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2004-09-10 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-10 19:33|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 OK, so Rather trots out a handwriting expert (soon-to-be-fallguy) who says that the docs have been "photocopied, faxed, scanned and downloaded" and are therefore far removed from the docs CBS started with.

OK, Herr Professor, which of those processes caused the documents to assume proportional font? But a good point to make if you're purely a handwriting expert.

Rather then argues, implicitly, that it doesn't matter whether the documents are forgeries or not because other evidence supports the CBS report. So I guess if the administration relied on a forged document about yellowcake, that really wouldn't be worth a mention.

And the fact that a major network is using forged documents, knowingly or unknowingly, is a trivil detail, I suppose.

Posted by Matt 2004-09-10 8:17:20 PM|| 2004-09-10 8:17:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Rather did a great job.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-10 8:21:01 PM|| 2004-09-10 8:21:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 of framing the issue for the Sunday Morning Talk Shows. And now the Blogosphere has 36 hours to prepare.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-10 8:21:41 PM|| 2004-09-10 8:21:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 This just gets better and better. I love it when a jerk like Rather goes out to buy the shovel to dig his own grave. Kiss your legacy goodbye.

Posted by Remote Man 2004-09-10 8:32:04 PM|| 2004-09-10 8:32:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I suspect the media are going to undergo a lot of changes over the next 5-10 years. Their credibility as unbiased, honest sources of reliable information is rapidly circling the drain, with more and more people coming to see them as either lazy, or incompetent, or even downright dishonest. Or all three.

PREDICTION: In ten years, there will be no more broadcast news shows, and not very much on cable, either. What little there is will consist mostly of talking heads reading aloud from blogs.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-09-10 8:42:43 PM|| 2004-09-10 8:42:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 SeeBS has released this photo of LtCol Killian typing his personal memos.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-10 9:12:16 PM|| 2004-09-10 9:12:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL!!!

Posted by Dave D. 2004-09-10 9:17:55 PM|| 2004-09-10 9:17:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey, don't laugh Dave D., I remember that typewriter; it is a Mark IV Man-Portable (okay, several *battalions* of men, but who's counting?) Auto-Kerning, Super-Duper-Scripting, Proportional Spacing, Battle-hardened Typewriter, (1).

Every Guard office was equipped with one.

And an auto-drip coffee machine. Now THAT was a cool toy for the time...

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2004-09-10 9:26:43 PM|| 2004-09-10 9:26:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I almost choked on my dinner upon observing the "th" shifted upward...... :D

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-10 9:58:25 PM|| 2004-09-10 9:58:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I served for twenty years in the Air Force and they NEVER stocked an automatic drip coffee maker! Why do the guard units always get the best stuff? (you have to be a Guard member to get that satire)

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-09-10 10:37:47 PM|| 2004-09-10 10:37:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 While dan Rather was on assignment a trustworthy substitute was brought in by CBS.

Posted by GK 2004-09-10 11:10:13 PM|| 2004-09-10 11:10:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 This alone sinks the whole thing: (from Yahoo News)

"But CBS News said in a statement: "The documents are backed up not only by independent handwriting and forensic document experts but sources familiar with their content." Matley was the only expert cited, and he focused on signatures on the memos.

Matley and Rather acknowledged the memos were difficult to definitively authenticate because CBS has only photocopies, not the originals. Matley did not return a telephone message left at his office immediately after Friday's report." [gone fishing, huh?]

So all the "expert" did was to compare scanned in signatures" and that's that. This is just crazy. Of course the signatures are "real"... but they are copied.

I can only pray that this is not the usual "forensic expertise" that U.S. courts have to deal with.

Because if it is... I have a document from Mr Stuyvesant for you who sold me Manhattan for 100 dollars...

Posted by True German Ally 2004-09-10 11:52:01 PM|| 2004-09-10 11:52:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 It will be interesting. The web wont be as forgetfull, as some hope, will it?

Posted by Lucky 2004-09-11 12:11:08 AM|| 2004-09-11 12:11:08 AM|| Front Page Top

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