Almost Not Fake Documents
Heh. I thought this story was dead. Apparently Boston Globe was preparing to run a story tomorrow that the CBS memos are real after all, and they’re basing this opinion on a new study by Professor David Hailey of Utah State University.
Let’s just make this short and sweet. Here’s the study Professor Hailey put together.
Here’s a zoom in on Page 9 of the Bush memo font study:
And if that’s not enough evidence of a fake in progress, Professor Hailey did all his work on a publically accessible webserver. Here’s the whole folder, and here’s the work-in-progress Photoshop document.
At 5:50pm CST I verified all those documents are there, but I expect after the head of Prof. Hailey’s department calls him (Wizbang has already notified the head of Hailey’s acedemic misconduct), I expect those documents to disappear shortly.
Dang documents; by golly, we’ll make them real! Hehe.
Full story is available at Wizbang.
Update: Boston Globe has apparently reconsidered and is backing away from this story. 
Update #2: The good professor is still editing his document at 6:07pm CST, so apparently he hasn’t gotten the word yet that he’s been outed. It took bloggers 24 hours to debunk the original memos; now they’re debunking them before they’re fully forged.
Update #3: Saturday morning and all those links are broken. I give it about a week before CBS runs with the story anyway. 
long live the power of the blog
Uptown Girl
September 30, 2004