"I am amazed that Dan Rather and his associates at CBS are blind to the overwhelming evidence that these documents are blatant forgeries," writes Robert "Corky" Cartwright, a Professor of Computer Science at Rice University who has "followed the evolution of word processing technology over the past 30 years. " In emails to Hugh Hewitt, Professor Cartwright provides a definitive explanation of why the alleged Killian memos Rather used to trash GW's military record on Sixty Minutes II earlier this week are frauds. Those like ourselves who knew what kerning was before Tony Snow defined it last night on FOXNews will want, as they say, to read the whole thing. Comments Hewitt re Rather's lame defense of his sources aired last night:
That's the best Rather can do? The docs aren't compatible with the technology available at the time. They are compatible with forgery technology available today, and Emperor Dan has no clothes!
Unlike CBS, I did a quick google search on my source, Professor Cartwright, and found him to be who he says he is.
Cartwright's contributions to the conversation on the CBS fraud are just three examples of thousands and thousands of e-mails to bloggers working the story of the CBS fraud. This is what The Belmont Club is talking about in his post today, what I called "open source journalism" this morning, and what The American Thinker and Samizdata are referring to as "the wisdom of the many," and "distributed intelligence," respectively. No matter what you call it, the old media is now undeniably on notice that whoppers get walloped.
Oh, and speaking of "distributed intelligence," did you, in fact, catch Tony Snow last night -- subbing for Bill O'Reilly on cable's Number One show -- after explaining what kerning is, citing the Bob Woodward of Memogate, PowerLine? As Tony might say, we'll give the last word to you, Hindrocket of PowerLine:
Hugh Hewitt has the best discussion of the technical typewriter/word processor issues that I've seen anywhere, from Robert Cartwright, a professor of computer science at Rice University. Check it out. It appears definitive; among other things, it seems we were right all along about kerning.
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