It is remarkable to me that USA Today and CBS continue to protray this story as one where equally qualified experts are of different opinions on whether these documents are forgeries.
As far as I have been able to tell EVERY qualified expert has ruled them to be forgeries, albeit some with rather esoteric and unlikely caveats.
CBS seems to have validated ONE of the memos - but only the signature, by all reports, and they have muzzled their "expert" and told him not to talk to the press.
Time magazine seems to have turned to a typewriter repairman for their "authentication."
It looks to me like this debate is becoming more Clintonesque by the hour, rapidly descending to the level of "I did not inhale that woman, Arial Verdana".
First, isn't it obvious that a reputable news organization (and I'm not saying CBS or USA Today qualify as such) would verify the authenticity of these documents first, before slandering a sitting President of the United States? And if there were any doubt, wouldn't they sit on the story?
And next, when finally confronted with the reality of the situation, which is now incontrovertably conclusive on the side of fraud and forgery, would not one think that a reputable news organzation (and I'm not saying CBS or USA Today qualify as such) would come clean to protect their reputation?
And finally, when confronted with the fact that they have been used to perpetrate an undeniable fraud on the public by disseminating forged and fabricated documents purported to be the work of a military officer, would not one think that a reputable news organization would come forward with the name(s) of the criminals who have used and duped them so that law enforcement can do their job? Or at least to avoid making themselves into accessories after the fact?
Or is it simply that I am living in a country that is no longer what it once was?
See my last. They ARE fake, and anybody with a three digit IQ who is honest will admit it.
(Unless one believes that a monkey COULD type out a Shakespeare sonnet as well as Killian typed out the MS Word default settings in 1972.)
Media is corrupt, and the public is just waking up to that fact. Politics is corrupt, and people wish it wasn't. Our education system is corrupt, and doesn't teach critical thinking skills.
Bingo. Dan was sounding a LOT like Bill over the weekend.
And was it not the CBS 60 minutes (oh, that show again, gee) interview during the 92 campaign that single handedly rescued the Klintons?
I mean, really, who is CBS really TRYING to hurt anyway with this flap?? In the end, who gets totally slammed? Why, sob sob, snif sniff, alligator tears falling like rain, its Kerry who gets Krushed.
Who wins? ... *whisper it now* Hiiiiillllllarrrryyyyyy, 'We're going to take your money', Klintoon, 2008.
Someone at SeeBS loves that woman, I mean really really LOVES her. (sorry, but who is Arial Verdana?)