The guys who had the story about Dubyas old DUI... did they just wait until the weekend before the vote and drop it into the news?No as a matter of fact, they didn't wait until the "weekend before the vote," they blew it by coming out with it in Sept.
Buckhead here at FR exposed the sham, and the story turned out to help Bush instead of hurting him.
If they would have waited until a week before the election, it could have brought W down.
The media would have been all over it, accepting it as true as it came from Rather and there would not have been enough time to dispute in most likely.
I agree Rathergate in ‘04 was a clusterscrew. I was here for that. That one would have have been caught anyway if they’d waited, because the forgeries sucked so bad, but it would still have been a lot dicier getting the word out. No, I mean the first run. Good Lord, that one was painful, not just that weekend, but the next month and a half.