You know those documents that CBS and the rest of the mainstream media have been trumpeting for days? Well, it now seems all-but-officially-confirmed that they're rather low quality forgeries.

How do we know this? Well, there's a few key points. I'll leave aside the ones in disupte and point to a few which are not in dispute.

1) The documents use, on two occassion, the Microsoft Word elevated-"th" in words like "147th". No known typewriter that exisited in 1972-1973 and was in regular use did this (some extremely specialized one may have, but such are unlikely to be found in a National Guard Office).

2) The signatures on the documents simply do not match to any reasonable degree.

3) The documents also features "smart quotes" another feature which certianly didn't exist at that time.

4) As it happens, the documents matches exactly a document written on a modern version of Microsoft Word in Times New Roman 12 Point Font (which didn't exist at the time these supposed documents were produced).

Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs has provided us with a very damning graphic:
Now, here's the document as it appears from CBS:



Here is the document that Charlie Johnson made on his computer this afternoon:



And here are the CBS image and the LGF image superimposed: