Fox News to break forged document story

Fox News | 9/9/2004 | Fox News

[Semper Paratus]

Brit Hume announced story coming up now on National Guard docmunents

[ambrose]

Any confirmation on ABC talking about them being fakes??

[exDem from Miami]

Doggone right!! This has Karl Rove's fingerprints all over it....

/sarc mode OFF/

[mcg1969]

They came from CBS, who faxed them to the White House before they story broke. The White House is clean on this one. (At least on the surface :))

[aft_lizard]

I came up with Nairobi Kenya and Hamburg Germany when I googled it.

[Buttaboom]

I'm watching CBS now...typical response from them.

They didn't say word one about the 60 Minutes documents being disputed; said Bush was desperately trying to bury talk about his NG service and that Republican attack dogs went after poor little Ben Barnes.

Then he went on to speculate about whether these new "revelations" would impact Bush the way the Swift Boat ads did Kerry.

Freaking slimeball. I have to go shower now, even my eyeballs feel dirty after watching Rather.

[OldFriend]

So now we're an internet website. Well that beats right wing thugs, extremists, and assorted other criticisms from those who hate the truth.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Just saw the report on CBS. UNBELIEVABLE! They just went on as though nothing has happened.

[Joe Hadenuf]

CBS standing firm at this hour.

[Howlin]

No, but get this: Killian's son tells Brit Hume that they are NOT real!

[OXENinFLA]

WOW just saw HARKIN put his foot in his mouth!!

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BRIT IS NOW SAYING KILLINS SON IS REFUTING THIS!!!!

[arbee4bush]

OMG! Killians SON is raising doubts about these memo's (per Britt Hume)

LOLOL!

[TomGuy]

Killian's son says docs are a mixture of truth and fiction. Not likely kept is a secret file at his dad's home. [Brit read son's statement.]

[Diogenes]

The guy who signed the documents is long dead! THIS IS THE BIGGEST FRAUD BEING PERPETRATED IN THIS CAMPAIGN BY CBS/DAN RATHER AND THEIR CRONIES IN THE DNC!!!!

[Toespi]

Hope no one was holding their breath during Rather's blurb.

[Howlin]

Turn to Fox......Killian's son says NO WAY.

[pitinkie]

They said so earlier..their experts doubted the authenticity.

[sarasota]

Of course they did. CBS can't see the egg on their faces nor the order of crowburgers that are about to be served.

[eno_]

I've had several occasions, in my job, where docs were scanned into my system and them modified and edited - I assume that, in that process, the typeface and formatting became something that is compatible with Adobe.

No, in this case the document is a bitmap image. Everything - the fonts, the signature - is as it appears on paper.

[Petronski]

If you load the doc into the PDF reader and select the text cursor (a capital T, I think), you can drag accross the text and select it a letter or word or sentence etc.

This cannot be done with an image-content pdf.