[GrandmaPatriot]

Wohoo!!! I guess he is picking up on FR investigation on this.

[Howlin]

I want to get this on the record NOW:

To: Howlin

WE NEED TO SEE THOSE MEMOS AGAIN!

They are not in the style that we used when I came in to the USAF. They looked like the style and format we started using about 12 years ago (1992). Our signature blocks were left justified, now they are rigth of center...like the ones they just showed.

Can we get a copy of those memos?

107 posted on 09/08/2004 8:19:00 PM EDT by TankerKC (R.I.P. Spc Trevor A. Win'E American Hero)

From the live thread last night:

THE "New" CBS BUSH DOCUMENTS: Let's do some investigating

I'm making sure WE get credit this time!

[TankerKC]

WE NEED TO SEE THOSE MEMOS AGAIN!

[KC_Conspirator]

Could you imagine the shame of Dan Rather? The shame!

[ChocChipCookie]

Woohoo!

[finnman69]

see this thread to see the 'memo' superimposed over a word version:

Bush Guard Documents: Forged
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211150/posts

[stevio]

It won't matter to my dumb-@$$ in-laws.

[jrawk]

Not to burst everyone's bubble, but we need to figure out if the "graphic" from 60 Minutes are the actual documents. In lieu of photographing the real documents, they may have had the real documents examined, and just retyped the text in Word in order to quickly create the type of graphic they wanted for their production values.

This kind of document "switching" happens all the time and is considered acceptable in the journalism industry to show the actual text in whatever format you want.

We need to make sure this is not the case here before our credibility takes a hit.

-- l8s
-- jrawk

[nckerr]

Call CBS News comment line and make a complaint. It is a line that at the end of a long message says that all comments on news shows can be left "after the beep". So FREEP the hell out of it!

1-212-975-3248


Demand fair treatment, accuracy, and equal time for conservatives like John O'Niell!

[comebacknewt]

I thought the White House acknowledged the docs were real but explained them as being largely irrelevant.

Is that not the case?

[KeyLargo]

Rush is talking about it.

But, so what. The Demoncrats know that the non-story was put on the air by their front man Dan Blather, and thats what they wanted.

[aft_lizard]

Go FR go FR, whos your daddy

[man from mars]

Bush should sue 60 minutes, NBC and Via com it they produce the program. I will take the case but Bush might be able to get a better lawyer.

This great. The libs are going crazy. They can't stop the bush machine from rolling over Kerry and the other Dem's.

[rushmom]

Even if they're not fake,...so he didn't show up for a physical...gasp.

[ImphClinton]

About time. There is absolutely no way these documents are real.

The title on the top of the page is not preprinted. This never happened as it was cheaper to print it than retype it for each document. Furthermore even if this was a very new title it could have not been typed in a larger font. Too time consuming and almost assuredly impossible with the typewriters back then.

The fonts are proportional now a few typewriters existed that could type proportional but not in that font and even so the military never bought the newest technology for routine documents. They would have used an old electric or even manual typewriter in 1971.

These documents do not even pass the smell test. Can't believe they didn't realize they were fake right off. Course that is assuming that CBS did not fake them itself

[The_Victor]

FreeRepublic ROCKS. We broke this story.

For those who havent seen it here is a sde by side of the "original" and the MS Word recreation from http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12526

[flevit]

why do I smell a CLINTON plant???????

[Boundless]

> I guess he is picking up on FR investigation on this.

Not necessarily. A couple of blogs and the SBVFT site are
chewing on these docs as well.

In addition to the CNS points, there are questions about
the paper sheet size, zip codes, military abbreviations,
and general grammar/tone.

All of which is causing people to look even harder at
the selected sample of "Navy" docs Kerry has released.

Kerry needs to sign an SF-180 if he wants us to accept
his docs as legit.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Awesome!!! When I saw this, I had hoped Drudge would run it.

[A.A. Cunningham]

60 Minutes Documents on Bush Might Be Fake

[aft_lizard]

DUmmies are in absolute denial over this.

[js1138]

Freepers have posted examples from the IBM executive typewriter. It did exist and did have the superscript "th".

Much more interesting are the signatures and other clues.