Ohiocore

I've been back and forth on the documents CBS used to reveal what was already known about GWBush's Nat'l Guard stint: namely, that he got in on special connections, avoided Vietnam, skipped his physical exam, was grounded and therefore failed to fulfill his duties. Nobody honestly contends otherwise. (I'll go ahead and add that he was busy losing a gubernatorial race and too coked up to fly, and that's why he skipped his physical. People do dispute this.)

However, it looked very bad for the pres when CBS seemed to have documented proof of political favoritism and pressure in the guard. Then it seemed like the docs were bogus because of font features like raised "th" after a number. Then Dan Rather pointed out raised "th" occurances in the Nat'l Guard docs already distributed from that era by the whitehouse itself. Then it seemed like it was the wrong kind of raised "th", and not a true superscript. Pingpongpingpong.

So, I have to say, with some disappointment, that my first look at actual document images (late generation copies, scanned, compressed and webposted) is not good. That looks like crap. Instinct says bogus.

Much like when I look at W, actually. But that doesn't mean you get to make up documents.