I dub thee Charlemagne.

And, it's my birthday!

CBS hits bottom, starts digging.

I got one word that describes everything we need to know about the MSM (esp. C-BS):

Obfuscation.

Thanks Charles for providing the "CBS: Uncut" version.

running scared

Pretty amazing that they think they can get away with releasing a report(which would not have even been done if the blog had not denuded their 'reporting') and then alter it to keep said report from being dissected.

Memo to Thunder Dan:

The Pajamarines are the ones who did YOUR job for you on the memos, I am pretty sure that they'll be more than willing to go the extra mile to kick you in the head one more time.

CBS can make get fake copies and call them real, but they won't let people copy their real but false explanation!

I was prevented from getting to the second link by a Lizard with a stop sign. Can someone describe the differences? Regardless, how CBS could present this report with a new document, when the gist of the story is about the authenticity of the document that was the basis of the TANG smear is simply an outrage.

Anyone surprised?
Hands?...

Didn't think so.

Charles,you are truely an evil conservative.

Well done

And...

Happy Birthday Lady of Shalott(ylreveb)

3 POl_CAT12

PIYF

You probably meant "Obsfucation" right.

SeeBS is just tryin' to cut down on all the hanky-panky.

Hey, maybe if those nefarious bloggers can't copy and paste our report, they'll forget about it!
/CBS, trying to cover its @ss

charles, you totally KICK ASS! way to scoop this story... AGAIN.

your ability to get the truth out there is nothing short of miraculous, dude.

{{{SkippyMoment}}}

It's good CBS isn't sensitive about their bogus report.

Ya know, you can practically see them trembling with fright! They know blood is in the water, and that blood is THEIRS! I predict a major meltdown at see-bs. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

re #7: um, yeah... about that lizard guy? why won't he let me see the unaltered report, charles?

Haven't they learned anything about the pajamadeen?

Studsup,

No mere lizard that, Godzilla be his name (must be another relation to the lizard king).

Studsup: sorry, there was a problem with my link. It's fixed now.

You see them pulling this kind of shit all the time.

It's hard to believe they are actually ignorant of timestamps and cached pages.

Remember J F'n K's removal of his 183 "lies" GW told, or his "volunteer" mandatory public service plans?

Idiots.

Studsup

That's no lizard, that's the LLL poster child. STOP!

us mac guys can just hit shift-command 4 to grab a screenshot of the pdf.
Not quite as easy to capture the text, true.

LMAO! Even if a C&P friendly copy weren't available, do they really think anyone would let that stop them from laying in to CBS News?

One might have thought that after more than 4 months of Rathergate these idiots would have started understanding how this internet thing works. Evidently not.

I was just reading about this over at Rathergate.com. also altered is the appendix that is at the website for the fmr atty general. the same locks on copy and paste were put on that as well.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, ect... how many times are they going to re-dress this thing to make it look better? Too funny!
parson, heard you were sick the other day, pray your feeling better!

This is all Al Gore's doing. If he hadn't invented the internet, we'd all be sitting in front of our TV's right now watching MSM reports about the plans for the gala sKerry inauguration ball.

#10 Mich

Yup, that's what I meant. It's hard to type correctly with two years worth of grit and sand in the keyboard. uGH!a

My bad, I had thought that this issue related to the substitution of appendices or other material (i.e. the new TANG memo vs. the original crumpled TANG memo). Fun work I suppose to see if any of the text changed. Still, for an organization being caught playing fast and loose with computer generated material, subsituting the report in any respect, without disclosure, suggests that Danny Boy hasn't learned any lessons at all.

Ah ha! Well just saved a copy to my hard drive just to be safe and will print out also. Na Na Na Na Na Na.

OT

Does anyone know if ABC, CBS, NBC, or Lehrer ever covered the Theo VanGogh slaying? If so, how did they report it? Thanks!

I was able to save the report to my hard drive, and then remove security. They have not imposed a password.

Marine Momma

Thanks. Feeling better thanks to my friends :-)

Stick a fork in them, they're done.

They can protect their PDF files as much as they like, but that won't stop the blogosphere. Hillbilly Geek is quite right -- "Print Screen" still works, on all platforms. Besides that, Mac OS X has a "save as PDF" feature which virtually prints the file to a PDF file -- I'll have to try this to see if the PDF image thus captured has the same attributes as the original. (The shareware utility "Print to PDF" does the same thing for Mac OS 9 and below.)

And, in the worst case, one could take a picture of the screen with a digital camera, or print it out and run the hard copy through a scanner with OCR.

Ve haff vays!

Charles, do you have copies of all of the Appendices & exhibits, as well? Haven't checked to see if they've been "secured" yet...

Just goes to show.

They say they can't distinguish between 1972 typewriten and MS Word documents but when it comes to attemting to obstruct free speech their technical ability knows no boundry.

So now the Conservative Bemoanment System has morphed into the Criticism Banishment System?

Is 'dis a system?

#31 Lazarus

It was probably covered with a sheet, if at all.
/sarc

The "Submission" video Van Gogh put together was fantastic, though. Has anyone else seen it? The girl in the video was afraid to confront her husband about his brother raping her since it would dishonor the husband. I just read the other day that an Moslem in the USA may possibly get off of killing his wife since he "honor" killed her after his cousin or something raped her. The defense is claiming he didn't know OUR version of right from wrong because of his religion...I can't remember where I read that eerily similar tale...Savage, maybe?

(thanks hillbillygeek for the comand/shift/4 tip)

The cBS'rs have a steep learning curve but they are learning. Rest assured the next time something like this happens the forgeries will be better and the copy lock will be in place.

But for now it is fun watching the handicapped.

#23 Colt

LMAO! Even if a C&P friendly copy weren't available, do they really think anyone would let that stop them from laying in to CBS News?

Projection. They think we're all lazy bastards.

Happy birthday ylreveb!

It's Colt's birthday too. ;-)

Quoth Curtis:

I was able to save the report to my hard drive, and then remove security. They have not imposed a password.

That's good to know!

However, just FYI, as a matter of forensics, the act of changing the security settings on the file would be enough to make the file inadmissible as evidence in a court of law. (In case you were thinking of suing CBS... ;-) Seriously, I'd love to see somebody sue CBS's pants off, but I don't know who would have sufficient standing, not to mention enough money, to do it successfully.)

Any up-and-coming young legal or law-enforcement lizards looking for a specialty? Digital information law and computer crime investigation are very promising fields...

#41 Mr Pol

I was just coming to that conclusion...

The only "smoking gun" needed to file criminal charges against CBS and this band of goons is found on page 61 of the report.

Today I am going to send the following hypothetical scenario to a reliable,
trustable editor friend of mine . . .
What if there was a person who might have some information that could
possibly change the momentum of an election but we needed to get an
ASAP book deal to help get us the information?

Not only shows a quid pro quo but, more importantly, it shows conclusively that CBS was intentionally attempting to manipulate the outcome of a presidential election!

snellenr: it looks like the exhibits and appendices have also been altered. I have an early copy of Appendix 4 (linked above), but I didn't save all of them.

#41 Mr Pol

It's dangerous to mistake Lizards as lazy just because we like to lay on warm rocks from time to time under the Denver airport. Sheesh, are they racist or something? I'll SUE, I tell ya.

#2 mich-again

CBS hits bottom, starts digging.

Haven't they already dug their way all the way thru the earth. You know you pop out in China sooner or later.

Mike7411

PS: I know you really won't get to China...

#39 POL_CAT12

I think that was on Savage, yep. Coming this fall on NBC: Sharia Law. Must dhimmi TV!

31 Lazurus

Yes. The Lehrer NewsHour covered it pretty well in at least one report, I thought.

#39 POL_CAT12

I just read the other day that an Moslem in the USA may possibly get off of killing his wife since he "honor" killed her after his cousin or something raped her. The defense is claiming he didn't know OUR version of right from wrong because of his religion...

The mere act of invoking such a defence should be punished with immediate deportation.

What a bunch of idiots! Haven't they heard of hitting print screen, printing the document or using a screen capture program? Obviously this would make it harder since you would have to type out what you captured but their efforts are pointless.

Someone definitely needs to distribute a Word document (how ironic) of their report to the various blogs so they can illustrate their criticisms.

I hate PDF. I deleted my reader to make room on my 200mghz 2.1 gig comp. If shizz aint simple html, I dont know about it. :(

#51 hm

LOL!
The mere act of even forwarding such a defense should be grounds for disbarment. Before disbarment, the lawyer should be forced to sign his defendant's deportation letter. Then made to join him over here in the Region of Peace.

OT -- And I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee..

Kennedy also mangled the name of the Democrats' new star, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, calling him "Osama bin … Osama … Obama."

#53 justdanny

We gotta get you an upgrade, my brother.

Ummm, I thought there was a saying that said..."when you find yourself in a hole..stop digging"

cheers on the birthday, Colt.

Just goes to show how completely out of touch they are with the real world - most people's 10 year old could get around that! As much damage as has been done to them by the internet, they still don't understand the technology.

They're still sitting in the ditch wondering what that smelly loud contraption was that blew past them and spooked the horse.

#55 Luigi

haha - the first time I've agreed with a Kennedy verbal slip

#57 Elcid

Maybe if they make the hole big enough everyone will believe it. After all, didn't Goebbels say that the bigger the lie the more people will fall for it? It seems to me that C-BS is following the Nazi playbook word for word. Ver batim or Ver Boten (ha ha ha)

Just because I'm a Churchmouse doesn't mean I don't know nothin' about geeky stuff:

Go to [Link: www.efax.com...]
Find your way to the download for the free version- make sure you get efax messenger plus. ( they make it much easier to find the pay version, naturally enough)

Then, after software install, take any pdf file you like-- select print, print it to efax ( efax sets itself up as a printer driver, and you print anything to it the same as selecting your usual printer)

Open the file with efax mesenger and you can cut and paste to notepad, wordpad, any wordprocessor.

Bonus: The whole point of efax service is they give you a phone number ( free) which you give out as a 24/7 always on fax number to any and everyone who may want to fax you something.

The fax is converted to an attachment readable by efax software and emmailed to you. ( free)

Their whole point, naturally enough, is that you'll decide that you want to take advantage of their pay services- you might- but the free fax number and free software and free services serve a number of purposes quite well.

#39 POL_CAT12

Moslem in the USA may possibly get off of killing his wife since he "honor" killed her after his cousin or something raped her. The defense is claiming he didn't know OUR version of right from wrong because of his religion

Please tell me that's some kind of sick joke.

CBS typed the whole report on a '72 typewritter... then altered it , just to confuse you.

OT Splodeydopes kill four Israelis in suicide attack

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

Rev. Churchmouse

The newest version of Adobe's PDF reader lets you copy anything.

Ah, I know it's not lying if you're not caught.
Didn't Clinton say something like that?

#62 layna

I only wish it were. See post #49 by Lazarus. The radical RoP is doing to the USA with our own laws and their demographics what the Goths did to the Romans with swords and spears.

#61 Rev. Churchmouse

Long time, no see. Howdy!

#56 Powderfinger

I would just give it to a deserving charitable organization. This old IBM is like a muscle car. 10 years old and still does what I need it to do.

#64 TotallySirius

That Fox story, from AP, on the Israeli murders says

..despite efforts by newly elected Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to stop the violence.

What the f*ck do they mean "despite efforts"? He specifically threatened violence. He specifically said he will not disarm anybody.

This is the Arafat game all over again. This is war. I hope W and Sharon respond appropriately. Sooner or later they will have to.

Outwitted them again?
I can hear the teeth at CBS knashing from here.
Charles you are so damn funny

#69 justdanny

ROFL!

Cyber-Luddite, the First. How cool is that? :-P

Now cbs decides to be stingy with documents.

#67 POL_CAT12

Yeah - I was pretty sure you weren't... I've seen/learned too much about the "ROP" in the past 3 years to doubt it.

The radical RoP is doing to the USA with our own laws and their demographics what the Goths did to the Romans with swords and spears.

Yes, evisceration is a good visual of what is being attempted here.

I hope we wake up before our laws are totally gutted to protect those who would destroy us and the freedom we enjoy.

© This comment belongs to me. Do not quote me. ©

Can they make it any more obvious/?/

#75

Lawrence Schmerel

LMFAO!

Great one!

#65-

The newest version of Adobe's PDF reader lets you copy anything.

? I thought the whole idea here was that Acrobat allows the creation of files that PDF reader won't allow for cut and paste-- which is what occurs when I try to cut and paste from the file.

Meanwhile, I discover that there is a version 7 of Acrobat Reader- while the update window on my version 6 says no new updates available.

Stuff like this is why I became a Churchmouse, not a Geekmouse

Rev. Churchmouse

LOL!

OT: hey guys, Moore is winning the idiot poll, and while I agree he is an idiot, he'll use it for his benefit..if there is one!
Can't we just give him honorary second place, Carter grand poo-bah of all idiots, and make KOFI the winner?
PPPUUUHHHLLLEEEZZZEEE!

justdanny
Hi neighbor

Sometimes the old classics work best, especially without the bells and whistles to go bad.

At least thats one step ahead from an eldery prof that refused to use a computer at all. He refused to set up email and was still taking research notes on 5x3 index cards.

#75 Lawrence Schmerel

© This comment belongs to me. Do not quote me. ©

OK.

Yeah, Kennedy's slip on Obama was "fake but accurate".

60 POL_CAT12

Maybe if they make the hole big enough everyone will believe it.

Could very well be...they damn sure are trying.

#63 missouri boy,

CBS typed the whole report on a '72 typewritter... then altered it , just to confuse you.

Would that be the 1972 IBM Selectric Composer with the secret disable copy and paste switch?

Now

#82

Powderfinger  1/13/2005 03:59PM PST

 

#75 Lawrence Schmerel

© This comment belongs to me. Do not quote me. ©

OK.

Now you have been quoted twice...na na nee na na

OT...Tsunami Death Toll could hit OVER 300,000.

DAMN!

#80 Marine Momma

Can't we just give him honorary second place, Carter grand poo-bah of all idiots, and make KOFI the winner?

Agreed. The more Kofi knows that Americans think he is a flaming idiot, the better.

Moore seems like he lives to be slapped around...strange.

#84 Elcid

They certainly are trying but the blogosphere is serving as a Klieg light shining into the hole so everyone can see the scurrying of these little cockroaches as they scramble for shelter...

OT but outrageous nonetheless:

[Link: www.lemonde.fr...]

Another example of how the Fwench always side with Al Quaeda. Brush up on your Fwench with this link!

No doubt it's been mentioned and I'm a few days late to the party, but what a pussy-assed move of Rather to be AWOL Monday night.

Poor baby was tired from traveling. Too damn bad. Be a man, suck it up, get on the f-ing TV and admit you were wrong.

After all, while he was still clinging to his shred of cred, he claimed he'd be the first to report it (BWAHAHAHAHA) if it was proven false.

Chumpass punk, Dan. You don't know what the word courage means, you piece of shit.

There is an HTML copy of the full report here: [Link: www.freerepublic.com...]

 #88 Shammer

Moore seems like he lives to be slapped around...strange.

He's into the S+M thing. I could see him in tight leather with chaps on and oh don't forget the red ball gag thing in the mouth. And that leather biker cap...

Straight (pardon the pun) out of the Blue Oyster Bar from Police Academy...lol

#81 ariana

Sometimes the old classics work best, especially without the bells and whistles to go bad.

justdanny is driving the hell out of that thing. He's been around the world in it. :-)

88-shammer Moore seems like he lives to be slapped around...strange.

There is so much of him to slap too :)

Way to go, Charles! You managed to stay one step ahead of CBS! Good thinking, Maxwell!

Optical character readers
Print Screen

Way too many ways to clip out just what you want.

Let's see what cBS does not!

In Acrobat 6 for MAC you just go into document properties (command D) and go to security. In the pull down at the top pick none. When it asks if you are sure, click yes.

Copy at will.

C BS continues to display an utterly underwhelming knowledge of technology. If it took about 10 minutes to figure out how to re-create their forged documents how long did they think their disabling of copy/paste would last if they didn't even bother to password protect it?

#94 Marine Momma

There is so much of him to slap too :)

Have you seen his latest get-up? He looks like Drew Carey, but with a severe case of Colitus and he has been taking steriods to calm it down. Yuk...what a site...

Why would they change it? What's the point? They know that a copy lockout can be circumnavigated. I don't get it.

Hi Powerfinger :)

Yes, those old tanks can run forever..

true story,
I bought an older home and was forwarned the furnace was ancient. It dated from 1935 and to my shock I found a swastika emblem on the handles of this antique. Gave me the creeps to see it.

#95 foreign devil 

You knew that CBS was up to something. They were being to co-operative at first...when it first came out. Something was a foot.

#94 Marine Momma

If you slapped Michael Moore, how long would it take for the waves to stop?

#92 Andrew B.

Straight (pardon the pun) out of the Blue Oyster Bar from Police Academy...lol

I just saw PA 1 on HBO a few days ago. Now I can't get that song out of my head AGAIN, thanks! :-P

#99

Sarah D.  1/13/2005 04:12PM PST

Why would they change it? What's the point? They know that a copy lockout can be circumnavigated. I don't get it.

Don't you get it? THEY ARE FUCKING IDIOTS! LOL

Has anyone proven Michael Moore wasn't doing his Shamu flips in the Indian Ocean Dec. 26?

I'm sure some intrepid "director" could show he was.

#103 Shammer 

Da dan da dan dan dan daaa

LMAO!

Freedom is slavery, black is white, and Oceania has always been at war with Asiania.

For 2005:

The Memos are accurate, Bush lied, Kerry actually won, Michael Moore is as thin as a rail.

#6 cdbdbcme

CBS can make get fake copies and call them real, but they won't let people copy their real but false explanation!

Bingo!

102, pol cat, I can't stop laughing over this! All I can see is MM with that girl, Bridgette who posed naked for a calendar..she weighed 500 pounds or so!
I wonder if he'd even feel a slap!

Andrew, I've seen him...that's all I can say..yep, seen him.

GO KOFI!

Stop me if you've heard this one...

It takes him so long, Michael Moore's friends throw him a "welcome back" party every time he turns around...

We frequently hear pundits praise the forgiving nature of Americans, when culprits (often errant politicians) get out in front of a bad situation, and fess up and apologize from the outset. CBS obviously never took note. If Rather had just come clean in Sept, this would be a non-issue.

It’s almost as if they’re bending over backwards to keep this story alive as long as they can.

OMG! I almost forget to share this story with all of you...here it goes.

This happened the other night.

I invited a few friends out to eat and hang out. We get to the resturant and we are seated next to a group of women who appear to be in their late 30's or early '40s. I couldn't help but overhear their conversation...(considering I was right next to them)

So they are discussing what happened over in Indonesia...saying how terrible it was and yadda yadda yadda...talking about the mudslides in California and everything bad in the world today.

GUESS who them BLAME EVERYTHING ON? Guess.

SHOCKER OF THE DAY...BUSH.

Yes...my fine non-feathered minions...they proceeded in ALL honesty that BUSH was the cause of the earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, death, malaria, starvation, etc...

I was like are you fucking kidding me?

They then proceed to talk about how the "NEGATIVE ENERGY" from this "ADMINISTRATION" was the cause of all this.

I was floored. Even my friends that I was with (who are Liberals), couldn't believe how stupid these women sounded.

I thought I would share that little story with you all...

Carry on...:)

what?

I don't know.

It might interest you, Charles, to know that the Boston Globe article avoids mentioning the role of weblogs. The New York Times does mention that "web logs" were involved, and that some of the most damaging criticism came from "typeface experts." I guess they couldn't bring themselves to say that it was a weblogger who was also a typeface expert, let alone cite you, Free Republic's BB, or Powerline.

I think they're hearing footsteps behind them.

Andrew,

Wish you had taped the moonbat session. You could have put it online.

Has abyone ripped the pdf to a .doc or tif yet? I haven't read any posts yet. I'm out of town and on d i a l u p if you know what I mean

powderfinger
ariana

I made a funny :O
:)

Yeah. Last year I had to replace the cpu fan and the geeky tech at the hole in the wall that had it wanted to by my comp. He said, "thats back when they used real metal and non mass produced parts." In ten years thats the only hardware problem I've had. Like a new muffler on a 69 mustang, thats all.

#109 Iron Fist

Here is a little something to put on your wish list -

DREAD Weapon System

Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire.

#114 Andrew B.

I live in a lefty latter-day hippie enclave. I can relate.

#118

ariana  1/13/2005 04:27PM PST

Andrew,

Wish you had taped the moonbat session. You could have put it online.

I really wish I had my tape recorder on me. I swear I wish you were there. I was about 2 seconds away from turning around and smacking all 4 of them. Then again...that wouldn't be nice hitting a liberal before signing a waiver saying that I want peace first and let all the women check me out for WMD before I open the offical can of Andrew B. WHOOOP ASSS.

It was a night I will never forget.

One word: Elcomsoft (decrypts PDFs)

#123 brianstien 

Very funny! I read you ol quote.

These people don't get it. Even if you put SHIT under their noses..it still smells like roses. Must be all that FRENCH PARFUME they drench themselves in it ...

#124 Andrew,

Outside of providing a humor break, they aren't worth that much effort.

Anyone that dumb will be their own worst enemy and will reap the natural results of terminal stupidity. Could you imagine their decision making process?

119*

I could- but then what? You'd stil have to get the email attachment thru dialup, no?

CBS is blinding us with MSM Science...They could have just used invisible ink...

Bubble,

I'll have you know I still have my secret agent decorder ring

#128 ariana

Even my Liberal friends were like...what the fuck crack are these women on. My friends never had BDS, but are and always will be die hard Libs...which is ok. They got over the fact that Bush is Pres. again. These are the kind of people you can have a REAL intellectual discourse with. Most of the Liberals are like the women that sat next to me.

All I have to say is GOOD LUCK IN 2008 LIBERALS...you are going to need it. With Dean in charge of the DNC and Hillary ROTTEN CLITon on the ticket...(we assume).

Good EFFING LUCK LIBs!

You Win!

Hmm, Very Curious

CBS is trying to exert intellectual property rights protection mechinisms and dissemination control over a report of an internal investigation intened to be released to the public for free. Curious. They are deafting the intentions of thier own report to the public. Thier stock holders should be proud.

#48 Mike7411L

Haven't they already dug their way all the way thru the earth.

Say, you may be on to something, Mike. Do you think See-BS's backhoe caused the Indonesian earthquake when it popped out on the other side?

I'll bet they covered up their starter hole quick! Wouldn't want to take responsibility or anything. ;-p

CBS still hasn’t figured out the ‘net yet. This is my prediction of the news media and its continuing degradation. This report by CBS don’t mean squat, they fired four people, they might create a new ethics department, they might not, either way business will continue on because the news media, like the academics, is staffed almost entirely with liberals. Why will anything change after this scandal? Everyone is still making money. If CBS’s ratings drop low enough they might change, but it will take an economic downturn in the news media business before anything will change. The media likes things the way they are. Why should they change just because they got caught?

#132 AndrewB

Most of the Liberals are like the women that sat next to me.

You had women sit next to you ?!?!?

lucky bastid ! :-P

OT

UK firms warned over employees' blogs

A leading internet lawyer has warned that UK companies could face legal chaos if they fail to set out clear guidelines for blogs written by their employees.

And what have I been saying.
We can not give an inch.

#125
thank you, thank you

#137

Right Wing Conspirator 

Hell yeah...I always have women sitting next to me...

Look at my punim. Oy! Women just Kvell over me...

Do I have to put the sarcasm thing off? I think that was overtly obvious...

Or was it...bwahahahahahhaa

#131 Ariana

Me too! ant-cay alk-tay ow-nay, ater-lat :)

Listened to Hugh Hewitt on way home. He wants to see CBS news burn to the ground. He feels a congressional hearing is necessary just to get these guys under oath. Get them on the record. Going to break he said, " Remember, if you can't say anything bad about CBS, Don't say anything at all."

*VIDEO RONDUP OF RATHERGATE:

ABC challenges CBS on the now controversial Bush National Guard story (zing after zing)

Dan Rather says there will be no apology for the CBS Nat Guard report (BAHAHAHA!)

Fox asks Rather if he was duped ("how bout you? do YOU feel that way? working for FOX as you do...)

---

[ COMPLETE DEBUNKING AND ASS-SPANKING VIDEO ]

#128 Ariana

Anyone that dumb will be their own worst enemy and will reap the natural results of terminal stupidity. Could you imagine their decision making process?

Rock, paper, scissors? Hot potato?

Fools, I downloaded a niffty free screen capture program called MWsnap. So much for their copy protection -- there is always a back door!

#144

Bubble Girl 

It was more like this:

BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED!BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED!BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED!BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED!BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED!BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED!

See the logic there? Gotta love that Liberal ranting...all emotion and NO LOGIC.

OH BTW...this is wayyy OT

Zulu...just letting you know I broke up with Teri. We do have a future together in Israel...my love. :P

What oath do journalists and reporters have to take?

Just a caution...

When I tried today to save a copy of the .pdf I saved on January 10, I was warned that I could not save anything but the original. It said if I made any changes they would not be saved (even though I had not made any) but I COULD save a COPY. That seems like a fair deal to me, and after all how could one get luckier than getting a fair deal from CBS?

Is this message perhaps what folks who are talking about "no saving copies " are encountering? Granted, it sounds like some are encountering more than that, but I hope we aren't interpreting the "can only save a copy" message as more restrictive than it actually is. I can cut and paste from the January 10 .pdf too, but perhaps later ones have this disabled?

Anyway, jolly fellow that I am, I find it exceptionally humorous to be lectured by CBS about saving only legitimate copies of a document! Now who among us can say they don't have a sense of humor!? Let us be fair ...it is surely only a sense of honor that they lack.

Bubble,

Perfect, along with séances and oweege boards.

Andrew B., when did I become a mad love in your life!? LOL.

They are trying to divert attention from the real issues - the source of the documents and the DNC connection to them. The FBI (or the Texas Rangers) ought to have a nice long talk with Burkett and his attorney, rattle them with the prospect of time in the slammer, and get some decent answers. Do the same with Mary and Joe. Then talk with Dan. Better yet do it with all at the same time in different venues. This makes Watergate look like sandbox.

I think he was in the Middle East longer than he was in Vietnam.

I knew when I read those sappy love letters you wrote me that we were meant for each other...lol

j/k

listen I am not stalking you or anything like that...(hey look out your window do you see that guy in that trenchcoat with latex gloves on and seems to be making some sort of strange motion back and forth...don't mind him. He's harmless.)

#101 Andrew B.:

In this looong psych war we're in we're going to have to THINK SMART. Whenever your sixth sense prompts you to back up and lock up some piece of information that might be critical--or even if it isn't critical but maybe...just maybe...THEN DO IT! Back-up, get screenshots or do whatever you need to do to make sure that if you have to prove your point, that piece of information is THERE because you or some other LGFer had the foresight to make sure you had a screen capture.

#80 Marine Momma

OT: hey guys, Moore is winning the idiot poll, and while I agree he is an idiot, he'll use it for his benefit..if there is one!
Can't we just give him honorary second place, Carter grand poo-bah of all idiots, and make KOFI the winner?
PPPUUUHHHLLLEEEZZZEEE!

On the other hand, if Kofi comes in second, then of all of those who lost to a loser, he'll be number one. (Apologies to Seinfeld)

Heh, LGF gets a link from NRO's The Corner.

Here.

Thanks Jonah!

It's the hatred of greatness and integrity and pretty much a lack of faith in humankind in general that leads to dillusional and irrational behavior beyond all reason.

Lee Harvey Oswald, Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, and Micheal Moore have allot in common with each other and the likes of their idols such as Joe Stalin and Adoph Hitler than those they accuse of the same relationships.

I just attempted to repeat my experiment documented
in this thread where I examined the newly released 2b.pdf using Photoshop and found what I believe to be evidence that CBS participated in the document forgery process.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

As of now, the experiment no longer works because when you attempt to drop the altered 2b.pdf file into Photoshop, you are prompted for a password:

Photoshop requires this document's master password to open it.

Enter Master Password:

It seems that CBS no longer wants the public to be able to able to examine the newly released copies of the documents with a graphics editor.

I knew when I read those sappy love letters you wrote me that we were meant for each other...lol

LOL! Don't start rumours! I don't know if I do sappy. I'll have to think about that.

#159 jms

Didn't Charles say on the front page that the password was null?

Pathetic.
.

The lawfirm where Dick Thornburgh (one of the authors of the CBS report) works, also has it published on their website:

[Link: klng.com...]

Copy and pasting is allowed with this PDF.

(It's always best to save these things to your local hard drive as soon as you come across them.)
 

#161 Sarah:

I just tried pressing enter (null password) and got:

This is not the correct password. Make sure the Caps Lock key is off and try again.

I also tried in Acrobat, and there is now definitely a password on 2b.pdf. I have not checked the other files.

The properties show:

Security Method: Password Security

Clicking "change" results in a password prompt that is not the null password.

Document Restrictions Summary

Printing: Allowed
Changing the Document: Not Allowed
Document Assembly: Not Allowed
Content Copying or Extraction: Not Allowed
Content Extraction for Accessibility: Not Allowed
Commenting: Not Allowed
Filling of form fields: Not Allowed
Signing: Not Allowed
Creation of Template Pages: Not Allowed

Has anyone checked to see if they altered any of the content?

Nah. They couldn't be THAT stupid.

Could they?

There is also a web enabled, fully copyable version created by Wizbang. It includes the appendices.

Hahaha. They just don't get it. What a joke!

Oh yes, file 2b.pdf info:

Created 12/31/2004 5:29:08 AM
Modified 1/13/2005 3:58:28 PM

Application: OmniPage 11 [Link: www.scansoft,com...]

Note that at Dick Thornburgh's law website, they have:

1. The full Rathergate report

2. All the report appendices

3. Transcripts of 60 Minutes Wednesday and CBS Evening News Broadcasts Regarding the September 8 Segment

4. Documents Received from Bill Burkett on September 2 and 5, 2004

5. CBS News Media Segments Regarding the September 8 Segment

6. E-mails

7. Notes

8. Dan Rather CBS Interview from September 20

9. Transcripts of Interviews related to the September 8 Segment and related CBS Evening News Reports

Here's the link:

[Link: klng.com...]
 

I've got Acrobat 6, so I could unlock them, right?

I just downloaded a random sample. The main report and the appendices do not have a password on the security setting. Some of the exhibits do and some don't.

I noticed this the other day. There were some weblinks that were interesting and I was trying to copy and paste them, but could not. I am by no means a computer guy, and thought at the time that this was just some oddity pertaining to PDF files. Guess it was deliberate intervention...

The following documents have the null password:

Main report
1C
ex_4 ex_5 ex_6 ex_7 ex_8
9A through 9L
appendix_1 through appendix_4

The following documents are protected by a real password:

1A through 1L with the exception of 1C
2A through 2F
3A through 3L

Could be worse.

Remember all the hubbub over the UN Development Programme's Arab Human Development Reports that were published in 2003 and 2004?

Guess what?

Now when you try to download either of them IN ENGLISH, you are transported to a page demanding a $10.00 payment.

Arabic versions still free, natch.

And these guys think they are smart enough to choose a president for us.

Never fear about password protected files...someone, somewhere, has a tool to open or crack them.

One example is the Passware suite of password recovery utilities at LostPasswords.com.

(Don't bother downloading the free demo; it works only on passwords of two digits - I have the full suite, and if someone needs a .pdf file opened, they can email me)

cBS doesn't want the reader to print or cut and paste the file. They also have files disabled from search engines like Google (so you can't search for a phrase in the document).

BTW I second the motion for pursuing charges of military document fraud against Burkett as well as the gathering bloodbath against Rather.

/tired of the consistentBullShit

That's a monumental intellectual dishonesty. But IMO it also means that CBS is feeling the heat from the blogs.
It's just a glimpse of things to come.

Ann Coulter has a good take on rathergate

CBS: No journalist integrity and technically inept too...

With PDF 995 (freeware) you have a virtual printer driver which can make PDF copies of virtually any document: HTML, DOC,XLS,TXT. You can also make a PDF copy of a PDF which will free it from any restrictions. I can't believe what a bunch of dumb shits those CBS people are.

I do not attribute this to bad faith. I attribute it to (as Marx would say) false consciousness -- contracted by living in the liberal media cocoons of New York, Washington and Los Angeles, in which any other worldview is simply and truly inconceivable. This myopia was most perfectly captured by Pauline Kael's famous remark after Nixon's 1972 landslide: "I don't know how Richard Nixon could have won. I don't know anybody who voted for him."

Multiple polls of the media elite have confirmed Kael's inadvertent sociological insight. One particularly impartial poll, taken by the Freedom Forum in 1996, found that of 139 Washington bureau chiefs and congressional correspondents, 89 percent supported Bill Clinton in the previous election, vs. 7 percent for George H.W. Bush. The rest of America went 43 percent to 37 percent.

Some argue that personal allegiance does not matter because it is possible to be partisan at home and yet consciously bias-free at work.

Possible, yes. Actual? The Project for Excellence in Journalism did a careful study of mainstream media stories in September and October. The numbers are stunning.

To take one example, Oct. 1-14, 2004: Percent of stories about Bush that are negative -- 59 percent. Percent of stories about Kerry that are negative -- 25 percent. Stories favorable to Bush? 14 percent. Favorable to Kerry? 34 percent.

That is not a difference. That is a chasm. And you do not have to be a weatherman to ascertain wind direction. When, in February 2003, Gallup asked Americans their perception of media bias, 45 percent said the media were too liberal, 15 percent said they were too conservative. That's 3 to 1.

Bias spectacularly, if redundantly, confirmed by Rathergate. All that is missing is a signed confession.

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