For those true believers still willing to mortgage their credibility on documents no more real than John Kerry’s love of baseball (“that Manny Ortez sure is a marvelous ball striker!”), take a look at this.
Then go here, for the rest of today’s important Rathergate news.
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h/t LGF
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update: fascinating post by Allah expanding on the OER / OETR acronym oddity I raised here and here (in updates 3 and 5). Too much info to condense. Read the whole thing.
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update 2: Juliette weighs in.
One problem that comes to the fore is that this quickley becomes the OJ trial, where people convince themselves that each and every tiny bit of evidence can be dismissed by some plausible, though, extremely remote possibility. Most people cannot grasp that the individual dismissal of dozens of pieces of evidence of forgery by extremely remote probabilities, leads not to the conclusion that the documents are real, but in fact the very high probability that they are fogeries.
Just as with juries, the simplest explanation is the easiest. The August 1973 memo contains a reference to a Col. Staudt, who had retired from the Guard a year and a half earlier. You can’t explain that away.
Except unless you’ve found those pills in Jeff’s sofa.
My bad, Jeff, couldn’t find your email address on the site; you should get all the credit not some loser poster like “JFH” (like some others before… obviously they have a point ‘cus I remember the comment but don’t remember your response).
Bottom line: Jeff Goldstein deserves the EXCLUSIVE to the story… it was his post and a comment from a reader that clued me into the potential story!
(And y’all thought he was just very funny… except for that guy, whose name I can’t remember, that thought that Jeff was the most overrated blogger.)
I noticed the discredited memos used the same arrogance and stupidity as Kerry’s After Action Reports in ‘Nam.