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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
What a surprise -- Hodges, a Bush supporter, is backtracking now that CBS revealed that he's one of their sources.

Meanwhile, sounds like the jury is still out on the forgery question:

• After CBS News trumpeted newly discovered documents Wednesday that referred to a 1973 effort to "sugar coat" President Bush's service record in the Texas Air National Guard, the network almost immediately faced charges that the memos were forgeries with typography that was not available on typewriters used at that time.
  
  But specialists interviewed by the Globe and some other news organizations say the specialized characters used in the documents, and the type format, were common to electric typewriters in wide use in the early 1970s, when Bush was a first lieutenant.
  
  Philip Bouffard, a forensic document examiner in Ohio who has analyzed typewritten samples for 30 years, had expressed suspicions about the documents in an interview with the New York Times, one in a wave of similar media reports. But Bouffard told the Globe Friday that after further study, he now believed the documents could have been prepared on an IBM Selectric Composer typewriter available at the time.

SF Gate, running a Boston Globe story

Credit Right Blogistan for changing the subject from all the bad dirt about Bush, these documents included, to the sexy subject of forgery.

Game over, Ty. The bounce is sticking.