Personally, I think this is unfair. People do recover from illnesses.
Many other reasons to doubt this whole affair, but this would cast aspersions on millions of people who suffer from such ailments.
Bill Burkett continues to do and say the same wacked out, paranoid stuff he has for years. Recovered? I don't think so.
What I think is unfair is that Burkett clearly has had mental health problems that are well known and the Democrats, CBS, and probably the Kerry Campaign had to also know this but they were still willing to exploit the man's illness to fuel their dirty agenda.
Please see 88.
Burkett apparently was stricken with a form of meningitis. This could have caused some permanent brain damage. My impression from reading some of the things he has written is that they are very similar to some writings I have seen by a person who had severe mental illness. Burkett is not so bad off, but he sounds like he is trying hard to maintain his mental equilibrium. In the case of the waste basket incident, I wonder about the possibility that he hallucinated this and honestly believes that it took place.
While I agree, Dan held forth that the source was unimpeachable. Rational people could disagree in the application of the word 'unimpeachable' to Burkett under the circumstances.