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.
If someone painted a painting and tried to pass it off as an undiscovered Renoir, it's FORGERY.
The Democrats created memos and tried to pass them off as real official National Guard Memos, including FORGING the signature of Killian, this is FORGERY, not "fabrication".
The intent was to create the impression that these were REAL government documents, no different from the guy, who tries to pass of a forgery as a real Renoir.
Good points. However, I do remind here; the text was "fabrication" however, there was Mr. Killian's "forged" signature. So, there are two "crimes" to address --just-- concerning the actual paper. No?
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.
Forgery is the proper term. Like a forged check, it's not necessarily a copy of something that previously existed. But it is passed off as something that it is not, including the phony signature.