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September 18, 2004

Now $50,000 and still unclaimed

They started with a mere $10,000 and a challenge: be the first person to reasonably recreate the Killian memos on an actual typewriter from 1972.

The award is now up to $50,000.

I guess the people at democraticunderground.com, Atrios, dKos and other sites convinced that the memos are "authentic!" are so individually rich, they needn't bother trying to meet the challenge.

Right?

Posted by Darleen at September 18, 2004 09:55 AM

Comments

Cool, I hope somebody tries. Give them time, though, I doubt they've all heard of this reward. They should get that offer in the news.

Of course, no one has claimed the rewards for anyone who served with Bush in drills in Alabama either. That's been out for years.

Anyway, how significant do you think the CBS forgery issue is, and what does it imply to you? I mean, is it more important than whether the President neglected his commitment to the military and worse, lied about it?

And I'm sure you realize that I could reproduce an old typed document on a computer, but that would not make the original a forgery or untrue in content. Fonts were made to imitate type in the first place.

What was your reaction to the Niger/uranium purchase forgery, used to support the war?

I would think that the government's use of a very obvious forgery would be more important than one news story doing so. You?

Posted by: Binacontenda at September 20, 2004 12:04 AM

Scott

How soon people forget.

Posted by: Darleen at September 20, 2004 08:18 AM

Interesting article, but it's weird that he's not in the news now, or doing interviews to support Bush, or referenced by the White House, or anything. Why haven't we heard about this guy in the national dialogue on Bush's service? Not even on Fox, which I watch every day.

Did he claim the rewards offered? That would settle it for me, and I'd say "okay, so Bush did serve, and we were wrong."

Any comment on the relative importance of the Niger forgery?

Posted by: Binacontenda at September 22, 2004 09:56 PM