Teletype?
Naah, I thought teletype, then TELEX (same thing really), then I remembered these babies:
which is what I think Lancy was referring to.
Posted on 11/21/2005 2:17:55 PM PST by kristinn
"My Uncle, just a few days ago, was castigating me about Iraq(I'm the family oddball conservative) and he asked me how my son had avoided the draft and wasn't in Iraq. Sigh"
You can thank him for wishing your son in harm's way, and, for the reference to BEER fights! ;>
Here's what got me (and this point is often overlooked): Instead of using letterhead stationary, the headings are just "typed" and centered at the top.
Young folk today (or older folks who never really learned to type) have no idea what an ordeal it was to center things on a typewriter.
Basically it involves counting the number of characters in the heading, dividing by 2, then subtracting that number from the horizontal midpoint of the page. Then you move the carriage over so you start typing at that point.
The headings on the forged memo correspond exactly to the automatic centering Microsoft Word does, and are obviously not typewritten.
The other thing I noticed is the "single quotes", which curve in the correct direction. Typewriters always have single quotes as a perfectly vertical line, not curved.
Of course, special characters may have been available, but it's ridiculous to think that this military guy would go through the trouble to actually use them.
Teletype?
Naah, I thought teletype, then TELEX (same thing really), then I remembered these babies:
which is what I think Lancy was referring to.
yeah... GET SOME!!!
Also, anyone who thinks DUers have any brains at all just has to read all their comments at the time the documents were questioned. Nothing but posters convinced of the documents' authenticity.
I second that nomination!
Buckhead rocks! Trivial Pursuit question: What font is the favorite of Buckhead, the freeper responsible for first uncovering the fraudulent Bush National Guard papers? Answer: Palatino 12
I too remember being on that thread that night, and being instantly convinced by Buckhead's evidence.
Kudos also to NYC Virago, who immediately recognized Buckhead was correct and confirmed his theory seconds later on the original thread.
Any thinking adult could see it instantaneously, but dumbass Mary Mapes STILL can't come to terms with it.
Or maybe we ALL work for Rove, and we just don't know it?
wonderful! thank you both. Just think was the slimeballs got away with years ago.. staggers the imagination.
bttt
I have often heard that people's lives have themes out of which they can take their most useful information (often learned the hard way) to enlighten others. Your office background, united with having paid attention, and the CBS snow job, intersected to create a powerful and unexpected bonus. I guess some on the Left choose to see a conspiracy if they expose themselves.
It's not even that she so much as "lied" in that initial "60 Minutes II" (or whatever the hell it's called) broadcast........she was totally clueless about the technological impossibility (i.e. she's uninformed, ignorant) and she was so dead-set on coming to the conclusion she chose: that it was legit, that Bush was a rich-kid slacker. The 'facts' HAD to fit, you see. Why look too deeply when your 'evidence' supports your desired conclusion?
I am convinced to this day that that was all there was to this 'story': an ultra-lib, America-hating media type (and they are legion) bound and determined to hammer Bush with 'The Big Scoop'......the facts be damned.
What floors me is this idiotic bitch actually claims to be a 'journalist' at all.
Bump.
Bump
file works fine for me...
My MS Word doesn't seem to have a font called Palatino. What's up with that?
Time to fess up.
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