Posted on 09/10/2004 3:18:38 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 09/10/2004 4:53:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
NOTICE How he leads the story by repeating all the charges against Bush?
Where are the originals? They have to be someplace.
Why would a reputable news agency run with a document that existed only in photocopies? How could they have any assurance of authenticity?
Congressman Billybob
***NOTICE How he leads the story by repeating all the charges against Bush? ***
That was NIGHTLINE's angle also ....
I'm
MAD
as
ZELL!!!!!
That first "th" looks like it was "written" in over white-out. It's nothing like the others...anyone concurr?
I mean why would "th" be different in the same use as a suffix in two places of the same document?
bttt
Drudge headline now acknowledging that the proper type of expert was not used by CBS. Quote:
"CBS Used Handwriting Not Typewriter Analyst..."
Drudge's own words, not a headline quoted from an outside source. Links to the CBS transcript at this time.
"The Killian memos could not have been typed on an IBM Executive typewriter with "proportional spacing" or any other typewriter using similar technology. According to product descriptions on the web, the IBM Executive typewriter supports only four different character widths. In contrast, modern proportional spacing involves a far more sophisticated type-setting algorithm. Every type font in Word (or any other modern word processing system) has a custom width for every character. Moreover, the spacing between individual pairs of characters is modified by a process called "kerning" that compensates for the fact that letters have varying shapes that affect our perception of proper spacing. To achieve an aesthetically pleasing result, the type-setting process must take into account the relationship between adjacent character shapes.
"For example, the letter "T" followed by the letter "o" looks badly spaced if the "o" is not tucked under the overhang provided by the top of the "T". On the other hand, no such adjustment is appropriate if the letter "T" is followed by the letter "H". In the Killian documents, you can clearly see the effects of kerning in pairs of letters such as "fo" and "fe". I am amazed that Dan Rather and his associates at CBS are blind to the overwhelming evidence that these documents are blatant forgeries.
"Sincerely,
"Robert "Corky" Cartwright Rice University"
bttt
HELLO .. of all experts to call in .. they pick this guy??
Why?
Nope, getting ready to go out with the much younger wife that I have and party. It's Friday night.
Sunday, I just might mozy on down to DC to support the Viet Nam Vets. (I'm not a vet but support them).
I prefer nightgown and robe personally....;)
Who do I send it to? Powerline? They are the only ones I know of.
Oh Danny Boy, the Feds the Feds are calling..........
The two superscripts exhibited by Rather were the same only in the same sense as saying that an Eagle and a Hummingbird are the same in that they are both birds!
If the document doesn't exist in an original, how can Rather say ANYTHING about the signature?
You are 100% correct. Easily faked 'scan and paste.'
In our era with all the graphics packages available -- can it be photoshopped onto a word processor page so that no "paste" lines appear? Yep, an eraser tool on my photoshop will do that.
You are saying it is not your habit to sit around your living room in pajamas banging at your keyboard? Do I have that correctly?
"Drudge headline now acknowledging that the proper type of expert was not used by CBS."
Didn't I hear Tony Snow or someone say the Whitehouse is having experts from the military and somewhere else checkout the document?
I would assume this work is pretty well done since they've had it for a while.
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