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/p> p> Dan Rather's lawyer seems to use the Rev Al Sharpton school of logic -- "so what if the Tawana Brawley caper was a hoax, it COULD have been true, that's all that matters." And so Reverend Al sits at the right hand of the Democrats, as though the Tawana Brawley case was OK with everyone. I guess it was and so nothing is unusual about the fake memo logic -- if you are a Democrat. Don't we have laws against this kind of thing? Doesn't anybody care? Are you no longer guilty if you don't admit you br> are? I feel as though I am living in a parallel universe. br> -- N. Haseley /p>

A great article. Please help me with some definitions. The memo copies revealed by Dan Rather are almost uniformly referred to in the press as "forgeries." Merriam-Webster online includes this line in the definition of forgery: "to make or imitate falsely especially with intent to defraud." It is the word "imitate" that implies to me that there is a "real" set of memos somewhere out there that served as guides or models. Given the various questions about the content and tone in the memos raised by the TANG officers that served with then LT Bush, "fake" might be a better word that "forgery."

I think these are "fake" memos, made up from nothing by members of the VABC (vast anti-Bush conspiracy).

p>In the interest of accuracy, I suggest that the media describe these memos as fakes until Denial Dan can prove otherwise. br> -- Rich Renken br> Ballwin, Missouri /p>

Are the docs Rather has first generation copies. I recall being told by a copy machine techie that photocopying/faxing can reduce the written/typed letters by as much as 6%. If there is no appreciable difference in Rather's copies, it's likely they are first generation copies, not multiple copies of copies.

They could have been created as originals and faxed from Kinko's.

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