I listened to the national ABC radio news, top of the nine p.m. hour local, here. The commentator quoted a female document expert who had been consulted by CBS in the run-up to the SixtyII story as having told them that if they ran that story, hundreds of document experts would be all over them within the week.

Turns out she was optomistic, doesn’t it?

For the life of me, I cannot see what profit there is for CBS or the Globe or Newsweek for standing on this story…nor for the DNC, nor the Kerry campaign, or ANYONE else, for that matter.

Are there other stories back down the line that were built on other forgeries? Did these documents come from the Clinton’s Chappaqua library? Is CBS waiting for word from their security consultants that they have located the producer holding the coordinating documents linking the Kerry campaign/Terry McAullife/Dan Rather/Dan’s daughter…hiding in a Tijuana slum? Does the mental state on parade on DU at any given moment actually represent the thought processes of the establishment Left?

So many questions; so few answers. After listening to the ABC story I cannot see how ViaCom’s stockholders can sit still on this. The best solution (from the market standpoint) would be for the board to get to the bottom of this, and sooner rather (no pun) than later.

I can’t see ViaCom’s board members much interested in fighting the staff of CBS’s news department and Kerry’s campaign crew for a window-cleaning corner in Manhattan. They need to act.