I knew it! "Forgery" story really WAS creatively leaked to freepers and

[janx]

bloggers by the Bush* campaign...They did not come up with it themselves.

Two DC firms ramp up efforts over latest presidential controversies

WASHINGTON: Two DC PR agencies eagerly fanned the flames of election-year scandal last week - one for the left and one for the right.




Creative Response Concepts (CRC), the VA-based agency promoting the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, used right-wing blogs and news sites to turn a CBS report casting doubt on President George W. Bush's National Guard service into a potential black eye for both the network and the Democrats.

A CRC client, the Cybercast News Service (CNS), was among the first to voice suspicion that documents suggesting Bush had received preferential treatment in the Guard were forgeries.

"After the CBS story aired, called typographical experts, got them on the record that these papers were fishy, and posted a story by 3pm Thursday," said CRC SVP Keith Appell. "We were immediately in contact with Drudge, who loved the story."

Much more here:

http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story_free.cfm?ID=222586&site=3

[TXlib]

1. Well...

Unless the evidence of forgery was trumped up, what's wrong with using Drudge and blogs to get the message out?

[shockingelk]

2. That's how it became trumped up

"... people are saying ..." etc.