SLUDGE: '60 Minutes' Documents on Bush Might Be Fake

[Z-E-R-0]

32-year-old documents produced Wednesday by CBSNEWS 60 MINS on Bush's guard service may have been forged using a current word processing program // typed using a proportional font, not common at that time, and they used a superscript font feature found in today's Microsoft Word program, Internet reports claim...

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[Ducks In A Row]

1. then why did the wh release the same docs?

drudge is useless.

[StClone]

20. Drudge! Why is he even posted about here?

Drudge has been discredited.

[DarthDem]

2. Sigh . . . already debunked

See TPM today, e.g. . . . .

[berner59]

3. then how did the WH produce them....

this morning?? Try again Drudge...

[mac56]

4. Drudge has no shame.

Absolutely none.

(fixed sub line by request)

[Richardo]

5. 'Internet reports' = Free Republic

Saw the thread last night. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2328842

[veteran_for_peace]

6. 1941

IBM announces the Electromatic Model 04 electric typewriter, featuring the revolutionary concept of proportional spacing. By assigning varied rather than uniform spacing to different sized characters, the Type 4 recreated the appearance of a printed page, an effect that was further enhanced by a typewriter ribbon innovation that produced clearer, sharper words on the page. The proportional spacing feature became a staple of the IBM Executive series typewriters

[veteran_for_peace]

11. US Military Uses IBM Typewriters

[Fenris]

18. And here's a link!

http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1941.html

[blm]

7. And how did the Bushies come up with that exact copy in THEIR Files?

Maybe they rewrote the report by Killian because the original was even WORSE for Bush.

[hlthe2b]

8. D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-I-O-N????

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Jesus Christ....

Yeah, Free Republic is so fucking reliable, aren't they?

[bowens43]

10. You post a 'might be' headline from drudge??

[Emboldened Chimp]

12. "Internet reports claim..."?

hahahahahahahahahaaha

[librechik]

13. already debunked by Snopes (I hear)

there were proportional typewriters then, so quit grasping at straws, Sludgebots. We seem to have your Savior nailed.

Also, Bartlett released copies of the very same memos, claiming these were indeed the memos in question and gee, we can't imagine how they just turned up now, months after we said we had released all his records...

Sludge is just not all that great a reporter. Or else he is deliberately suppressing this essential fact.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

[Liberal Veteran]

14. Since they are EXACTLY like the WH versions, does that mean...

...that White House released forged documents and if so, when do we begin impeachment proceedings?

[thebigidea]

15. two words, IBM SELECTRIC.

[The Night Owl]

16. Drudge is reporting horseshit from some blog?

Matt Drudge- Journalistic Integrity Not Developing.

[htuttle]

17. It's not even from a blog

It's from a thread on FR.

Pathethic.

[GregW]

19. Sorry Z-E-R-O

Posting Drudge slime around here will give you Z-E-R-O credibility.

Especially when it's the 10^th or 11^th dupe on this topic today. (Oh lookie! I made a superscript, too!)

[Richardo]

21. Superscripts? We must now disregard your post as an obvious forgery...

"No human could stack books like this." Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters

[CatWoman]

24. unfortunately, there are several DUers who use Drudge as thier news source

and feel compared to share that bullshit with us.

[Khephra]

22. I do wish people wouldn't use "Sludge" for "Drudge"

If you didn't know it, there's a liberal site called The Sludge Report. Calling Drudge "Sludge" can confuse things at times.

[tandot]

23. Drudge...internet source...Freerepublic? Fox News? Rove?

Our little wimpy war President was too chicken to go to Vietnam. He didn't even complete his service in the National Guard. What a ZERO.

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[peacetalksforall]

26. Just keep in mind - they sling slime and hope tit sticks.

These are the self-proclaimed patriots who are helping * bring honor and dignity back to the WH - with suits on. Loyal to themselves, not the citizens.

[Richardo]

27. "tit sticks": the new underwire?

Sounds uncomfortable. :D

[SidDithers]

28. No reply from the OP?

Why am I not surprised...

Sid

[Bridget Burke]

29. Wrong, wrong, wrong.....

I worked in an law office in Houston about the time Bush Jr was pulling his shenanigans. My, what interesting people I met!

The job surely improved my typing skills. Five carbons were needed for each page. And I had to figure out the proportional spacing on the Selectric.

Edited for correction: It was an IBM Executive, not a Selectric.

[Journeyman]

30. I'm reminded of an old "Bloom County" comic. . .

where the bogus diaries of Elvis Presley that Opus forged were exposed as fraudulent when, on careful examination by a team of forensic scientists, they were found to be written on "official Dukes of Hazard stationery."

Oh, yeah. Someone went to all that trouble to forge the letters, making sure the signature was correct and the paper properly aged and yellowed, then think no one would notice it was all done on a Mac in Adobe Garamond, output on an Epson color ink jet.

[Must_B_Free]

31. big ?: Why did the whitehouse pass on these docs if they are fake?

Shouldn't Bush have known these were forgeries? If they are, they should have known.

Now the problem is the Freeps did this before their efforts could be coordinated by the central scrutinizer.

This has all the hallmarks of a circular firing squad in the Bush camp.

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[Dangerman]

33. What?

And the forged documents claiming the Saddam brought Uranium from Niger is as authentic as the Declaration of Independence. (/sarcasm)

Those GOP bastards will do anything to protect our criminal-in-chief!