[MindBender26]

BS:

As an old CBS'er I can tell you the documents were totaly disproved, largly due to work on FR.

#1: The forged documents were typed in Times Roman. Times Roman was a very rare font, not used by typewriers. Tehy used Pica, Courier and Elite, not TR. TR became popular with word processors, not before.

#2: The zip codes for certain addresses for current in 2004, but had never been used until 17 years after the letters were supposedly written.

#3: The abreviations for terms like Squadren, Temporary Duty amd oters were Army, USAR and ARNG, not USAFR.

#4: The superscript in the purpoted memo was not available on ant USAF or USAFR typewriter for decades after the memo date.

Bottom line; it was total BS, and Rather knew if from atleast 24 hours after the story aired. His producer, the hard-leftist Mapes, knew if before ther story ran.

[dirtboy]

And I think the longer we go, nobody has ever proven that the documents were not what they purported to be,

I guess Rather never heard the maxim that you can't prove a negative. But in the case of the TANG documents, we came as close as possible to doing just that.

[Steely Tom]

What about the strawberries, Dan? Tell us about the strawberries!

[DeaconRed]

Lt. Dan is one sick puppy.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Buckhead

[cuban leaf]

One of the biggest was there were animated gifs at the time showing that the space each line took up across the page was identical to the document created in word.

The evidence was legion.

In fact, Dan lost all credibility on the Friday following the 60 minutes broadcast. He actually had the audacity to say they were most likely genuine and even flashed, for just a second, a document from the 70’s that had superscript. Before the internet, that would have been QED. But we were able to vet everything and expose him for the bald face liar that he was.

To this day I call Dan Rather the first well known casualty of the free flow of information afforded by the web.

Here’s the timeline: http://mediamythbusters.com/index.php?title=Rathergate

[WhiskeyX]

That’s right, and much much more.

[cuban leaf]

We need some freepers to comment here:
http://my.firedoglake.com/phoenix/2012/04/17/remember-rathergate-a-key-instigator-admits-the-killian-memos-cant-be-debunked-via-the-fonts-argument/

[SampleMan]

Rather is a pathetic old fool.

Fifty years ago, he was pathetic young fool.

[ILS21R]

Rather has to stand by it. It’s the only way libs will even consider buying the book.

[Tigerized]

“I have a story to tell from my point of view...”

Is that what a journalist does, Dan?

Make up evidence to support a preexisting agenda, and then refuse to admit the obvious when it’s proven to be forged?

I fondly recall the old days, when objectivity and facts actually meant something to reporters.

What a putz.

[CSM]

Lying liar lying!

[CSM]

FReeper extraordinare ping!

[cricket]

Yes;Dan; we hear your 'truth'. . .and we hear Al Sharpton as well. (Tawanna WAS a victim; and Al did the right thing. . .) And (beyond 'being there' and using up band aids and camera film)John Kerry 'served' his country in Viet Nam. . .and Obama has a legitimate Birth Certificate. . .and loves America.

Just pinch me. . .

[Iron Munro]

[Inspectorette]

Hey Dan, you doddering old fool: You and Ms. Mary Mapes are the ones who made the accusation - it’s up to you to prove it, not for President Bush to disprove it.

[olezip]

Unfortunately for Rather, nobody has come forward with proof that they are in fact legitimate, and the preponderance of the available evidence continues to cast doubt on their authenticity.

At first I just thought that Rather was dour because he always looked like he needed a shave. Then when he could not answer a simple question, which is more 10% of $1,000 or 10% of 1,000,000? He seemed like a big dummy, or just another leftist with a disordered mind.

It is amusing that he is a single issue show, boring for sure.

[dfwgator]

And he proved with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist!

[oh8eleven]

“I believe them to be genuine ... I did at the time, I did in the immediate aftermath of it, and yes, I do now."
Is it no wonder that Liberalism is defined as a mental disease?

[ETL]

This pic is no fake. It was taken during his trip to Cuba.

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[immadashell]

“I believe them to be genuine,” he tells The Daily Beast, holding forth in his corner office at his weekly HDNet magazine program, Dan Rather Reports, in a musty old building off Times Square. “I did at the time, I did in the immediate aftermath of it, and yes, I do now ... And I think the longer we go, nobody has ever proven that the documents were not what they purported to be, and after this length of time and given the controversy and high profile of it, my view is that if they were not genuine, by this time somebody would’ve come forward and said here’s the proof that they’re not. Nobody has done that.” (Unfortunately for Rather, nobody has come forward with proof that they are in fact legitimate, and the preponderance of the available evidence continues to cast doubt on their authenticity.)

As I recall, it took the "guys in the basement in pajamas" less than a day to start questioning the validity of the printed records. If rather Dan is right (no, he's really left) they were typed on the beta version company of the future Microsoft on the really beta version of WORD on a computer that wasn't even a beta prototype at the time the documents were purported to be written. But that's alright Dan, we believe you -- now please just take your medicines and you'll feel a lot better.