Dan Rather on Reddit: No one proved that Bush documents were forged

Washington Examiner: ^ | February 8, 2013 | Charlie Spiering

[george76]

former CBS broadcaster Dan Rather (Now with AXS-TV) was understandably asked a question about ‘Rathergate’ – the story on George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard that used forged documents in the report.

Rather responded brusquely:

Number 1 – the facts of case are not in dispute.

Number 2 – no one had ever established that the documents were forged

[ozzymandus]

Shut up and go away, you senile old commie.

[Bryan]

Actually we have a Freeper here who proved it rather conclusively. Those documents were forged.

[fatnotlazy]

Dan is still delusional.

[cardinal4]

Sorry, Danny Boy, you knowingly used forged documents. It was so blatant that even CBS couldnt keep you. The best part? A Freeper busted you out!

[muir_redwoods]

So, even Kenneth has no idea what the frequency is.

[hinckley buzzard]

Number 3: Who exactly is "Dan Rather" again?

[Delta Dawn]

‘Those documents were forged.’

Momma always said, Stupid is as Stupid does...

[martin_fierro]

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They were typed in a font which didn’t even exist at the time.

[mass55th]

“False but accurate” Dan Rather. Wish he would just go to sleep and forget to get up.

[Gator113]

Oh no....somebody left the lid off of the nut jar again.

Libs will even come back from the dead to lie.

[fatnotlazy]

I noticed the white out and the type didn’t match. It was a lousy forgery by any standard.

[Maine Mariner]

Just to clear up a misconception.

A forged document implies that an original exist or existed.

A fabricated document implies that the document itself was created with no underlining original.

Rather, et. al. frabricated documents not forged them.

[The Cajun]

Number 1 – the facts of case are not in dispute.

Yup Dan you're right, you lied your a$$ off to try and cost Bush the election, you failed you lying crazy bastard.
Thems be the facts, well proved.

[no-to-illegals]

Thank You Buckhead for blistering the behind of dan would rather lie.

[ShorelineMike]

Courtesy ping.

[smoothsailing]

[Chode]

listen stooopid... it's up to YOU to prove they are REAL, NOT the other way round!!! but you knew that already

[onyx]

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

Other than the fact that it was printed in a proportional Word font that hadn't been invented yet?

[Bryan]

The Freeper’s name was Buckhead, and he proved it literally in a matter of minutes after the forgeries were put on the air. The so-called Texas Air National Guard memos were typed in a typeface that was extremely rare for a word processor in the early 1970s, using superscripts that simply weren’t being used on word processors in the early 1970s. However, both the typeface and the superscripts were very ordinary parts — the default settings, in fact — of a Microsoft Word purchase, starting in 1987.

[unixfox]

Dan, Dan, Dan. Still playing to your audience I see. Because they are the only ones that still think it was real.

Such pathetic tools.

[Da Coyote]

Let us remember that this idiot was considered the top of journalism.

We now know what an uneducated, lying idiot he really was.

And let us also remember that the MSM of today makes Rather look good.

What do you call a person so stupid, they can’t even find the “Science for Cretins” class?

A journalist.

[FoxInSocks]

Took me about 10 seconds, but I finally got it! :-)

[Pilgrim's Progress]

You would probably know him under his Freeper designation of Dan Blather.

[Col Frank Slade]

I remember to this day watching Buckhead destroy the validity of these “documents” real time here on Freep. By about 1130 that night Dan RaThEr was destroyed.

The blinking graphic of the documents overlayed onto Microsoft Word was the coup de gras !!

[AU72]

A real old school journalist would know about fonts and type faces.

[Orange1998]

The only thing Rather is guilty of is bad timing. If he went after Obama B/C and B.O. lost the election he would be a Hero around here.

[fatnotlazy]

Thanks. Hats off to Buckhead! Excellent catch.

I thought when looking at the documents that the original type resembled something from a manual typewriter or maybe an early version of the electric typewriter. The original type had a smudgey appearance that was common with type from old manuals, and the type would sludge further as the documents aged. The type in the fabricated portions was clearer and crisper. Someone also used too much white out on the old text in order to insert the new text. I could make out the marks where the white out had smeared and cakes in spots.

Being an old secretary has its advantages.

[South40]

Dan Rather is a discredited idiot.

Mary Mapes knew Bush volunteered for Vietnam: CBS report

[GSWarrior]

Dan Rather is a member of TAPWWGA: The Association of People Who Won’t Go Away.

[upchuck]

Paging Buckhead... please pick up the nearest white courtesy telephone for an important, but old, message. LOL

[South40]

Dan Rather is a member of TAPWWGA: The Association of People Who Won’t Go Away

aka, ATTWF -- A Turd That Won't Flush

[RedMDer]

Maybe the old fool helped with this too.

[tina07]

still beating the dead horse Dan, go away.

[BluH2o]

Dan Rather had his ass handed to him ... he can't get over it.
In many ways he reminds me of another Texan Lance Armstrong ... lie thru your teeth.
Except Rather will live out his natural life never admitting to his fraud.

[Alaska Wolf]

I despise Dan Rather/liberals. Do any of them have a single redeeming feature?

[izzatzo]

Rather anile, I’d say.

[Incorrigible]

What’s the frequency Kenneth?

[rlmorel]

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Yeah, and Lincoln actually typed this before the speech.

[morphing libertarian]

No fool, like an old fool

[TigersEye]

Yes, D^an, it was proved.

[The Antiyuppie]

#3 - Nothing will save your career, reputation, or “legacy”, Dan - just go home and give the Depends a soaking.

[The Antiyuppie]

“Dan, Dan, Dan. Still playing to your audience I see.”

Even healthy 90+ year old people get forgetful...

[Republican Wildcat]

Courage....good night.

[William Tell]

Dan Ra^ther ^thinks ^that his audience is obligated to prove fraud. He is not obligated to prove au^thenticity.

[Republican Wildcat]

That is to say...if a frog had side pockets, he’d carry a hand gun.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Rather accused W of shirking his duty. The onus was on Rather to prove that charge. He failed to do so. Now he’s trying to reverse that onus.

BTW, so far, it has not been disproved that Rather has regular intimate relations with goats. The rumors involving sheep were, OTOH, proven false.