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CBS' “new” Bush guard memos a hoax (Update w/ conclusive proof of forgeries!)
ChronicallyBiased - keeping tabs on the Houston Chronicle ^ | 9/9

Posted on 09/09/2004 3:47:33 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist

(scroll down to the bottom of the article for the update section):

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.


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To: MamaLucci

---Reader Amar Sarwal points out that General Staudt, who thought very highly of Lt. Bush, retired in 1972.---

Well, that expalains why Killian was having so much trouble doing his job. He was worrying about superiors who were no longer in his chain of command.


141 posted on 09/09/2004 4:51:59 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: Ronin

Courage.


142 posted on 09/09/2004 4:54:03 PM PDT by hershey
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To: GOPcapitalist

is dan's (Ralph Kramden's) hummada hummada hummada far behind?

just too funny

Doogle


143 posted on 09/09/2004 4:57:08 PM PDT by Doogle (8th AF..Ubon Thailand..408thMMS...."69"...Night Line Delivery,,Ammo Dump)
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To: GOPcapitalist

Thanks for the ping. It makes me sick to my stomach to think this country has so many dishonest, wreckless people trying to float to the top.


144 posted on 09/09/2004 4:59:05 PM PDT by MistyCA
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To: Novel

I just read on Newsmax that the Kelly book is imploding due to the star witness denying the coke at Camp David non story. It is all going wrong for the...others.


145 posted on 09/09/2004 5:01:53 PM PDT by somemoreequalthanothers
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To: joesnuffy

Exactly right. The MSM is in bed with Muslim terrorists and Al Jazeera. They should register as foreign agents.


146 posted on 09/09/2004 5:02:32 PM PDT by hershey
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To: OkieDokieSmokie
Powerline has an update that points out the kerning in the text of the "memos":

UPDATE 10: Reader Jon-Erik Prichard adds what strikes me as an especially persuasive point:

[A]nother aspect of the type on [the August 18, 1973 memo] suggests, perhaps proves, forgery. 1. The type in the document is KERNED. Kerning is the typsetter's art of spacing various letters in such a manner that they are 'grouped' for better readability. Word processors do this automatically. NO TYPEWRITER CAN PHYSICALLY DO THIS.

To explain: the letter 'O' is curved on the outside. A letter such as 'T' has indented space under its cross bar. On a typewriter if one types an 'O' next to a 'T' then both letters remain separated by their physical space. When you type the same letters on a computer next to each other the are automatically 'kerned' or 'grouped' so that their individual spaces actually overlap. e. g., TO. As one can readily see the curvature of the 'O' nestles neatly under the cross bar of the 'T'. Two good kerning examples in the alleged memo are the word 'my' in the second line where 'm' and 'y' are neatly kerned and also the word 'not' in the fourth line where the 'o' and 't' overlap empty space. A typewriter doesn't 'know' what particular letter is next to another and can't make those types of aesthetic adjustments.

2. The kerning and proportional spacing in each of the lines of type track EXACTLY with 12 point Times Roman font on a six inch margin (left justified). Inother words, the sentences break just as they would on a computer and not as they would on a typewriter. Since the type on the memo is both proportionally spaced and kerned the lines of type break at certain instances (i.e., the last word in each line of the first paragraph are - 1. running, 2. regarding, 3. rating, 4. is, 5. either). If the memo was created on a typewriter the line breaks would be at different words (e. g., the word 'running' is at the absolute outside edge of the sentence and would probably not be on the first line).

3. The sentences have a wide variance in their AMOUNT of kerning and proportional spacing. Notice how the first line of the first paragraph seems squished together and little hard to read but the last line of the first paragraph has wider more open spacing. Even the characters themselves are squished in the first line (as a computer does automatically) and more spread out on the last line where there is more room.

There's no way a typewriter could 'set' the type in this memo and even a good typesetter using a Linotype machine of the era would have to spend hours getting this effect.


147 posted on 09/09/2004 5:02:50 PM PDT by PogySailor (Proud member of the RAM)
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To: randog

As I recall, there was like a half-space back button for squeezing type into a smaller space. But I could be mistaken. I do know there was no automatic centering back then though. That much is certain.


148 posted on 09/09/2004 5:03:31 PM PDT by Capricam
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To: GOPcapitalist
"Overlap of both images for pantograph replication test"

Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark!

149 posted on 09/09/2004 5:05:14 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
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To: GOPcapitalist

That's right, you went to the center of the page and backspaced for every other letter.


150 posted on 09/09/2004 5:06:05 PM PDT by McGavin999 (If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
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To: GOPcapitalist
Why would anyone manually center an address for a memo. It was a complete pain and often wouldn't line if the spaces were odd or even numbers. They would have left justified it.

Pray for W and Our Troops

151 posted on 09/09/2004 5:10:28 PM PDT by bray (Some men have skeletons in their closets, some have cemetaries!!)
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To: Izzy Dunne
The "font" on the old Selectrics was in the form of a type ball, which was replaceable.

I used to have a Selectric. The font ball came in three flavors (that I know of): elite, courier, and lettergothic. No proportional, no kerning, no Times New Roman. You could move up half a line for superscript or down half a line for subscript but NO WAY did that change the size of the font.

152 posted on 09/09/2004 5:11:19 PM PDT by Alouette (Pray for the Children of Russia, Israel and the USA)
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To: alnick
In all fairness, back in the stone ages we used to center on mechanical typewriters all the time. It's just that the typist did the math rather than having the computer figure it out. :-)

But you miss the point. The lines are centered based on the length, not the number of letters. Look closely at the first e in Intercepter. This is the center. Now look down and notice that the O in Box is slightly to the left of the e above. The typist had to be so good at centering he had to take into account the proportionate spacing.

153 posted on 09/09/2004 5:17:34 PM PDT by VRWC_minion ( I'll send email telling you where to send check.)
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To: alnick

The point is that even if you did this, the type set would never align perfectly. This is due to the algorithm used in MS Word. Not all of the letters are of the same exact size, and this unique signature cannot be duplicated on a typewriter of this era (as per experts in Weekly Standard Investigative Report due out tonight). Overlaying the two documsnts would yield some difference in spacing.

Check out the sloppy "cut and paste" job on the signature in two of the memos.

LLS


155 posted on 09/09/2004 5:19:06 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Continued Job creation will not matter, if kerry "Outsources" our National Defense!)
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To: VRWC_minion
But you miss the point

Yes, I did, and I've been properly set straight by several Freepers on this thread. :-)

156 posted on 09/09/2004 5:20:34 PM PDT by alnick (US forces armed with what? Spitballs??)
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To: PogySailor

#147 WoW BTTT !!!!


157 posted on 09/09/2004 5:21:48 PM PDT by musicman
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To: 4ConservativeJustices; lentulusgracchus; Humidston; PetroniDE; Action-America; Eaker; ...

Ping!


158 posted on 09/09/2004 5:24:09 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: GOPcapitalist

PO Box 34567 ..... Guess it could be, but what another coindidence. What I am amazed by is how bad this forgery is.


159 posted on 09/09/2004 5:26:49 PM PDT by gswilder
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To: GOPcapitalist

Holy backspace Batman!!


160 posted on 09/09/2004 5:27:39 PM PDT by Shmokey (Always be prepared)
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