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Desperate Times - Desperate Measures

All the usual wingnut suspects, Townhall, WorldNetDaily, Drudge, et al, are now insinuating that the '60 Minutes' Documents on Bush's Guard service might be fakes, They point to two documents in particular, the memo ordering him to take a physical, and the memo regarding political pressure to buff Bush's file, are held to be suspect because they use a proportional font and a 'th' superscript, which are alleged to not have been available in the early seventies.

A fine conspiracy theory. But if they are forgeries, why did the White House quietly release these very documents without statement immediately following the 60 Minutes broadcast? They had previously claimed they had released all relevant records. If they had copies in their possession and had the slightest doubt as to their authenticity, they would not have quietly passed along these documents, but loudly protested:

After the broadcast, the White House, without comment, released to the two memos, one ordering Bush to report for his physical exam and the other suspending him from flight status.

Another fine conspiracy blown away by simple deductive reasoning. It is comforting how clumsily the Right lies.

posted by Michael Bryan @ 9/09/2004 05:38:00 PM