[Mr_Moonlight]

Rule #1-Don’t use fake documents as a source for news.

I've said this a thousand times, and I'll say it again:

The ONLY asset that a news organization has is its credibility ... once credibility is lost, it has NO assets anymore.

[Jacquerie]

As I remember the state of the election cycle when the “news” broke, Bush was surging in the polls, Kerry was sagging over his BS heroism in ‘nam. Something had to be done.

It is my belief that Rather/Mape’s efforts were not mistakes but actually nothing more than a pure fabricated effort to take out a sitting President. In the 1970’s they would have gotten away with it. It is chilling that a news organization, respected by too many, would use their reputation to decide that the President needed to be taken out, and would do what it took to achieve their goal.