Just amazin'. Dan, the useful tool, so blinded by hubris and his DNC water-carrying duties, manages not only to shoot himself in the leg but nicks the Kerry campaign at the same time. Note to the White House: whatever you're paying Rove, it's not enough.

Dan, Der Spiegel is on line 3. Something about some Hitler diaries they wanna get rid of.

Ok, so this is probably just dog pilling, but I got a wild hair up my ass to go look at Kerry's medal citations tonight, just on a hunch that some obvious Wordprocessor smithing might turn up. This may be perfectly explainalble, but the Silver Star citation that Lehman says he never saw or signed (wasn't it supposed to be from like 1984?), while written in what appears to be a mid-eighties font, is double justified (both sides of the document line up exactly with the margins). Now, I think had this feature available in Word Perfect when I was in Grad School in 1988, but when I graduated from college in 1983 this was just not possible, at least not on any computer available to our IT department; and there is STILL no typewriter I know of that could do this. (Not withstanding the fact that ANY computer-generated document of the time would have been in dot-matrix format.) I distinctly remember the shock and awe among my professors that one could (through manual editing) potentially produce a printed document with no need for manual corrections (Which was, at that time, the standard professorial test that the author had proof-read his or her paper prior to submission. To the degree that even in the late eighties we were intentionally leaving at least one error in academic papers so that we could make a manual correction for the prof's sake.) If it was available, it would mean that the Navy was a very early adopter (not likely) if not a beta tester (non-existent at the time) of an emerging technology. Just seems like more of the same loose shit to me.

I keep thinking it's a reverse Pierre Salinger. That time it was the internet that started the hoax, this time it's the internet that discovers one.

Either way the net takes down another Old Media guy. I gotta think up some shit to send to Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw, maybe the clippy guy will have some ideas.

I heard someone on Hugh Hewitt's show yesterday call it "Rathergate". Sounds appropriate to me.

And, I wouldn't be surprised if some CBS intern is sent out to pick up a gold watch today.

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