Friday, September 10, 2004
HA HA HA HA HA HA etc. Part Deux
Dan, oh Dan. In what was a strange admixture of mirth and fury, my daughter and I were watching the See BS Evening News (not often done in our household) when Daffy Dan addressed the erupting controversy over those "authentic" documents.
It was those rascally bloggers, don't-ya-know. Them, and the "partisan" attackers. Mmmmm.
Partisan? You mean like this?
Did you notice the reference to "The Post"? That's right, the Washington Post. That viper's nest of Vast Right-Wing Conspirators.
Let's take a peek at the Post's opinion piece about the Prison Scandal™ Congressional investigation. Think of it as a political thermometer.
Yup. Washington Post: Right-Wing Rag.
(PS You people owe me. The WaPo server has got to be the slowest on the planet!)
Dan, oh Dan. In what was a strange admixture of mirth and fury, my daughter and I were watching the See BS Evening News (not often done in our household) when Daffy Dan addressed the erupting controversy over those "authentic" documents.
It was those rascally bloggers, don't-ya-know. Them, and the "partisan" attackers. Mmmmm.
Partisan? You mean like this?
After doubts about the documents began circulating on the Internet
yesterday morning, The Post contacted several independent experts who said they appeared to have been generated by a word processor. An examination of the documents by The Post shows that they are formatted differently from other Texas Air National Guard documents whose authenticity is not questioned.
William Flynn, a forensic document specialist with 35 years of experience in police crime labs and private practice, said the CBS documents raise suspicions because of their use of proportional spacing techniques. Documents generated by the kind of typewriters that were widely used in 1972 space letters evenly across the page, so that an "i" uses as much space as an "m." In the CBS documents, by contrast, each letter uses a different amount of space.
While IBM had introduced an electric typewriter that used proportional spacing by the early 1970s, it was not widely used in government. In addition, Flynn said, the CBS documents appear to use proportional spacing both across and down the page, a relatively recent innovation. Other anomalies in the documents include the use of the superscripted letters "th" in phrases such as 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Bush's unit.
"It would be nearly impossible for all this technology to have existed at that time," said Flynn, who runs a document-authentication company in Phoenix.
Other experts largely concurred. Phil Bouffard, a forensic document examiner from Cleveland, said the font used in the CBS documents appeared to be Times Roman, which is widely used by word-processing programs but was not common on typewriters.
Did you notice the reference to "The Post"? That's right, the Washington Post. That viper's nest of Vast Right-Wing Conspirators.
Let's take a peek at the Post's opinion piece about the Prison Scandal™ Congressional investigation. Think of it as a political thermometer.
A Failed Investigation
Friday, September 10, 2004; Page A28
ADAY OF congressional hearings yesterday confirmed two glaring gaps in the Bush administration's response to hundreds of cases of prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. The first is one of investigation: Major allegations of wrongdoing, including some touching on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other senior administration officials, have yet to be explored by any arms-length probe. The second concerns accountability. Although several official panels have documented failings by senior military officers and their superiors in Washington, those responsible face no sanction of any kind, even as low-ranking personnel are criminally prosecuted. To use the phrase of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), this "is beginning to look like a bad movie."
Yup. Washington Post: Right-Wing Rag.
(PS You people owe me. The WaPo server has got to be the slowest on the planet!)
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