Is there a city in this entire nation where an obviously ill person would be denied a properly dosed shot of penicillin at a trauma center or emergency room? The idea that Burkett lacked access to one of the most common antibiotics in existence administered by a competent doctor for lack of the military's authorization defies belief.

How crazy is this guy?

Ok, I'll bite. Are there any Drs out there that can tell us all what happens when a person takes three times the correct amount of penicillin? And, are antibiotics specially formulated for cattle (unusual additives, etc.)?

Lockhart was Clinton's Press Secretary, meaning he is an adept liar. The notion that Burkett would demand to talk to a senior Democrat claiming he had "valuable advice", and that advice was about getting out the Baird vote, Kerry talking more about assault gun bans, or jobs - is flat out ridiculous.

Lockart's only defense is that Burkett is so crazy he forgot to talk to Lockart about the obvious "I have these explosive documents showing Bush refused a direct order, his CO hated him...and it's running on 60 Minutes II Sept 9th. Are you guys ready to run "Favorite Son" and coordinate all the speeches and Moveon, Texans for the Truth ads right after me and Ben Barnes trash Bush's Guard service???"

Yep, Lockart can look you right in the eye and say, "Nothing about any documents! I'm shocked, shocked! Shocked about those documents, as I am sure Sen. Kerry and every senior Democratic official is. Mr. Burkett, as I recollect, merely passed on some windsurfing tips, told us we should push gay marriage more, and that someone needed to change Max Clelands diapers more frequently".

The antibiotic is probably Com-biotic, a kind of shotgun of penecillin and a couple of other formulas that is pretty common for use in cattle. Every cowboy I know has doctored himself and his kids with it, with no ill effects. Well, other than they all seem to be a little crazy. I've used it on my dog, and come to think of it he's pretty crazy too: Every time he goes outside he rolls in cow crap. Hey, every time Burkett opens his mouth he STEPS in cow crap. Maybe there is a connection!

Near the end of his Fox interview Tue. AM Lockhart let slip he only had a 3 min talk with Burkett about something that happened 30 years ago.

Now what might that be! THE DOCS I believe.

Even normal amounts of penicillin will kill a lot of the microbes in your gut that help you digest food. A huge dose like that would about have you passing whole and recognizable chunks of your dinner, no? That would probably make a guy flip out some, wouldn't it?

I'm not a doctor, though that may not be terribly obvious, so take this with a grain of salt. Like you would sweet corn.

Kurtz quotes Joe Lockhart as saying he's "99.9 percent sure" that Burkett didn't bring up Bush's military service when they spoke on the phone.

Lockhart may actually *not* be lying about his conversation with Burkett. There really was no reason for Lockhart and Burkett to discuss the real reason for the call; the fact that Mapes arranged the call *itself* told Lockhart all that he needed to know. So, Lockhart gives Burkett his 3 minutes and gets on to the real business at hand: finish setting up the various DNC hit pieces to coincide with a soon-to-be-aired expose of Bush's deficient TANG service. He wouldn't have known the exact timing of the 60 Minutes II report because Mapes wouldn't have been stupid enough to give him information of that precision. But he would certainly have been able to set up the dominoes so that the CBS hit piece would start them all tumbling.

Why hasn't anyone pointed this out yet???

This whole Lockhart business doesn't seem to gibe with the Max Cleland phone calls.

If Burkett had already spoken with Cleland, surely it raises questions over whether he needed CBS to broker a phone call or whether is just false mis-direction?

What is kind of interesting is that CBS could broker a call between a crazy and a member of the kerry campaign. I think that is an issue that reinforces the collusion meme.