[Paradox]

I was told that the first posting claiming the documents were fakes had gone up on Free Republic before our broadcast was even off the air!

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.

[Interesting Times]

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.

Yes, but Mapes ascribes that first entry to Buckhead. While it's true that suspicions were voiced during the broadcast, it isn't true that Buckhead's identification of the docs as created on a modern word processor occurred before those same docs were made available by CBS, which is what Mapes is trying to imply.