Can’t ignore it, folks. I have to keep you updated on Dan Rather’s forged memos.
The Houston Chronicle says:
If Burkett does prove to be the source of the documents, CBS got them from a man with a well-established history of Bush loathing.In an article Burkett wrote for the Internet last year he compared Bush to Hitler and Napoleon as one of “the three small men” who sought to rule through tyranny. “Three small men who wanted to conquer and vanquish,” Burkett wrote. Burkett confirmed authorship of that article in the February Chronicle interview.
Are the faked memos traced back to Kinko’s?
Power Line: “Is Power Line a more reliable source of information than the New York Times? That’s damning with faint praise, but, for what it’s worth, we are.”
PoliPundit illustrates an important point.
Update: Power Line’s Big Truck appeared on FOX.
Update II (5:28 a.m.): Power Line reveals more CBS sloppiness, and HobbsOnline reports on more trouble for Rather.
ABC:
The man cited in media reports as having allegedly pressured others in the Texas Air National Guard to help George W. Bush is speaking out, telling ABC News in an exclusive interview that he never sought special treatment for Bush.Retired Col. Walter Staudt, who was brigadier general of Bush’s unit in Texas, interviewed Bush for the Guard position and retired in March 1972. He was mentioned in one of the memos allegedly written by Lt. Col. Jerry Killian as having pressured Killian to assist Bush, though Bush supposedly was not meeting Guard standards.
AllahPundit and Protein Wisdom comment.
Update III (9:10 p.m.): According to Power Line, a non-blogger is trying to take credit for breaking the memos scandal story! Well I never…
Allahpundit comments on this, too.
Check out Corant’s chronology of Rathergate.
Joe at Evangelical Outpost asks: “[F]or all the controversy, intrigue, and interest, you probably don’t really even know what the memo says, do you? No. But that’s okay. Because the memo isn’t about the message. The memo is the message.”
