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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
It's all part of their illness. As I posted conclusively last week, if Rove had any hand in this he's nuts.
This little conspiracy requires Rove to rely on the bloggers to somehow catch the national media to prove the things fakes. That had never happened before, but Rove decides to risk the election on it happening? Ummm no.
Not to mention just last week our resident conspiracy theorist thought the Ga. blogger had to have been involve because no way anyone could pick up on the fakes in 4 hours. Now, this week, the WH should have? Geez.
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(1) The White House didn't say they weren't fake. They said they weren't challenging their authenticity. (WaPo article above: WH told CBS that "Bartlett was not challenging the authenticity of the documents.") Then, as Rathergate mounted, they still kept quiet about it.
(2) Relying on conservative bloggers to go after Dan Rather is one of the safer bets out there, especially if you give them the whiff of raw meat. And there's no downside. If the bloggers don't make the case, the White House can say the documents are fake the next day ('upon further review, we ....') or plant the story with someone else.
Not sure why you guys are fighting this one. If the WH did this, it's just masterful tactics. It's not like they were lying to anyone. They saw that CBS was about to step in it, and they figured out how to work the story.
