Well, as long as we’re speculating on the source of these documents…
I’m too lazy to go track this down again, but somewhere within the gojillion blog posts and comments on the topic of these forged memos I saw someone comment that they recalled “documents” similar to these memos for sale on eBay of whatever (the initial inclination is to laugh, but hold off on that for a while – the eBay or even “for sale” parts are not paticularly critical).
The BDS loons have been trying (and trying and trying and geezus won’t they EVER STFU about it already) to make a series of charges against Bush’s ANG service stick. The BDS memebots have the story down pat. They know… they just know what Bush did. But all along they’ve had this little problem of no documentation that Bush was not really considered a pretty good pilot but was terrible pilot who was only allowed into the TANG cause his daddy pulled strings, was only rated well because his daddy pulled strings, and ran away to the Alabama ANG on a cooked up excuse because the TANG was sick of him and suspending him from flying. All they ever lacked was documentation.
Somewhere along the line some helpful BDS moonbat whipped up some sample versions of what was needed. Who knows why – maybe just trying to cash in on the fact that there is a legit BDS Moonbat market that spends money. Maybe just to put out some samples to show what the folks looking for this desperately needed documentary evidence were looking for (“It will look something like this guys!”).
The BDS Moonbats being, well, Moonbats and suffering from every more feverish BDS episodes, some of the least introspective and iquisitive slowly but surely turned these fake docs into “real” docs in their own little fevered heads. And somewhere, somehow, one of those wound up in a significant DNC office somewhere. The docs got into the DNC pretty much by happenstance. A moonbat brought them in and they sat there with people not paying much attention to them.
That is until they grew increasingly desperate and increasingly convinced they weren’t being mean enough and since, after all, these docs, while not authentic, told a Larger Truth. Consider the recurring meme that Bush is hiding ever more NG documents. When these came out, even those who could accept that they looked suspicious were immediately screaming about “what else is the administration hiding!?!?).
They fully believe there are documents somewhere that say what they want some documents to say – documents that look just like the forged ones only real. There must be proof of the Larger Truths. Given enough time and access to enough docs they’d find the real documents. But there is not enough time – they needed to act now and this into the media cycle. They could no longer wait. At some point somebody with enough juice within the DNC decided that it was time to pull the trigger and released the falsified docs and then found whatever roundabout way necessary to get somebody with sufficient stature in the MSM to carry the torch. I don’t know if Rather is complicit but he is due to retire after he does his Last Great Service to Humanity but giving us all his incredible wisdom and insight by covering the election. And it seems clear to me that the guy has a TX sized vendetta against The Evil Bushies. He may have agreed to carry this torch or he may simply have been identified as the right sucker to run the con against.
