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

[AMDG&BVMH]

"You can't spend 99% of your time fearing/hating/feeling just a little bit inferior to/ the military and then expect to have the first clue about how it works when the need arises."

Hey, maybe you are on to something here: they ARE truly jealous of those who actually did serve . . .

[Libertina]

So how will See B.S. make this right? Think they'll have an hour long story on how they were wrong and President Bush has been cleared? ROTFLOL In our dreams...

[cyncooper]

Hannity is going to address this but I'm too worn out to take notes. Just wanted to post a heads up for any who wish to follow.

[DouglasKC]

In other words, everyone who is already voting for Bush will hear about it, but hardly anyone else. I could be wrong. I hope I am, but given what I know about the media, I am not optimistic.

Baby steps. Ten years ago this kind of thing would have been relegated to the role of conspiracy nuts. Twenty years ago it would have been accepted as fact by everyone. Today it's recoginzed as propaganda bull by a large segment of society.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

This is so sweet.

[concerned about politics]

George Bush joined the Texas Air National Guard in May, 1968 and Barnes was not elected Lt. Governor until 1969. Bush's enlistment in 1968 per MSNBC. (Barnes is coincidentally a long-time Dem activist and one of Kerry's top fund-raisers).

[cyncooper]

ACK!

Gerri Ferraro on H & C has her haircut like Hillary's new do...the super short haircut.

She's insisting Kerry's atrocity testimony was true.

[GoLightly]

I *still* do a double space after the end of sentences. I never knew that anything changed. lol

[Cboldt]

The IBM Selectric did; however, have interchangeable fonts that clipped into place.

If these documents were produced on a typewriter, the typewriter was not a Selectric. The Selectric does not have proportional spacing, the Executive does.

There is a Selectric that facilitates proportional spacing, but I'd bet my house that the "Selectric-Composer" was not used in this context.

The first IBM Composer was the IBM "Selectric" Composer announced in 1966. It was a hybrid "Selectric" typewriter that was modified to have proportional spaced fonts. It is 100% mechanical and has no digital electronics. Since it has no memory, the user was required to type everything twice. While typing the text the first time, the machine would measure the length of the line and count the number of spaces. When the user finished typing a line of text, they would record special measurements into the right margin of the paper. Once the entire column of text was typed and measured, it would then be retyped, however before typing each line, the operator would set the special justification dial (on the right side) to the proper settings, then type the line. The machine would automatically insert the appropriate amount of space between words so that all of the text would be justified.

http://www.ibmcomposer.org/SelComposer/description.htm

[CedarDave]

The IBM Selectric did; however, have interchangeable fonts that clipped into place. You could get special character fonts, but I am not sure whether the special characters included super and subscripts.

Didn't see any when I went to selectric.org earlier today.

[flaminco]

"I *still* do a double space after the end of sentences. I never knew that anything changed. lol"

I know. I can't imagine that it matters one way or the other. It looks pretty much the same either way;^)

[TFMcGuire]

Air National Guard Flunky?

Are you out of your mind?

[radiohead]

I could have set up some kind of a lab for this.

LOL. Starting to sound like Dale Gribble. Not that that's a bad thing...

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

Me too. Maybe that's why my typing looks goofy.

[OSHA]

Didn't you get the.....em.....memo?

[Piranha]

That's called "kerning".

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

"I *still* do a double space after the end of sentences. I never knew that anything changed. lol"

You, too? And I still put a comma after the second to last item in a series, as in a, b, and c.

[radiohead]

Even the folks who read "People" will cry foul, and take it out on Kerry and the Dems. ... That thought is too beautiful for words.

For some reason I feel compelled to play 'Oh Happy Day.'

Loud.

[GoLightly]

Bush went in in 1968. Barnes was not only Speaker of the Texas House at that time, he was in some position with the UN for the Johnson administration & very likely out of the country that year. I guess the Texas House only meets on odd years.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"I *still* do a double space after the end of sentences."

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Heck, so do I, and I was born in 1972 and used a computer before I ever used a typewriter. I think single spaces after end-of-sentence periods not only make it easier to read each sentence, but also are necessary to distinguish sentence-ending periods from periods after abbreviations.