Surprise, surprise - the Democrats try another ploy to cast suspicion on the president's service during the Vietnam War, and it has backfired in a rather spectacular fashion.

So get this: CBS comes out with this big, groundbreaking story about how they've unearthed "private memoranda about Bush's service from an officer's personal files", and have it analyzed by some "experts" to make sure it is authentic, and then go on NATIONAL TELEVISION on 2 SEPARATE SHOWS to display it. However, as soon as someone has a real expert look at it, the truth comes out: it was made on a COMPUTER, and, surprise surprise, they didn't have personal computers back in '72 and '73. I mean, the list of discrepancies that the story linked to above are things that I would have noticed, and I'm only in high school!!! I mean, come on now: "curly" apostrophes, superscripted letters, vertical and horizontal monospace typing... all of that should be a dead giveaway that an Army typist in the 1970's could not have possibly created those documents. All of that, of course, doesn't even take into consideration the fact that the wife of the late officer who supposedly kept the memos came out and straight up denied that he even kept records like that! Now CBS is going to have to come out and apologize - not to mention set the record straight - for the ludicrously bad bit of investigative journalism that they were parading as hard news. Serves them right - maybe they should check their facts before trying to smear the president again.

Jeez... I just am still amazed at the blatant, biased partisanship that CBS has sunk to. Now try and tell me that the mainstream media is fair, objective and unbiased.... Running a story like that only to be shot down so hardcore is just proof of the liberal bent that networks like CBS have, and I hope that this episode hurts Kerry and boosts Bush as a lesson to the moonbats who are running those ill-disguised propaganda machines masquerading as objective news providers. It's about time that their underhanded tactics backfired on them.

NOTE: hopefully, tomorrow will bring the first installment of The Last Word Book Club -- I have recently acquired "The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" by Mark Smith, and I must say that it is a pretty good read.