**** update:  Heh **** update 2:  Gghah.

Evidently the upcoming elections are that important to him.

I don’t know what to make of this, exactly—but I do feel safe in saying that with ruddy cheeks and a fetching smile, I’d make a far more delightful Hummel figurine than that litigous bunny lover Kerry’s always fawning over… **** from SarahW, who needs to get to work on my doll and collector’s plate.

Victor Davis Hanson, NRO: Worse than being duped, worse than cobbling together a highly politicized hit-piece during a war and in the waning days of an election, worse than the shady nature of the “unimpeachable” sources and the likely sordid origins of the story, and worse even than the pathetic nature of CBS’s “expert” witnesses — worse than all that was Rather’s ten-day denial of reality, culminating in the surreal

During their single phone call, Joe Lockhart tried to persuade Bill Burkett to pass CBS the forged¹ TxANG documents, Mr Burkett tells the Mercury News (registration required). In the interview Thursday, Burkett, a West Texas rancher and known critic of Bush, denied that his work with CBS was done at the behest of Democrat John Kerry’s presidential campaign. He said, however, that during the meeting in which he gave the

“While pretending to reach for my package, that Mapes dame slipped them into my pocket.” “CBS is on East Coast time, whereas BUSH LIED!” “Actually, I had entirely different forgeries¹—though I will admit to some coincidental overlap in the termilogy between my fake documents and the ones released by CBS.” “Why, they were left under my pillow by the forged document fairy, of course” “After a night of intense prayer,

Does anyone doubt that were John Kerry Beowulf, the US would today be pleading with the Franks for permission to write a strongly-worded resolution condemning a nuclear-armed Axis of Evil made up of a dragon, Grendel, and Grendel’s mom?  He’d probably petition them for permission to “express his concern” with North Korea, Iraq, and Iran, too, come to think of it. update:  Response from Gaul, “Perused your resolution, Beowulf, and

Fox News: Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that Iraq’s Ayad Allawi was sent before Congress to put the “best face” on a Bush administration policy that has gone wrong. Shortly after Allawi, the interim government’s prime minister, gave a rosy portrayal of progress toward peace in Iraq, Kerry said the assessment contradicted Allawi’s own statements as well as the reality on the ground. “I think the prime minister