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September 09, 2004

The Smoking Gun

I usually don't crib someone else's work wholesale. I usually link to the post in question, so the creator of the work can at least get the traffic they deserve.

I'm posting the following myself, in violation of my rule, because there's so much traffic that important sites keep going down, and this is too important.

I got these gifs from Digital Branch. I believe he got them from Little Green Footballs.

Anyway, LGF seems to have provided the smoking gun.

Compare. This is the "1972 document" produced by CBSNews:

aug-18-1973-memo.gif

This is the same text, but typed up by Charles Johnson using Word 97 four hours ago:

aug181973memo-word.gif

These are the two documents overlaid, one over the other:

aug181973memo-word2.gif

They have destroyed themselves.

They have destroyed their credibility.

They have empowered their competitors.

And they have removed the Bush AWOL lie from the national debate entirely. This issue cannot be rescued. Once liberal reporters begin pimping forged documents to vindicate partisan charges, the public tunes out. They've immunized Bush against this issue, forever.


posted by Ace at 07:11 PM
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Posted by: Brian B on September 9, 2004 07:22 PM

Turns out the problem with the "th" having a shift upwards is that it only displays that way when printed, hence why these gifs of screenshots overlayed have mismatched "th"s. Once printed the word document is identical in everyway.

Game, set, match.

Posted by: Paul B. on September 9, 2004 07:22 PM

Who's going to write "SUBJECT: CYA"?

Please.

Posted by: Ken J on September 9, 2004 07:23 PM

You wingnuts are so full of shit. You kooks are being DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED :

http://www.thetalentshow.org/archives/001216.html

YOu digital brownshirts need to get your shit together. I smell SLANDER lawsuites to you and your right-wing blogger pals!

DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED DEBUNKED

Posted by: Right Wing Lies on September 9, 2004 07:24 PM

RWL:

Thorazine. Try it.

Posted by: Brian B on September 9, 2004 07:29 PM

Ken J,

I will.

Posted by: Brian B on September 9, 2004 07:30 PM

Hahaha, does that fool (RWL) just copy/paste that shit in every blog post?

Posted by: fat kid on September 9, 2004 07:31 PM

Again its "LIBEL" not "SLANDER", jeez you guys are dense.

And fix the "YOu" thing in your master documents you're copying and pasting from, you've been littering too many sites' comments with poor capitalization.

Posted by: Paul B. on September 9, 2004 07:32 PM

Though, his last line kinda sounds like Howard Dean. What I really wanna know is: WWPAS

(what would paul anka say? [about the CBS reporting])

Posted by: fat kid on September 9, 2004 07:32 PM

"Loose shit"

Posted by: Paul Anka on September 9, 2004 07:35 PM

Yeah, I'd like to get me one of them "lawsuites".

Posted by: See-Dubya on September 9, 2004 07:38 PM

RWL-A kicked dog will howl. And you be howlin big time. STFU.

Posted by: dano on September 9, 2004 07:49 PM

The kerning argument cited at powerline cannot be refuted:

"[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."

Posted by: Mark on September 9, 2004 08:00 PM

Ken J makes a good point.

EVERYONE writes CYA memos.

NO ONE calls them that.

Posted by: Phil on September 9, 2004 08:01 PM

You know what's even funnier? Someone pointed out on NRO's Kerry Spot (I think, or maybe it was LGF) that Staudt retired in...1972. Rove's mind rays cross the space time continuum.

Posted by: kelly on September 9, 2004 08:47 PM
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