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CBS' “new” Bush guard memos a hoax (Update w/ conclusive proof of forgeries!)
ChronicallyBiased - keeping tabs on the Houston Chronicle ^ | 9/9

Posted on 09/09/2004 3:47:33 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist

(scroll down to the bottom of the article for the update section):

UPDATE: NEW PROOF OF FORGERY

Following the Little Green Footballs blog lead, CB decided to test the pantograph replication technique on another of the CBS documents to see if it held true. Using Microsoft Word on its factory default settings with 12 point Times New Roman font we copied the address line of CBS memo #1 and overlapped the two for comparison.

As you can see the test worked and, in doing so, inadvertantly uncovered more proof that the document is a forgery. The new evidence revolves around the fact that Microsoft Word auto-formats its text using the centering function. When the text alignment for “center” is selected each subsequent line will be precisely centered underneath the previous one with each word of the text readjusting to meet this alignment as new letters are entered into the line. Since typewriters mechanically stamp letters onto a sheet of paper one at a time, it is physically impossible to create a mechanical typewriter document that perfectly aligns two or more centered rows of text on top of each other. The address bar on CBS Memo #1 is perfectly centered and perfectly aligned, thus it had to have come from a computer word processor and not a typewriter. The replication experiment in Microsoft Word with an identical match further validates this origin.


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To: Izzy Dunne

Sweeeeeeet!

LLS


161 posted on 09/09/2004 5:29:01 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Continued Job creation will not matter, if kerry "Outsources" our National Defense!)
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To: Ronin; Admin Moderator
I will take that bet.

Sadly, I will win, without question.

If you lose, you will contribute $50 to FR.

If I lose, meaning Dan Rather gets fired/resigns/retires by Sunday, I will contribute $100 to FR, or you, or GWB, or the organization of your choice.

Do we have a bet?

162 posted on 09/09/2004 5:29:53 PM PDT by NewLand (John Kerry; you may begin writing your concession speech now!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
You're going to EXACTLY CENTER the top line (in proportional font in Capital letters on a very expensive typesetting machine of a memo you're writing to yourself that nobody else will ever see!) and then you're going to "carriage return" and go to the second line of that memo, EXACTLY CENTER IT and then backspace up the EXACT NUMBER of "points" (calculating those "points" in your proportional fonts (before there were calculators even!) to start the second line, then "carefully" space the entire second line to EXACTLY CENTER IT below the first, then carriage return to the third line of your header, and count the letters in the third line of your header, and c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y calculate the starting points in "points" for the third line to EXACTLY MATCH the center of the first and second lines, and EXACTLY back up to the EXACCT place to start typing the third line of your "header"

Of course. And you are going to leave the sentence fragments and other awful grammer untouched.

163 posted on 09/09/2004 5:30:29 PM PDT by VRWC_minion ( I'll send email telling you where to send check.)
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To: Motherbear
I could center on a typewriter, just like I can center manually on my computer.

You probably can, but the law of probability says that you aren't going to get three consecutive lines of texts exactly centered around a single axis line and the law of common sense says that you aren't going to take the time to try.

Word processors center based on a completely different concept than typewriters. With the typewriter you find the center point, approximate the space you need, and begin at a fixed distance from the left, hoping that you got it right.

With a word processor you hit the center button and it mathematically realigns the orientation of your cursor around a central axis instead of the left margin. Everything you type from there on out is then oriented and adjusted around that center, so three lines in succession will always line up perfectly.

165 posted on 09/09/2004 5:39:15 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: claudiustg
Kerry's Down and Dirty Offensive has been stopped.

Susan Estridge must be aborting kittens right about now.

166 posted on 09/09/2004 5:42:43 PM PDT by woofer
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To: Izzy Dunne
"Are there other documents from this same unit in the same time period? Do they show the same attention to detail"?

At least one the President's previously released documents looks nothing like these, and is of the normal typewriter (monolithic font). There was no symmetry, or centering attempted. The signature on this document varies considerably from the "MEMO-GATE" documents.

Brit showed a partial of one of the President's documents tonight. It appeared exactly as one posted here on FR today, and NOTHING like the "Memo-Gate" docs.

LLS
167 posted on 09/09/2004 5:43:19 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Continued Job creation will not matter, if kerry "Outsources" our National Defense!)
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To: GOPcapitalist

Dang, dims trying to cheat and caught in their lies. Who'd a thunk it?


168 posted on 09/09/2004 5:43:59 PM PDT by 4CJ (||) Our sins put Him on the Cross, His love for us kept Him there (||)
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To: GOPcapitalist

Tell it to the President of CBS News, Andrew Heyward.

Andrew Heyward -- CBS News
Title: President
Department: Headquarters
Phone: (212) 975-4321
Fax: (212) 975-1893
Address: 524 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019

FAX him. Load his desk tomorrow morning. My FAX is already there.

I basically asked him if he was satisfied having his reputation dependent on Dan Rather and the folks at 60 Minutes.


169 posted on 09/09/2004 5:47:24 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: PogySailor; GOPcapitalist
If kerning has been used, as it appears, it is smoking gun, bullet, fingerprints, DNA, eyewitness, video...all rolled into one!

Everything except the confession! There is no way the Dems will fess up...they will blame blame blame, spin spin spin, lie lie lie. No confession. Guaranteed.

Great work GOPCapitalist and PogySailor!!!

170 posted on 09/09/2004 5:51:04 PM PDT by NewLand (John Kerry; you may begin writing your concession speech now!)
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To: NewLand

Done!


171 posted on 09/09/2004 5:53:33 PM PDT by Ronin (When the fox gnaws....SMILE!)
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To: Bob

Mara has a real problem and it is physical. She has been coughing for the last several months, and does so all thru the telecast. She would be wise to get to a good specialist on lung and bronchial problems and get treatment.


172 posted on 09/09/2004 5:56:31 PM PDT by hgro (<i>)
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To: doblin

Luckily some telethon had already bought up the time on the local CBS affiliate for last night so the station here were not accessories in the fraud.


173 posted on 09/09/2004 5:58:49 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Saddam's family were WMD's - He's behind bars & his sons are DEAD!)
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To: Ronin
Thank you for donating $50 to FR! :-)

But really, I hope you win! It will be a s-w-e-e-e-e-e-t day in America!

174 posted on 09/09/2004 5:59:32 PM PDT by NewLand (John Kerry; you may begin writing your concession speech now!)
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To: hershey
But when you listen to Gore and Edwards and Kerry and TerAYsa, it's major mud slinging every day. PLus the surrogates, Harkin, Susan Estrich, etc. Hill, Bill, Geraldine Ferraro, Cuomo, Fat Teddy, et al.."

All the 'Rats should go down with this sinking ship.

175 posted on 09/09/2004 6:05:39 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Saddam's family were WMD's - He's behind bars & his sons are DEAD!)
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To: NewLand

Winning is going to be more expensive than losing. :)

If I win, I will spend at least that much celebrating both the egg all over the DemonCRAP faces and the removal of one of liberal media's most loathsome partisans.

The hangover will be glorious!!!


176 posted on 09/09/2004 6:20:14 PM PDT by Ronin (When the fox gnaws....SMILE!)
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To: Ronin
The hangover will be glorious!!!

LOL, very well said!

177 posted on 09/09/2004 6:21:45 PM PDT by LisaMalia (In Memory of Sgt. James W."Billy" Lunsford..KIA 11-29-69 Binh Dinh S. Vietnam)
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To: Izzy Dunne

An ANG schlub hammering out a quick report would have left justified the address block. Common sense 101 .....


178 posted on 09/09/2004 6:27:30 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Right makes right!)
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To: Ronin

Bet. $50 to Free Republic paid by the loser.

Rather resigns by late Saturday evening or you pay $50 to FR.

I'll be happy to pay FR $50 if Rather resigns. Win-Win for me.

You on?


179 posted on 09/09/2004 6:27:44 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: Ronin

Aaaah...nothing like a cold sake hangover after a night in Roppongi...yoisho!


180 posted on 09/09/2004 6:28:33 PM PDT by NewLand (John Kerry; you may begin writing your concession speech now!)
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