Posted on 09/12/2004 2:49:12 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
In an effort to discredit the work Charles at LGF has done investigating the Rathergate forgerys PC Magazine has published an article void of any substance or journalistic ethics (if there is such a thing).
The author of the article tries to prove that the memos were in fact typed on a IBM Selectric Composer completely ignoring the fact that the typography in the memos was kerned. The author also give graphical examples that are purposely small in order to deceive (when the two are placed on top of each other they DO NOT LINE UP).
In a finally act of stupidity the author references Daily Kos. The liberal blog that has numerously called for the death of US service personnel and even said "Screw 'Em" to the horrifying deaths of the contractors that where mutilated, burned, and then hung from the bridge.
Click here to tell this lying "journalist" what you think
The true sign of liars. Site someone else as your source for information. That way they do not have to take responsibility and they can continue to ignorantly spread their lies. It figures.
It was a pretty weak attempt, putting two different fonts on a very small surface and saying "hey, they look similar". The author shouldn't be taken seriously on any computer-related issue again, because he was clearly dishonest on this one.
The two documents were not reproduced at a large enough size to judge quality.
The question of why someone who doesn't type would be issued an IBM Selectric Composer for ordinary memos is also not addressed. You would have to be a skilled Selectric composer user to reproduce the memo as written.
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These idiots are doing their best to muddy the waters...so in a way, they can at least try to turn the argument into dueling experts. Fortunately, just being a writer for PC Magazine does not make one an expert.
I am certain that the Clintons will parse the words very carefully and concluded that no, they are what they are, so they can't be fakes of what they are. I hope this settles things once and for all time.(/extreme sarcasm)
LOL! This is just plain retarded :
"from a notably better-informed perspective, may be found here." (links to DailyKos).
Nevermind the professors, PhD's and forensic experts who have come forward and ALSO claim it's a fake. LOL!
They ceased to be a reputable source of tech info years ago. Most probably because they're scared of pissing off a major company like Dell and having to end up paying for the equipment they review.
A person who wasn't a typist wouldn't even know about the "th" superscript character.
So does CBS, but the majority of the press disagrees.
BTW, electoral #'s (Rasmussen 9/6/04) -
Bush 213
Kerry 175. (Kerry lost @28 points).
Does it address the question of referring to an officer who had left the NG 18 month earlier?
Didn't think so.
It's a fake, and everyone knows it.
I'll have to type a memo to myself that I should never buy their magazine.
Hah! A person who isn't a typist wouldn't have typed a pristine memo like these anyway. No whiteouts, no typeovers, looked like a pro did it--or else someone on using Word.
Can they be traced back to Kerry campaign via a NYT style chart ?
Even the OJ jury would unanimously agree these documents are forged.
The source of the image made on an IBM Selectric Composer was the printed manual for that IBM typewriter. A scanned image of the manual may be found at here. The manual (as stated in a note on its second page) was actually typed on an IBM Selectric Composer in order to demonstrate its capabilities. (As the note explains, the large-type headlines in the manual were not typed on a Selectric Composer, but everything else was typed on that machine).
But the question is not whether the memo was typed [as he says] or prepared or set [as the manual says] on an IBM "Selectric" Composer, the question is whether it was printed by one.
Besides, all this turd would have had to do was simply consult the "welcome.htm" page written by the maintainer of the site to learn that even that fellow doesn't believe the Killian memos are genuine:
Q: Do you think that the IBM Composer was used to produce the documents in question.A: No, I do not. And my reasons are more practical than scientific. Let me explain. First, the IBM Composer is NOT a typewriter for general use. Those who used it were typographers/typesetters and were trained on its usage. It contained no error correction capabilities as modern typewriters do. The keyboard was somewhat rearranged from the standard keyboard of a Selectric typewriter. The ribbons used on this machine were specialized (and expensive) ribbons that produced very black output used for reproduction purposes. The machine was extraordinarily expensive. The odds of the military providing anyone, other than someone in a publications department, with a machine like this is unlikely. It is unlikely that Killian would have made the effort to make a superscripted "th", but not pay attention to basic spacing around a comma. My opinion is not a political one, rather it is just based on knowing the difficulty of using this machine, and knowing that it was found mostly in print shops, typesetting shops, small publication offices, and occasionally a law firm, but I've never heard of one on someone's desk (who wasn't a closet typographer). Even if Killian had asked someone else to type it for him, requesting that it be done on an IBM Composer would be like asking someone to phototypeset a memo on a Varityper. Its not practical.
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