Note the artful use of "I was told..." to provide some distance between Mapes and yet another slander of her political enemies.
The actual sequence was that CBS posted the documents, Buckhead looked them over, then fired the first volley in the battle that would end with Dan Rather's reluctant retirement.
Lying worked so long and so well for these people that even when they're utterly discredited, they just lie some more.
It's all they know.
During the show TankerKC said that the format of the memo wasn't used by the USAF until the 90s and wanted to get another look at it.
Actually, I believe this was true. TankerKC stated that a cursory look at the documents, shown on TV, looked suspicious. Howlin then echoed that sentiment. They posted for someone to get a screenshot of the docs. Howlin found them later in the evening, on the CBS website. Buckhead then was the first one to really come out and state emphatically that the documents were fake, but this was after they were posted to the CBS website.
The docs were so bad that all it took as a 2 second glance to tell that they were fake. I posted at 8:19 Central time saying that we needed to see more of them. They are confusing my quick call with the detailed analysis that followed.