From the inappropriate designation of "1stL", to the fact that the timeline is obviously wrong (re Sault's retirement), to the fact that it is obviously a word processor document, and not typewritten, to the obviously forged signature....
This is a dosument that should have been easily exposed as a fraud by a high school journalism student....
But, apparently the Kerry Campaign has had it in their posession, but under wraps, for some time. And now it miraculously turns up in the hands of Dan Rather...and he is running with it as though he has the exclusive on the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.
I heard some dimwitted bimbette on this morning's infotainment show postulate that it was all an elaborate Karl Rove hoax, disreputably perpetrated on CBS.
I have a more straight forward theory...
Basically the "story" is about the dirty forger who was trying to dupe the media into becoming "unwittingly" complicit in a conspiracy to slander a candidate.
From whence could these documents originate? And who could deliver them to the media with sufficient credentials so that that...even that paragon of media professionalism...that man with over a century of broadcast excellence on his resume...that unbiased, hard hitting, bulldog of an investigative journalist...Dan Rather..could have been unswervingly convinced of their authenticity, even after they were thoroughly, and painstakingly pored over to vett their origins and to ensure their authenticity?
Why do I sense the shadowy presence of the Hillary Clinton in the wings?
#30 -- Methinks you're on to something.
Oh yea....this has the stench of the Clinton mafia all over it.