Stumpy posted this earlier when the blog Capptain's Quarters first put it on.
It then hit the National Review and sometime tonight it hit Drudge.
I am surprised that I had to go back 150 diaries to see this in the diary list.
We get hit by this sh*t too late.The real test of media bias will now occur. Let's see how quickly the MSM picks up this piece of idiocy. I wouldn't be surprised to see it hit them like a bolt of lightning.
It will make CNN faster than the memos did themselves.
Our tack with the MSM should be their bias in coverage, not defending the memos in detail. Defeding them implies that the ridiculous charge is valid. We just need to bash the media for their biased coverage
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/19/13234/6546
From the blogger at Captain's quarters
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
This, in fact, could very well be another case of "fake but accurate", where documents get created after the fact to support preconceived notions about what happened in the past. One fact certainly stands out --
Michael Smith cannot authenticate the copies. And absent that authentication, they lose their value as evidence of anything.....
Michael Smith, who did the story,
"I first photocopied them to ensure they were on our paper and returned the originals, which were on government paper and therefore government property, to the source,"
he added.........
"It was these photocopies that I worked on, destroying them shortly before we went to press on Sept 17, 2004," he added. "Before we destroyed them the legal desk secretary typed the text up on an old fashioned typewriter."
End quote by Smith
Then Captain's Quarters said this following nonsense.
Ignoring the fact that Smith said he xeroxed them.
Why an old-fashioned typewriter? Why not just retype them on a computer, if you've already decided not to work from the originals? It looks like an attempt to fake people into believing that the documents produced by Smith were the originals.
The reasoning behind this is idiotic and stupid, but it has already been posted on Drudge.