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"Can you imagine anyone with much skill doing this bad a forgery? Doing it on Microsoft word? If you are 50 years old or older how do you fail to remember that computer printers are not typewriters? If you are in your 20s don't you research what was in use in 1973? Would I try to take a picture of a guy in 1973 by having him sitting in a 1976 car? This whole thing does not ring true.

The more I think about this the more I think this must be some sort of setup or con act. I wonder if someone really hates Rather. Perhaps a former employee of CBS news. Could it be that CBS bought the story? Could CBS have had Rathers daughter offering to buy dirt on Dubya?Could someone think hey a half hour's work at Kinkos and a pitch to Rathers daughter, would be followed by smome cash from Rather? What else explains the story? Could Kerry have been offering bucks for dirt on Bush and an enterprising Word user... decided to try to make a few bucks?... and they fell for it?

What if the Kerry Campaign was trying to buy dirt on Bush .. and bought a forgery. What if the Kerry people vouched for the fake Documents being valid. Would Rather believe a top Kerry staffer over his own hired experts?

It appears Rather fell for some sort of Con, and is now between a rock and a hard place.

Something has to explain CBS buying these very sloppy forgeries. The source had to be very very believable to CBS."

The conspiracy theory only works if you know CBS and Dan Rather are not going to verify the authenticy of the documents.

Dream on Dan.. Rather would have verified them on the original show if he had verification.

Most people don't know how the public reacts. Rather was counting on Bush retaliating with denials. Rather would accuse and Bush would deny. The debate would be over the content of the forged documents and Bush's denial of the documents. that is why Rather sent copies of the Documents to the White House. Rove fooled the CBS by releasing the Documents to the Press. By not responding the white house caused the major story to be the athenticity of the documents themselves. That was the major miscalculation of Rather.

It was 180 degees from what he expected. Rather played liars poker with Bush and lost.

YOu see if bush responded with denials, then half the swing voters would have believed bush was guilty and half would have believed it was a lie. The end result would have taken an 8 point bush lead in the race and turned it into a tie.

But Bush did not fall for dans ploy. So it is likley that the race will turn inot a big Bush win.

Dan Rather and Kerry played liars poker with Bush and Rove and lost.

Can you imagine anyone with much skill doing this bad a forgery? Doing it on Microsoft word? If you are 50 years old or older how do you fail to remember that computer printers are not typewriters? If you are in your 20s don't you research what was in use in 1973? Would I try to take a picture of a guy in 1973 by having him sitting in a 1976 car? This whole thing does not ring true.

If you read some of the statements from this guy posted elsewhere you will see he isn't "the sharpest tool in the shed".