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Actually it's quite easy to bait Haters, and others with pathological hatred (Dan Rather re Republicans and Bush)
If this was a sting operation, it only makes it all the more amusing.
Dear Dan,
You are either a forger or a sucker. Which is it? Why protect a source that had to have known that he/she was putting your good name in jeapordy?
Personally, I think you're just a partisan sucker.
Only two individuals I know worthy of that description: Carville & Begala. Everybody knows that the Clinton's want Kerry out so Hillary can run in four years. Hell, Kerry even knows it. His whole campaign has been run by Clinton cronies.
The patient has flatlined, and Rather's attempt at resuscitation has failed.
Somebody call the time...
I confess it was all me. And while I'm confessing let me also say I'm really Karl Rove.
What's the superscript Kenneth?
I don't think this was some sort of Machiavellian plot. The dems routinely make outrageous statements, e.g., "One million African Americans were disenfranchised in 2000," "If Bush is elected it will be the end of Social Security," "Old people will die," "Children will starve," etc. The forgery case at least had an element of evidence, minimal and easily refutable as it was. I think it's just another page from the old dem playbook--throw as much crap at the wall as you can, and hope something will stick. Too bad for them that the Forgery Wall was made of rubber.
The Clintons must be the smartest people in the World...and their party, the dumbest.
If the Democrats would fall for a republican operative giving them these documents as if they were genuine, THEN THEY ARE STUPID AS STUPID IS!!!
If a democrat operative created the forgeries and passed them off as originals to Dan Rather.. THEN THEY ARE STUPIS AS STUPID IS!!!
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The only conclusion that any rational person can come up with is that the DEMOCRATS are STUPID and Dan Rather is their WATER BOY
Dan DuBois. Has a nice ring to it. Maybe he can use it to get a job doing consumer reports in Little Rock.
As for the computer-generated letters, why bother with a decent forgery when you can rely on the likes of Dan Rather, USA Today, the AP and assorted other propaganda machines masquerading as news organizations to carry the banner?
And finally, if the fraud doesn't work, just blame it all on Republicans.
The problem with analysis like this is that it presupposes all the things that we all know now. It also presupposes that the writer new everything we know now. You presuppose this was a life long forger when in all actuality it was probably some over confident schmuck that thought no one could notice.
Here is a hint for anyone out there committing a crime... Now listen carefully.
Most people committing a crime be it robbery, murder or simple forgery don't know what they DONT KNOW. And dectectives that investigate this stuff every day, what you might not think of they have seen in different variations 2 dozen times last week.
So what you might think is brilliant fails in comparison to the 48 other things you could not possibly have known because you are not an expert in that field.
THAT is why Free Republic is brilliant. You all the sudden have 800 to 1500 eyes looking at your brillance and it only takes one person to go.....hey... wait a minute....
Just know this has happened on FR before and it will over and over again. We WILL be a very HUGE political threat to the opposition because in the old days ( Mr. Rather) you could get away with this type of thing, and everytime you do you get more confident in your abilities...
NOT ANY MORE ....
Hillary after 6 degrees of Separation! kerry is surrounded by Clintonistas.....I call him George Custer Kerry!!
The idea that this is a hit on Kerry makes for a much more complicated conspiracy than the obvious truth, that it was a desperate attempt at a hit on Bush.
Why do people always want to assume that criminals like these are clever or crafty? They rarely are. Especially when they are a Democrat operative.
Whoever did it thought "hey, Killian is dead, so no one will be able to definatively discredit it... afterall, most people know that Bush was AWOL anyways and this will at least get them talking about it. People will finally see the TRUTH!! It will be the end of Bush!"
Maybe they didn't think it verbatim, but pretty close I imagine. That's how the left honestly thinks. Sad but true.
We've established at the very least that this person was a leftist, so we know they aren't going to think logically or rationally. So why would you think that they could hatch a brilliant plot to frame Kerry?
Whoever plotted such a masterful plan would have had to predict every move made by all of the players thus far. They would have to predict that the Kerry campaign and the DNC would be so quick to embrace it, and they would have to predict that the forgery would be exposed. They would have to predict that CBS would stonewall on revealing their sources.
That's a lot of calculations that had to be dead on accurate. Wouldn't it be more likely that the perpetrators just made one simple miscalculation instead?
No one ever claimed Democrats were all that smart.