Transcript: Nightline interview of wife of the deceased "author" of forged memos

nightline via Drudge ^

[Paul8148]

You Mean CBS Did not ask the Guys Widow?

[Darkwolf377]

I WAS ANGRY, BECAUSE HERE THEY ARE GOING BACK AND PULLING RECORDS OF A MAN WHO IS DECEASED TWENTY YEARS, WHO IS NOT HERE TO EXPLAIN WHAT ANY OF THESE DOCUMENTS SAID OR SUPPOSED TO HAVE SAID, AND I JUST FOUND IT APPALLING. I WAS SICK THAT HERE WITHOUT WARNING HIS PICTURES ARE UP THERE, HIS NAME IS BEING BATTLED BACK AND FORTH AND I, LIVID I GUESS IS A BETTER WORD FOR IT."




If this were happening to Kerry instead of Bush, I'd be posting: "Guys, it's over--Kerry's gonna win."

[Stoat]

This is delightful way to frame the end of Dan Rather's career.

I suspect that he won't be sleeping well tonight.

[clee1]

Just another brick in a crumbly DemocRat-enabling, elitist MSM wall.

Someone needs to do jail time over this fiasco.

[Thickman]

Nightline really whitewashed the truly devastating aspect of the forged documents. Worse, they succeeded in mixing this incident in with all of the rest of the negative campaigning in an attempt to dilute its impact. To cap it off, they used a democrat operative to close the program who proceeded to vouch for the Kerry campaign as incapable of forging the docs, but did manage to float the theory that the Bushies could have done it. Remarkable!

[ImphClinton]

More and More proof that these documents are forgeries.

If they did come from his files it must be that Craig Livingstone added things to files as well as looked at them.

[Jenya]

So who forged the documents? Barnes or Rather Not?

[ladyinred]

OOH! This just keeps getting better and better.

[Howlin]

Jackson, I listened to this interview and I'll tell you this: this woman didn't say 1/4 of what it says here.

Now she might have said this on ABC Radio, but she did NOT talk this long on Nightline.

[sydbas]

To cap it off, they used a democrat operative to close the program who proceeded to vouch for the Kerry campaign as incapable of forging the docs, but did manage to float the theory that the Bushies could have done it.

Actually I haven't heard anyone even come close to mentioning Kerry as a possible accompliss. Chris Lehane, what a creepy dude, was the first I heard mention anything about Kerry being involved. Who knows what the real story is? This could get very interesting indeed.

[B4Ranch]

The entire left wing media is burning tonight because these documents were so rapidly proven false!

[RebelTex]

Check out the signatures and analysis in this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1211634/posts?q=1&&page=1#1

IMHO, the K gives it away. If you closely examine the originals, the left leg of the K is created by the downstroke of the Y (no loop), and then the top right half of the K is created by an upstroke and finishes with a very tiny downstroke to the right. The bottom half of the K is created with a new stroke (pen was lifted from the paper to begin a new stroke) and then continues on to form the second letter (e) in the 2nd example where there is no loop from the bottom of the K right leg and an obvious incomplete loop in the 1st example. Both examples, however do show that the e is part of a continuous motion, not a new stroke.

The "memo" signature (or initials) have none of these characteristics. Neither does the only other "memo" which contains a signature, shown on http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/BushGuardmay4.pdf (2 of the 4 memos were unsigned) And that memo doesn't have the TX ANG designation, either.

In this 2nd "memo", it is obvious that the K does NOT start with the downstroke of the Y, but is a completely new downstroke. The upper right half of the K is also obviously an incomplete large loop which continues on into a small loop to form the bottom half of the right leg. Instead of a large loop, this should have been closer to a tight V for the top half and ending with a tiny downstroke to the right, NOT as part of a loop into the bottom half.

This is completely uncharacteristic of the signatures on the originals.

The only logical conclusion is that these are forged, faked.

[Mo1]

I recorded it .. let me go check

[ikka]

Well, you know, it's the turtles up on fenceposts, as we say in Texas, and the hogs would go over to the apple farm if they had wings but they don't, and it's two hands worth of white knuckle still hanging ten...This race is shakier than cafeteria Jell-O.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Well, according to my liberal friend tonight, I am insane to think that it might be a democrat. Really? Why would a democrat do this... poor poor left.

[risk]

I doubt if the President is out of the forest yet. We know that wasn't the best period of his life. But who are we to criticize him? It is what he has done after he began to serve in public office that matters. I'm betting that he served well. I'll forgive him if he didn't. I won't forgive John F. Kennedy for meeting the VC in Paris, though.

[BfloGuy]

This is delightful way to frame the end of Dan Rather's career.

Oh, if only that would come true.

[ArmyBratproud]

So not only did CBS and The DNC (yeah..this has their handwriting on it) lie about the President's Honorable Guard service...

But they also DisHonored a Veteran who has passed on.

AND they have hurt his family in the Process.

PAGING SEN. HARKING....WE WILL EXPECT A BIG..."I'm sorry for being a scumbag" ON FRIDAY!

[Mo1]

OK .. just checked the tape .. this is the ONLY part Niteline aired

"NOT A TYPIST, DEFINITELY NOT A TYPIST. WE HAD NO COMPUTERS AT HOME BUT HE WASN'T A TYPIST, AND WHAT IS REMARKABLE TO ME IS THAT HE WAS A PERSON WHO DID NOT TAKE OR MAKE COPIOUS NOTES. HE CARRIED EVERYTHING IN HIS MIND AND HE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO MAKE NOTES."

Then the aired part of the son's reaction