60 Minutes Documents on Bush Might Be Fake

CNS News ^ | September 9, 2004 | Melanie Hunter

[Peach]

Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:41 PM EST

By Melanie Hunter CNSNews.com Deputy Managing Editor September 09, 2004 02:34 pm

'60 Minutes' Documents on Bush Might Be Fake

(CNSNews.com) - The 32-year-old documents produced Wednesday by the CBS News program "60 Minutes," shedding a negative light on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, may have been forged using a current word processing program, according to typography experts. Three independent typography experts told CNSNews.com they were suspicious of the documents from 1972 and 1973 because they were typed using a proportional font, not common at that time, and they used a superscript font feature found in today's Microsoft Word program. More to Come

[william clark]

And what about the discrepancy in the signatures?

[Centurion2000]

Hmm ... is it slander or libel if defamation of character is performed on TV ?

[spyone]

Thanks to all the work done by Freepers last night!

[mnehring]

Drudge is breaking this now!

[sissyjane]

woo-Hoo!!

Lookie here --MSM picking this up??

[pnz1]

Dumb question, who gave the reports to CBS

[Peach]

That wasn't me doing any of the work and research.

I'll put freeper research up against Old Media any day.

Old Media is just too darned tired to do any actual work.

[force recon]

the same guy who did it killed Kennedy and lives in area 51

[Izzy Dunne]

The real shame here is that it took less than 12 hours for Freepers and others to come up with this evidence.

WHY COULD SEE B.S. NOT DO THAT?

Lak of motivatiion, maybe?

[I'm ALL Right!]

Drudge says:

'60 Minutes' Documents on Bush Might Be Fake /// 32-year-old documents produced Wednesday by CBSNEWS 60 MINS on Bush's guard service may have been forged using a current word processing program // typed using a proportional font, not common at that time, and they used a superscript font feature found in today's Microsoft Word program, Internet reports claim... Developing...

[Izzy Dunne]

The real shame here is that it took less than 12 hours for Freepers and others to come up with this evidence.

WHY COULD SEE B.S. NOT DO THAT?

Lack of motivation, maybe?

[taxcontrol]

Now if this can just get into the mainstream press.

This would be good fodder for some senior Bush staff to talk about how desperate the libs are to even go so far as to use "obviously forged documents" to attack and slander the President.

[Peach]

You have to understand. Old Media is tired. They are just so darned old. And did I mention they are tired?

[rhombus]

Drudge says:

Sweet. Lame stream media all read Drudge.

[drypowder]

Kerry just keeps getting muddier. Obviously he's not fit to be president.

[Howlin]

Thanks to all the work done by Freepers last night!

Exactly!

And we will NOT get credit!!!!

TankerKC right here on FR is the FIRST person to bring this up!

[plushaye]

I truly salute the Freepers who did the analyses on this. Some of the most amazing investigations I've ever seen, and done in such a short time period too.

[glennherman]

"That wasn't me doing any of the work and research.
I'll put freeper research up against Old Media any day.
Old Media is just too darned tired to do any actual work."


To quote with irony - the late ungreat Jerry Rubin "We are EVERYWHERE!"

[mnehring]

Dumb question, who gave the reports to CBS That is the real story. If they were supplied by the DNC, then this would make Watergate look like a little kid stealing gum.

[mingusthecat]

Snowball.

[NewMediaFan]

Gee, how could this have passed the scrutiny of an experienced and objective reporter like Dan Rather?

[marmar]

FREEPER INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING IS THE BOMB!!!!!!!!Thanx for the hard work.

[dfwgator]

Freepers Rock!!!

[misterrob]

This is good. By casting doubts on this story we will only negate the Kerry's camp's dirty tricks and make them look worse. Anything that they try after this can be deemed suspect. It's all about perception and if they are seen as reaching for the lowest slime possible, it makes Bush look good.

[MEG33]

Page 36 D will have it ...They cannot completely ignore it.

[MamaLucci]

Excellent work on this one, FRiend!

[gilliam]

Well, Drudge is reporting it now. So everyone in the media is looking at it. We should know one way or another in a few hours.

[mnehring]

This, along with the AP catch.. Hell of a month!

[marblehead17]

ping

[Right Wing Professor]

Gentlemen and Ladies, the cat is now out of the bag, and she's a live one!

[BonnieJ]

But HOW do we get the word out about the fraud beyond the world of the Internet?

[mingusthecat]

Link from Drudge to powerlineblog is SLOW!!!!! That's good news!!!

[gilliam]

Well, it wasn't the white house. They got their copies from CBS.

[oyez]

I was thinking why would I take four years to dig this up? I guess fiction requires more time to write.

[woodb01]

START YOUR ENGINES AND GET COMPLAININ'

CBS 60 Minutes Hit Piece on Bush

This should be enough to put a LOT of heat on CBS if you're willing to do the work.   Complain to CBS advertisers.  Most of these are advertisers that were involved with the 60 Minutes slam on Bush, but hey, complain to them and ask for them to pull their advertising from the Bush Hating CBS...

CBS Television Group
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CBS News Comments
212-975-3248. (Leave a comment on the answering machine)

60 Minutes
524 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
212- 975-3247 CALL AND COMPLAIN!

60II@cbsnews.com

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Swift Vets Threads related to CBS con

Threads talking about boycott. http://www2.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8441  (This one has most of the contact links)
http://www2.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8414 
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[sissyjane]

>>This, along with the AP catch.. Hell of a month!<,

The current polls ain't half bad either!! LOL!!!

[pnz1]

CBS should know the source of them.. Whether they'll tell is the question I suppose?

[atomicpossum]

If these documents can be thoroughly discredited, what can we do to make sure CBS' credibility takes what's coming to it? Full page newspaper ad?

[NRA1995]

In a related development, Mrs John Edwards prepares to sing at John Kerry's concession speech.

[agincourt1415]

CBS 60 minutes knows by now, LOL!

[BonnieJ]

This SHOULD be the end of that disgusting Dan Rather.

[OXENinFLA]

[MamaLucci]

Rush talking about this now! Watershed moment, IMHO.

[hawkaw]

Gee this could almost be as bad for CBS 60 Minutes as the stupid fake gasoline tank explosion on GMC Trucks that Dateline went with many moons ago.

Of course AP has to take the cake with the "booing" article.

[mingusthecat]

Gentlemen and Ladies, the cat is now out of the bag, and she's a live one!

A viking kitty? You bet, the story has PAWS!!!! RUSH REPORTING 60 MINUTES PIECE IS NOT BEING BELIEVED!!! TALKING ABOUT IT NOW!!!

[reagandemo]

I want to see FOX News carry this story. If this hits the MSM it will be real bad for the RATS! I am under the firm belief that Snakehead and Forehead are out to get Kerry as Morris says. GO W!

[fso301]

Anyone out there remember the feel of a typewritten paper and how that compares with documents generated by a laser, ink jet or dot matrix printer?

[Old Sarge]

Rush is now discussing this: "People are rising up and discussing this!"

Drudge is flashing it around the globe!

I have seen FReep History unfolding before my eyes, showing the power and reach of Free Republic, and I'm proud of you.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Word processors did not exist at that time, all there was were typewriters, the IBM selectric with the type ball was state of the art. Each character has the same amount of width on the page with a typewriter, proportional space proves its a forgery...