Ranting about the right wing that is. The Right Wing Nut Jobs once again have used the time tested strategy of repeating a lie again and again to make more true. This time the lie in question is the supposed invalidity of the documents CBS used to cite that Dubya wasn’t were he was supposed to be in the Guard in Alabama. These guys claim that the documents cannot be authentic because the fonts in them were not in use at the time. I do not know about the authenticity of those documents, but those who claim that these fonts and superscript feature were not available at the time seem to have it wrong. It seems that these fonts were available at the time. Don’t take my word for read here and here.

What do I know about fonts and typefaces and superscripts? Well … Nothing. But it seems that this issue is not as cut and dry and these Right Wing Nut Jobs want to make it out as. I do not know what Dubya was doing in the 1970’s and I really don’t care. I don’t think they could dig up enough dirt about his past to make a difference at this point. What I am getting very sick of is misinformation spreading again in to the main stream media simply by force of repetition.

And the worst part of all… where are the issues. We are debating whether Kerry got hurt enough for a Purple Heart or whether Bush took a physical. Who Cares? How about debating about a strategy for Iraq or an economic plan or a policy for dealing with terrorism. What the hell is wrong with us, we’re debating typesets on memos about events from over 30 years ago. And this is just what the Right wants, the longer we worry about these meaningless things, the less time we have to look at the real issues and they know the president is in real trouble if that ever happens.