Proportional Outrage; There's No Substance to the Outrage over CBS's Memo Gaff
By Anthony Wade
As we continue to track the course of the media slant for Bush toward the election we have the story about the CBS memos allegedly written by the now deceased, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian. Dan Rather, respected journalist for three decades ran with a story about memos that came into his possession confirming what all Americans already know, that George W. Bush did not serve honorably in the Air National Guard. The investigation into these memos has been going on since 1999. As soon as the story broke, the Bush emissaries were unleashed to spin as much disinformation as possible and more importantly to switch the focus of the story. We started hearing the following:
The font of the memos was Times New Roman, which is a computer based font, not available in the 1970s.
The spacing on the memos was indicative of a computer, again, not available when the memos were supposedly written.
There was the usage of a superscript
