RatherBiased.com has the scoop on the forged documents Dan Rather used to make this case regarding the President’s National Guard service a million years ago:
During last night’s 60 Minute program on President George W. Bush’s Air National Guard service, the CBS News touted a number of documents which seemingly indicate that the future president failed to meet his service obligations.
That may well be the case but it is becoming increasingly evident that 60 Minutes, and the Dan Rather, the reporter behind the story, may have been relying on forged documents to prove their case.
Several indicators point to this conclusion including the fact that the four memoranda, which Rather said were written during the early 1970s by Bush’s commanding officer Lt. Colonel Jerry Killian, are printed in a proportionally spaced type style similar to the common computer font Times New Roman. But such computer technology had not even been invented when the documents were allegedly written.
I don’t think this is an important story, but Rather’s gullibility might make it one. The election cycle is shaping up as a major indictment of the mainstream media for sloppy fact-checking and an increasingly transparent attempt to promote their favorite candidate.
Blogs for Bush has a lot more on this story.
Bush went AWOL.
He violated a direct order.
He’s going down.
The documents were forged, and Rather’s going down.
Nope. The documents, as it turns out, were not forged.
See:
for details.
Funny, it turns out lots of typewriters had those features by the mid-70s, and the Selectric II had it in the mid-60s.
Oops!
The Selectric II didn’t do proportional fonts or Kerning, little fella, so you’re wrong. Keep trying, maybe in your desperation you’ll come up with something.
And please stop leaving URLs in these comments unless they’re in HTML – it messes up my formatting.