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Great, Hannity is crediting FR with "exposing" the "fakes". FReepers have been barking up the wrong tree all day, and now the whole world is gonna know it, too.

Here is a sampling of the misinformation put forth on this thread that has already been debunked:

Budding Myth #1: "Proportional fonts were not available til the 80's."
Debunked: Proportional fonts were available on IBM typewriters in 1941.

Budding Myth #1: "Times New Roman font wasn't invented until 1988."
Debunked: The Times New Roman font designed in 1931 by Stanley Morison, Typographical Advisor to the Monotype Corporation, with the assistance of draughtsman Victor Lardent.

Budding Myth #1: "There was no '4' available without a foot and the top closed."
Debunked: The IBM Selectric Composer Times New Roman font of 1968 has exactly the right '4'.

Budding Myth #1: "The document was altered because one of the 'y's' is different from another 'y'."
Debunked: All typos made with typewriters were corrected by "altering" the document.

Budding Myth #1: "You need to use a complicated guage system to backspace with an IBM Selectric Composer typewriter."
Debunked: The IBM Selectric had a memory system that automatically adjusted the backstroke to exactly match the letter widths of the previously typed text as far back as 1968.

Budding Myth #1: "The type of typewriter that could do this would have cost $20,000 dollars back then."
Debunked: At least one type of typewriter that could do this was available for around $300.

These may be forgeries, but not because of anything that has been posted today.