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RUSH: Okay, gotta hear this. We got a lot more sound bites of this, but this is the money sound bite. Brian Ross today talking to Mary Mapes of CBS says, "After 12 years of defending him, CBS and Dan Rather later admitted they couldn't vouch for the authenticity of the documents, Bill Burkett's documents, and that they should not have been used and the story should not have aired. Do you," Mary Mapes, "still think the story was true?" MAPES: The story? Absolutely. ROSS: This seems remarkable to me that you would sit here now and say you still...

What was the standard font in the Texas Air National Guard and the US military at the time the Rather notes? Bureaucracies tend to standardize things like type fonts. They purchase exactly the same thing for each typewriter. They might buy several sized of fonts but it's pretty much going to be the same font. Occasionally someone in a PR or Flag Officers staff might buy a special type font, but that would be unusual. What was the standard type font balls ordered by the Texas Air National Guard and provided to their units for the IBM Selectric. What was...