Friday, September 10

Hold It, Guys...Hold It...

A fringe website called DefeatJohnJohn.com is offering a $10,000 reward for anyone who can recreate chrarcter-for-character the CBS docs on a 1972 IBM Executive typewriter.

Um...can you guys hold off on that? Garry Trudeau still hasn't found a taker for his $10,000 bounty for anyone - ANYONE who served with Bush in the ANG.

One reward at a time, please.

Also, can we please give CBS a little more cred than Drudge on this? Unlike the Swift Boat Circus, CBS' documents have been corroborated by both forensic experts and those who were there...not by hearing about it from friends who knew guys who flew over the same hemisphere as the Mekong Delta where Kerry was.
LINK - In a statement, CBS News said it stands by its story.

"This report was not based solely on recovered documents, but rather on a preponderance of evidence, including documents that were provided by unimpeachable sources, interviews with former Texas National Guard officials and individuals who worked closely back in the early 1970s with Colonel Jerry Killian and were well acquainted with his procedures, his character and his thinking," the statement read.

"In addition, the documents are backed up not only by independent handwriting and forensic document experts but by sources familiar with their content," the statement continued. "Contrary to some rumors, no internal investigation is underway at CBS News nor is one planned."
This is so insane.

UPDATE: Kenneth at the Bonehead Compendium does his own Times New Roman comparison.