What is left out, is that he who shapes the battle, wins the battle. The constitutional majority in this country have been shaping this battle for at least the last 20 years as they have been developing their forces on the Internet and Talk Radio, and learning to win tactical skirmishes on CCW permits and holding down State taxes. The battlefield is the Media, in its entirety, and the percentage controlled by the Old Media (the 60's liberals) has been shrunk severely.
It is as if one side, the constitutionalists, were battle hardened veterans who recently developed aircraft, and the other side, the 60's leftists, were pampered armchair general province administrators who hadn't ridden into battle in their cavalry regiment for a decade, and didn't believe in that newfangled aircraft nonsense.
We have been bloodied and won some fights, and we accept the new technology with gusto, because it allows us to shatter the old cavalry and sweep them from the field. Now we have taken the remaining high ground (the election). Let the culture war begin!
The amatuerish forgeries of national guard documents would have worked even fifteen years ago. Rather would have run with the lies, and like murderers, the rest of the press would have covered up for him. Rather and his ilk positioned themselves in such a way that no one could challenge their stories. They talked, you listened. They ignored feedback. Rather would never subject himself to the same hostile interviews that he believed were his right to inflict. Secure in his fortress, he fired volleys at his enemies, but never came out to face anyone in a free forum. He still tried to play that game with his pathetic "if the documents are forgeries, we want to break the story" routine. The Cronkites, Rathers, and NYTimes clones no longer have exclusive access to the public megaphone. Other voices can be heard, now.