Oh, but Dan, you said they were from an unimpeachable source.
Inquiring minds want to know how you came to that conclusion...
Silly us, we thought he meant "a source of the highest integrity."
He meant "unimpeachable" in the sense that you can't impeach or impugn the credibility of a source you've never met and can't find.
Dan's a clever guy with words.
Good point! Dan can't afford to come clean on this. Ever.
. . . "a producer had told her that the source of the documents had said they were obtained anonymously and through the mail."The true answer:
Oh, but Dan, you said they were from an unimpeachable source. Inquiring minds want to know how you came to that conclusion...
The scene: Dan Rather's posh apartment somewhere near 34th Street in New York
Late one night, Dan Rather was pondering how he could present these "documents" that came to him through the mail. They were a gift from an anonymous source. These documents PROVED that which he so ardently believed to be true (despite the total lack of evidence to back his faith): that George Bush, President of the United States, was a lying sack of, well, excrement.
As Dan pondered, he was idly watching his TV, not paying too much attention to the old movie that was playing. Suddenly, his ears perked up as Fred Gailey (played by John Payne) convinced New York Supreme Court Judge Henry X. Harper (Gene Lockhart) that the U.S. Post Office, an officially recognized arm of the United States Government, was an unimpeachable source and that Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn), was the one, true Santa Claus!
Dan, leaping to his feet, cried out "Eureka!" I have received these memos from an "unimpeachable" source: The United States Post Office!" "Yes," he thought as he looked up at the movie rolling its final credits, "It really IS a miracle on 34th Street!"
Dan went to bed that night gleeful with visions of President Kerry (played by Fred Gwynne) and Susan Walker (played by little Natalie Wood) finding a new house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The End...
of the beginning!