I dont believe for one minute that Rather thought the documents real I think he believed he could get away with perpetrating a fraud on the American public and forgot the power of the internet. Rather is old and he tends to feel he can still get away with the same crap he has pulled for years, when the fact is we now have a new news source. The Internet.
Rather didn't think the docs were real.
That is why he and his "producer" used a "graphologist" (the document equivalent of an astrologer) to "authenticate" them, and that is why they willfully ignored the warnings by the son and wife that they were on the wrong track.
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"Rather is old and he tends to feel he can still get away with the same crap he has pulled for years, when the fact is we now have a new news source. The Internet"
Bingo. How many times during this campaign has this same mistake been made? There's a new game in town and the old media can't control it. I'm enjoying watching their meltdown