Bush AWOL documents fake?

ROFL, fishin.

Not only do you claim the documents from the commander's file are forgeries---but they are such lousy forgeries than any idiot can identify them as forgeries. Hmmmm. You don't think the network brass and the producers of "60 Minutes" would have the documents authenticated by experts to cover their own @sses? Maybe the "60 Minutes" ought to pay you a retainer fee and keep you on their staff just to keep them on the up & up. ROFL

Oh.

It is stupid...elections coming down to chads and fonts...

What I did do was demonstrate what nonsense your supposed "proof" is.

But Debra, you haven't proven anything, either.

Proportional spacing

Proportional spacing, as developed by IBM, was the last
major advance in electric typebar typewriters. Interest-
ingly, the proportional (or variable or differential) spacing
concept was not new when IBM introduced its product in
1941. Over one hundred years previously, Progin in his
1833 model allotted different spaces for upper-case and
lower-case letters [2]. A number of other inventors employed
the principle and several manufacturers produced
machines in the 188Os, including the Maskelyne (1889)
[2, 31. Probably due to mechanism complexity and cost,
differential spacing was abandoned around the turn of the
century [2]. Many years later, new impetus for a typewriter
that would more closely reproduce the product of the
professional printer came from Electromatic customers
who desired higher-quality printing at typewriter costs.
Ever since the invention of movable type, each letter in
the alphabet had been given a unique width to make its
appearance pleasing to the eye. The conventional fixed-
escapement typewriter required that all characters be of
equal width. This squeezed large characters such as M
and W and provided more than ample space for the
thinner characters such as i and 1. To provide variable
spacing for different letters, IBM’s first proportional
spacing typewriter used a rotary type of escapement
mechanism of three separate escapement wheels designed
to provide 2, 3, or 4 units of carriage motion [Fig.
2(a)]. Used in combinations, it was possible to obtain 2,3,
4, 5, or 6 units of carriage travel, which provided a wide
range of possible character widths and a more pleasing
quality of print. A subsequent design employing a multiple-
pawl linear escapement [Fig. 2(b)] was first used in
the Model A Executive and has remained basically unchanged
for more than thirty years.

IBM SELECTRIC~ Typewriter

. . . the basic SELECTRIC Typewriter configuration emerged in
the early 1950s: a spherical single printing element mounted
on a moving carrier . . . .

Since all characters were engraved on a single part, the
SELECTRIC Typewriter offered the opportunity to interchange
type styles. . . .

Supplies innovations in support of typewriters have not
been limited to ribbons. As mentioned, a key benefit of
the SELECTRIC Typewriter was the ability to easily and
quickly change the print element. . . .

Print quality plus -the IBM SELECTRIC Composer

Typebar typewriters with proportional spacing had never
achieved the print quality needed to compete favorably
with “hot-type’’ composition. Previous shortcomings,
IBM believed, could be overcome with a machine based
on single-element principles. This belief culminated in the
announcement of the IBM SELECTRIC Composer, which
amazed professional printers with its superior impact
print quality.

BTW: The Selectric Composer (which also produced proportional font) was available in 1966.

Here's a couple of problems with the memo I lifted from Democratic Underground.

The IBM Electric typewriters were a series of electric typewriters that IBM manufactured, starting in the late 1940s. They used the conventional moving carriage and hammer mechanism. Each model came in both Standard and Executive versions; the Executive differed in having a multiple escapement mechanism and four widths for letters, producing a near typeset quality result.

One model of the series was introduced in the late 1940s:
IBM Model A Two models of the series were introduced in the 1950s:
IBM Model B
IBM Model C One model of the series was introduced in the early 1970s:
IBM Model D Modified Standard versions of the A, B, and C models were commonly used as "console typewriters" or terminals on many early computers (e.g., JOHNNIAC, IBM 1620, PDP-1). Following the introduction of the IBM Selectric typewriter in 1961, which was much easier to interface to a computer, these typewriters were rarely used anymore as "console typewriters" or terminals.

patently ridiculous digression.

Let's see if an independent expert or six can determine if some of these records are faked. We know it is not beyond either side to fabricate evidence, especially if only the "dead" can be called to task for it.

CBS News released a statement yesterday standing by its reporting, saying that each of the documents "was thoroughly vetted by independent experts and we are convinced of their authenticity." The statement added that CBS reporters had verified the documents by talking to unidentified individuals who saw them "at the time they were written."

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A senior CBS official, who asked not to be named because CBS managers did not want to go beyond their official statement, named one of the network's sources as retired Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, the immediate superior of the documents' alleged author, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. He said that a CBS reporter read the documents to Hodges over the phone, and that Hodges replied that "these are the things that Killian had expressed to me at the time."

"These documents represent what Killian not only was putting in memoranda, but was telling other people," the CBS News official said. "Journalistically, we've gone several extra miles."

The official said the network regarded Hodges's comments as "the trump card" on the question of authenticity, as he is a Republican who acknowledged that he did not want to hurt Bush. Hodges, who declined to grant an on-camera interview to CBS, did not respond to messages left on his home answering machine in Texas.

This bit about "forgeries" is a patently ridiculous digression.