Posted on 09/13/2004 12:58:20 PM PDT by anymouse
I Loves Me Some Microsoft Forger
Microsoft Forger promises to take all the tedium and confusion out of drafting first-class political hoaxes.
Why Did the Forger Incorrectly Believe Lt. Col. Staudt Was Still Serving in 1973? Distributed Intelligence May Tell
Fresh Air comes up with a terrific catch. I will now post it and take all the credit and glory.
"Interesting article I located. It appears the Boston Globe mistakenly said Staudt retired in 1975 during a story about the 1988 presidential race, in which Lloyd Bentsen's son was accused of using his connections to get into the TANG."
--Fresh Air
BENTSEN'S SON GIVEN TIP ABOUT GUARD JOB
Copyright Boston Globe Newspaper Aug 20, 1988
NEW ORLEANS - The only son of Sen. Lloyd Bentsen Jr., the Democratic vice presidential candidate, was accepted into the Texas Air National Guard in 1968 as a financial officer after being told of a rare opening by the unit's top officer, the Dukakis campaign said yesterday.
Responding to a reporter's inquiry, Marilyn Yaeger, communications director for Bentsen's campaign, said Lloyd Bentsen 3d was told of the opening by Lt. Col. Walter Staudt, commander of the Texas Air National Guard at the time.
The two men met at a party in 1968 at about the time Bentsen was graduating from Stanford University with a master's degree in business administration.
Bentsen, who had been turned down previously for a pilot's position in the Guard because of colorblindness, told Staudt that he was still interested in joining the Guard in some other capacity, Yaeger said.
"Staudt told Bentsen that he just happened to have an opening in his accounting division and suggested he apply," Yaeger said.
...
Staudt retired from the Guard in 1975. Bentsen was campaigning for his father yesterday in Texas. Neither he nor Staudt could be reached for comment.
LINK to archived (i.e., you need to pay) article here.
Fresh Air again: "Burkett probably just relied upon news stories and never actually checked to find out when Staudt retired."
Unbelievable, and most likely a bullseye! Casting about for a good heavy to blame the pulling-strings part of his "documents" upon, the forger came across (or previously knew of) Staudt, previously implicated in pulling strings for Lloyd Bentsen's son in 1968.
He relied upon The Boston Globe to get the date of Staudt's retirement correct-- and, of course, relying on The Boston Globe for anything at all will most likely bite you in your ass.
Hard.
Sweet irony! The forger is undone by his own reliance upon the liberal hacks at the Boston Globe, one of the two groups of liberal hacks most desperately pushing these forgeries in the first place!
IBM Selectric Composer
Which image was typed on an IBM Selectric Composer? Which one was typed in Microsoft Word?
Answer: The one on the LEFT was made in Microsoft Word
> Note the tinfoil reference when I posited my "theory".
Roger that. There are already DUmmies who
simultaneously hold the postions that:
* the memos are legit
AND
* are also a Karl Rove dirty trick.
Conservative conspiracy theories can't hold a candle to
liberal excuses, depending on how you define "define".
I meant T shirt.
This wasn't opposition research, Bentsen was already chosen as Dukakis' running mate. They were trying to get ahead of the story, if any.
>> "This was either an inept Dem-sourced fraud, or
>> an internet prank that spun out of control."
> My preference is that we just accept this entire fraud
> and fabrication was conducted by Rather/CBS.
Well, that would be consistent with "Dem-sourced", but
we do have the curious matter of USA Today getting their
copies of the fiction independently (if we take their
word for it).
Anymouse, great find! Redcoat LI--great dot connecting. Been thinking how all this turns up around the same time Kerry & Co added ex-Clintonites, too.
> It would be clever if the Killian memos were a stunt that
> somehow got loose. But that would violate Occam's razor.
Well, we now have a whole TV series "Mythbusters" devoted
to stomping out this kind of thing, but I agree with you
that "inept deliberate Dem fraud" is a simpler explanation
than "escaped prank".
We certainly have no shortage of motivated and more than
sufficiently incompetent Dem hacks who could have
authored these memos using supporting props from the
real Bush ANG jacket.
Your two samples don't even come close to overlaying exactly as do MS Word reproductions - using Word defaults - and the "1973" memos. Nobody denies that fonts and technology existed in 1973 which could produce those memos, only that:
a) it would be very unlikely that a typewriter this expensive would be used by the TANG in 1973
b) that a man whose widow says "he did not type" would be the only one to use it (no other documents like these in the records)
c) that the same man would take the time to do the fairly complex typesetting necessary and that
d) it would line up, by pure concidence, as an exact match to an MS Word doc. (as, again, these two examples do not.)
I buried Paul.
Another Jammy Whammy!!
Hot Diggity Dog!
Thanks! Good find, Bookmarking, Bump, Bttt
Us longterm FReepers don't need PJs, we FReep naked. ;)
It must be Registered's fault. Only he would put out such an obvious PhotoShop job. ;) Can't blame C-BS, why who were they to know that they had been h0aXed by the best. :)
That's more MS Word auto-style artifacts. The forger stupidly didn't even proof-read his own work. Must have been in a rush to make a dead-line.
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