False Documentation? Questions Arise About Authenticity of Newly Found Memos on Bush's Guard Service

ABC News ^ | 9/9/04

[geros]

Ask not for whom the right-margin bell tolls --- it tolls fo John and Terroreeza !!!
This election is beginning to be fun.

[RetSignman]

Thanks for the link. When I looked at those 'documents', I noticed some strange things. I have a feeling that this is not an end to the forgery stories.

"Fontgate" is underway.

[Moleman]

Nothing on Yahoo news, or Detroit News. WTF

[RockinRight]

Blatant forgery. Someone needs to be reprimanded for this. It is sickening that the media is so desperate to elect Kerry they would stoop to this level. I expect that since its now known to be forged, Bush will gain another 2 or 3 points.

[dirtboy]

Connell said Killian did not type, and though he did take notes, they were usually on scraps of paper. "He was a person who did not take copious notes," she said. "He carried everything in his mind."

OK, this is the key comment. There is a very remote chance that a proportionally-spaced memo could have been produced by a rare typewriter back then. But it would have taken an expert typist to produce such a memo - not someone who didn't type in the first place.

[dirtboy]

He couldn't TYPE!!!! Oh my God!!! Didn't those schmucks do even the most basic research??

Uh, Deb, these schucks could tell Kerry from Kerrey. Does that answer your question?

[epluribus_2]

if there is one thing the MSM loves to do more than attack conservatives, is to devour each other.

[jackbill]

From:

http://journal.aiga.org/content.cfm?ContentAlias=_getfullarticle&aid=%23.%5EG%2F%0A

Times Roman became an original core font for Apple in the 1980s and Times New Roman MT became one for Windows in the 1990s. (Ironically, at the same time IBM invited Frutiger to adapt Univers for the Selectric Typewriter, they asked Morison to do the same with Times New Roman.)

[jackbill]

Why don't you FAX that to the President of CBS News:

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

[jriemer]

All your fonts are belong to us

[SuziQ]

What readers will remember is not the story itself, but the photo will be seared in their memory forever.

Not only that, but they'll make the comparison between the picture of an optimistic looking George W. Bush, fighter pilot, in the cockpit of his airplane, and a scowling John Kerry in his fatigues giving testimony to Congress trashing Vets upon his return from Vietnam.

I'm LOVING this!

[Tax Government]

Times Roman is not Times Roman, etc. These fonts are implemented repeatedly, with variations, under the same and different names, by different manufacturers. It is not the name that matters, but the details of design.