On further reflection - a conspiracy afoot?
The more I think about the now likely-fraudulent documents on Bush's military service used by CBS News, the more something smells fishy. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, but I'm beginning to wonder about the true source of these documents.
Consider: If you were going to manufacture fraudulent evidence bearing the signature of a man whose wife is still living, and then submit your forged documents to a national news agency, you would put some care into the crafting of those papers, wouldn't you? Of course you would!
Even a rank amateur like me (who has never forged a document in his life) knows enough to realize that 1970s memos were typed on typewriters and not word processors. Only the most hamhanded forger would sit down at Microsoft Word and start typing a memo "from" the 70s using Times Roman as the font. There are countless fonts that emulate the look of a typewriter - do you really suppose the brazen forger didn't have the brains to figure this out before he sent the papers off to the news?
In fact, what even a moderately competent forger would do is to find out what sort of typewriters were commonly used by the US government in the 1970s, obtain one through an auction or on eBay, and type the fraudulent memo using the authentic hardware.
If you can accept that a forger with such ambition thought of none of this, then it's clear that these papers were produced by the most grossly incompetent forger of all time - someone who failed to do even the minimal amount of research to make his forgeries appear authentic.
Another possibility comes to mind, however: Perhaps these documents were forged not by someone opposed to President Bush, but by someone wishing that the whole issue of Bush's service record would go away in a cloud of disgrace?
If the purpose of the forgeries is not to discredit Bush, but rather to discredit the evidence against Bush by casting it into doubt and disrepute, suddenly their cartoony amateurishness makes sense - perhaps these documents were intended all along to be outed as forgeries. Perhaps their author hopes that, in the fallout from their exposure as fakes, the public will grow skeptical of the large body of evidence that contradicts Bush's claims regarding his service. Perhaps the pall that these likely frauds will cast on the quest for truth is fully intentional, and not the accidental result produced by some anti-Bush bozo with Word and a laser printer.
I'm not usually prone to wacky conspiracy theories. I don't believe there are UFOs being hidden at Roswell. I don't believe the CIA assassinated John F. Kennedy. I certainly don't believe that an evil cabal of Jews is secretly running the world!
But this...? This is just a little too fishy for me. Something stinks here, and it's not just those smelly CBS documents.
My prediction: These documents were produced by someone very close to the Bush campaign, in an effort to put the issue of Bush's service to bed once and for all.
Consider: If you were going to manufacture fraudulent evidence bearing the signature of a man whose wife is still living, and then submit your forged documents to a national news agency, you would put some care into the crafting of those papers, wouldn't you? Of course you would!
Even a rank amateur like me (who has never forged a document in his life) knows enough to realize that 1970s memos were typed on typewriters and not word processors. Only the most hamhanded forger would sit down at Microsoft Word and start typing a memo "from" the 70s using Times Roman as the font. There are countless fonts that emulate the look of a typewriter - do you really suppose the brazen forger didn't have the brains to figure this out before he sent the papers off to the news?
In fact, what even a moderately competent forger would do is to find out what sort of typewriters were commonly used by the US government in the 1970s, obtain one through an auction or on eBay, and type the fraudulent memo using the authentic hardware.
If you can accept that a forger with such ambition thought of none of this, then it's clear that these papers were produced by the most grossly incompetent forger of all time - someone who failed to do even the minimal amount of research to make his forgeries appear authentic.
Another possibility comes to mind, however: Perhaps these documents were forged not by someone opposed to President Bush, but by someone wishing that the whole issue of Bush's service record would go away in a cloud of disgrace?
If the purpose of the forgeries is not to discredit Bush, but rather to discredit the evidence against Bush by casting it into doubt and disrepute, suddenly their cartoony amateurishness makes sense - perhaps these documents were intended all along to be outed as forgeries. Perhaps their author hopes that, in the fallout from their exposure as fakes, the public will grow skeptical of the large body of evidence that contradicts Bush's claims regarding his service. Perhaps the pall that these likely frauds will cast on the quest for truth is fully intentional, and not the accidental result produced by some anti-Bush bozo with Word and a laser printer.
I'm not usually prone to wacky conspiracy theories. I don't believe there are UFOs being hidden at Roswell. I don't believe the CIA assassinated John F. Kennedy. I certainly don't believe that an evil cabal of Jews is secretly running the world!
But this...? This is just a little too fishy for me. Something stinks here, and it's not just those smelly CBS documents.
My prediction: These documents were produced by someone very close to the Bush campaign, in an effort to put the issue of Bush's service to bed once and for all.
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