Tim Blair

CBS didn't have the courtesy of spelling Dr. Philip Bouffard's name correctly.

Well, the CBS executive's selectric memory will cause them to lose their composer soon enough.

Just noticed that Michael Moore's blog has in it's most recent entry (7th September no less!) a gloating reference to the coming Dan Rather revelations.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/blog/

Come on Mike, lets hear what youve got to say...

Just to nitpick: It's not the Dallas-Ft. Worth Star Telegram, it is the Ft. Worth Star Telegram. Dallas has the Dallas Morning News and on an editorial level they seem to compete a bit, though they do not have overlapping circulations.

The Dems are in the middle of launching a major slime attack now crashing on its own forgeries. Here are 61 words of that which was SUPPOSED to happen, by Sidney Blumenthal in “Now it's Bush's Turn to Squirm,” The Guardian (UK), 9/9/04, Sid-slime still on the stands even as Rathergate bloomed:

Abruptly, the Republican marchers stumble as Kerry is galvanised. "His miscalculation was going to war without planning carefully and without the allies we should have had," he said yesterday. Meanwhile in the White House, aides anxiously wonder how to explain the president's haunted past and his long years of hiding it and who will have the task of facing the cameras.

As you can see, Dan Rather, Terry McAuliffe, John Edwards, etc., are still trying to follow that script.

All of this has been meant to build to a head during the November election in order to help the Dems contest the election & even destabilize the electoral process. The Dems pols, many of them, are steadily building to a head where, I’m starting to think, they will try to justify extremes of some kind.

The Dems also are busily disenfranchising the US armed forces. Floridian armed forces members overseas may have trouble getting ballots because of a Florida Dem judge’s last-minute decision in a Dems-vs-Nader case.

This doesn't make sense. Wasn't Bush supposed to be the idiot?

Now Mike Moore knows what he's talking about when it comes to forgeries. Isn't he the one who produced a
forged copy of the Bloomington Pantograph's front page in "Farenheit 911"? And isn't he the one who added faked up words to a 1988 Bush ad about the Willie Horton furlough scandal in "Bowling for Columbine"? Yes indeed he is. Put your faith in forgeries, my fellow Americans!

"http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/blog/"

The relevant paragraph:

Later today (Wed.), the Boston Globe, the A.P. and Dan Rather all present new and damning information about how George W. Bush got moved to the front of the line to get in the Texas Air National Guard, and how he then went AWOL. I am putting every ounce of trust I have in my fellow Americans that a majority of them get this, get the injustice of it all, and get the sad, sick twisted irony of how it relates very, very much to our precious Election 2004.

How is it that he hasn't deleted this already?

D'oh! Sorry, Tim.

Why hasn't Moore deleted it? Well, the documents are as factual as his films, and he hasn't deleted them . . .

This has just been so much fun, watching Rather and CBS implode. And the Moore quote: He sounds like Gollum! "Our PRECIOUS Election 2004"?! I'm expecting him to hiss, "We hatess them, we hates the Republicanses, yes we do! Gollum! Gollum! They stole it from us, they stole the Preciouss, yess! We hatess them forever!"

Moore's not very good at this "blogging" thing, is he? Two entries around in three days at the beginning of July, then nothing until Tuesday's craptacular entry. I suspect it may be months before "Gollum" Moore posts again! Probably November 3rd for wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Nah, I think he'll post at least once more before the election, probably the Tuesday before.

He'll predict a massive landslide for Kerry, despite the majority of polls that predict otherwise. He'll call it something along the lines of "Payback Tuesday", and may even use it again hoping no one remembers. Somewhere in the post he'll use the phrases "send a message" and "ordinary people".

November 3rd is when he deletes that post.

Im thinking if we have a Bush/Howard double re-election,there will be a lot of left wing barking moonbats looking for new homes.Maybe Nth Korea.

Care to try your hand at forging an authentic military document from 1972? To fool the “experts” you just need Microsoft Word '97 or later, the standard Times New Roman typeface, and a bit of persistence. I did not test this with all versions of Word, so the commands may vary a bit from those below.

First, open a new blank document in Word. In the top menu click File > Page Setup, then set the top margin at 0.7", the bottom at 1", the left at 1.35", and the right at 1.25". Now click Format > Font, and select Times New Roman, regular, 11 point.

Your "original" 1972 letter from Lt. Colonel Killian is printed below. It has underlining instead of spaces to preserve the letter’s white space in HTML and Word.

Put the cursor at the beginning of the underlining, hold down Shift and Ctrl, and tap the End key or use the down arrow key to select all the text in the letter. Release all keys, right click in the selected area, and copy. Left click at the start of your Word document. Click Edit in the top menu, then Paste Special, select “unformatted text”, and “OK” to paste.

Now we have to replace the underlining with spaces. Left click at the beginning of the document, click Edit, Replace. Type one underline mark after “Find” and one space after “Replace”. Hit OK. If asked if you want to start again at the beginning of the document, click OK. All the underlining should now be spaces.

Just to make absolutely sure that all the text is now in 11 point Times Roman, put the cursor at the start of the document, and select the entire letter. Change it all to another font size, say 12 point, then back to 11.

We’re almost done. Locate the "th" following "111th" near the end of the letter. Delete the "th", type "th" again followed by a space, and delete the space. This should put the "th" into superscript.

Last, add one carriage return (hit Enter) in the space where the signature would go, above "JERRY".

Now save the file. Print it, on a LaserJet if possible. Scuff it up a bit to "age" it, and copy it on a copier set to darken a bit. Copy the copy.

If all went well (it sometimes happens) you have just created an almost exact replica of the "authentic" typewritten document that CBS used to discredit George Bush.

Compare your document to the "original" CBS May 4th memorandum at

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/06/politics/main641481.shtml

The May 4th file is linked on the left in a grey box that says "More Information". Double-click to open the PDF file in Acrobat, then print it.

You should also save the CBS file, in case you ever want to remember this shining example of the liberal media’s "journalistic integrity."

Here is the letter:
____________________________________________________111th_Fighter_Interceptor_Squadron
___________________________________________________________________P.O._Box_34567
______________________________________________________________Houston,_Texas_77034

________________________________________________________________________________________________04_May_1972

MEMORANDUM_FOR__1st_Lt._George_W._Bush,_5000_Longmont_#8,_Houston,
____________Texas_77027

SUBJECT:_____Annual_Physical_Examination_(Flight)

1._You_are_ordered_to_report_to_commander,_111_F.I.S.,_Ellington_AFB,_not_later_than_(NLT)_14_May,1972,_to_conduct_annual_physical_examination_(flight)IAW_AFM_35-13.

2._Report_to_111th_F.I.S._administrative_officer_for_schedule_of_appointment_and_additional_instructions._Examination_will_be_conducted_in_duty_status.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________JERRY_B._KILLIAN
_______________________________________________________________________________________________Lt._Colonel
_______________________________________________________________________________________________Commander

Perhaps this was supposed to be the Dems' ``October Surprise'' - only they had one of those Palestinian-style ``work accidents'' and it blew up in their own faces.

As for ``Palace Alert'' - OK, we have only the younger Mr. Killian's word on it, but hey, it has more credibility than anything Dan said. I hope the word goes far and wide. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, Tim.

"CBS didn't have the courtesy of spelling Dr. Philip Bouffard's name correctly."

They probably think people can't google the reference if they misspell it. CBS News has gone past the point of negligence and reasonable disagreement and is clearly dissembling.

One would think that even at a monolith like CBS, there would be an employee with scruples and a conscience. Where is that honorable CBS employee who cares more for truth than for willful error? Where is the CBS whistleblower? Doesn't "60 Minutes" positively dote on whistleblowers anyway? Couldn't an internal whistleblower go to the bosses at "60 Minutes" and get put on the air without delay?

Is Hell cooling off yet?

Annalucia,

We have more than just Mr. Killian's word for it. For example, see here.

But who would have guessed so many people know so much about typeface, past and present?

Sometimes I think nobody actually _reads_ the MSM. Back a few months ago, Newsweek did a cover story on both candidates' Vietnam years, called "War Stories", it explicitly mentioned Bush and Palace Alert.

Link here

I found it especially amusing when Josh Marshall went ballastic when (1st name forgotten) Racicot mentioned the story in public, saying only that it came from a "national magazine". He hypervenilated for several days that there was no such magazine, or that it was some conservative rag. I finally sent him the link, but he never issued a correction that I saw. I found it amusing that a cover story in Newsweek is apparently so obscure that the Republican can't remember the magazine, and the Democrat never read it.

Oops, my link didn't work for some reason. Here it is as text:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4271922/