Dan Rather forges ahead

From: (Tom Cervo)
Date: 9/11/2004 5:30 PM Central Daylight Time
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Flynn said it's "very unlikely" that the memos are legit, adding that
he knows of no typewriter fonts using proportionally spaced Roman type
with a raised "th" available in the 1970s.

Come off it, Dan, anyone who used a typewriter knew the trick of lifting the
roller a smidge (or lowering it) for sub (or super) script. You must not have
ever typed footnotes.

Sure it was a common trick, but I have never seen it done on official
documents.

For instance I was in the 55th ARRS and that was the proper way to type it
though I have seen 55 ARRS.

The type written headings were not used on official unit level documents. They
would have used the preprinted blue letter heading with USAF seal.

As for the CYA memo no person in his right mind would say that anywhere in a
memo. There are plenty of ways to write something without saying. People who
write term papers do it all the time to inflate word count.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

On 11 Sep 2004 22:53:52 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

Come off it, Dan, anyone who used a typewriter knew the trick of lifting the
roller a smidge (or lowering it) for sub (or super) script. You must not have
ever typed footnotes.

Sure it was a common trick, but I have never seen it done on official
documents.

For instance I was in the 55th ARRS and that was the proper way to type it
though I have seen 55 ARRS.

By the way, on other of the documents, the forger wrote it with a
space, so as to defeat the auto-corrector. Thus your outfit would be
rendered thus: 55 th.

Again, he was a rank amateur, fooling only the people who wanted to be
fooled. It's no trouble at all, if you're too lazy to turn off
auto-correction, to type 55 th and then delete the space. Word won't
change it then.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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One of the obvious forgeries is posted at www.vivabush.org with a link
to another site with more of the same, plus a $10,500 reward for Tom
Cervo if he can re-create those documents with a 1972 typewriter.

Enjoy the site. I established it four months ago after reading some of
the slime posted on this newsgroup about Bush, whom I was then
inclined to support. Over the months, I have become ever more partisan
in this respect.

Thus do anonymous trolls defeat their own cause.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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The Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com
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