If I recall, Dan Rather jumped the gun on airing the memos. I think the original plan was to put them on 60 Minutes on a Sunday but AP was going to publish them before that date so he moved up his broadcast (to a Wednesday possibly?).
Neither AssPress nor SeeBS gave any exposure to the suspicious discoveries regarding the released image for 3 days.
October Surprise. Anything to steal an election. Next time they try such a stunt, they’ll do what they can to put it closer to election day (like the election eve release of the “breaking news” of GW Bush’s prior DWI charge). It clearly cost him some support and if that amounted to 0.52% of the national vote, then it cost him the POPULAR VOTE that Al Gore Junior loves boasting about.
October Surprise. Anything to steal an election.
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That was in the old days. No October Surprise necessary now, as they have their voter fraud machine so well tuned that a win is guaranteed. Motor Voter, early voting, and absentee ballots have made it all so much easier.