Yes, but Charles lacks a key credential: opposition to Bush or support for Kerry. I've noticed in a few cases now that, in order to forestall an assumption that they are right wing hacks, purely technical experts speaking on their area of expertise have felt the need to get their pro-Kerry or anti-Bush convictions up-front and centre.

Apparently we're not full citizens according to the media, David.

Whatever they want to say, they say, unchallenged and unidentified by partisan leaning. We can only get quoted if we attack other Republicans (see, e.g., every NYT guest editorial by a Republican for the past 20 years) or if we can somehow overcome the presumption of dishonesty by offering up, "I lean right on some issues, but I hate Bush" or the like.

Wow, kooks. A guy named "flounder" is goign to overturn Time Magazine, the Boston Globe and 60 Mintues. You blogger militias really are getting desparate with your kooky theories! Is "flounder" another far right fascist freeper too???

The Ameircan people don't care about kerning you stupids! They care that Bush lied and a few "fake" memos (which I doubt are fake) are not going to stop the truth that Bush lied from getting out.

"You blogger militias really are getting desparate with your kooky theories!"

Here's to the blogger militia: uniformed in pajamas, but w/brown shirts! I look forward to Bush=Clinton's reply, one the public library reopens on Monday.

Cordially...

Hey, Bush = Liar? Stop being such a fascist. You're harshing my mellow, man.

Hee! You forgot to mention the NYT and the Washington Post - but wait, they're running stories about the memos being fake, so I guess they're part of the VRWC now as well. I'm sure they'll be thrilled to hear it :).

Thought I had a scoop, but it didn’t quite pan out.

Background – I’m skeptical that the font in the memos is Times New Roman. The “el”s aren’t quite right.

Found a font called “thesis” which has flat topped “el”s, and sloping topped “one”s. Just like in the memos (TNR has slope-topped for both characters.) Even better, the memos use the sloped topped “one”s in the address line, but a flat topped version in the main text, exactly what you would expect from someone brought up on using lower-case “el” as a “one”, but remembering occasionally to use the “one”.

Alas, the font had a straight apostrophe, not curly.

I still think there is value in tracking down the precise font used in the memos. If it turns out not to be TNR, but something more recent, it will be a coffin nail, for those who are not yet convinced.

I just found a post on Powerline by a neighbor of Strong, one of the “witnesses”. It’s second-hand, from an unknown source, so I don’t put a lot of weight on it, but he claims Strong said they had Selectric typewriters in the Guard, the type with balls.

If he actually said it, then it is inadvertent evidence against the memos being genuine.

Maybe someone at a news organization can interview him. I’d like to hear him corroborate or deny his claim to a more credible reporter.

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/007814.php