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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: combjelly who wrote (201125)9/9/2004 10:26:07 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1574092
 
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"A Quick Note (Updated)

.. tooting my own horn and offering a general rebuttal to my detractors (partisan and otherwise). I just got done getting interviewed by a mainstream media reporter who basically understood the fact that the expert I tracked down is not just an expert, but pretty much the guy that "wrote the book" on this type of thing (typewriter fonts, forgeries, old typewriters).

So a couple of things to the rabid folks that are accusing me (and others) of clouding the issue or fabricating a non-story:

1. As I mentioned, Dr. Bouffard is perhaps the most notable expert in this area. Stop raging against the machine - I reported this story honestly and thoroughly.

2. Dr. Bouffard is evidently a Democrat that plans on voting for John Kerry.

Sometimes the truth is more important than partisanship, people. I would have reported my findings honestly if the documents had turned out to be real ...

And one last bit of shameless blogospheric braggadacio that I'd like to repeat: This reporter told me (and he was referring to Powerline as well) "You did better than Dan Rather, you did better than the Washington Post; just one guy with a computer!" I'd say that goes for LGF and other portions of the blogosphere today. Kudos to everyone that covered an angle and kept it factual.

UPDATE: Also, for all of the people bugging me about the fact that Times Roman has been around since the thirties - yes, yes, in printing presses, not as a proportional typewriter font. You guys can come up with theories and comment or e-mail them to me all day long, but experts that do this for a living will be likely be able to tell you why you are wrong. That's why they are called "experts.""

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