I'm not that old (36, yeah, I know, keep telling yourself that and maybe you'll believe it) but I knew within a couple of seconds that the memos were faked when I first looked at them. Those wondering how I knew so easily need only look at this comparison.

I don't even need to see what an actual memo looked like; I spent plenty of time on an old Royal manual typewriter as well as more modern IBM Selectrics at school. I know what monospaced type looks like, and I know that the fakes surely aren't monospaced.

In a word, they're just too "pretty".

The idea that Dan Rather, with so many years of experience in journalism, didn't reach the same conclusion in the same time as me is incredible. And I mean "incredible" in the real sense of the word: not believable.

Dan Rather needs to step down after apologizing to President Bush and the American people.

Perhaps if a million of us sued CBS in small claims court (aren't we victims of their deceptions), then they may think twice before reporting such tripe in the future.