Even Rooney Says Memos are Fake

“CBS curmudgeon Andy Rooney indicated yesterday he believes the controversial documents on President Bush’s National Guard service are fake and said it could cost Dan Rather down the road.
“I’m surprised at their reluctance to concede they’re wrong,” Rooney said,

Random thought; Has anyone raised the question of why these forged documents documents were sent to CBS alone?

Could it be that the sender knew they’d get by without being properly checked?
Is it possible that there was some cooperation

T Rodgers over at Broken Masterpieces notes that Ted Kennedy has decided to get involved in the Kerry fiasco errr Campaign. Says he:

“This should help…… Bush. Can’t wait to see the ads to be run in the swing states

OK, I’m going to start something new today. After today, this will be a serious blogger of the week. This will be one that catches my eye for some reason during the week… no other qualifications than this.

But for

Ap is reporting:

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Ramone, who had been fighting a five-year battle with prostate

Ann Coulter asks a pointed question in her new column of today.

“What are the odds that Dan Rather would have accepted such patently phony documents from, say, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?”

Read it all.

Boortz thinks he knows. And so does WaPo as of early this morning. Boortz break it down thus:

So where did the now-discredited Bush National Guard forgeries come from?  According to one source one of the documents has a header

Since Kerry’s old campaign wasn’t doing so well, he’s trying a new one. Well, an old one, really. He tried dealing with domestic issues but knows he can’t win there. So, he’s run back to Vietnam, again. Did you see

Slant Point was apparently watcjing CBS tonight. (I wonder what this scandal of theirs has done for their ratings?)

Says SlantPoint:

“Rather closinng statement: “Those who have criticized aspects of out story have failed to address the heart of the

The New York Observer‘s Joe Hagen says:

With respect: answer the questions,” said Dan Rather, the CBS News anchor. He was asking a direct question to President George W. Bush, his re-election campaign and his political allies in the

Found this on DizzyGirl, and though this might be fun.

01. What’s playing in your cd player right now? Pick your favorite track and tell us why you picked it.
Well, not a directly fair question.  At the moment, my

The noon eadline has come and gone. CBS’s announcement was simply more of the same.

CBS will not continue to get away with THIS. They will have to admit what everyone already knows, eventually.

Boortz points out this morning that the numbers tell the story on President Bush’s service in the Guard. The President made his obligations evry single year:

“At the time of Bush’s service National Guard regulations required a minimum of 50

Backcountry Conservative says CBS has scheduled a statement regarding the forgieries they tried to pass off as legit at noon. No confirmation on FNC’s website, though.

Dan Drezner is two years old.

Update: Actually, Dan’s BLOG is two years old. I have it on good authority Dan’s at least a year older than that.