From the Washington Post:
"Until someone shows me definitive proof that [those obviously fake documents] are not [authentic], I don't see any reason to carry on a conversation with the professional rumor mill," Rather said.
Okay, I'm no Howard Kurtz or anything, but I've seen one or two episodes of Law & Order in my day, and... isn't the burden of proof on the accuser? It is? Okay. And isn't this crewcutted septuagenarian fadebrain the one who made the really big serious accusation? He is? Check. So... isn't he sort of, you know, under the obligation to verify his claims? And not in a position to sit back and demand that everybody else prove to his satisfaction that it's not clearly bullshit? Is it out of line for me to ask this stuff? Sorry. Sorry. But I mean, if these memos were scribbled in burnt sienna crayon on the back of a Denny's placemat and somebody had the unmitigated gall to say something about it, would that be part of the "professional rumor mill"? I'm just asking here, no big deal.
Hey, this blogging thing is kind of fun after all.
Posted by Jim Treacher at September 10, 2004 11:02 PM