’60 Minutes’ Documents on Bush Might Be Fake
The 32-year-old documents produced Wednesday by the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” shedding a negative light on President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard, may have been forged using a current word processing program, according to typography experts.
Three independent typography experts told CNSNews.com they were suspicious of the documents from 1972 and 1973 because they were typed using a proportional font, not common at that time, and they used a superscript font feature found in today’s Microsoft Word program.
The “60 Minutes” segment included an interview with former Texas lieutenant governor Ben Barnes, who criticized Bush’s service. The news program also produced a series of memos that claim Bush refused to follow an order to undertake a medical examination.
The documents came from the “personal office file” of Bush’s former squadron commander Jerry B. Killian, according to Kelli Edwards, a spokeswoman for “60 Minutes,” who was quoted in Thursday’s Washington Post. Edwards declined to tell the Post how the news program obtained the documents.
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The experts have much to say about the documents and the many reasons the documents appear to be fakes.
If 59 Minutes (Michael Savage refers to them as that because they are at least one minute away from any truth) did in fact forge these documents in order to smear George W. Bush they did a very poor job in their haste.
It’s real funny how the media comes out after the Demecrat National Conviction and touts Kerry’s non-existent bounce, but when Pres. Bush really gets a bounce they say:
“we call it a bounce because it goes up and then comes down”… “the bounce will come down”… “a bounce, what bounce?”… trying to deminish his boost in the polls and then they fool themselves into thinking that people (of intelligence) are actually buying it…
and chanuck is following along with pen in hand… time to come to grips chanuck… Kerry’s fun run is OVER…
PCP, I never claimed that these documents were real and I haven’t claimed they were fake. I’ve just sat back and waited for it to be CONFIRMED either way.
So far you have lied about what I say, dodged almost everything you can, start name calling when people disagree with you and are unable to provide sources for your statments when asked (still haven’t gotten back to me on those polls other than ABC’s). This is the way a child acts. I’m sure you can argue much better then a child can.
Please take the time to address the issues asked of you. I take the time to address the ones you bring to me.
canuck, I told you before to look at Zogby, Gallup, etc. I can’t help it you are a lazy *ss, like the departed Todd, who can’t look things up for himself.
canuck you are also being dishonest by asserting the memos are true by making charges against Bush based on the contents of the memos.
PCP, I haven’t made charges based on those memos that is the problem with you getting so mad at me for not calling them fake. I haven’t used them either way, I am waiting to see how this story finishes. The first news I got of those letters was from madbarr’s post slamming them so I have always taken them with a grain of salt.
thank you for the other sources I will now check them out.
The CNN/USA Today/Gallup post-Republican convention poll — the first national poll conducted entirely after the completion of that convention — shows George W. Bush has received a small increase in voter support. Bush’s share of the vote among likely voters increased by two percentage points, from 50% to 52%, while Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s share dropped by an equal amount, in the two-way race. Bush now leads Kerry by 52% to 45% among likely voters, compared with a 50% to 47% lead for Bush prior to the convention. Bush received an identical two-point bounce among registered voters, though the two candidates remain essentially tied among this group.
Not An Eleven-Point Race,’ Zogby Says
Pollster John Zogby says the Republican National Convention gave President George W. Bush a boost, but not an eleven-point lead in the polls, as Time and Newsweek recently proclaimed.
“I have Mr. Bush leading by 2 points (46-44 percent) in the simple head-to-head match-up,” Zogby said in a press release. “Add in the other minor candidates and it becomes a 3-point advantage for the president – 46-43 percent.”
Is that why you didn’t want to give links because you knew they contradicted your claims of a Bush landslide?
canuck, Landslide is when the election votes are counted and one side has vastly more Electoral College Votes. Pollsters do not poll Electoral College votes, because the electors to the electoral college aren’t decided until after the election results are in.
giving civics leessons to a kerry troll.
PCP, well you’ve stuck your foot in your mouth again.
zogby.com
The Zogby poll says the president has made up ground in many of the 20 battleground states, but Mr Kerry retains a slim lead in most of them – enough to give him a majority in the electoral college, if the vote was held now.
The college, which chooses the president, is made up of 538 delegates drawn from the 50 states and Washington DC, according to population. Assigning electors according to the way each state is leaning now, the Zogby poll gives Mr Kerry a lead of 273 to 222, down from the past two months, but a significant edge all the same.
“There’s no doubt that Bush got a bounce … but no way is he up 11 points,” John Zogby, the head of Zogby International, said yesterday.
PCP, looks like I’m giving reading lessons to Bush zealots now.