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To: LindyBill who wrote (89882)	12/9/2004 2:06:41 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793912

The Hailey Report is Back, Just in Time littlegreenfootballs.com Rumor has it that the results of the investigation into CBS Memogate are going to be released tomorrow. And in a rather ... uh ... curious coincidence, Dr. David Hailey, the Utah State professor who is desperately, quixotically trying to prove the CBS memos are real, has released what he claims as the final version of his shoddy, laughable “analysis.” And I’m sure you won’t be shocked at all to discover that his conclusion is ... the documents were typed. On a magical typewriter that somehow produced an exact duplicate of a Microsoft Word document, down to the spacing, line breaks, and tab stops ... in 1972. Hailey produced neither the actual typewriter, nor any actual typewritten documents proving his case. Instead, he used a computer to create his examples, by cutting and pasting sections from different fonts, and moving them around letter by letter to get a close match. In the original version of his report, you could actually see the crude cut and paste job in one example; that example has now been removed. Read it for yourself. Hailey’s report is here. (PDF file.) Would it be overly cynical to suggest that we shouldn’t be surprised at all to see this mendacious analysis cited in the CBS investigation? Wizbang has a post this morning pointing out the numerous flaws, questionable conclusions, and bogus methodology in the report. wizbangblog.com But for the really crushing refutation, see the peer review done by Dr. Joseph M. Newcomer—a real typography expert—who flays Hailey’s work down to the bone: The Hailey Connection. The fix is in, folks, and the whitewash is on the way.