Typewriter Expert can't duplicate Guard memos using IBM Composer

This may be tin-foil territory, but it has been bothering me...it is obvious to me that CBS was duped, and, being so blinded by hatred of the president, didn't do their homework. But is the source who gave them these memos covering two bases here?

Whoever sent these to CBS had to know they would be headline news, and they get to pummel Bush with fraudulent information that becomes part of the national dialog...Dems benefit. But, they are so amateurish that it leads me to believe the memo's forger also wanted to cause a stir about fraud.

The thing that bothers me is that it has been hinted around FR that the Swift Vets might actually have Kerry's records...that he might have already signed his 180 for his biographer. That has NOT been confirmed, just speculated.

There has even been speculation that the title of the book Unfit for Command might reference something written on his records.

With that in mind, is it even possible that the dustup over forged docs serves to neutralize Kerry's records before they are released? Since the Bush documents are forgeries, will their argument be that we can't trust anything that might be released about Kerry's?

Whether this is intentional or not, I'm betting that will be the left's argument if Kerry's records leak. Just a thought.

The other thing I was thinking...wouldn't there be something obvious, some smearing or something with whiteout? Most men didn't type back then in the early 70s, normally they'd have secretaries do so. And if they did, why would you have a secretary type such a thing?

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