The tragedy for Rather, Oliphant, Krugman and Co. is that even if the memos were authentic nobody would care. Their boy Kerry had a crummy August not because he didn't hammer Bush for being AWOL in the Spanish-American War but because the senator's AWOL in the present war. Big Media are trashing their own reputations in service to a man who can never win.
Goodbye Old Media! I think Rather will be done very shortly.
No one in the media will admit that publicly, but I imagine they are quietly furious about this screw up. The incompetence of the forgers exposed the partisan media pretty glaringly.