Posted on 09/12/2004 10:18:12 PM PDT by ambrose
USA Today acknowledges that it indepedently received the documents
The two memos that CBS didn't show are so over the top that even CBS wouldn't put them on.
Watergate was amateur hour.
Also ... the first memo from USA Today .. only has Killian's name ... no mention of his rank
It is remarkable to me that USA Today and CBS continue to protray this story as one where equally qualified experts are of different opinions on whether these documents are forgeries.
As far as I have been able to tell EVERY qualified expert has ruled them to be forgeries, albeit some with rather esoteric and unlikely caveats.
CBS seems to have validated ONE of the memos - but only the signature, by all reports, and they have muzzled their "expert" and told him not to talk to the press.
Time magazine seems to have turned to a typewriter repairman for their "authentication."
It looks to me like this debate is becoming more Clintonesque by the hour, rapidly descending to the level of "I did not inhale that woman, Arial Verdana".
First, isn't it obvious that a reputable news organization (and I'm not saying CBS or USA Today qualify as such) would verify the authenticity of these documents first, before slandering a sitting President of the United States? And if there were any doubt, wouldn't they sit on the story?
And next, when finally confronted with the reality of the situation, which is now incontrovertably conclusive on the side of fraud and forgery, would not one think that a reputable news organzation (and I'm not saying CBS or USA Today qualify as such) would come clean to protect their reputation?
And finally, when confronted with the fact that they have been used to perpetrate an undeniable fraud on the public by disseminating forged and fabricated documents purported to be the work of a military officer, would not one think that a reputable news organization would come forward with the name(s) of the criminals who have used and duped them so that law enforcement can do their job? Or at least to avoid making themselves into accessories after the fact?
Or is it simply that I am living in a country that is no longer what it once was?
Only problem is that he had an interview with Kevin Drum in Feb., and the only documents he claimed to see in the trash can pertained to payroll issues, and he didn't keep any.
It would be my guess that the third is the Boston Globe as their articles that almost mimicked the CBS documentary came out first.
Yes I have compared them. There was some good discussion on them on the thread "Two More 'Killian' Documents" and another one with "USA Today" in the title yesterday. Beldar blog has some great info on the issue at:
http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2004/09/rasupthsupergat_1.html
The main differences seem to revolve around changes made by CBS like blacking out an old address of the POTUS and underlining here and there.
In fact, with regard to the address on 5000 Longmont, I think he (the President) had long since moved into an apartment at the time he was supposedly at the address in the memo so it just doesn't add up.
More questions: What media did CBS/USA TODAY receive their copy in? Fax, printed, or digital? . . . and who's computer has the original Microsoft Word files?
Clue into reality, they ARE fakes. To be real, Killian had to "somehow" type memos in 1972 that "happened" to EXACTLY mimic the default settings of MS Word.... thirty years earlier. These are the same odds that a parrot could peck out the Gettysburg Address on a typewriter in one hour. Or a monkey could type a Shakespeare sonnet, perfectly. IOW, beyond astronomical. They ARE forgeries. Period.
There are no originals.
See my last. They ARE fake, and anybody with a three digit IQ who is honest will admit it.
(Unless one believes that a monkey COULD type out a Shakespeare sonnet as well as Killian typed out the MS Word default settings in 1972.)
Please let me know if you see the same thing I observed:
In addition to missing the underlines in the CBS documents, the USA Today and CBS documents seem to have different markings or scribbles (were these supposed to be initials?) in the bottom right-hand corner of the following documents:
the May 19th memo and the August 18th memo
As I understand it, GoogleNews merely showcases what is being reported on, it does not decide on the credibility of the stories.
The "originals" existed only on a computer monitor, prior to being printed out the first time.
I find it amazing that there continues to even be a debate about whether they're fake.
What's more amazing is that anyone would give a crap even if they're real. What the hell does it have to do with winning the war against the IslamoNazis who are trying to destroy our civilization?
They have to be laughing their asses off if they happen to be monitoring our news...
bump for the end of RAThers career.
The problem is.. the website disappeared and Bev Harris, one of the principals of the talon.com consulting website has moved on to an organization that called blackboxvoting.org.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
Blackboxvoting.org is an alleged 501(c)(3) not for profit that is dedicated to make sure the new electronic voting machines in places like FLORIDA work. (As in work the way the DNC wants them to work or they will raise hell like in 2000 claiming that they are flawed machines).
Talon.com basically was made famous as the PR folks for the anti-Bush veteran groups in 2000. They promoted Beckett. Ran the 2000 Bush DUI smear and the PR for the "stolen" election in Florida.
While at the same time this woman had the gaul to claim that a "hacker attack" drove her to vote for Gore.
Their website has been taken down recently.
Fortunately, it has been archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20010331210012/http://www.talion.com/georgebush.html#News
But Ms. Harris didn't make a clean break.. the main telephone number for Talon rings now over to her new smear blackboxvoting.org group.
As an aside, Ms. Harris is now claiming to be an "investigative journalist" and has appeared on Air Amerikka to advance her voter fraud claims.
I think that why CBS is not backing off... this was part of a coordinated DNC/ press offensive …. Think military if you just on a small local attack on you own and you have this big of SNAFU right of the bat.. you probably stop and regroup… but it you just part of the opening round of a major offensive you just have to gut it out… because the campaign has started and ther a overall game plan to meet… CBS is just part of a larger campaign… and too bad if they take casualties … that war and there sticking the course for DNC/ press offensive greater good
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