Why it's important to remember Rathergate

American Thinker ^ | October 5, 2020 | David Lanza

[Trillian]

If anyone wants a blast from the past, here is the thread.

[BobL]

I see a typo, but much more. My point was that was the first time that I saw the media flat-out lie to try to swing an election (which is par for the course now)...and the reason they felt they had to stick with their lie was the millions of people who they didn’t want to cut loose (as they did in 1980s, when they hammered Carter non-stop).

[T Ruth]

Thanks for the link.

[AB AB AB]

it was actually reasonable that proportionally spaced fonts could have been used in a 1972 typewriter

Reasonable?! That's a stretch! Maybe "theoretically possible," at best. Way too much money for Guard memos. And the secretary said she didn't type that memo anyway, and she was the only one who typed Killian's memos.

it would not be unusual for a high ranking officer to have had some extra money in the budget to spend and buy something extravagant, like a high end IBM typewriter

Yet no evidence that he did actually buy such a rare typewriter, and lots of evidence that he did not.

And in addition to proportional font, the other glaring defect in the fraudulently created memo was the superscripted "th" following a number.

Methinks thou dost protest too much. It was a slam-dunk case of fraud that ended several "journalism" careers.

[lepton]

I don’t think those explanations are necessarily in opposition. Moreso a weighing of which was prominent.

Aside from that I understood your question as an invitation to speculate, not as a quiz. :)

[BobL]

Good point...you didn’t read my mind, but we’re still on the same page.

[lepton]

I eventually figured out the typo. The error was in a different place than I was initially trying to figure out, so I was just looking for a clarification so we could proceed.

[lowbridge]

Thanks to the creation and growth of the internet, the news media is being exposed and caught in their lies literally on a daily basis, and within hours, minutes after their lying broadcasts.

Imagine, if Rather and CBS had tried pulling this stunt only about ten or less years earlier, they would have completely gotten away with it. God only knows what lies and how often they got away with years before Rathergate.