CBS Fraud Story Deepens

This story gets bigger as the hours tick away.

Congressional Democrats took to the airwaves and blasted President Bush for lying about his Vietnam record. Their feigned outrage was based on the (increasingly likely) erroneous 60 Minutes story.

Dan Rather has also gone out a limb, insisting that the story is accurate.

The evidence against the documents being authentic are getting stronger and stronger as the hours go by. The other news networks have picked up the story and have been asking type experts what the real deal is, and the leading experts have said that the documents were created in Microsoft Word and not on a typewriter in 1972.

Some Democrats were saying at noontime that the Republicans set them up; that’s unlikely as well. The Republicans wouldn’t want to damage their own candidate and sitting President; the Democrats are far more likely to do something like this to level the playing field between Bush and Kerry.

It looks like a Bush-hater tried to pull a fast one and got nailed, leaving Congressional Democrats, Dan Rather and CBS with egg in their faces.

I took a journalism class last spring and they were talking about stuff like this happening and what most credible news organizations do to protect themselves from this kind of screw-up. It looks like someone fell asleep at the wheel when the story was being checked out.