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sfmike

Dear Lance:

Way to support your Congressman (and his staff, a nice touch) and please continue upsetting the right-wing nuts with your laconic reasonableness. Makes them crazy.

I read a transcript of Judy Woodruff and her creepy, leading questions on CNN and was quite proud of your Congressman in the way he turned the tables, asking "why ISN'T there an investigation by the media into all of this?" I also checked out Connecticut Yankee's blog and it was pretty stomach-churning. How do people get that way?

Kip Manley

In a similar tit-for-tat IOKIYAR vein, what I want to know is why it's cool for Ann Coulter to say she hopes American forces are targeting foreign journalists and uncool for Eason Jordan to state the evidence suggests they are. No one's yet been able to explain it to me in such a way that wouldn't have Coulter hooted out of the public discourse in any sane republic.

(I realize I've just answered my own dilemma. I just don't like that answer. So I'll go back and run the numbers again.)

j. bryant

Hmm...I want to know why you DON'T think Rove did up the documents? As you said, it certainly is within his M.O...time and again the Rove way (which has sadly become the Republican way) is to attack the person and ignore the facts. Here we are attacking the authenticity of the memo and ignoring the facts. (When you think about it, it's all become about shooting the messenger...)

grannyinsanity

Some people would say that the President likes to catch those scrotum slapping softballs.

Some people would say that.

LondonLee

Man, a whole weeks worth of posts on Hinchley, and all those links to other right wing blogs covering the story. One might get the impression that they're trying to create a scandal out of this for some reason. Could they, perchance, be trying to divert attention from that other juicy scandal involving the media and (possibly) Karl Rove? Hmmm...

Lance

Jill,

Short answer for now: I'm still not convinced those documents are fake.

Lee,

You think?

SF Mike,

Have you seen what they're saying about her over at Digby's and TBogg's?

Jack Ellis

It's pretty simple, really. 1) Here are fake documents detailing enough of Bush's string-pulling and service evasion to be plausible - not revealing anything people haven't heard before, but apparently confirming what had been strenuously denied long ago. 2) It's possible to demonstrate, if you look carefully enough, that they're fakes. And, lo and behold, immediately after CBS runs with the story, a coterie of rightwingnuts start exposing it. 3) Result: obvious. Not only are the documents themselves discredited but inevitably the whole business of Bush's national service gets wiped off the table just when - given the damage the lies of the get-Kerry vets are doing to the challenger - it's likely to become a more significant issue than it's ever been before. OK, step back a moment. Remember back at school, maybe in history class, if you were awake ... Cui bono? Who benefits? Not the Democrats, that's for sure. Only the Republicans. So there's nothing implausible about Congressman Hinchey's suspicions. There are are only two possible kinds of source for the document: either someone wanting to have some fun or someone wanting to protect Bush's record from scrutiny. The last people with a plausible motive are those who want it exposed. There's just one hitch: could you really expect any news organization worth its salt to run with the fake documents without thoroughly checking them? Well, sure, there's a good chance no one of any significance will bite. But this is feeding-frenzy time for political reporters ... and we know the rest of the story.

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