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I've occasionally been critical of FactCheck.org's "nonpartisan" analyses of certain campaign ads, but with today's CBS News admission of wrongdoing, FactCheck.org gets it exactly right. We at FactCheck.org are now satisfied that the memos were indeed faked, and so they can tell us nothing one way or another about Bush's Guard service. [emphasis added] Fraudulent […]

White House spokesman Scott McClellan is answering reporters questions with regard to the forged memos story and I was struck by an exchange with one unidentifiable reporter (the camera has a shot of McClellan and not the reporters asking the questions). Reporter: Scott, do you believe that the Kerry campaign had anything to do with […]

CBS has released a statement from Dan Rather regarding the forged memos -- via Drudge: STATEMENT FROM DAN RATHER: Last week, amid increasing questions about the authenticity of documents used in support of a 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY story about President Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard, CBS News vowed to re-examine the documents […]

Both The Washington Post and The New York Times are reporting that CBS News will finally admit today that it was "misled" on the forged documents its been peddling for the past couple of weeks. From the Post: CBS News plans to issue a statement, perhaps as early as today, acknowledging that it was misled […]

The nation of cheese-eating surrender monkeys was behind an effort to undermine the case for war against Iraq by planting false documents. The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy material for […]

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on "Fox News Sunday": John Kerry has been very clear on Iraq. Someone's let Richardson in on Kerry's "secret plan" -- unfortunately, no one else gets to see it. It's been put in a lockbox.

The Weekly Standard's Jonathan Last has an excellent piece on the tick-tock of the disintegration of CBS's forgeries. The Washington Post also has some great reporting. First, is this graphic comparing the CBS forgeries to known/valid National Guard documents. The Post's CBS team also has this article on Dan Rather's "rush to judgment" that describes […]

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Dan Rather has some more stories cooking -- all using fully authenticated documents. The JFK assassination: Rather reveals startling evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald met with CIA agents two days before shooting President Kennedy in Dallas. "It's all here on Oswald's Palm Pilot," Rather says. Bwahahahaha.

And it's not the embryonic variety -- again.

Things like this just tick me off -- whoever does it. Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, after having their Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards made a […]