Christopher Hitchens on Scarborough Country made an excellent point tonight with respect to the use of the word forgery when characterizing the memos.
His contention is that rather than use the word forgery, or a variation thereof, a more accurate description would be the word fabrication.
Forgery suggests that one is atempting to recreate something that already exists or had existed.
A fabrication is simply a creation without any foundation based in fact or reality.
This is something that has bugged me from the beginning. Unlike Chris Hitchens, I am not genius enough to have put it into words. The other thing that bothered me early on was the stupid and naive belief that Dan Rather's every anal emanation had such godlike force that it had to be disproven beyond a reasonable doubt.
American Spectator, today, has an excellent discussion on this "experts" versus... freepers, for example. :)