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Zen Juris

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  • Nice Narrative Mr Blumenthal

    [Read the article: Dan Rather stands by his story]
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    The truth about G.W. Bush’s history with the Texas National Guard is excruciatingly obvious now, especially with the “meshing” that Mary Mapes performed; and that others have added to since Mapes’ book was published. However, there seems to be a constant effort by some to blow a thick fog of gibberish about MS Word and Times New Roman in an attempt to hide the truth.

    It’s very easy to get “into the weeds” when trying to pound a stake into the heart of this MS Word zombie -- and I’m not about to do that. However, in my obsession about the memos I have learned in the years since Buckhead’s cute little illustration with animation, that a number of people have produced evidence and illustrations that absolutely contradict Buckhead’s claim that MS Word with default settings produced an “exact” match to the Killian memos.

    The reason I’m wasting time to write this is to get the authors of some of this work the attention they deserve by listing my favorites – and their links.

    A. There is, of course the Newcomer site that PaulBC noted at 8:05 AM that supports the Buckhead assertion

    http://www.flounder.com/bush2.htm

    B. The most informative, and overall most thorough -- and I think best -- is BC. If you want to get schooled completely go to his page here (be warned it’s a lot of stuff):

    http://aheckofa.com/FoolMeOnce/CBSBushMemos.html

    C. Probably the most accessible/fun rebuttal to that initial animation is this other page by BC -- a whole gallery of animations (a la Buckhead on LGF) that totally shreds the “MS Word in default mode is an exact match” assertion.

    http://aheckofa.com/FoolMeOnce/Animations.html

    D. A more elegant and rigorous look at the font issues and typewriter or computer production can be found here in a pdf report by Dr David Hailey (who I must note was denigrated for his early draft notes by Wizbang and the LGF folks). You’ll learn what typed fonts actually look like blown up to large size and how they differ from laser or ink-jet printed fonts.

    This is a short introduction -- http://imrl.usu.edu/bush_memo_study/index.htm

    This is a large pdf –

    http://imrl.usu.edu/bush_memo_study/supporting_material/bush_memos.pdf

    If you’re crazy and want to try this at home (compare MS Word to the Killian memos) be sure to use the high resolution photocopy of the memo that is reproduced in Mapes’ book -- Truth and Duty. It’s on page 340 in the Appendix. You’ll be stunned if all you’ve seen are the low-resolution faxed and pdf versions that almost everybody has wasted their time on.

    Thursday, September 27, 2007 02:29 PM

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