Coup De Grace
Topic: politics
It now looks extremely likely that CBS got the forged memos from Bill Burkett, a disgruntled former National Guard officer and source for the earlier Bush National Guard scandal.

The Post is reporting that the documents were faxed to CBS from a Kinko's in Abilene near Burkett's home - a Kinko's where Burkett has a standing account.

So, CBS' star witness in someone who says the memos are fake; their other source, Ben Barnes is a fundraiser for Kerry; the (fake) documents came from a Bush-hating lunatic. Ol' Dan is starting to sound a little worried:

CBS anchor Dan Rather acknowledged for the first time yesterday that there are serious questions about the authenticity of the documents he used to question President Bush's National Guard record last week on "60 Minutes."

"If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story," Rather said in an interview last night. "Any time I'm wrong, I want to be right out front and say, 'Folks, this is what went wrong and how it went wrong.'"

I advise you not to hold your breath waiting for that one. I'd like to continue paying 24-hour attention to this clusterfuck, but unfortunately, I have to work the next couple of days.

And that's part of our world.

Marc