[KarlInOhio]

Did AP post the forged memos? Just imagine if Rather had just read the memos or had text from them posted on the screen without showing them or posting them on the CBS site. We might have been able to say "that doesn't sound like an Air National Guard memo" but no one would have been able to prove the font was wrong, the memo format was wrong and that its spacing matched perfectly the same text typed into Microsoft Word.

The lesson is, if you are going to lie don't leave your evidence behind.

See also: dozens of times Obama was recorded saying "If you like your insurance you can keep your insurance". Oops.

[a fool in paradise]

If I recall, Dan Rather jumped the gun on airing the memos. I think the original plan was to put them on 60 Minutes on a Sunday but AP was going to publish them before that date so he moved up his broadcast (to a Wednesday possibly?).

Neither AssPress nor SeeBS gave any exposure to the suspicious discoveries regarding the released image for 3 days.

October Surprise. Anything to steal an election. Next time they try such a stunt, they’ll do what they can to put it closer to election day (like the election eve release of the “breaking news” of GW Bush’s prior DWI charge). It clearly cost him some support and if that amounted to 0.52% of the national vote, then it cost him the POPULAR VOTE that Al Gore Junior loves boasting about.

[a fool in paradise]

Did anyone ever receive a certified hardcopy of Obama’s birf certificate? Or just layered PDF files?