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Difference in Documents: A Comparison of documents obtained by CBS News and Washington Post
Washington Post (via Drudge) ^ | 9/18/04

Posted on 09/18/2004 3:50:15 PM PDT by Cableguy


(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billburkett; cbsnews; danrather; killian; rather
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1 posted on 09/18/2004 3:50:16 PM PDT by Cableguy
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To: Cableguy

Bump for later read...


2 posted on 09/18/2004 3:52:01 PM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: sonofatpatcher2

I guess they overlooked the perfectly centered, typed, header, which is far more solid proof than of the other items they cite. Totally impossible with technology available at the time.


3 posted on 09/18/2004 3:56:19 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: sonofatpatcher2

Here are the signatures, side by side. That, alone, says it all.


4 posted on 09/18/2004 3:56:32 PM PDT by The Renegade
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To: sonofatpatcher2

This proves nothing. Bush authored the one on the left; he did not use WORD 73. The LTC authored the right; he used WORD 73.


5 posted on 09/18/2004 3:58:03 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
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To: Cableguy

Apparently, Killian developed a new signature and lost a state-of-the-art typewriter/word processor within the space of a year...


6 posted on 09/18/2004 3:58:31 PM PDT by Ex-Dem
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To: The Renegade

Hey Dan, go put some ice on it and buy some Vaseline.


7 posted on 09/18/2004 3:58:39 PM PDT by Agent Smith (Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
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To: The Renegade

Plus all the other mistakes as captured on FR - e.g. use of "0" in front of date on the fakes - signature block on the wrong side of the memo, etc, etc, etc...!!!


8 posted on 09/18/2004 3:59:20 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
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To: Agent Smith

LOL!


9 posted on 09/18/2004 4:00:42 PM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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To: Cableguy
Huh, oh. We'd better investigate the background of this WP reporter. Obviously, he's highly technical in that he can spot the differences between an old typewritten military document and a modern day MS Word forgery. He must be a REPUBLICAN!

It's all Bush's fault.

And the timing of this report is highly suspect.
10 posted on 09/18/2004 4:00:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Cableguy

I wonder what the Dems are going to counter these with?


11 posted on 09/18/2004 4:02:21 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16 (Proud to be a Reagan Republican)
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To: Cableguy

Does anyone know what ARPC (NARS) means?

I ask the question because of the RATs' charge that he was supposed to report to some organization or other in Boston.


12 posted on 09/18/2004 4:06:39 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: Cableguy

And last, but certainly not least, NO ONE is questioning the information contained in the FAKE document. I mean just because the evidenciary document is an obvious forgery by a self-admitted Bush hater with a history of false claims against Lt. Bush, there's NO REASON AT ALL that we shouldn't believe the information contained therein. - Dan Rather.

We should quit panicking about the forgeries and delusions of this mental case and immediately call for a full scale CONGRESSIONAL investigation of George W. Bush's TANG service. Where is the OUTRAGE? Where is JUSTICE!?


13 posted on 09/18/2004 4:07:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: NavySEAL F-16

How long is this stupidity going to last? Same old stuff over and over. The blame game goes on. Does anyone have any idea who is and who can finalize this?


14 posted on 09/18/2004 4:07:44 PM PDT by sarasotarepublican
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To: jackbill
ARPC (NARS)

It means Denver, period.

Which, of course, is exactly what Bush has said all along.

(And, no, I didn't know; I had to ask, too.)

15 posted on 09/18/2004 4:10:03 PM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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To: Cableguy
Somebody at SeeBS better take Gunga Dan's shovel away. If he digs his hole any deeper, they'll need to pipe sunlight to him........


16 posted on 09/18/2004 4:10:18 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: sarasotarepublican

When old media gets tired of beating a dead horse!


17 posted on 09/18/2004 4:11:44 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16 (Proud to be a Reagan Republican)
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To: jackbill

It has been a while, but I believe that it's:
ARPC- Air Reserve Personnel Center, and
NARS- Non-active reserve status.
I'm sure about ARPC but not the later.


18 posted on 09/18/2004 4:12:37 PM PDT by ab01
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To: Cableguy

There's another interesting formatting quirk/inconsistency. If the letter in question (on the right side) was indeed typed, why would the typist superscript the "th" in some parts of the letter and not in others? More specifically, the "111th" in the centered letterhead does not have a superscripted "th", whereas in the body of the letter, the "th" is superscripted. This can be accounted for how Microsoft Word decides to do superscripting. Some "paragraph styles" will automatically cause a "th" after a number to be superscripted, while some other styles do not. In general, paragraph styles for normal text (as in the body of a letter) will do it, and those for headers (as in a letterhead) will not. Just a bit more evidence that a word processor was used here.


19 posted on 09/18/2004 4:12:46 PM PDT by jporcus
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To: Mount Athos
I guess they overlooked the perfectly centered, typed, header, which is far more solid proof than of the other items they cite.

USA Today has a set of 6 documents, the same 4 that CBS showed, and 2 others. One of the two others has a header with a "superscript th," and THAT header is also perfectly centered.

Yeah. They're forgeries alright. Hey, how did that monospace get in there?? ;-)

20 posted on 09/18/2004 4:12:51 PM PDT by Cboldt
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