Posted on 09/09/2004 3:47:33 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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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.
Actually, I believe that they could. The "font" on the old Selectrics was in the form of a type ball, which was replaceable. They could have substituted the ball at that point in the typing.
That's a ridiculous amount of work to do for a military records doc, though.
Also, sometimes there was just a competitive nature amongst us repros .... we often would see who could do the best centering, or who could get the most tape and white-out on a master before it caused a problem with the xerox machine, etc. When we finally had a master copy ready for the xerox room, it was NOT a thing of beauty. We depended on the copying process to make it all work out.
Quirky, I know, but the job was otherwise DAMN boring!
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LOL ..... you're right, of course!
That's absolutely true, and for an anal retentive person like me it was torture to have one character off on either side. Grrr!
This is amazing to watch. I'm listening to Hugh Hewitt and trying not to cheer my radio.
Good catch. Can anybody confirm if this was Bush's unit's actual PO Box? Or was it just another CBS fabrication? After all, the got Bush's home address wrong on that same memo. It lists his 1968 address when he had moved twice from that by the date in 1972.
Centering on a proportional spacing typewriter. . . .
I'm really telling my age. I typed on an IBM Executive Typewriter, with proportional spacing.
I remember something about putting a "grommet" on the typewriter, when you needed to center a line. You'd type the line, and the grommet would keep the keys from hitting the paper, but the typewriter would advance the proper spacing just as if the keys were hitting.
Then, you knew exactly how long the line was going to be, so you could backspace exactly 1/2, and type it again (without the grommet), and it would be perfectly centered. Wow!
Does anyone remember the old grommet? It was a small piece of black rubber, round, with a whole in the middle, with an opening on one side. I remember many-a-day, walking around the office, asking, "Who's seen my grommet?"
This whole thread is cracking me up!!!
Actually, "Commander" is the correct Air Force signature block designation.
The Air Force had a little twist where they would allow someone to sign as "Acting Commander" if the commander was off station, but they eliminated that allowance in the late 70s. Someone holding appropriate delegated authorIty might sign something "FOR THE COMMANDER" (all caps) too. Only someone on G-series orders was allowed to sign as commander.
Most "repro" typing was done on light card stock, known as blue line masters. The sheets had several markings around the edges and down the center. The blue did not reproduce with standard xerox machines. It was very easy to make sure you always started at exactly the same point on the center line. The typewriter had a key that was a "place finder" and you set it to the same place each line.
LMAO ...too funny
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Kerry's Down and Dirty Offensive has been stopped. My guess is they put everything out front and that this is not an attack in depth. At any rate CBS and 60 Minutes and Dan Rather will have to retreat from the field. Their only hope is to turn on their source. I'll bet this goes back to the DNC.
Meanwhile back at the Kerry campaign: All hands on deck! Man the pumps! Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
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Well which part is fiction, and which truth? He didn't say? How would he know this?
The 111th moto is the "Ace in the Hole"
They are not called dummycrats for nothing!!
In the August 18, 1973 memo "discovered" by 60 Minutes, Jerry Killian purportedly writes: Staudt has obviously pressured Hodges more about Bush. I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job.
But wait! Reader Amar Sarwal points out that General Staudt, who thought very highly of Lt. Bush, retired in 1972.
This is from NRO's Kerry Corner.
You said: 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."
Yes, but remember...this guy was just typing an address. Wouldn't "eyeballing" a center point work fine for that? Why on earth would he have gone to SUCH pains to make sure the thing was EXACTLY centered?
He wouldn't. It's a forgery. Fraud exposed! WTG freepers, and WTG Fox!
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