The Silence of the Scribes...

[alexpgp]

I was a little surprised yesterday upon returning home to find CBS teasing its prospective audience with information in newly discovered documents on Bush's military service. After all the hoopla about how simply Neanderthal it was of Republicans to question Kerry's service, I figured the media'd take the high road, but I guess I must not have taken into account the natural human tendency to mete out payback for wrongs either real or imagined.

I was even more surprised today to find that the blogosphere out there was fairly boiling with fairly substantive questions regarding the authenticity of the documents, about the signatures on the documents (the signer is long dead), the use of proportional font and superscripted numerical suffixes in a 30-year old document, the ease with which documents allegedly can be reproduced with the same line breaks using MS Word, and so on. I was not surprised to hear no murmur of this from mainstream media outlets.

If the allegations of forgery are true, this could make the fiasco of the Hitler diaries look like an undergraduate journalism prank.

Cheers...

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[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

They did mention the font bit on NBC tonight, but basically waved it off as irrelevant. The rest wasn't mentioned at all.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I'm hearing that Nightline interviewed the wife of the late officer who purportedly wrote the memos, and that she's very suspicious of the memos, and that the man's son is, too.

Cheers...