Were Bush Guard Documents Forged?
Bump and Update: Just got an email from a reader who thought we missed the forgery story. We didn't, we just wrote a lot of stuff afterwards. So here's a bump to our post written at 5:17 pm yesterday so you all can keep discussing it.
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There is quite a debate going on in the blogosphere about the Killiam Memos revealed last night on 60 Minutes regarding Bush's National Guard Service. Powerlinereports on those claiming they are a forgery while Kevin Drum of Washington Monthly reports CBS is confident they are authentic.
The argument concerns typefaces available in 1971....
Update: Here's proof from IBM that proportional spacing came out in 1954 on it's IBM Executive model. (via Jefe at Atrios.) That does look like the memos.
Update: Electric typewriters began replacing manual typewriters in the mid-1960's. The IBM Selectric came around 1970. Manual typewriters began to disappear during the mid 1960's due to the increased popularity of electric typewriters. The Selectric was to electric typewriters what the Underwood was to manuals. (Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1997, available on Lexis.com in which the author also describes viewing Selectrics "circa 1970" in a shop)
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