Wirt Atmar wrote:

>Denys writes:
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>>I found this
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>> http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/newcomer/index.htm
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>That page contains nothing but crap. No computer produced that text. All you
>need do is look at the baseline of the letters in the images. They vary up and
>down in the manner that mechanical typewriters produce text. No electronic
>text-setting mechanism has ever done anything like that.
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Which text are you referring to?  The one on the right
(http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/newcomer/cbs-superscript.jpg) is certainly
typed.  That's a genuine document from the 1970s that CBS used to show
that some typewriters had a raised "th".

The four memos that CBS showed on Sept. 8 were done on a computer.  Take
a look at this overlay:
http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Pictures/combo-high-res.gif   The spacing
matches up exactly between MS Word and the memo.

As an experiment, you can try the same memo in MS-Word and WordPad.
You can't get MS-Word and WordPad to match that exactly.  There are
slight spacing differences.  This is with the same font on the same
computer and both are Microsoft products.  I just printed them out and
held them up to the light.  I also tried OpenOffice.  The different
programs adjust the spacing down to the printer resolution (1/300th of
an inch or better).  Typewriters can't space that finely.

The exactness of the centering also shows that they were done on a computer.

The paper was crumpled
(http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Pictures/04-may-73-crumpled.jpg), then
copied/faxed several times.

By the way, I certainly agree that this is a relatively unimportant
matter that shouldn't affect how one votes.  The general incompetence
and dishonesty of the Bush administration are far more important than
what happened in the Air National Guard 30 years ago.  The huge
expansion in government spending, the nutty immigrant labor plan, the
pandering on steel imports, etc.,  have left me with no reason to
support Bush.

Still, there are several things that make the story compelling, I
think.  First, you can play along at home.  Second, you could watch the
evidence come in hour by hour on the internet. Third, it was highly
amusing that CBS got suckered by such an obvious forgery, but my jaw
dropped in astonishment at CBS's reaction when all the problems were
pointed out.

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