"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:


Some Question Authenticity of Papers on Bush

By Michael Dobbs and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 10, 2004; Page A01


Documents unearthed by CBS News that raise doubts about whether
President
Bush fulfilled his obligations to the Texas Air National Guard include
several features suggesting that they were generated by a computer or
word
processor rather than a Vietnam War-era typewriter, experts said
yesterday.

Experts consulted by a range of news organizations pointed out
typographical
and formatting questions about four documents as they considered the
possibility that they were forged. The widow of the National Guard
officer
whose signature is on the bottom of the documents also disputed their
authenticity.



"Experts"?

Bullship. The whole argument that the docs are false.

Before your time, IBM Selectric I's had special keys for all sorts of
special characters, including at least two pi type elements -- that is,
elements that consisted of symbols instead of alphanumeric characters.
Even earlier typewriters, ones with striker keys, sometimes allowed you
to replace the strikers of little-used keys (e.g., the +/=) with more
useful ones -- sometimes accented characters, sometimes little
graphics, and sometimes small two-character sets, such as TM or th or
st or nd. This is all to say that superscript characters were far from
unknown, or undoable, on typewriters.

The idea that Microsoft Word was used here and that the "forger"
screwed up by allowing the th to autocorrect is defeated by the
defining, ornamental dash under the th, which was common in typewriter
days but is not used now, and is not used in Word. Word simply takes
the th you typed and superscripts it...if you want it to do so.

There are no proportional character sets here in the documents. They
are common pica sets: all letterspaces are equal, no matter what the
character or its case is. In fact, most of the entries are in a font
that was generally called Pica; the entry at the bottom, for 1 Oct 73,
appears to be in Prestige Elite, a common, space-saving Selectric font.
You got 72 characters per typewritten line with Pica and 85 or so with
Prestige Elite. Selectrics were common by 1973.

I don't know how anybody can look at this memo and decide that it was
other than typed on a typewriter (or rather, over time, on several
typewriters). Just amazing.

Nice try on the part of the Bush-****ters to quell the truth.


http://www.democraticunderground.com...ess=132x779588


You slam CNS as a credible news source...and then back your attack by citing
democraticunderground.com?!?!?

*THAT's* chutzpah!