Saturday, September 11, 2004

Update on the "forgeries"

I've gone back and forth several times today. Are the CBS documents forgeries or not? The best technical argument in favor of their authenticity can be found at the Daily Kos; I was particularly struck by the observation that letters "jump" up and down -- slightly -- as opposed to laying straight. This characteristic is consonant with a typewritten origin, not with the use of a computer. And some characters (particularly the numeral 4) do not match.

Besides, surely someone creating a fake of this sort (presuming he did not want the fake to be recognized as such) would either

1. Fetch an old typewriter from a thrift store, or

2. Use a courier font in Word.

A really clever lad would use Photoshop to make the letters lay unevenly. (I know I would have done that! But I take pride in craft.) But anyone clever enough to take that step would also have been clever enough to use a monospace font.

Still, I'm leaning toward the "fake" theory. Something about the wording just doesn't feel right to me, and -- as I noted on usenet -- I always tend to look askance at any questioned document of unknown provenance.

Slate relays a report that the documents were passed tot he Kerry campaign by an unknown military figure. This concurs with my original theory that the pro-Bush forces have pulled off a brilliant distraction maneuver.

At this time, everyone should be discussing the incontrovertible evidence that Bush (contrary to his assertions) jumped ahead of everyone else in line to secure his National Guard position. They should also be discussing the raucous tales to come to us via Kitty Kelley.

Instead, we are talking about proportional fonts. And the net-world increasingly accepts as a given their dark suspicions that the eeeee-vil CBS News would take any risk in order to fob off an obvious forgery.

Cui bono? Who benefits?

Bush benefits.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Only one problem,

There IS NO evidence that there is "something wrong" with Bush's Guard service.

A bunch of mindless left wing sheep bleating it over and over does not make it true.

The DNC, CBS, Dan Rather, have all been using all of their combined resources desperatly investigating this for years. They have gone over every document with a magnifying glass, they have talked to all the people who have ever known him.

After thousands if not millions of dollars, and thousands of man hours, over ten years of research, to date, in a desperate attempt to produce dirt, they have come up with zilch, zip, nada.


BTW, when is Kerry going to release HIS military records? After all, Kerry was quite vocal in his insistance that Bush should release his. A new World Hypocrisy Record for Kerry?