This is a done deal. The documents are likely fake, and if they aren't enough questions have surfaced (and apparently had already been floated BEFORE THE PIECE RAN last wednesday) so that CBS should not have run with the piece.
Here's the latest from ABCNEWS tonight:
ABCNEWS
This link appears to be temporary as it summarizes 'Tonights' abcnews cast which obviously changes daily.
Hone in on Brian Ross's segment which is abstracted as follows:
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Originally Posted by ABCNEWS
ABC's Brian Ross interviewed the two experts who CBS hired to validate the National Guard documents and reports they ignored concerns they raised prior to the CBS News broadcast. "I did not feel that they wanted to investigate it very deeply," Emily Will told Ross. "I did not authenticate anything and I don't want it to be misunderstood that I did," Linda James told Ross. Ross reports 2 experts told ABC News today that even the most advanced typewriter available in 1972 could not have produced the documents. Ross also reported that Lt. Col. Jerry Killian's secretary says she believes the documents are fake but that they express thoughts Killian believed.
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Those of you who continue to assert some semblance of impartiality and honestly believe Dan Rather to be a journalist of any integrity are lunatics. Those who continue to hold even the slightest monicum of hope that these documents are real are similarly deranged. It's over folks. Kerry looses. I am not even sure that he had anything to do with this, but am certain that the DNC was involved, likely behind Kerry's back, and clearly to his detriment.
Dan Rather needs to be fired, if he doesn't resign first, and the entire CBS news room needs to shaken up. Rather is the managing or executive editor of CBS news at large, and his continued involvement with the network, will CONTINUE to bring it down. He is ultimately responsible as the chief news editor and ultimate reportor of the story.
Additionally, much like the GOP, post water gate, the entire gangster squad of pathetic, win at all cost, worthless loosers running the DNC asylum need to go. Your party is now a joke. It stands for nothing, and hasn't for at least this past election cycle.
I encourage all democrats to stand up and be counted. Don't let your party take over like this and DEMAND change. Mcauliffe and his crowd are finished. They will continue to resist, but it's up to YOU, the rank and file democrats to turn the party back into something worth fighting for. Your party has been hijacked by the worst kind of low-life gangster scum, and they are embarrassing you. Take charge and make a change. Barring that, you will wither away into nothing. Te constitutionalists or the libertarians will ascend and become a party that begins to contest elections.
In all honesty, I really feel sorry for Kerry. He had the potential to make things interesting, perhaps even close. Show the current establishment that a good segment of America is unhappy with the current direction, perhaps even demonstrate a clear contrast to his opposition. He really wasn't able to ever get any momentum, constantly being dogged by his embelished past, unremakable 'nuanced' Senatorial career, and most importantly brought down by a corrupt and dispicable band of party leaders and thugs.
The democratic base is crumbling and the lusted after swing voters have moved away. Save your party, PLEASE. We need at minimum a two party system to make this country effective, and keep things in check. Democratic party leadership is not doing anything to keep themselves viable.
-bear