Not only did they fabricate the lie to help Kerry, they coordinated with the Kerry Campaign to time the release with Kerry’s new ad.
This is no different than the FBI saying nothing about the Hunter Biden laptop and giving the media cover by insinuating that it was “Russian disinformation”.
They were so desperate after the Kerry Swift Boat fiasco and the boatload of lies. The MSM needed to get with the program and it was the first deathblow to MSM