Out of all the excellent technical analysis on this site that helped uncover that hoax, the one that convinced me the most quickly, and enabled me to convince even my most liberal friends, was a guy who said just open a new document in MS Word and don’t change any settings. Type the letter and only hit return at the end of a paragraph. Compare. He then posted a gif showing this result alternating with the CBS news website posted copy of the “document”. It was a 100% perfect match. After that, anyone who has any doubt about the fact that this was a blatant hoax is not even worth discussing, let alone debating.
Lefties aren’t too bright.
What was the same guy’s analysis of Obama’s “birth certificate” ?
It seems to me that the best Mapes and Rather can claim is that a memo existed, and they they saw it or knew its contents; but failing to get their hands on it, they manufactured a poor phony in MS Word. Not exactly Pulitzer winning journalism, IMO.
I still have copies of the CBS documents, the Buckhead stuff, and the results of the experiment that you describe. No doubt at all that the documents were and are for all time forgeries. What is amazing are those who to this day say with a straight face that they concede that the documents are indeed forgeries, but they still prove the allegations against Bush.