CBS Forgeries: Thursday 30 Sept 2004

1. Halberstam voices criticism of CBS 'star journalism': "What they did was very stupid," Halberstam said. "But they have been heading in that direction for a long time. I've always been critical of this whole business of star journalism, where you have a big anchor coming on air and acting as a prosecutor with someone else's reporting. In many instances over the years on that program the reports have been lightly or poorly sourced and the reporting suffers as a result. Dan Rather right now is the principal anchor of the Evening News, but he is also the program's main reporter. Then he's the anchor of 48 Hours. On top of that he's the star of 60 Minutes II. That's just too much for one person and it leads to the kind of sloppiness in their reporting that just happened. (nashvillecitypaper.com)
2. Dan does it again (nypost)
3. Texas Att'y Gen'l Launches Rathergate Probe
   Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has launched a criminal investigation into forged military records allegedly obtained from President Bush's National Guard file that were aired by CBS News three weeks ago, referring a congressional request for the probe to the investigative division of the Texas Rangers. (newsmax)
4. More Than Scandal, CBS Saga May Indicate Crime: In Texas, the state in which Burkett concedes the false National Guard memos originated, it is a felony to make or present two or more documents with knowledge of their falsity and with intent that they be taken as a genuine governmental record. Under the U.S. Code, use of an interstate telephone wire, such as the one used to transmit an image of the forged documents from Texas to CBS headquarters, triggers federal jurisdiction. (foxnews)
5. INDC Interviews CBS:"The truth of the e-mails were absolutely irrelevant to the piece, because all the story said was that people were worried. It’s a story about human beings that are afraid of the draft. We did not say that this (e-mail) was true, it’s just circulating. We are not verifying the e-mail." (indcjournal)
6. Iraq missions that work out are missing from mainstream media: "media emphasis on Iraq being in chaos has coincided with John Kerry making the same pitch to voters. It makes you wonder, just as we did on the authenticity of Dan Rather's reporting. And now America knows about Rather's ruse." (tennessean.com)

OTHER

• Kerry's myth making: Exaggeration is a familiar political staple, but presidential candidates usually are held to a higher standard. Kerry's recent descent into myth making may reflect the campaign's anxiety in the final weeks. The immediate questions are whether he will engage in misstatements during Thursday's first presidential debate, and whether he will be challenged if he does. (bob novak, townhall)
• Pacifist Hatfield supports Iraq war: Compare the attention given that item with a story that truly is surprising: Last week, former Oregon governor and senator Mark Hatfield, now 82, announced his strong support for the American effort in Iraq. He said, "Our world changed on Sept. 11, 2001. ... We have paid dearly with American and Iraqi lives for our commitment, but we cannot afford the alternative."
  So what? Is he one more bloviating politician? No, this is Mark Hatfield, the most prominent evangelical in politics during the 1960s, and one who led opposition to the Vietnam War and every American military effort since. (olasky, townhall)

CBS Forgeries: Wednesday 29 Sept 2004

1. IT WAS LATE, KERRY SAID, REFERRING TO NOON
   The good news is John Kerry did an interview on Good Morning America, and he was asked about his "I voted for it before I voted against it" comment.
   Kerry responded, "No, it wasn’t classic at all. It just was a very inarticulate way of saying something, and I had one of those inarticulate moments late in the evening when I was dead tired in the primaries and I didn't say something very clearly."
   Hey, it happens! No big deal. Everybody has made a comment that doesn't make sense late at night... except...
   “‘I actually did vote for his $87 billion, before I voted against it,’ he told a group of veterans at a noontime appearance at Marshall University. He went on to explain that he preliminarily backed the request, so long as it was financed not by deficit spending but with a tax surcharge on the wealthy that Bush opposed.”
   As Bush spokesman Steve Schmidt suggested, maybe his watch was on Paris time.
   (kerryspot, nationalreview)
2. Old dog, old tricks
   Ratherbiased.com (whose site is down now) and Little Green Footballs detail how CBS News last night used discredited documents to attack President Bush:
   In a story that was a textbook example of slipshod reporting, CBS reporter Richard Schlesinger used debunked internet hoax emails and an unlabeled interest group member to scare viewers into believing that the U.S. government is poised to resume the draft. (powerlineblog)
3. TIMESMAN TIPPED OFF TERROR CHARITY: FEDS -- The Justice Department has charged that a veteran New York Times foreign correspondent warned an alleged terror-funding Islamic charity that the FBI was about to raid its office — potentially endangering the lives of federal agents. (ny post)
4. CBS flawed report on draft: And now Dan Rather puts this story on the air -- fake emails, fake "apolitical, Republican mom" -- at the same time Kerry and the DNC are pushing the "Bush wants to reinstate the draft" line. (ace of spades)
5. Network News Flash: Probe By Brooks Boliek
   WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS may have escaped congressional scrutiny into the controversy over allegedly forged documents detailing President Bush's National Guard service, but only until the election is over. (reuters)
6. Further complicating matters for CBS and Dan Rather, the legacy media has unwittingly opened up another angle on probable malfeasance, when they proudly announced that Rather producer Mary Mapes had been the recipient of sensitive Abu Ghraib investigative documents and photos. Just as we are unsure of the actual source of the Guard memo forgeries, the same can be said for the source of the Abu Ghraib materials.
   However, a partial chain of connection is revealed upon further examination of contemporary media accounts and the Taguba Report (the high level official inquiry) itself . (americanthinker)

Other

• Norwegian pilots land plane after axe attack by passenger (yahoo, afp)
  

CBS Forgeries: Tuesday 28 Sept 2004

1. Doug Forrester (former US Senate candidate) has reached into his own pocket to run ads calling for Rather’s resignation. DURING RATHER’S BROADCAST (rathergate.com)
2. Fisking of NYT editorial (allahpundit)
3. Exposing intellectual morons - interview w/Dan Flynn: Banescu: Does Dan Rather's forged memos fiasco provide even more support to your theory that ideology is more important than truth to this crowd?
   Flynn: Rathergate is a microcosm of the main idea of this book, which is that ideology makes smart people fall for stupid ideas. Had Dan Rather and his underlings at CBS been motivated by getting at the truth rather than advancing a specific political agenda, they would have never fallen for the forged memos. (townhall.com)
4. How the Mighty Have Fallen: This is the reason that the liberals are so anxious to shut down talk radio. This is why they curse Fox News and are trying to figure out a scheme to put them out of business. This is why the liberals are so anxious to tax and regulate the Internet. These are the gasps of a dying industry. Rather resign? Heck no. He should stay there so he can go down with the ship. (american spectator)
5. Schieffer: Rathergate 'a Terrible Blow' to CBS's Credibility (newsmax)

OTHER

• Rigor-Free Research: A lot of what passes for education research isn't reliable or rigorous, and many education professors aren't keen on the scientific method. Education has a "dirty little secret," writes Jeffrey Mervis in the June 11, 2004 Science Magazine: "No program has yet met that rigorous standard, because none has been scientifically evaluated and shown to be effective. (A related secret is that there's no consensus on the type of evaluation studies that are needed.)"(techcentralstation)
• Buzzwords, Jargon, Ideology-serving Shibboleths, and Reason-Torturing Terminology in Education (kozloffm, uncw)
• Leftists and the Cold War: Daniel J. Flynn (newsmax)
• Hating America isn't anything new (Charlotte Observer)

CBS Forgeries: Monday 27 Sept 2004

1. The reckoning: Though some have dubbed the Dan Rather docugate story a distraction from the real issues of campaign 2004, I would argue that, in some ways, the episode illuminates those issues. (mona charen, townhall)
2. Where's the outrage -- at CBS? (pat buchanan, townhall)
3. Making CBS play fair (john leo, townhall)
4. Cf. NYT Blogging article: But for liberals, the move from a world dominated by three big liberal networks, two big liberal newsmagazines, and two great liberal newspapers to a world in which bloggers can bring down a network anchor and the Times' own executive editor is an absolute and utter catastrophe, even if some of those bloggers happen to be liberal themselves. American are living now in a world of media diversity. It’s the worst thing to happen to Democratic hopes since the Sunbelt went Republican. (david frum, nationalreview)
5. Rathergate: DNC-CBS News (ed morrow, frontpagemag)

Other

• Intel showed Iraq Smuggled out WMDs (wizbangblog)
• Syria brokers secret deal to send atomic weapons scientists to Iran (telegraph.co.uk)

CBS Forgeries: Sunday 26 Sept 2004

1. How the Associated Press Operates: The Associated Press is in the same position as CBS News: it must clean house, now, or face a permanent loss of credibility. (powerlineblog)
2. Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail: one-sided liberal blog-only coverage (NYT magazine)
3. Bush tried to volunteer for Vietnam - story from February 2004 (nationalreview)
4. Newsweek: Bush tried to volunteer for Vietnam (msnbc.msn.com)

NEWS

• NEWS

CBS Forgeries: Saturday 25 Sept 2004

1. NEWS Retired Colonel: Bush Volunteered for Vietnam (volunteertv.com)
2. Dan Rather's Day of Reckoning: It didn't start with Rathergate. (weeklystandard)
3. The Case of the Phony Memos: For an anonymous source, Bill Burkett sure talked to a lot of people. (weeklystandard)
4. NEWS Mr. Lockhart's smoking gun? (washingtontimes)
5. All eyes are on Rather's future (yahoo news)

Other stuff:

• Conservatives in a Liberal Landscape: On left-leaning campuses around the country, professors on the right feel disenfranchised (chronicle of higher ed)
• Disgraceful: The disgraceful behavior of John Kerry and his team is sufficient grounds for concern about his fitness to be president (William Kristol, Weekly Standard)
• The Associated Press Pulls Out the Stops for Kerry: What a nice couple. Ballentine is an open, above-ground supporter of the Kerry campaign; Loven promotes Kerry covertly by smearing President Bush on behalf of the Associated Press. (powerlineblog)
• Another Triumph for the U.N.: genocide in Sudan (David Brooks, NYT)

CBS Forgeries: Friday 24 Sept 2004

1. Fake and inaccurate: Like all Guard members, Lt. Bush was required to accrue a minimum of 50 points (annually) to meet Guard service requirements (a minimum of 300 points in six years). What the liberal media may not have covered in their many articles about Lt. Bush's ANG service is that Lt. Bush accumulated 954 points - exceeding the six-year Air National Guard requirement for service - threefold. Of course, everyone knows this, right? All those investigative reporters must have brought this fact out a dozen times. I just must have missed it. (powerlineblog)
2. The Fall: A bankrupt generation is fading away (nationalreview.com)
3. Dan Rather's blunder a threat - to the right: The establishment media's days of leading the national political dialogue may be over. The left is unlikely to simply accept this loss of agenda-setting power. Even before these demonstrations of impotence, there was a growing murmur in liberal circles about the increasing influence of conservative media and the "unfiltered" Internet. (azcentral.com)
4. NEWS Lockhart's Locked Lips (nypost)

CBS Forgeries: Thursday 23 Sept 2004

1. NEWS Staudt speaks out about Bush memo debacle (herald-zeitung.com)
2. NEWS Dead Soldiers: The terrorists and their allies already intended to increase the level of violence in Iraq before November. But Kerry's pandering has encouraged them to pull out all the stops. I wish it were otherwise, that our election process had more integrity, but the truth is that every roadside blast and car bomb in Iraq is meant to support John Kerry. (nypost)
3. NEWS Rove scoffs at charge he was CBS source (washingtontimes)
4. Ghosting for Les The speech CBS's president Les Moonves needs to give (hugh hewitt, weeklystandard)
5. Murdoch Says Fox Would Have Been 'Crucified' for CBS Mistake (editorandpublisher.com)
6. Breaking the News, Then Becoming It, by Tina Brown (washingtonpost.com)
7. Who Knew? Someone other than CBS and Burkett appears to have known about the phony documents, and spread the word quietly, in preparation for a massive coordinated campaign to discredit President Bush. (americanthinker)
8. CBS, Sitting Between Fiasco And Fallout, By Howard Kurtz(washingtonpost.com)
9. The News Keeps Getting Worse for Embarrassed CBS (latimes)
10. Opinion: Rather should be fired over documents scandal (macontelegraph.com)
11. NEWS Channeling Howard Dean (chicago tribune)

CBS Forgeries: Tuesday 21 Sept 2004

1. NEWS Modified Limited Hangout: "The problem in this case is that before yesterday CBS never gave its viewers even a hint that its entire controversial story hinged on the word of someone who has made it one of his main goals in life to defeat Mr. Bush. Even after the documents on Mr. Bush's National Guard service were called into question, CBS refused to let viewers in on the secret of its source's motives." (wsj.com)
2. NEWS Kerry Aide Talked to Bush Guard Docs Figure (foxnews.com)
3. NEWS CBS Backs Off Guard Story: Docs source is "Lucy Ramirez" (usatoday)
4. NEWS CBS Apologizes for Report on Bush Guard Service (nytimes)
5. NEWS Memo stirs old vs. new media war (boston globe)
6. NEWS CBS 'Rathergate' Producer Under Pressure from Network - Mary Mapes criticized by her father: "I'm really ashamed of what my daughter has become. She's a typical liberal"(talonnews, gopusa)
7. NEWS Probe Of CBS Memo Story: Within the next few days, CBS News expects to name an independent panel of experts to scrutinize its reporting of President Bush's National Guard service after its defenses for airing the explosive story crumbled. (cbsnews)
8. NEWS Kerry aide talked to Texan at center of disputed Guard documents (sfgate)
9. NEWS Kerry Iraq speech galvanises press (bbc news)
10. "CBS NEWS STANDARDS." (nationalreview)
11. NEWS The Paper Trail: A comparison of documents (washingtonpost)

CBS Forgeries: Monday 20 Sept 2004

1. NEWS CBS News Concludes It Was Misled on National Guard Memos, Network Officials Say (nytimes)
2. NEWS After Blogs Got Hits, CBS Got a Black Eye (washingtonpost)
3. NEWS "Seared in My Memory" (mackubin owens, nationalreview)
4. NEWS CBS can't vouch for Bush Guard memos, White House asks if Kerry campaign involved: "CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report," CBS News President Andrew Heyward said in a statement issued by the network.
   "We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret." (CNN)
5. NEWS CBS: Bush Memo Story A 'Mistake': CBS News said Monday it cannot prove the authenticity of documents used in a 60 Minutes story about President Bush's National Guard service and that airing the story was a "mistake" that CBS regretted. (cbsnews.com)
   

• All the good things they never tell you about today's Iraq (mark steyn, opinion telegraph.co.uk)

CBS Forgeries: Saturday 18 Sept 2004

1. NEWS What Blogs Have Wrought From the September 27, 2004 issue: How the guys sitting at their computers in pajamas humiliated the suits at CBS News (weeklystandard)
2. NEWS General Shoots Down Memos (nypost)
3. NEWS In the Rush for a Scoop, CBS Found Trouble Fast (latimes.com)
4. NEWS Records Show Commander Wrote to Bush Sr. By MATT KELLEYAssociated Press Writer (nypost)
5. NEWS Texan Involved in CBS Report Tried to Help Kerry Campaign (nytimes)
6. NEWS Parallels Drawn Between CBS Memos, Texan's Postings (washingtonpost)
7. NEWS Rather went on faith, not facts (latimes.com)
8. NEWS new post

CBS Forgeries: Friday 17 Sept 2004

1. Incompetent or Unethical? The Story of CBS News' Response to Criticism Over the Killian Memos (corante.com)
2. NEWS Speaking Out: Air National Guard Colonel Denies Bush Got Preferential Treatment [Staudt interview] (abcnews.com)
3. NEWS Blogger Who Faulted CBS Documents Is Conservative Activist (latimes.com)
4. "Fake But Accurate" - comparisons to "I, Rigoberta Menchu" (thatliberalmedia.com)

CBS Forgeries: Thursday 16 Sept 2004

1. NEWS Rather Concedes Papers Are Suspect CBS Anchor Urges Media to Focus On Bush Service (washingtonpost)
2. NEWS CBS revisits Bush's Guard memos (CNN)
3. NEWS Ex-Guardsman Is Said to Be a CBS Source (nyt)
4. Fonda has apologized, Kerry hasn't: In 1988 even Fonda acknowledged: I would like to say something . . . to the men who were in Vietnam who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it. . . . I want to apologize to them and their families. (Ross MacKenzie, townhall.com)
5. NEWS KAMIKAZE KERRY RIDES ALONG WITH LOSER DAN (NY Post)
6. NEWS Mad Dan's Noble Lie (american spectator)
7. NEWS National Guard memos force CBS to defend reputation (CNN)

CBS Forgeries: Wednesday 15 Sept 2004

1. Exclusive: IBM Executive conclusively ruled out (shapeofdays)(shapeofdays2)
2. Dan Rather's Unimpeachable Source (ace of spades)
3. NEWS CBS' experts say they didn't authenticate Bush memos (CNN.com)
4. NEWS Paper Wat on Bush Record CBS News was had. It's hard to reach any other conclusion about documents that CBS and anchor Dan Rather have defended (latimes.com) (bmenotte)
5. NEWS Document Experts Say CBS Ignored Memo 'Red Flags' Two document experts retained by CBS News for the disputed "60 Minutes" story on President Bush's National Guard record said yesterday they had warned the program that the memos involved had significant problems but that their concerns were not heeded. (Howard Kurtz, washingtonpost)
6. NEWS Terror's Pals in the Press (nypost)
7. The death cry of snob journalism (michelle malkin)
8. Rather be wrong (jonah goldberg)
9. NEWS CBS Guard Documents Traced to Tex. Kinko's Records Reportedly Faxed From Abilene (washingtonpost)
10. NEWS CATCH THIS IF YOU CAN, DAN: FORGER CRIES HOAX - Frank Abagnale (nypost)
11. Little Green Footballs: And here is a high resolution version, prepared by one of our readers who is a PhD researcher in image registration (alignment) in the Department of Radiology at a very well-known university, who applied a customized computer program to find the best rotation, alignment, and scaling for the two images—producing an even more perfect match: Link to image.
12. CBS statement (http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/cbsstatement.pdf)
13. NEWS Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate, Typist Says (ironic headline, NYT)
14. NEWS Rather says memo flap doesn't change his story (usatoday)

CBS Forgeries: Tuesday 14 Sept 2004

1. NEWS Expert Cited by CBS Says He Didn't Authenticate Papers (washingtonpost)
2. NEWS CBS Forges Ahead (John Podhoretz, NY Post)
3. NEWS The day CBS News got 'blogged' down (Pinkerton, NY Newsday.com)
4. Blogger files Formal Complaint to FCC (precisetruth.blogspot)
5. Goodbye to all that: Dan Rather goes the way of the dinosaurs (Jonah Goldberg, National Review.com)
6. NEWS A revolution in news (Tony Blankley, washington times)
7. NEWS Casting Further Doubt (abcnews.com)
8. Whodunit? Now that the CBS News documents have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be forgeries (galleyslaves.blogspot)

CBS Forgeries - Monday Sept. 13

1. NEWS Issues & Insights: Rather Biased? (investorsbusinessdaily)
2. NEWS Memos debate eclipses content (usatoday.com)
3. NEWS Washington Prowler - Here We Go Some More (american spectator)
4. Dan Rather followup - This is a Defense? (nationalreview)
5. 30 questions about John Kerry (augustafreepress)
6. NEWS Evidence of the president's fudged war record emerged in time to undermine the Republicans' triumphal march (sidney blumenthal, guardian)
7. NEWS "The X Files of Lt. Bush" But Bill Glennon, a technology consultant in New York City who worked for IBM repairing typewriters from 1973 to 1985, says those experts "are full of crap. They just don't know." Glennon says there were IBM machines capable of producing the spacing, and a customized key — the likes of which he says were not unusual — could have created the superscript th. (time magazine)
8. Suspected CBS-Forgery: The Hitler Diaries Revisited (David Kaspar, medienkritik)
9. Joseph Newcomer on Cam Edwards Radio show - transcript (allahpundit)
10. Sloppy: CBS Altered Memo - in TV segment (dailyrecycler)
11. NEWS NY Sun article "How Four Blogs Dealt a Blow to CBS' Credibility (reposted indcjournal)
12. Blogger press release: IMPORTANT QUESTIONS UNANSWERED REGARDING CBS MEMOS (shapeofdays.typepad.com)
13. NEWS The Burden of Belief: A list of what you need to believe in order to conclude that CBS's documents aren't forgeries. by Fred Barnes (weeklystandard)

Other Items:

• UPI Internet claim on Bush award disputed - Bush actually entitled to medals (upi.com)

CBS Forgeries - Sunday 12 Sept

1. NEWS Bush Guard Papers 'Forged' (washingtontimes)
2. NEWS No disputing it: blogs are major players (latimes)
3. Shapeofdays recap 9 sep of rather report -- suspect superscript (shapeofdays)
4. NPR and Media Matters can't tell time (patterico.com)
5. NEWS Gaps in Service Continue to Dog Bush (washingtonpost)
6. NEWS Another 60 Minutes Apology - 1999 Drug Smuggling faked memo (washington post archives)
7. Dan Rather / CBS Hoax Update: Negligence Bordering on Libel? (blogsforbush)
8. Focusing on Honor / CBS Defaming Killian's Character? (blackfive.net)
9. Hurricane Dan: Get Serious (powerlineblog)
10. NEWS An Ex-Officer Now Believes Guard Memo Isn't Genuine (nyt)
11. Newsweek Suggests that CBS source is Bill Burkett (justoneminute)
12. NEWS Slimetime Live - Bill Burkett (newsweek)
13. Source for Forged Documents Unmasked? Bill Burkett (ace of spades hq)
14. ace update: Burkett saw Killian Memo in Trash? (ace of spades hq)
15. Feb18,2004 Burkett blog posting: Of the files that I saw within the 15 gallon waste can were numerous documents which detailed why 1LT George Bush was grounded from flying including a two-page counseling statement signed by LTC Jerry Killian. (steveverdon.com)
16. NEWS old Boston Globe article on Bill Burkett (boston.com 2/13/2004)
17. Article Authored by Bill Burkett "Demand Integrity" (mikehersh.com)
18. NEWS "The End of Network News": the moment when the networks abdicated their authority with the American public (washingtonpost)
19. "Don't trust content from Sixty Minutes" previous scandal, faked memo, drug smuggling (instapundit)
20. Forgery Update: One Simple Question (billhobbs.com)
21. Modern Times: NYT reports on source turning on CBS (belmontclub)
22. The Strings Are About To Break: Forgery Summary (binaryroadtrip.com)
23. Best refutation of forgery by computer typesetting expert: All I can say is that the technology that produced this document was not possible in 1972 in the sort of equipment that would have been available outside publishing houses, and which required substantial training and expertise to use, and it replicates exactly the technologies of Microsoft Word and Microsoft TrueType Fonts.
    It is therefore my expert opinion that these documents are modern forgeries.(Joseph Newcomer, flounder.com)

CBS Forgeries - Day 2

1. IBM Selectric test shows mis-match (shapeofdays.typepad)
2. Expert witness scorecard (blogoram)
3. IBM Selectric Composer details (onehandclapping)
4. Welcome to the only site on the Internet completely dedicated to the IBM "Selectric" Composer line of typesetting machines (ibmcomposer.org)
5. UPDATE on Dr. Bouffard's Forensic Opinion (indcjournal)
6. As you can see, the super- and sub-scripting available to these typewriters only involved the raising or lowering of letters; it obviously couldn't make them any smaller, since the wheel was fixed-point (defeatjohnjohn)
7. $17,600 and rising - list of issues (defeatjohnjohn)
8. Robert "Corky" Cartwright, CS Prof, Rice U: The Killian memos could not have been typed on an IBM Executive typewriter with "proportional spacing" or any other typewriter usingsimilar technology. According to product descriptions on the web, theIBM Executive typewriter supports only four different characterwidths. In contrast, modern proportional spacing involves a far moresophisticated type-setting algorithm. (hughhewitt)
9. A Compendium of the Evidence (qando.net)
10. As for the superscripted 'th' Rather rather triumphantly revealed that there WERE, in fact, typewriters capable of the trick in 1973. As icing on the cake, he told us that some documents released by the White House include the superscripted 'th'. Here's a screenshot (murdoconline.net)
11. Bottom line... CBS's document expert ain't (wizbangblog)
12. Opinion: Bush's Exam Doc -- Real or Fake? (pcmag.com)
13. NEWS Questions mount on Guard memos' authenticity (Rowan Scarborough, washingtontimes)
14. NEWS "McAuliffe says Democrats did not leak Bush records" (Bill Sammon, washingtontimes)
15. NEWS "Rather Mysterious" (nypost)
16. NEWS "CBS falls for Kerry campaign's fake memo" (Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun Times)
17. Dr. Bouffard (p-o'd) Speaks About Boston Globe (indcjournal)
18. Supposed military chronology (tinyurl/30fwa)
19. Animated gif showing fakery (littlegreenfootballs)
20. NEWS "Back To The CBS Memos" (nationalreviewonline)
21. NEWS "Edwards wants Bush to address Guard memos (Nashua Telegraph)
22. Typographic Problems With The Bush Memos (neiluchitel.com)
23. Times (New) Roman and its part in the Development of Scalable Font Technology (truetype.demo.co.uk)
24. NEWS More challenges about whether Bush documents are authentic (seattletimes)
25. IBM typewriter gallery (etypewriters.com)
26. Flash animation showing comparison (img41.exs.cx)
27. Great comparison images (peterduncan.net)
    

CBS forged documents - the day after

1. Burden now on CBS to authenticate its documents, lest it become a co-conspirator in fraud (BeldarBlog)
2. What the Bush Guard Papers Really Say (Byron York, NationalReview)
3. Some Question Authenticity of Papers on Bush (Michael Dobbs, Washington Post)
4. Blogs v. 60 Minutes (techcentralstation)
5. Critical memos on Bush's Guard service faked? (Thomas Lipscomb, Chicago Sun Times)
6. Bombshell Spectator Post (Prowler at Spectator reposted at dailyrecycler)
7. Power Line Wins, CBS News Loses (powerlineblog.com)
8. CBS Overboard, ABC Nightline segment (powerlineblog.com)
9. Anatomy of a Forgery (freerepublic.com)(spectator.org)
10. What Did Kerry Know, and When Did He Know It? (blogsforbush)
11. New York Times fails to credit blogosphere (nytimes.com) see (indcjournal) below.
12. Is It a Hoax? (weeklystandard)
13. CBS's Big Blunder (John Podhoretz, NY Post)
14. Are the Killian Memos Real? Leftwing blog (Kevin Drum, washingtonmonthly)
15. Comparison of two memos, real, forged? (interocitor.com)

DNC exploits CBS propaganda

1) Sep 8, 2004
McAuliffe Statement on Breaking News About Bush's Military Record dnc.org link

Washington, D.C. - Responding to breaking news regarding George W. Bush's military record, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe issued this statement:
"George W. Bush's cover story on his National Guard service is rapidly unraveling.
"Tonight's CBS New report made clear that President Bush has misrepresented the nature of his National Guard service for decades to the American people. And now that questions are being raised, only Bush can settle this once and for all by answering the unanswered questions about his Guard service.
"CBS News exclusively obtained documents that flatly contradict two of Bush's often repeated claims about his time in the National Guard - that he received no special treatment and that he fulfilled his duty.
"According to these new military documents, political pressure was applied and strings were pulled for President Bush at every step of the process: to get in the Guard, to stay in the Guard, and to exit the Guard.
"These are serious charges. They have not been leveled by his opponent. Or by a political party. Or by an outside group. They are based on documents from the personal files of Col. Jerry Killian, Bush's squadron commander.
"George W. Bush needs to answer why he regularly misled the American people about his time in the Guard and who applied political pressure on his behalf to have his performance reviews 'sugarcoated'?"


2) Sep 9, 2004
Bush Lied And Needs to Answer the Questions Himself dnc.org link

BUSH LIED: SAID HE GOT NO SPECIAL TREATMENT IN THE NATIONAL GUARD
Moderator: You are confident no influence was exercised on your behalf [in getting a spot in the Guard]?George W. Bush: I am, yeah. [1994 Texas Governor's Debate]
…BUT BEN BARNES PULLED STRINGS TO GET HIM IN
Dan Rather: …Barnes says he had a meeting with the late oilman Sid Adger, a friend to both Barnes and then-congressman George Bush….Ben Barnes: …But he said, basically, would I help young George Bush get in the Air National Guard? Rather: Barnes says he contacted his longtime friend, General James Rose, the head of Texas' Air National Guard…. Rather: And you recommended George W. Bush? Barnes: Yes, I did. Rather: You said that you did this for others, what we normally call "preferential treatment." Barnes: Oh, I would describe it as preferential treatment. [CBS "60 Minutes," 9/9/04]
BUSH LIED: SAID HE FULFILLED HIS DUTY
Bush, speaking from the Oval Office in 2004: "I'm just telling you, I did my duty." [Meet the Press, 2/8/04]
…BUT HE DISOBEYED A DIRECT ORDER TO TAKE A PHYSICAL AND WAS GROUNDED
"President Bush failed to carry out a direct order from his superior in the Texas Air National Guard in May 1972 to undertake a medical examination that was necessary for him to remain a qualified pilot, according to documents made public yesterday." [Washington Post, 9/9/04]
The colonel [Killian] goes on, the "officer," meaning then-Lieutenant Bush, "has made no attempt to meet his training certification or flight physical." [CBS "60 Minutes," 9/9/04]
…BUT HE TRIED TO GO OVER HIS COMMANDER'S HEAD TO GET A POSITIVE EVALUATION
In August 1972, Bush's superior officer Lt. Col. Jerry Killian notes in a memo that Bush had gone over his head and was "talking to someone upstairs" to avoid service in Alabama. [CBS "60 Minutes," 9/9/04]>…BUT HE MISSED MONTHS OF DUTY
"Yet Bush, a fighter-interceptor pilot, performed no service at all for one six-month period in 1972 and for another period of almost three months in 1973, the records show." [Boston Globe, 9/8/04]
BUSH LIED…AND THE ONLY WAY GEORGE BUSH PUTS THIS BEHIND HIM IS TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS FOR HIMSELF

CBS Document Forgeries -- Links

1) CBS News Story page is here .

2) Check out powerlineblog .

3) Spacetownusa.com

4) Robert Bluey of CNSnews.com

5) Americandigest.org quotes a reader who was a clerk/typist in the US Navy

6) Kerry Spot at nationalreview.com

7) Littlegreenfootballs.com tries an experiment copying the text into MS Word, for an exact match!

8) Although IBM had produced a successful typebar-based machine, the IBM Executive, with proportional spacing, no proportionally-spaced Selectric office typewriter was ever introduced. There was, however, a much more expensive proportionally-spaced machine called the Selectric Composer which was considered a typesetting machine rather than a typewriter. Source

9) Anti-Bush site with links to public documents.

10) Forensic document examiner "at least 90% positive they're fake" cf. indcjournal.com

11) Usatoday.com has links to contemporaneous documents.

12) Freerepublic post that shows "Original text, slightly adjusted for rectangular fit" vs. 'Same text, screen capture of document written in MS Word 2002 with no effort to match original aside from document width"

13) Humorous forgery mocking CBS newly discovered memos (freerepublic post)

14) Definitive story on ratherbiased.com

15) Archive of CBS news story on freerepublic

16) Captains Quarter's blog

17) HughHewitt #1

18) HughHewitt #2