CBS News: Typeset in question available since 1931, WH relying on blogs

Says CBS. Oh my. Internet blogs and operatives have been examining fonts and making false claims whereas the type in question has been availble commercially since 1931!!!!

Handwriting expert M. Matley examines Killian signatures and certifies signatures are authentic. Oh dear.

"I think what has happened is some incriminiating documents has come out. The White House has NOT discredited the documents, as they know the documents are real. They are relying on the blogosphere and political operatives to discredit them when they in fact know the documents are real."

CBS stands by their reporting.

move along

They are out to get Anyone against them.
Defy them and start reporting the truth.
What you leave out is as important as what you leave in!
Be different. Report on what is actually going on in the world.

Stand up to Rove and do some digging.

eom

Blitzer and company are too entrenched. Credibility is gone.

a nastygram. He made it seem like Rather has been out to embarrass republican presidents throughout his career. He even showed an exchange between Rather and 41, when Rather had the audacity to question 41 about Iran Contra.

Check out these questions:

"So when you compare these documents from that unit in the Texas Air National Guard, compared to all the other hundreds of documents that were written during that era, there's a clear difference. Is that what you're saying? . . . And the clear difference is the typeface, the superscript, that little TH that goes up. In those days, typewriters didn't normally have that kind of superscript?"

"Now, the other thing that makes the documents suspect is that surviving family members of Jerry Killian, the lieutenant colonel, the commander of George Bush's Texas Air National Guard unit, they say that -- and Jerry Killian died, what, 20 years ago. They say he didn't keep these kind of files, and it was simply farfetched to assume that he did."

"I would suspect, though, that the biggest -- the biggest question mark comes, if these four documents are totally, totally different, the typeface, the font, the style that all of the other documents released during that era from that unit, that would raise the biggest question marks. But Dan Rather, you just heard him. He's standing by this report, absolutely, positively, 100 percent true. That's what he just said, which sets the stage for another one of these potential media battles questioning the authenticity and the credibility of the news media."

"Our staff, earlier, in the past few hours, spoke to some experts on this issue, and they say there are certainly serious questions raised about the authenticity of these documents. But unless you get the original, it's going to be very, very hard to make a 100 percent determination. Is that what the experts at "The Washington Post" contacted as well are saying? . . . And it certainly will be a fascinating story. And, of course, we're not going to start speculating, if, in fact, these were forgeries and CBS News was duped. Who may have been behind that kind of caper? But that's another story that I'm sure "The Washington Post" and CNN, a lot of other news organization are going to be working on in the days to come."


And then he let Dobbs get away with this outrageous demand: "I didn't hear those comments by Dan Rather, but I think that CBS needs to, one, tell us the source of the documents. And two, they need to name their experts who authenticated the documents. As far as I know, they haven't yet named the experts they hired to authenticate the documents. I think the onus is now on them to prove that these documents are authentic."

Well, I guess Ol' Dan answered Dobbs' question. Wonder what he and Wolfie now have to say about "media credibility," which is again being called into question, NOT because of CBS' well-sourced and carefully documented story, but because of interviews like this one.

because the subject is so simple and accurate

Meanwhile Kerry is campaigning. Things are looking up for us, down down down for the White House.

And old typewriters laying around in storage, right?

CNN should send a reporter to IBM and see what the find. LOL