[anymouse]

PJ bloggers strike again! :)

[tioga]

So you WERE wearing your PJs while freeping? Good job. Excellent in fact.

[tioga]

I especially like the Boston connection.......mmm, where would that lead take us back to? kerry and his campaign may yet fall with danra^ther.

[VRWCmember]

Here's another theory for the tin-foil it's W's fault crowd. The forger was actually working for the Bush campaign and deliberately included lots of clues that the document was forged (modern fonts, superscript, and an anachronistic reference to pressure from an already retired officer). The forger knew that CBS/Rather would run with the documents with minimal investigation, made careless by their orgasmic state of ecstasy at the thought they were about to derail the Bush campaign, only to have the obvious forgery discredit them.

[Redcoat LI]

This dirt was dug up in 1988, by The Dukakis campaign.

The lead dirty trick-guy was John Sasso.

Sasso has just recently joined the Kerry campaign.

[gutshot]

Same guy who forged the Niger uranium documents in the name of Niger's foreign minister, Allele Elhadj Habibou, even though he had been deposed a decade earlier?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

LOL Great find
"He relied upon The Boston Globe to get the date of Staudt's retirement correct and, of course, relying on The Boston Globe for anything at all will most likely bite you in your ass."

[angkor]

Someone with access to Lexis/Nexis.

Or the Globe's internal archive system.

Hmmm....

[dfwgator]

That's whats so funny about them trying to jump through hoops trying to show that it was "possible" to use the fonts back then. Even so, they still blew it with the actual details of the memo.

[Mamzelle]

Boston Globe--and Kerry's the Massachusetts Senator.

Tell the forger that he can't depend on anything he reads in the MSM to be accurate...

Nice catch, bump

[KC_Conspirator]

That blows me away. I could very well see where this person thought Staudt did not retire b/c of this faulty article.

[hispanarepublicana]

Good work. I tried Googling some of the oddities of language in the memo, but I ran out of time to stick with it.....anyone else who wants can take over. Specifically, I found it odd that one of the memos ends with the phrase (typed exactly like this:
"...him to get in to" rather than the more common "..get into"
Also,
"sugar coat" rather than "sugar-coat" or "sugarcoat".

[Boundless]

> Why Did the Forger Incorrectly Believe ...

Because all they had to work with was the actual Bush
docs released by the WH, and Barnes' imagination, which
has always had calendar problems.

> The forger was actually working for the Bush campaign
> and deliberately ...

Doubtful. This was not a Rove, Nader or Clinton sting.
Until it happened, no one could have counted on such an
utter lack of skepticism in the entire chain of custody
of these memos. Further, someone will trace these back
to their source, and if a Rove case could be made, you
can bet that Rather would spare no expense to prove it.

This was either an inept Dem-sourced fraud, or an
internet prank that spun out of control.

[ambrose]

bump!

[Ann Archy]

Another Jammy Whammy!!

[eddie willers]

Hot Diggity Dog!

[Not now, Not ever!]

Thanks! Good find, Bookmarking, Bump, Bttt