Rather’s Last Stand.

He believes that he can get away with it even though the evidence grows clearer that the documents are forged. However, he won’t be able to get away with it. He can no longer say they were fooled. As of tonight, “Oops” no longer works. Now he will look pathetic. Yes, it is being undercovered to a degree in MSM, but so was the Swiftie stuff. In a truly laughable moment tonight Mark Shields continued to act as if no questions have been raised at all about the memo and had all kinds of questions about why Bush didn’t show up for the physical and what might have been wrong physically with him that he didn’t want a record of (despite Shields’ silence to the fact that Kerry hasn’t released his medical records nor most of his military records). Shields is turning into a Saturday Night Live character.

This will come out. It is important that all of the evidence about the forgeries be collated into one long indictment. Juan can wish all he wants that a forgery wouldn’t matter, but any fool and his dog can see through that nonsense. Folks like Williams and Shields lived out their own personal versions of a Michael Moore movie in August and blithely ignored Kerry’s collapse. Let them fiddle while Kerry burns. Rather is going to be toast (his voice was severely hoarse tonight).

Despite my own long term gripes about the media and acknowledging more than a bit of schadenfreude, there is something sad and troubling about the fact that such important journalists have squandered their idealism for getting to the truth and compromised their integrity so brazenly. On the other hand, the efforts of those individuals distributed across the blogosphere like Roger, LGF, Prof. Reynolds, Don Sensing, Allah, Powerline, Captain Ed, Hewitt, Wretchard and many more is quietly inspiring and more than a little hopeful about the strength of our system to create new avenues to check and analyze those who exercise power.