[Apologetics] [Petitions] Demand Dan Rather & CBS News Retraction

[Art Kelly]

Thanks, Stuart. This is very informative.

As I told Dianne, we have been very involved with this
where I am working temporarily. I'm taking the liberty
of forwarding your e-mail to several people here at
American Target Advertising.

Our company president, Richard Viguerie, has written a
new book, America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used
New and Alternative Media to Take Power. This matter
fits right into the subject matter of the book because
of the significant role that bloggers have played in
exposing this apparant hoax.

Art

--- "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Dianne Dawson wrote:
> 
> > ALERT: Reports are now exploding across
> newspapers, 
> > television and the internet that CBS News, led by
> blatantly 
> > biased Dan Rather, used forged documents during a
> "60 
> > Minutes" segment Wednesday night in an incompetent
> attempt 
> > to smear President George W. Bush's National Guard
> service. 
> 
> It's not so obvious as all that.  It is true that
> when typed into
> MS Word with default settings and Times Roman font,
> the exact same
> spacing and letters are produced.  It is also true,
> that the pixels for
> the letters match exactly at the center of focus,
> whereas the "original"
> becomes more smeared farther from the center of
> focus - just as if
> a copier was involved in aging the "original".  The
> use of supercript
> "TH" is suspicious since typewriters of the time had
> no general 
> superscript capability.  The tab stop for the date
> headers matches
> exactly with the default tab stop on MS Word.
> 
> However, the Times Roman font was designed to
> emulate the classic font (which
> has been around since the turn of the century) as
> closely as possible.  There
> was a reasonably priced typewriter from the period,
> the IBM Executive, capable
> of proportional spacing with the Time Roman font
> (actually something very
> slightly different).  Furthermore, IBM offered up to
> 4 custom keys for 
> these typewriters.  It would make sense for the
> military to order theirs
> with "ST", "ND", "RD", "TH" keys.  
> 
> On the other hand, the typist had to press the
> return key at the end of 
> every line with the Executive.  The operators
> word-wrap choices (somewhat
> arbitray) coincided exactly with those made by MS
> Word - extremely unlikely
> (but possible).  It is also surprising that the TH
> custom key would produce a
> glyph with exactly the same font, size, and height
> as the MS Word superscript
> font.  Also, the officer cited as applying
> "pressure" on the memos dated 1973
> had retired in 1971 according to military records.
> 
> I would like to find out whether the military
> actually used IBM Executives
> for their memos before making a judgement.
> 
> We already knew that Bush's guard service was
> lackluster toward the end.
> The only new accusation this evidence supports (if
> true) is that his
> superiors were pressured into giving him a pass.
> 
> -- 
> 	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
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> here?" commercial.
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