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:: Friday, September 10, 2004 ::
Rather Watch (something else)
Just watched Rather's 'explanation' of the forgery scandal. He seemed a little rocky and certainly defensive. There was a memorable phrase however, when he blamed "partisan political operatives" for challenging the authenticity of the documents--his hubris is absolutely breathtaking.
But if you stop to think about it, the truly comical thing about this whole affair is that even if the documents are authentic (sure they are), there seems to be very little to the underlying story they purport to bolster. So even if you buy into the paperwork thing, you still end up saying "what's the big deal Dan--I don't get it".
Update: On tonight's newscast, in order to support his claim that the documents are genuine, Rather featured Marcel Matley, an expert in handwriting analysis, to authenticate the the veracity of the suspect documents. Maybe it's just me but, doesn't it seem a little odd that Dan would use an expert in handwriting analysis to authenticate type-written words? Maybe we should hop on over to Mr. Mately's web-page for some clarification--hmmm...yep, this explains quite a lot.
Powerline's all over it [>]
Update 2: Well I'll be-- lookie where else Mr. Matley has turned up:
"I suspect Matley was put on the show so its producers would not be accused of being biased on a highly-charged political issue, and so they wouldn't wind up on the Clintons' sh*t list. At any rate, it shouldn't take too long for those intrepid Internet sleuths who follow every twist and turn of the Foster story to ferret out Matley's credentials and to find out how much he was paid to appear on the program.
For me, it was his goatee--the cheap, lounge-act magician look--it's a dead giveaway. Matley's as phoney as Dan's documents.
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