Live Thread: CBS Evening News (Dan tells us why we're all wrong)

www.freerepublic.com | September 10, 2004

[faithincowboys]

Oh lord. He sucks. Keep me posted folks.

[Semi Civil Servant]

Dan Ra^ther has two choices tonight:

1. Fess up and apologize.

2. Stonewall and kill his credibility and the credibility of CBS News forever.

[FastCoyote]

Please add to your list "Last line of document 4 "Austin will not be pleased with this" is not in the same fonmt and has been added!

[Mo1]

Phone calls??

Interviews??

Or maybe that Internal investigation ???

[mass55th]

"Rather's sounding rough"

Crow can do that to you.

[gogipper]

There are no falsified forgeries here!

http://www.registeredmedia.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=4

[highpockets]

Vocie sounds like he has been crying

[mabelkitty]

Noted in my living, breathing document. Thanks!

[DaveMSmith]

[faithincowboys]

Wow, Texas politics is NASTY.

[DarthVader]

He's Dead Jim.

[rocklobster11]

Here's info on what Dan Rather will be discussing. Note that it doesn't prove the documents to be real:

Since I posted the original article, I've learned a bit more. Take a look at the image below:

The first line is some stuff I pulled from the forged memo and the second line is taken from the official Bush document. Here's what I know now:

• The font on the second line is not proportional, and none of Bush's documents are proportional
• The superscript in the official document appears to have an underlines superscript ( ^th ), which may have been available as a special key on some typewriters, but there is no confirmation of this yet. The forged document has no underline
• The superscript in the forged memo is raised above the line, while the real document doesn't extend above the line. To believe the forgery, you have to believe that Killian turned the typerwirte 1/2 noth up to type the ^th then back down.
• the "4" in the date of the forged document is closed at the top (as opposed to the 4 in the second line image above) which has not been found to be on any typewriter font available at the time. This is a feature that has often been used by experts to find forgeries.
• Supposedly, the vertical spacing is 13 points in the forgery, which doesn't match typewriter spacing.

[RXSalesman]

I predict Dan will get around to the story at 56 minutes after the hour....

[looney tune]

Does he always sound this bad - - hoarse & drugged?

[mhking]

Vocie sounds like he has been crying

Begging for his job, maybe?

[shadeaud]

Spending lots of prime time on Jamacia....wonder why?

[mass55th]

"dan's voice is just about gone."

Makes me glad I had him on mute with captions.

[Maigrey]

still on Hurricane Ivan info. Talking about thin supplies for the people down on the west coast.

[FesterUSMC]

Sounds like Dan was doing a Deep Monica on someone!

[umgud]

Who is Kenneth?