Update on Rathergate
More and more info is coming out to support the thought that the documents produced by Dan Rather on 60 minutes yesterday were incompetent forgeries designed to put President Bush in a bad light.
PowerLine,
The Command Post,
Little Green Footballs and
Roger L. Simon are all doing excellent jobs of covering this meltdown...
More data is surfacing about the technology available in 1973 for doing true-proportional typing and it doesn't look good for CBS/60 Minutes. They saw what they wanted to see and did not bother to investigate. Their main claim to authenticity never reviewed the source documents (
here (scroll down to Game Over) and
here)
Buh-bye Dan...
UPDATE:
Forgot to mention Bill at
INDC Journal -- he is one of the people who did the original digging and is very much in the pantheon.
Posted by DaveH at September 10, 2004 10:31 PM