I've refrained from posting on the controversy over the documents CBS's 60 Minutes II and The Boston Globe used to report that then-1LT Bush was derelict in his Air National Guard duty, and that political favors kept him out of the trouble he had brought upon himself through that dereliction. I haven't posted because my voice would have been superfluous. Bill (along with several others, but Bill's a cyber-buddy) had the document issue covered six ways from Sunday.

But now we learn that an expert in the field of typsetting and computer printing has put his reputation on the line, publicly (unlike other experts on the other side of the controversy who either remain nameless, or accede to CBS's request not to talk to anybody about it), that he is certain these recently revealed documents are forgeries.

It's a shame that some people get so carried away with their irrational, 100%-non-fact-based hatred of the President that they forge documents trying to create a truth that doesn't exist. And it's a shame when the formerly highly regarded network of Edward R Murrow becomes so blinded by their bias that they abandon journalistic principles and their own integrity to tell a story that, in the end, is a lie.