It's much more than the "th" thing. The entire format is wrong, the
words used are wrong, two documents are not signed, the address on top
is invalid. And on, and on.
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200409100809.asp
http://tinyurl.com/6fota
At this point, it is my understanding that these memos, bogus or
otherwise, were given by persons unknown to the DNC, which then passed
them on to the Kerry campaign. The latter passed them to CBS "News".
Currently CBS "News" is sticking to their story, even though their story
has changed somewhat.
The DNC is now accusing Karl Rove of either setting them up with these
memos or sending them straight to CBS. It's difficult to follow Terry
McAuliffe.
The story should continue to unfold further, but one thing is certain,
in the absence of the Internet, CBS "News" would not have been
questioned so quickly, if at all.
Denys
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Timothy Atwood
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 3:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] 60 Minutes Documents on Bush Believed Fake
" But the use of the superscript "th" in one document - "111th F.I.S" -
gave
each expert pause. They said that is an automatic feature found in
current
versions of Microsoft Word, and it's not something that was even
possible
more than 30 years ago. "
" "That would not be possible on a typewriter or even a word processor
at
that time," said John Collins, vice president and chief technology
officer
at Bitstream Inc., the parent of MyFonts.com. "
Now hold on one minute. My old manual type writer had a superscript
"th". In
fact it had an entire half-line-lift key that allowed the superscripting
of
almost anything. On top of that, it even had a special key with a small
"th"
as the lower case position and a small "nd" when shifted up. This was a
totally manual type writer - not even electric. So that part of the
article
is total and complete bull.
I might agree with the proportional font thing though. I can not
remember a
proportional font word processor until well after 1972.
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