[ottothedog]

I can see how NYTIMESWASHPOSTNBCABCCBSCNN are going to play it now: Burkett shopped his phony docs to Kerry, who turn him down. Burkett is getting hung out to dry.

[traviskicks]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30043-2004Sep17.html

from the Washington post a similar piece:

In e-mail messages to a Yahoo discussion group for Texas Democrats, Burkett laid out a rationale for using what he termed "down and dirty" tactics against Bush. He said that he had passed his ideas to the Democratic National Committee but that the DNC seemed "afraid to do what I suggest."

In an Aug. 21 posting, Burkett referred to a conversation with former senator Max Cleland (D-Ga.) about the need to counteract Republican tactics: "I asked if they wanted to counterattack or ride this to ground and outlast it, not spending any money. He said counterattack. So I gave them the information to do it with. But none of them have called me back."

[OkiMusashi]

Burkett is still the most likely source. I offer two reasons:

1. An amateur attempt at forgery
2. Burkett's lawyer says that Burkett didn't do it :)

[MagnumRancid]

Could be. If there truly was any type of conspiracy the major players would leave themselves an out. Burkett makes the perfect patsy. I'm not buying into this, but it's fun to speculate. It's a turd, surrounded by bull$hit, buried under a dung heap.

[codercpc]

If they play it that way, (Kerry campaign turns down obvious fake), then the Kerry campaign must explain why they did not denounce the story the night it was aired. Instead we had Terry McAuliff out there and Senator Harkin, both bringing up the charges. We also have the DNC using the report in a campaign ad "Fortunate Son" within a week.

They can no longer claim to know about the fakes, because they used them to their advantage.