Drudge is reporting "DNC TO LAUNCH FRESH ATTACK ON BUSH GAURD DUTY..."

I'm sure the attack will be "fresh," as in "taking place at a time in the future distinct from a time in the past." I wonder if this "fresh attack" will add anything actually new to this ridiculously tiresome (not to mention irrelevant) discussion.

I mean, if the DNC *had* anything, wouldn't we have seen it by now? They obviously haven't had anything new to add to this story for months/years, until, of course, someone sloppily *invented* something new to add to the story.

Perhaps all the recent attention has convinced some brave ex-Texas Air National Guardsman to come forward with convincing proof that President Bush was beer bonging Hamm's with Spiro Agnew while he should've been repainting the base grass green.

I mean, c'mon-- we just told the DNC how we spotted this amateur forgery; I don't put it past the forgers to try again from a new angle (Hmmm, so maybe if we type this memo on an IBM Selectric this time-- yeah, that'll do the trick!).

Like Andrew Sullivan would say, I FEAR that this will continue to get uglier. Fine by me; it shuts Kerry's supporters up for a while until they can figure out what next to blather on about.

Cheers,
Dave
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I hearby propose that Dan's last name be changed to Blather. As in Blathering Dan Blather.

CBS is in disarray. To tell Kurtz the name of an expert, and then to muzzle the expert, is proof of incompetence. Everyone connected with the Kerry election campaign, including Rather and CBS, are overwhelmed right now, adrift.

Once the forgeries are established as forgeries, people will start tuning out any new discoveries, especially if there is any connection with the DNC, the Kerry campaign, or CBS.

At least now know that CBS means that, "hey the documents are Certaintly BullSshit."

Most people haven't heard of the forgery story, or the story that the forgery was featured in in the first place.

I am furious at the dinosaur media for what they are, corrupt beyond redemption and too pompous to take a good look in the mirror.

But unless I see some major networks stepping up and doing big prime-time TV exposes on the issue next week, its not even a blip in the American scene.

The other big networks (also corrupt) will be torn between wanting to destroy the competition and not wanting to endanger the election. Wonder which impulse will win?

OT: Hey, Ace, I don't know if this is a first for you, but you just got a hat tip in the Kerry Spot at NRO for your Bill Burkett scoop. Kudos!

Cool. I didn't know that.

New Safire article

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/opinion/13safire.html

On the subject of fresh attacks in the pipeline...

Bush has been accused of wearing a unit award he wasn't entitled to, a relevant photo is available here:

http://www.awolbush.com/awards.asp

However, the Kerry campaign may have already tried and failed to get the story out. See

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/29/wbush129.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/08/29/ixworld.html

There's another aspect of CBS culpability in this whole sordid Docugate affair that's worth noting.

I see this morning (Monday) that the CBS News website is STILL spinning version of the truth for the rapidly-dwindling public who still believe them. They are saying that retired National Guard Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges has changed his story. Oh really? We now know that to be completely untrue. What he said was that his comments were taken out of context, and that he never even saw the documents in question.

What this tells me is that CBS News has burned yet another bridge. The number of former TANG members whose corroborative support CBS is seeking must surely be dwindling, since they obviously can’t turn to Hodges any longer, and others (Burkett, e.g.) have effectively been discredited.

It seems to me that, at this rate, CBS will have to begin dredging up people who lived near the air base or who operated stores nearby, and will begin asking them “Did you ever see Lt. Bush in 1972?”

By the way, this message was typed and spell-checked using MS Word.

Though I'm not surprised, what is bothersome is;

GLORIA BORGER, CNBC: "I also used to do some work for "60 Minutes," and I can tell you that people there do not approach these things lightly. That there's a lot of good reporting that goes on. And that they did speak with someone about these documents. And as Dan said in his report, it's not only the documents. That there's a preponderance of evidence to support the charges that they were making"

Good Golly! CBS parades 3 obvious forgeries in a hit piece against the Prez, and all this gasbag can do is repeat Rather's lame excuse verbatim. I'm sorry Gloria, there is no story without the forgeries - the forgeries are the ONLY story here.