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[jimlarsen]

I've been looking at the memo's some more and I think the "th" is going to be proof that they were done recently with MS WORD. The th's that are normal sized do have spaces around them, although the size of the space varies. Buti It looks to me like the space size before the "th" varies exactly the same in Word as in the memo's. In my opinion, someone went to a lot of trouble to make these look authentic, and then messed up by leaving a superscript "th" as a tip-off.

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[Prchrmn2]

Am I mistaken or does the MSNBC posting cited below actaully plagarize exact quates from this blog we are currently on and if so who else in monitoring?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5955784/

A thoughtoccured to me of a more insiduious plan why not let ot some fake memo's (reasonably sure that we can take/doge or redirect the heat) all for the purpose of getting the bloggers to show us how much they know and any weazk areas. Then we come out with round two and cover all those areas so conviently covered for us by the bloggers...am I too far out there?
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[BC]

[jimlarsen]

You can go here to start getting information about Major General Bobby W. Hodges: http://www.kwanah.com/txmilmus/airguard/honor/004.ht

[BC]

Oh my God….these people are just…just…..AAHHHHH

It’s time to step on these little cockroaches.

There oh so great story gets blown out of the water so the come up with crap like this

[jimlarsen]

Crap like this really makes me mad. The F102 was very difficult to land. It had to have the nose up in the air like a Concord, and it didn't have help from a computer. These people who find some remark and then pontificate on how it shows a weakness in Bush (or anyone else) are total idiots. Too bad the Web lets them become published idiots.

If anyone's interested here is the link to 60min readers letters. I just sent them one and ended with 'I used to watch CBS news and 60 Minutes, but now I'd just "Rather" not.'

[Nathanyl]

Here's a link to a Boston Globe article from the 2000 election where Bobby Hodges was quoted:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000816165911/http://www.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/Republican_ticket_lets_a_military_connection_slip+.shtml

[lolajl]

Aaack! I just can't believe how this really blew up in the face of everyone involved! You know, this Barnes character was able to raise $500,000 for the kerry campaign, you'd think he would have spent extra to get a more professional forgerer. This is one of the most stupid tricks I've ever seen.

[hammondb3]

Overlay Found Here

www.jimroofcreative.com/may19.gif

Pretty much self-explanatory. I printed the scaled down version off of CBSNews and also printed a version I made today using MS Word and all default settings. I re-scanned both images and scaled the MS Word version to fit the same size as the scaled down "1972" memo.

The new version was also rotated and very slightly skewed to match errors introduced by who knows how many photocopier passes.

All of the alterations to the 2004 MS Word document were made GLOBALLY. No changes were made that affected the relative spacing between characters, words, lines or paragraphs.

Feel free to distribute the image found at the link. Please keep the link itself out of circulation.
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[Skypilot]

Skypilot
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 8:01 pm


Previously posted:



I opened Microsoft Word, set the font to Microsoft’s Times New Roman, tabbed over to the default tab stop to enter the date “18 August 1973,” then typed the rest of the document purportedly from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian.

And my Microsoft Word version, typed in 2004, is an exact match for the documents trumpeted by CBS News as “authentic.”

A screenshot of the “original” document as found at CBS:



A screenshot of my Microsoft Word document:



The spacing is not just similar—it is identical in every respect. Notice that the date lines up perfectly, all the line breaks are in the same places, all letters line up with the same letters above and below, and the kerning is exactly the same. And I did not change a single thing from Word’s defaults; margins, type size, tab stops, etc. are all using the default settings. The one difference (the “th” in “187th” is slightly lower) is probably due to a slight difference between the Mac and PC versions of the Times New Roman font, or it could be an artifact of whatever process was used to artificially “age” the document. (Update: I printed the document and the “th” matches perfectly in the printed version. It’s a difference between screen and printer fonts.)

There is absolutely no way that this document was typed on any machine that was available in 1973.

UPDATE at 9/9/04 10:57:34 am:

And this is not the only document that was apparently written with Microsoft Word; Jeremy Chrysler had the same idea and discovered another exact correspondence: Bush Guard Documents Forged?

UPDATE at 9/9/04 11:28:55 am:

Here are the two documents superimposed—and please note that when I cut and pasted the images, I just eyeballed it with no special effort to match sizes:




COPIED FROM:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12526_Bush_Guard_Documents-_Forged
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