[bayourod]

"So much of this debate has focused on the documents, and no one has really challenged the story. It's been frustrating to us to see all this reduced to a debate over little 'th's."

AAARRRGGGHH (it's talk like a pirate weekend)

There is NO story! A Congressman's son gets preferential treatment in the military??? That's dog bites man. A story would be if a Congressman's son didn't get preferential treatment.

That one politician got another politician to give a good recommendation for his son? That's a news story? The story would be if he got a death row inmate to recommend him.

That a man who has stopped flying doesn't take a flight physical? The story would be if he did take one.

No wonder the White House didn't go ape sh!t over the memos. There wasn't anything in them that was negative. No story accept to someone blinded by hatred for President Bush.

Shiver me timbers, Dan Rather is a bilge sucking barnacle.

[bayourod]

accept = except

[plangent]

You're right on the news value. And, consider that Texas was such a Republican dominated state in 1968 that favors were essential. Now the question is why in heck would a Democrat in a Democrat controlled state put such energy (and remembrance) in helping out kid of a Republican Congressman? Something about Barnes is as phoney as his stock swindle.