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To: Ilaine who wrote (70641)	9/15/2004 9:29:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794221

So where does that leave us? Dirty tricks, and that's politics. It will turn off the swing voters is about it. I don't think so. If these were plausible forgeries and the experts were really divided over them, maybe. But these are ludicrously bad, rolling-on-the-floor-laughing-hysterically bad, forgeries. Forgeries so bad that in one week the general public is saying 27% good, 38% fake, bad, even though CBS News keeps defending them. Forgeries so bad that Jay Leno has his material written out for him by CBS News, and can keep hammering Rather mercilessly. This kind of scene doesn't come along very often. And American pop culture knows just what to call it & how to play it. It is The Great and Mighty Oz, or, the little man behind the curtain. CBS is self-administering a hit to its authority that will take decades to recover from, if ever. Every conservative who even complained of liberal bias in the media just got more credible. And if this ties to the Kerry campaign (as every normal person has already judged it to be tied), then the whole Kerry campaign becomes a fraud by association. It's one thing to be thought to be running a smear campaign. Lots of people think that of Bush because of his history & the coverage of the Swiftvets in the MSM. But to be thought to be running a ludicrously incompetent smear campaign, well, I'd just that to have a certain boomerang effect.