Tuesday, September 14, 2004

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Countdown to CBS News Oblivion

The newly crowned "sexiest newscaster" Keith Olberman (man his fingers must hurt from clicking that mouse so many times voting for himself) senses a vast right-wing conspiracy with regard to Rathergate:

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann sees a grand conspiracy in "how the documents came to be so quickly and thoroughly refuted on a right-wing Web site not two hours after they were first revealed on CBS." Picking up on how a FreeRepublic.com poster, "Buckhead," had first suggested a 1970s typewriter could not have produced the memo showcased by 60 Minutes, on Monday's Countdown Olbermann ran through the blogger's resume and concluded, ever so ominously: "So the Killian documents come out and are almost immediately questioned by a lawyer with Republican ties and are distributed to other news organizations without comment by the White House and they suddenly have one of their principal endorsers retract his endorsement. How many rats do you smell?"
Turning to Craig Crawford of Congressional Quarterly and CBS News, Olbermann suggested that if Bush opponents had created the memos they would have done a better job of forgery: "Wouldn't somebody faking this to try to hurt Mr. Bush have to think about, at least, the, you know, the type faces that would identify this as a 2004 document as opposed to a 1992 document, or 1972 document, and more importantly, the out-of-date references to the retired colonel? Who would, who, sophisticatedly would leave that stuff in this?"


Not really Keith, if these documents came from an organization pulling for Kerry like say...Moveon.org, they are not smart enough or sophisticated enough to think of that stuff.

Update: This from ABC News:

CBS EXPERTS SAY THEIR CONCERNS WERE IGNORED, ABC News' Brian Ross reports... EVENING NEWSCASTS
EMILY WILL TO ABC: "I did not feel that they wanted to investigate it very deeply."
LINDA JAMES TO ABC: "I did not authenticate anything and I don't want it to be misunderstood that I did."
SUPPOSED AUTHOR'S SECRETARY SAYS THEY'RE FAKE: Lt. Col. Killian's secretary Carr Knox tells Ariane DeVogue "I would have typed them and I didn't."

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