OK, serious question: Who duped Rather into running with these forgeries?
They are so transparently fake, that it must have come from someone who Rather trusted or believed to an extreme.
I'm thinking it came from Kerry's campaign. Rather would have bought that quite quickly. Recall that the Kcamp has been making many dumb moves. The dumbest was of course running on Vietnam when they had to know that the Swifties were out there, along with all of the records of Kerry's anti-war activities. They made the mistake of thinking they could use their many friends in the media to spin their way through it. They thought they could run on lies.
Did they make the same mistake again, thinking their many friends in the media would never question/notice/report any problems with the documents? Did they expect team Bush to over-react and have the focus of the story turn to the Bush reaction and not the actual documents at the base of the charges?
Someone was dumb enough to try this. Team Kerry seems to be the only ones qualified as of late.
Clinton camp?