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His entire premise is ass backwards.

It was never up to the bloggers or anybody else to prove that the CBS memo was a forgery.

It was up to CBS to prove that it was legitimate, which they couldn't do, for obvious reasons.

Well, obvious to everybody but an idiot, like Corey Pein.

[Howlin]

Many critics of my article on the CBS memos, the blogs, and the press have obviously not read it. They see it as a "defense of fraudulent reporting" (per James Taranto’s headline in the "Best of the Web" column on OpinionJournal), which it certainly is not, or as CJR’s knee-jerk defense of the old media, which it is not.

Well, thanks for setting US straight, Corey!

[dirtboy]

It was never up to the bloggers or anybody else to prove that the CBS memo was a forgery. It was up to CBS to prove that it was legitimate, which they couldn't do, for obvious reasons.

Exactly. But, then again, what else do you expect the MSM to do? They simply cannot engage in business as usual under the withering scrutiny of the blogsphere and FR. So they instead move the goalposts of accountability - since we are scrutinizing them, we therefore must assume the burden of proof - which, in their mind, somehow liberates them to spew whatever nonsense they feel like spewing.