Aha! That difference between forgery and fabrication is what has been bothering me but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. On what basis does CBS claim the story is true if not the documents? The testimony of the pool secretary? She wasn't interviewed until *after* the documents became the story, and the others in a position to (maybe) have direct knowledge say that the implications in the docs aren't true. So yes, fabrication is the correct term, for the whole story, docs included.

Hitchens is Mencken with his sleeves rolled up, and more material to work with. His occasional sucker punch to the gut of the Mother Theresas of the world makes him even more interesting, if occasionally frustrating. I hope he never quits smoking or drinking.

They are fabricators all. Lying liars. I would have no compunction in saying this to each and everyone of them to their face.
So, now it's back to being forged but true. The Bush administration I hope is talking to some very good lawyers by now.

Doesn't it pop the cognitive-dissonance "thought bubble" if the prestigeous 60 Minutes investigative journalism program only produces fabricated evidence that LT Bush received any preferential treatment?

Does this mean that ALLAH's photo is fabrication? I mean forgery? I'm confused...I mean, the picture is accurate....

"The documents are fake; the story is real." The motto of the Lubyanka.

Hitchens is a national treasure. Rather's fabrication is indeed a seperate crime against the nation and the public trust.

I think REP. J.D. HAYWORTH ®, ARIZONA hit the nail on the head when he said, "...And the fact is, when someone who is a producer at a network contacts a campaign official and serves as the source and as the go-between, that is unethical, to say the least...". But you got to love Scarborough's, "...like aging Soviet generals, media elites and cultural snobs still long for the oppressive days before the information explosion rocked their world...". Long live the Bloggers!

I'd say his relationship with sobriety is far more intermittent than his relationship with good taste.

Hitchens is absolutely right. The bastardization of words is part of the MSM's attempt to institute double speak. For a document, a painting or $100 dollar bill to be a forgery, the original must have existed. Even if most people don't stop to think that through, the idea has been planted that there must have been an original if the document at hand is a forgery.

Hitchens points to the correct word, fabrication, i.e., something made up of whole cloth.

The word, discrimination, used as a pejorative drives me crazy. Prior to political correctness, a discriminating person was one who was sophisticated enough to be able to make informed judgments. The MSM again takes a word that was formerly positive and switched its meaning to a negative. Racists, anti-Semites, homophobes, etc. do not discriminate. That's the problem. They hate everyone in these groups, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Liberals demand that the minorities they have chosen to protect can do no wrong, their actions cannot be criticized, their abilities cannot be measured, and they certainly cannot be expected to fend for themselves as adults. They must be kept in custodial custody from cradle to grave.

Along these lines, Mr. Lockhart said to Fox News on Tuesday (well after the fakeness was known by all sentient, and quoted in an editorial in today's Washington Times):

"Certainly, there was no discussion at all with Mr. Burkett about National Guard documents."

Well, a good parsing says that *fake* documents are *not* National Guard documents, eh?

This is all good fun, but being clever isn't enough - being brave is.

Let us never forget

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/international/middleeast/26iraq.html?hp

Of course the NYT wants us to us to go moribund because its enduring, obssessed template is Vietnam.

I'd rather know something about these young men who died in the major cause of humanity. I want to remember them forever.

My favorite part of the broadcast...

SCARBOROUGH: Chris Hitchens, go ahead!
HITCHENS: [Without even a pause] Christopher. Well--
SCARBOROUGH: Christopher. Chrissy!

Scarborough didn't really push it, but it would have been funny if he'd called him "Topher" at least once.