Posted on 09/20/2007 8:17:56 AM PDT by george76
It’s absolutely amazing, but Dan Rather and his lawyers are actually planning to argue in their lawsuit against CBS that the phony memos are genuine.
I’m going to say this again just to go on the record: the CBS “Killian” memos are frauds. It has been proven beyond all doubt. It is simply impossible that these documents were created on any machine available in the 1970s.
And for Dan Rather to continue insisting they are genuine shows either:
1) a disconnection from reality that borders on the psychotic, or
2) a blatant liar willing to go down in flames rather than admit the truth.
(Excerpt) Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com ...
LOL. That is like saying nobody has proved that the Earth is not flat.
Man, Windows really has come a long way since its first introduction in 1970.
Sure, someone just sent a PC with Microsoft Word back into time so the document could be printed. I don't understand why anyone would think that document wasn't authentic.
I think Dan is finally showing some intelligence (possibly for the first time ever). He puts CBS in the position of proving the documents are fake (doable, but oh so embarrassing to CBS and positive for Bush) or quietly settling out of court.
If the originals could be acquired, much doubt of authenticity would be removed with just a close look: if impact-printed, then maybe authentic; if toner or inkjet printed, absolutely forgeries (and lousy ones at that). ...funny, so easy to check, so hard to find the originals...
At some point the docs were faxed; no critic or independent observer has seen what went into the fax machine. G'head, Dan: show us.
LOL!
LOL!
Dan.... stop it! You're killin' me!
LOLOLOLOLOL!
What a maroon...
Who ever forged these documents was adept and creating USAF correspondence, but didn't know that the style change.
Now that I re-read my post I can see it is much more accurate than anything Gunga-Dan has reported.
Forgeries ?
They are fake.
No, expensive typesetting equipment could do proportional spacing and superscripts, but not psuedo-kerning. Also the font “Times New Roman” was never lisenced for such equipment.
By coincidence, the memos exhibit a type font, superscripting and psuedo-kerning identical to the default settings of Word 2003! What are the chances?
Buckhead’s instant observation was proportional spacing, which anyone who’s used Courier or Courier New is familar with. (Courier typeface does not use proportional spacing, makes it look like it’s written on a typewritter.)
Like I said, if that crazy bastard, Burket had bothered to find a vintage typewritter, Kerry might be president and Katy Couric would still be on the Today! show.
Heck, he didn't even have to find a vintage typewriter ... all he had to do was "ctl-a" (select all) and set font to Courier.
He's simply applying the Lyndon Johnson axiom, "Make the bastard deny it."
If he’da used a typewritter, one cycle through the fax machine would have been sufficient and completely bullet proof against foresnic investigation. Using a computer and inkjet was pure carelessness.
Thank you, Tanker, for your role in the “blog shot heard round the world” You were Lexington to Buckhead’s Concord. Your “WE NEED TO SEE THOSE MEMOS AGAIN” real-time comment was the spark that lit the fuse. Knowing how that thread played out made it all the more incredible. Way to Go, FRiend!!!
The Colonel in question was not a good typist. His secretary made numerous comments to that bit of information. And yet this man who was not a good typist did something that a very good typist could rarely do: he produced three memos without a single typographical error.
Rather refused to acknowledge on the air that there was any doubt cast onto the documents. He and he alone presented them as “genuine” to the American voting public.
I remember that story. There were typewriter models that use those 'balls' for typing could be interchanged to give different font sizes and the line feed reverse by a fraction of a line in order to produce superscript. So you would ahve to change type-balls as you are typing, but it could be done in theory. But who in their right minds would go through such a hassle? And I don't think the author in question had access to such high end typing equipment.
He’ll have to produce a typed and handsigned letter for anything to be authenticated.
His photocopy/fax of a photocopied signature grafted to an MS-Word document does not constitute “proof” of anything excepted a coordinated conspiracy to lie to the voting public during a tight election race.
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