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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: alnick
It's just that the typist did the math rather than having the computer figure it out.

If you had a typist who could do centering using proportional-spaced fonts, I'd like to meet her/him!

41 posted on 09/09/2004 4:00:37 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: alnick
Powerful, powerful stuff.

CBS News just took an H-bomb up the tailpipe.

42 posted on 09/09/2004 4:00:40 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: Steven W.

Poor Dumbocrats!!!! With "His Lyingness" being in the hospital....they just can't get away with lying anymore.


43 posted on 09/09/2004 4:01:03 PM PDT by Winfield (sham)
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To: alnick
"In all fairness, back in the stone ages we used to center on mechanical typewriters all the time."

Yes, but you centered by hitting the spacebar repeatedly. This would not permit you to perfectly center the text. For example, assume the text was 1.8" wide. To center it on an 8 1/2"-wide piece of paper with a 2" margin, you'd have to space in 2.25" minus 0.9" = 1.35". If there were 12 spaces to the inch, your two choices would be spacing in 16 spaces (1.33"), or 17 spaces (1.42"). Given three separate lines with three separate widths, this would result in the lines being imperfectly centered.

A laser printer, on the other hand, doesn't have to space in increments of 1/12th of an inch. It aligns the text with 1/300th of an inch precision. We'd have to take a ruler to the text in this example to be sure, but eyeballing it it looks a lot more like 1/300th" precision than 1/12th" precision. The poster has made a great catch here.

44 posted on 09/09/2004 4:01:21 PM PDT by Fabozz
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To: ScottFromSpokane
No Ltc would have written a military rank abbreviation as 1st Lt. The proper military abbreviation I have been told, for the Air Force was lLt.
45 posted on 09/09/2004 4:01:44 PM PDT by YOUGOTIT
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To: GOPcapitalist

How could somebody be so stupid as to even attempt to pass something like this off?


46 posted on 09/09/2004 4:01:45 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: alnick
In all fairness, back in the stone ages we used to center on mechanical typewriters all the time. It's just that the typist did the math rather than having the computer figure it out. :-)

Yes, that was certianly easy to do, IF YOU DON'T USE PURPORTIONAL TYPE!

To do the same with purportional type, you would have to compute the exact spacing for every letter, and space over the exact amount INCLUDING FRACTIONAL "SPACES". Old purportional typewriters could backspace less than one "real" space.

It may not have been possible at all to create this document with a typewriter, IF it proves that not even these sub-spaces will work exactly.

BUSTED!

This is hard-core proof!

47 posted on 09/09/2004 4:03:17 PM PDT by narby (CBS - The new Democrat 527)
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To: Izzy Dunne
Hello ...

It is hot too difficult to manually center lines using an old proportional typewriter. As a typist, you would know the pica or width value of each letter. A lower-case 'm' for instance, might be worth 5, while a lower-case 't' might be worth 2. As I recall, the widest of all letters on the old IBM Executives was 7 (upper case W). Then it's just a matter of totalling the value of each letter, adding an average of 3 picas between each word, dividing by 2, finding the center point, backspacing the required number of units, and then typing the line. The typist had the freedom to add or subtract units between words (or even units between letters in a word) so as to make an individual line or word come out "right." I have done this exercise hundreds, if not thousands, of times, in my old life as a "repro" typist in the 1970's.

On other thing, the 'backspace' key on these typewriters moved the platen back just 1 unit. I.e., to backspace over an 'm' would take 5 strokes, over a 't' would take 3 strokes.

All of this is just to say that I am becoming convinced the Killian document is a forgery. While it is definitely possible to manually center individual typewritten lines, it seems implausible to me that such lines typed 30+ years ago would somehow exactly duplicate the same exercise of today's word processors.

Sorry to be so long winded.

48 posted on 09/09/2004 4:03:23 PM PDT by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
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To: GOPcapitalist; Andrewksu; Jim Robinson; Congressman Billybob

Sometimes I get weary reading some of the trivial tripe that passes for commentary on Free Republic and lament the days gone by when the Giants of Discourse roamed Freeperland. But, on days like this, I am reminded of the true value of Free Republic.

They cannot lie, they cannot hide, they cannot distort and deceive. Why? Because of Freepers like you who come forward and stand tall when the times demand and lay out the truth for all to see.

Thank you, sir. Thank you


49 posted on 09/09/2004 4:03:55 PM PDT by centurion316 (Infantry, Queen of Battle)
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To: Publius6961

Exactly. Remember going to the center and then backspacing to try and get everything centered? And, if you had an odd number of letters it was never perfect! Now I'm showing my age...LOL


50 posted on 09/09/2004 4:04:23 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Can The Ban - let the AWB sunset • www.2asisters.org • www.cantheban.net)
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To: Jorge
How could somebody be so stupid as to even attempt to pass something like this off?

You gotta wonder. Then again, how could somebody be so stupid as to vote for John Kerry? We see examples of the latter every day, and therein you find the answer to the former.

51 posted on 09/09/2004 4:04:57 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: ScottFromSpokane

Not likely, since the improbability drive was replaced by Bistromathics. Plus, the sum of the improbabilities of Old Media actually being unbiased and truthful exceeds infinity minus 1.


52 posted on 09/09/2004 4:05:13 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats (WE WILL WIN WITH W - Isara)
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To: GOPcapitalist

Game, Set and Match. This is going to backfire soooo badly on both the MSM and Kerry. Idiots all.


53 posted on 09/09/2004 4:05:18 PM PDT by bootyist-monk (<--------------------- Republican Attack Machine)
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To: RightField
sheesh ...

"On other thing" = One other thing

54 posted on 09/09/2004 4:05:20 PM PDT by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
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To: alnick

In all fairness, back in the stone ages we used to center on mechanical typewriters all the time. It's just that the typist did the math rather than having the computer figure it out. :-)

That's exactly true, and if it wasn't necessary, I didn't do it.
I'm like everyone else here on FreeRepublic, hung up on this exciting bit of news. Sure hope this evidence sticks.


55 posted on 09/09/2004 4:06:25 PM PDT by Auntie Toots
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To: GOPcapitalist

While skeptical at first about the forgery issue, I'm now convinced. I didn't even think about the centering. It's so commonplace to use centered paragraphs these days that you don't even notice it. Apparently, neither did the forgers.

CBS News AKA Weekly World News.


56 posted on 09/09/2004 4:06:48 PM PDT by mikegi
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To: Steven W.

"60 Minutes should be canned and Dan Rather FIRED immediately. Then SwiftVets get 1 hour for every week until the election."

The punishment should fit he crime.

Abuse of the first amendment to defraud the electorate is criminal.

All CBS hat aired his deception affiliates should have very stiff FCC fines imposed. Individuals in the decision chain to produce and air this document should face criminal charges.



57 posted on 09/09/2004 4:06:59 PM PDT by doblin
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To: alnick
In all fairness, back in the stone ages we used to center on mechanical typewriters all the time. It's just that the typist did the math rather than having the computer figure it out. :-)

I recall doing that, but I also remeber it worked out if you had an even number of letters in the line but not for an odd number of letters.

58 posted on 09/09/2004 4:07:34 PM PDT by FairWitness
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To: TheBattman
You just go to the center (you measured it), then backspace once for every two characters or spaces....

I tried this. I counted 34 characters in the line
111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron

That puts the center between characters 17 and 18, if monospaced. ("t" and "e")
Then I counted 14 characters in the line
P.O. Box 34567

That puts the center between characters 7 and 8 ("o" and "x").

Draw a line between "t" and "e" on the first line, and between "o" and "x" on the second. The lines don't meet.

59 posted on 09/09/2004 4:08:03 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: GOPcapitalist

Bookmarked for later


60 posted on 09/09/2004 4:08:25 PM PDT by Federalist_In_Michigan (History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. -RWR)
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