutism having studied only digital images.
When you get you hands on the originals, please let us know.
Beyond the issue of whether any typewriter in the world was hardware capable of producing those memos at all, the premise is STILL absurd. Don't believe it?
Assume the existence of something called "Killian's Secret Memo Typewriter," a high-end machine that only he (who normally did not type) used. Let's suppose he purchased it on his lavish reservist salary. This is a machine which his own secretary who normally did all the typing knew nothing about. That's what he used for the memos. It was hardware-capable of producing said documents.
You still have to believe that Killian *manually* centered his headers exactly the way Microsoft Word does with its auto-centering of the same text. Pixel for pixel. In two memos, months apart, matching a technology that wouldn't exist for something over twenty years.
You have to believe that Killian set his tab stops and margins where the future Microsoft Word would set its default tab stops and margins. He did this pixel for pixel correctly, with no guide but mere chance, in six memos typed over a span of a year and a half.
You have to believe that Killian wrapped his lines just the way MS Word wraps them, every line of every memo in six memos over the span of a year and a half.
You have to belive that Killian thought he was covering his butt for not doing his duty to discipline the insubordinate underling Bush, but instead of naming a superior officer as interfering, he named a former commander who had been retired for a year and a half as interfering. (That is, in writing a memo to cover his butt, he forgot to cover his butt.)
And so forth for several dozens of other points.
It was working fine before. LOL maybe he changed his mind.
Actually guardsman. Unit commanders are usually full time state employees, civil servants although they wear their military uniforms all week. Only on drill weekends and during "summer camp", are they are they in a military status A Lt. Col. would be something equivalent to about a GS-14 in the federal civil service. (Reserve unit senior officers and some senior NCOs are federal civil servants "during the week").
Note:
BS = You know what this means.
MS = More of the same.
PhD = Piled higher and deeper.
I susupect we overloaded the imrl (Interactive Media Research Laboratory) server. The general usu (Utah State University) servers are working fine, but when you click on a imrl link from a USU page, you get the error.
Bush stole the election too crowd has a new pet...
This is one thing that I haven't been able to figure out. Why didn't who ever make these just go down to the local Goodwill/Salvation Army and buy a used typewriter for $10.00.
And he used this magic Secret Typewrite for these six memos and these six memos alone.
What's with the 1st........Isn't it always 1Lt or 2Lt......
And as we know, academics can be either generalists or specialists.
A generalist is someone who learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything.
A specialist is someone who learns more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
MS Word remains the best known way to reproduce the CBS memos with any fidelity. In fact, it would seem that the best any typewriter which will ever be dredged up in the future could ever hope to get is a tie, since MS Word does it perfectly now.
In light of the preceding, his claim that it is "unlikely that a digital typeface could have produced any of these memos" is a hoot. He has no better way to replicate the memos than MS Word. I for one don't for a second believe that he doesn't know this.
He may have made the case that the font is a species of the "Typewriter" genus rather than "Times New Roman." I flew pretty fast over that part because he was making a tedious point of barking up a wrong tree. That in fact is his whole game, pretending not to know the bar he would have to clear before he would make a convincing demonstration. He has done what he falsely accuses others of doing, expounding upon irrelevancies and announcing, "Tah-Dah!"
Figure 6 where he compare 3 lines of type one Times New Roman bold, 19 May Memo and IBM Typewriter Font Condensed AND THE THREE LINES EACH WERE DIFFERENT convinced me he is cooking the books. That is line 2 and 3 contained an "an" that line 1 did not. Line 2 ends in a period that line 1 and 3 do not. Also why is line 1 bold and line 3 compressed?
And he misses the point. This is not a trial where the memos must be shown to be fake beyond a reasonable doubt. When you find memos that are copies when not chain of custody, you must prove them real beyond a reasonable doubt. He has failed.
I assume the person who wrote this has collected the reward for reproducing the documents on a typewriter of that era?
"2. The characters “e,” “t,” “s,” and “a” show indications of physical damage and/or wear consistent with a well used typewriter."
Or photocopying the document a few dozen times.
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