Posted on 11/16/2008 7:46:40 PM PST by steve-b
Ah, the fake but true “expose” still has legs!
A mighty man of valor slew a 1000 Phillistines with the jawbone of an ass. Many a politician has done something similar.
Courage...Dan
Bush Guard Documents: Forged Thu, Sep 9, 2004 at 10:24:36 am PST
I opened Microsoft Word, set the font to Microsoft’s Times New Roman, tabbed over to the default tab stop to enter the date “18 August 1973,” then typed the rest of the document purportedly from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian.
And my Microsoft Word version, typed in 2004, is an exact match for the documents trumpeted by CBS News as “authentic.”
A screenshot of the “original” document as found at CBS:
A screenshot of my Microsoft Word document:
The spacing is not just similar—it is identical in every respect. Notice that the date lines up perfectly, all the line breaks are in the same places, all letters line up with the same letters above and below, and the kerning is exactly the same. And I did not change a single thing from Word’s defaults; margins, type size, tab stops, etc. are all using the default settings. The one difference (the “th” in “187th” is slightly lower) is probably due to a slight difference between the Mac and PC versions of the Times New Roman font, or it could be an artifact of whatever process was used to artificially “age” the document. (Update: I printed the document and the “th” matches perfectly in the printed version. It’s a difference between screen and printer fonts.)
There is absolutely no way that this document was typed on any machine that was available in 1973.
Little Green Footballs - with posts at the time
Relive it at the link.
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This is all he got for $2000000?
It is indeed hard to decide which side to root for in this one, but it is not hard to figure out whom to root against: I say both!
So no, it would not be a stretch of the imagination to think they might be related.
What no one mentions is that Rather was involved in anothery fake but accurate hoax... the secret prisons thing. Some jackass he found created his own secret prison overseas and the plan was to blame it on Bush. Instead the self-appointed “warden” got detained and tried by the locals...
Dan was backtracking furiously for a while but luckily for him other events swallowed up the story...
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