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Thursday, September 09, 2004
Non-baseball: Somebody's in trouble
Check out this memo released by CBS claiming to be from one of President Bush's NG COs (supposedly written in 1973, on a typewriter), in which the author claims he was urged to "sugar-coat" Bush's service records.
Now look at the same memo, typed in Microsoft Word (which obviously was not available at the time) this morning, with no changes to Word's default settings.
You'll find that the two are exactly the same- right down to the location of the superscripted 'th' in 187th.
If you're going to perpetrate a fraud against the President of the United States, you should really put a bit more effort into it. And if you're a media outlet planning to release these documents, you should really put more effort into investigating their source.
UPDATE: More evidence of forgery: The general that Killian refers to in the memo, Gen. Walter B. Staudt, retired in 1972- a year before the date on the memo.
I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for all this, that probably involves some sort of time travel device, which Killian used to travel forward in time to pick-up a word processor, than back in time to when Gen. Staudt was still his CO. You see, perfectly reasonable...
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