[Dolphy]

Notice the wording of Rather's remarks tonite: "people are focussing on the documents instead of what they say..." I smell a sneaky trick about to be sprung, and this explains why Rather isn't backing down. They are going to proclaim the originals WERE handwritten, and that all this internet frenzy about "forgeries" is "much ado about nothing".....

I'm cynical too because I can't yet come to grips with Rather stooping to what amounts to nothing but a propaganda piece with the sole purpose of swaying a historical election. But don't you think he would have said he had the original handwritten documents today when he was feeling so much heat? He will have lost too much credibility to produce handwritten notes now, they presented the documents as copies of the originals.

[DaveMSmith]

Rather said the docs he had were copies... the whole point of what he broadcast tonight was to bona fide signed typewritten memos.

[longshadow]

they presented the documents as copies of the originals.

They are; they are copies of the original "transcriptions" which were presumeably provided by the source.