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To: tejek who wrote (201509)	9/11/2004 9:18:30 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1574005

darn the bad luck! a seattle media outlet trashing dan rather... seattletimes.nwsource.com AUSTIN, Texas — The man named in a disputed memo as exerting pressure to "sugarcoat" George W. Bush's military record left the Texas Air National Guard a year and a half before the memo supposedly was written, his service record shows.

To: tejek who wrote (201509)	9/11/2004 9:28:38 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574005

This is so clear it isn't even funny. You guys will lie about anything. I can't believe you are so ignorant that you would not be able to figure this out, so I'm assuming it is simply an unlimited effort to support "the cause". 1) Whenever "th" appears as a superscript, it is without a leading space. Whenever "th" appears as non-superscript, it is WITH a leading space. This is precisely as Microsoft Word would have handled these characters as typed. And to have replicated this with a Selectric, one would have had to change the type ball before superscripted "th" and NOT changed it before the others, but have remembered to insert a leading space (frankly, the opposite of what would have been the more likely arrangement, i.e., accidentally generating a space WHILE CHANGING the type ball); 2) While it is conceivable a custom made type ball could have provided for this arrangement, there is consensus agreement that (a) Proportionally spaced Selectrics of the day were rare, (b) the existence of such a type ball is doubtful and certainly hasn't been shown, (c) the likelihood of the military owning such a typewriter and type ball for use in general office applications is slim, at best; 3) Now we have a memo referring to letting a dead guy handle the situation; 4) The guy's family says no way would he have written such a memo, AND they have said that he would not have typewritten such a memo in the first place; 5) There is no evidence the memos suffered from any of the corrections that were necessary in typewritten documents of the day; 6) The document is written in Times New Roman, a typestyle that was likely unavailable in the day and certainly would not have been normally used in the military office environment (as a proportionally spaced font, it is totally a pain to work with in filling out forms, which certainly would have been the most common use of a military typewriter); 7) It JDLR (Just Doesn't Look Right). But it DOES look just like the word of the liberal media, Dan Rather being the worst of it. The Left has been caught in a very ugly dirty trick. You guys are looking more desperate by the day.