"What if the MSM blows their credibility over this so BADLY that their 'October Surprise' is NOT BELIEVED?"
Many of us feel that the MSM has made itself unbelieveable about anything they say about GW. This goes back to the election of 2000, the Floriduh mess, and then their constant attacks on him since he was sworn in.
If they continue this stuff with the Kitty Kelly Litter Box on the Today show next wing, they will continue to lose audiences.
If GW really whacks Kerry in the election, we will probably see massive changes in the MSM NOTNEWS programming posing as news.
We could see C BS retiring Blather and eliminating their evening news hour with a small recap on the hour each night. If that happens NBC and flies, NBC will retire Brokaw and do the same. When that happens ABC will retire Jennings. CNN could end up being bought by the France.
They are in real trouble, and each one of these unbased/shrill attacks on GW are costing them viewers and probably advertisers.
Lets hope that they are like the dinosaurs when the iceage started, doomed but too stupid to realize that they were doomed.
We saw a microcosm of this fiasco in Cali with the recall. The last months before the election, the Cali MSM (LAT etc) was spinning like a dervish for Gray Davis, and coming out with a smear a day against Arnold. Strippers, "sex harrassment", gropegate etc. Every week they had another fake "push poll" declaring Davis to be in the lead. It was surreal, just like the MSM in this new Presidential fight.
But the Cali MSM had "jumped the shark," and was so totally discredited (on talk radio, the internet etc) that the more they spun for Davis, the more it added to Arnonld's actual popularity.
This is what CBS is doing today. Rather is so discredited, that the more he tries to hurt Bush, the more he helps him.