CBS May Have Royally Screwed Up

The much-talked about Bush/National Guard documents that aired on CBS’s 60 Minutes program appear to be forgeries.

Questions began to be asked after experts discovered that the supposed 30+ year-old documents that were part of an Air Force officer’s official records were in fact made on Microsoft Word recently.

CBS may have been the victim of a fraud intended to defame President Bush’s assertions that he did his duty during the Vietnam War. In the last few hours CBS launched an internal investigation to find out if they were hoodwinked or if someone at CBS decided to take Bush down a few pegs by lying.

The story began to unravel when experts noticed that the print on the paper was from Microsoft Word, and not from a 30 year-old typewriter. The font in question, Times New Roman, is the default font in Word. There was no Times New Roman back then. Typewriters were using a font that featured straight hash-marks for quotation marks, and not the comma-like ones used in Microsoft Word and other computer programs. The spacing was wider apart with typewriters, while fonts today are much closer. In the 60 Minutes story, the documents were in Times New Roman.

Dan Rather is said to be shocked and has promised to deliver an on-air apology if the accusations of fraud turn out to be correct. The question everyone is asking now is “whodunit.”

More to follow on this.