How desperate?

This desperate.

Kerry falls behind after the RNC, hires hitman James Carville and Paul Begala and goes on the offensive with the "Fortunate Son" campaign, attacking Bush's service record in Vietnam. Curiously, CBS's 60 minutes aired a story about Bush's service record based on new memos obtained from a dead Colonel's personal files (which, by the way, the dead Colonel's former wife and son had no knowledge of).

In round four of the Bush National Guard story (will it ever die?), seems like whoever was selling CBS the news story needed a little help making it's point. Their solution? Forge documents. Really - you can down load the memos here. Check it out and tell me you wouldn't just laugh if someone passed it off for a Nat'l Guard officer memo in 1972. How did this not raise red flags at CBS? Will the feckless media do their jobs and expose not only CBS for airing forged documents in the midst of a Presidential election, but also find out who pushed the docs and who forged them? Want a hint? Here's the coverage.

Links:

Washington Post, ABC News, Powerline Blog, New York Times, National Review, Boston Globe, American Spectator -- the story which links the forgeries to the DNC, New York Post, and Weekly Standard.