Reply #79: It doesn't matter anymore if the documents are real or fake

[shawn703]

The Republicans succeeded IMHO in getting enough doubt out there that unless Killian rises from the grave and said he wrote the memos, the average Joe won't believe them. I don't think the attention span of the American public is long enough to wait for an explanation on how the typewriters of the day could create the memo.

I think there are two scenarios for what happened:

The Republicans put this stuff out there to inoculate * from any more criticism of his National Guard service, because now the general public will think first that any charges were just made up. I wouldn't put it past Rove to type these up himself for that purpose, although I think CBS would have to be a willing accomplice (how could they possibly have experts certify these things are authentic, if the supposed evidence of forgeries are that evident?)

The other is that the documents are real, Bush and company knew about them LONG before CBS got a hold of them, so they had plenty of time to come up with a defense that generates sympathy and makes him look like a victim.