The lefty sites like Kos and Atrios have been trying to deny the whole RatherGate thing by claiming that perhaps there was some typewriter version of Times Roman, used with a proportional typewriter, etc.
Today, the Washington Post says:
Thomas Phinney, program manager for fonts for the Adobe company in Seattle, which helped to develop the modern Times New Roman font, disputed Glennon’s statement to CBS. He said “fairly extensive testing” had convinced him that the fonts and formatting used in the CBS documents could not have been produced by the most sophisticated IBM typewriters in use in 1972, including the Selectric and the Executive. He said the two systems used fonts of different widths.
Ok, the guys who invented the font now say it didn’t exist in 1972.
In a word, duh. It was always so blindingly obvious that these were fakes. Not even good fakes either. Really bad ones.
Think Atrios and Kos will give up yet? I bet not. :-)
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The silly documents are discredited in the 2nd line; P. O. Box 34567. Until the 4-digits were added after the zip code in 1983, post office boxes did not go over 999! HELLLOOOOOOO!
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They just get more and more desperate, or could it be that the ineptitude of the documents can be laid at the feet of Begala and Carville? Trust me when I say that Shrillary is already readying legislation to put a kabosh on the internet! She sees how much influence it’s had in THIS campaign. Poor sKerry is like the proverbial “trial balloon”!
Posted by DagneyT | September 14, 2004 3:15 PM
Posted on September 14, 2004 15:15