Marcel Matley, the expert who authenticated the forged memos for CBS News, is a handwriting expert, as you can see from this Google search. The signatures on the forged memos aren’t of any particualar interest because they’re easily cut-and-pasted.
The most damning evidence of CBS News’ forged documents is the typography, the stylistic features (abbreviations and terminology) and the utterly fantastic things we’re supposed to believe about their origins.
None of these questions were apparently addressed by Dan Rather on CBS News this evening, which leads to one and only one conclusion: Rather is stonewalling.
We all know that Selectric typewriters in the 70s were capable of doing half-line shifts up and down to make crude superscripts and subscripts, but that’s not what we’re talking about: we can see multiple type sizes, variable line spacing, and kerning in these documents, and I know for a fact that the Selectric typewriters of that era were not capable of these things.
See, I was in the typesetting business in 1975, and I spent a whole lot of time looking at documents produced by Daisy-wheel printers and all the Selectrics of the day. Our business was predicated on saving people money in printing costs by producing proportional-spaced pages from computer-resident text, and I doubt that Mr. Rather or Mr. Matley have this expertise.
The hole is getting deeper.