[flaminco]

"I am a little surprised that Karl Rove and the RNC did not check these documents out in detail."

Me too. If the White House had caught this before the 60 minutes piece aired, it could have saved a lot of negative publicity. I am afraid that the accusations will float, but the later retractions won't even break public consciousness. That is usually the way these things work. Hopefully I am wrong.

[PhiKapMom]

You signed up today to post that crap! WH did the right thing -- let CBS air the forgeries, and let the people get up in arms that they are forgeries because if the WH said they were people like you would have been calling them liars.

[vrwc1]

Me too. If the White House had caught this before the 60 minutes piece aired, it could have saved a lot of negative publicity. I am afraid that the accusations will float, but the later retractions won't even break public consciousness. That is usually the way these things work.

I beg to differ...CBS attempts to discredit Bush with obviously forged documents? And Ben Barnes own daughter says he's lying about the supposed favors he did to get Bush into the Texas Air National Guard?

When this breaks out into the MSM it will be a huge scandal, and can only play to Bush's benefit. It will totally discredit CBS, and should also have the positive effect of forever stopping the ridiculous obsession of the Democrat's/MSM over Bush's National Guard service.

[cyncooper]

Me too. If the White House had caught this before the 60 minutes piece aired, it could have saved a lot of negative publicity. I am afraid that the accusations will float, but the later retractions won't even break public consciousness. That is usually the way these things work. Hopefully I am wrong.

You're definitely wrong. First, the initial story was a big nothing. Even if the memos are authentic there is nothing in there that hurts Bush. My guess is if they were toyed with, Gary Killian's guess that they are a blend of "fact and fiction" is correct and any tweaking was done to give the memos spinnability.

But the public does not perceive GWB as a liar despite the best attempts by the LSM and the dems to paint him as such. If these are indeed forged it most definitely will break public consciousness and will backfire big time on the dems and disgusting CBS.