{"id":2864,"date":"2004-09-10T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/09\/cbs-news-expert\/"},"modified":"2004-09-10T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T23:30:14","slug":"cbs-news-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/10\/cbs-news-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News&#8217; &#8220;expert&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMarcel Matley, the expert who authenticated the forged memos for CBS News, is a handwriting expert, as you can see from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=navclient&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=Marcel+Matley\">Google search<\/a>. The signatures on the forged memos aren&#8217;t of any particualar interest because they&#8217;re easily cut-and-pasted.<\/p>\n<p>The most damning evidence of CBS News&#8217; forged documents is the typography, the stylistic features (abbreviations and terminology) and the utterly fantastic things we&#8217;re supposed to believe about their origins.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s not what we&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The hole is getting deeper.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t of any particualar interest because they&#8217;re easily cut-and-pasted. The most damning evidence of CBS News&#8217; forged documents is the typography, the stylistic features (abbreviations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/10\/cbs-news-expert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CBS News&#8217; &#8220;expert&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Kc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}