From Powerline (via Allah*):  Are the CBS National Guard Documents Fake? Bill INDC contacts a forensics specialist, who thinks they are.  The verdict: Dr. Bouffard called me again, and after further analysis, he says that he’s pretty certain that it’s a fake. Here’s why: * He looked through old papers he’s written, and noted that he’s come up against the inconsistency of the “4” several previous times with forgeries that

Howard Kurtz, Washington Post: President Bush’s former sister-in-law denied yesterday that she had given author Kitty Kelley any information about allegations of past drug use by Bush. Sharon Bush is quoted in Kelley’s forthcoming book about the Bush family as making one of the allegations, and Kelley’s editor said in an interview Tuesday that she had provided “confirmation” for the information. But Sharon Bush, who is divorced from the president’s

eg. “Are those your lederhosen?” “Yes, those lederhosen belong to me.”* *Worn as part of a Halloween costume, 1988.  I dressed as the St. Pauli Girl and got hit on by at least 3 of my fraternity brothers, one of whom dressed as Cleavon Little in Vanishing Point.  Which, that was really freaky, man.

Ever one to lend a hand, John Cole offers his services to the New York Times. thematic update:  Liberal media bias?  The hell you say!

First this, from the front page of John Kerry’s campaign website, September 8, 2004: George Bush has made the wrong choices for four years – including choosing to go it alone in Iraq without a plan to win the peace. This choice has cost us $200 billion and moved America in the wrong direction. John Kerry and John Edwards will move America in a new direction with a better plan

Now worries, John.  Hope is on the way!

In a post titled “Someone’s Gettin’ Huffy,” paid Donk shitflinger Oliver Willis puts down his mayonnaise spoon long enough to point a greasy finger at Glenn Reynolds: Check out the indignation in this [Reynold’s] post after Jeff Jarvis (rightly) called him out for amplifying right-wing trash like Scaife’s Pittsburgh paper. As one of Jeff’s commenters says of Reynolds: “He’s nothing but a whore for Bush who continues to lie about

The US hyperpower needed to be taught a lesson, and France—well, France brings the lesson hammer! Those were simply practice forgeries.  Our real forgeries totally incriminate the Jews That Italian boy “Giacomo” looked so cute in his leather pants that we just had to use him for something We thought we were forging a dessert recipe.  Honest. You dare remake À bout de souffle with Richard-frickin’-Gere? Two words:  Louisiana Purchase

Andrew McCarthy, The Corner: The NYT doesn’t want to. If you labored through its page one analysis yesterday of the siege in Russia in which nearly 340 people were slaughtered, you’d have to have gone deep into the newspaper and waded down to the 24th paragraph of the story to learn that: “While the extent of international support may be debated, the attacks bear some trappings of Islamic militancy. Officials

…Or, y’know… not. **** Thematically related update:  From Harvard with Love… …Or, y’know… not. **** the “if this is true, France should be cut loose from all US-involved alliances and set adrift to deal with its own problems, which begin with its citizens’ unorthodox bathing practices and end with its government’s complete loss of face after being caught trying to fuck its liberators right in the derriere” update: from the