DU has had a very productive day....doing real reporter work..

[kentuck]

in my opinion. I was totally impressed earlier in the day when people actually discovered that you could take the blacked-out portions of documents and brighten them with a photoshop program and be able to read the letters or numbers behind the blackout. They were able to trace Bush's dental records to Denver CO with the fax number. One DUer actually called the number and got the fax ring.

Then we have another DUer that has studied quite closely the numbering and lettering that the media and the freepers said were Microsoft Word, Times New Roman, and showed side-by-side examples that prove it was not that font at all. They were all wrong! And they had all accepted it as fact. Congratulations to all the hard-working DUers! :)

[Demi_Babe]

1. way to go DU'ers

[DeepModem Mom]

2. kick

[A_Possum]

3. Good for DU'ers

It's pretty ironic that the WaPo has jumped all over CBS for supposedly not verifying their facts, when in fact the WaPo's alleged facts are equally, if not more, shaky. They've basically built this big case on a lot of sand.

The only thing I've heard yet that suggests the documents might not be authentic is the secretary's opinion, and her claim that she didn't type them. I certainly accept that she believes she didn't type them--I'm not so sure she didn't, though. Unless she has authentic documents off of the typewriter she always used to compare with, I'm not gonna just take her memory for it. Thirty-odd years is a long LONG time to remember specifically what a single document looked like, and it's interesting that she does remember typing memos with the same content. I think it's quite possible she DID type them, but just doesn't recognize her own work now. As a novelist, I can look back at books of mine that were published in the 80's, and frankly it might as well be someone else who wrote them. It's a very odd sensation to look at something you know you wrote and yet not really recognize yourself in it. I spent many a year typing those manuscripts, but if you handed me two pages of what I wrote, each typed on a different typewriter, I know I would not be able to say which one was the one I typed with any certainty.

I think there are as many valid questions about how the memos could possibly be faked as there are questions about their authenticity.

[Sugarbleus]

4. About DUer's research alone...I am completely blown away

That is why I $upport this place. I've seen some fabulous work blossom from this website over the months. No wonder it is getting a bit of attention in mainstream press these days.


ROCK ON DU and DUers :toast:

[realFedUp]

5. Brava and bravo

It would be nice to see DU referenced as much
in newspaper stories as freepland is.